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- A report from Human Rights Watch claims that the Israeli army unlawfully destroyed civilian property in the Gaza War of 2008 and 2009, while the Isreali army asserts they only targetted property used for combat or terrorist activities. (BBC) (Ha'aretz)
- Seven countries who have faced accusations of human rights violations win three-year seats on the United Nations Human Rights Council in an uncontested election. (AP) (The Guatemala Times) (Reuters Canada)
- President Goodluck Jonathan nominates Namadi Sambo to serve as Nigeria's vice president. (Al Jazeera)
- Following a warning, a bomb explodes outside a maximum security prison in Korydallos, Greece. (BBC)
- The Aban Pearl natural gas platform sinks off the coast of Sucre, with all 95 workers evacuated safely. (AP) (CBC) (BBC) (The Times of India)
- As many as half a million pilgrims from 35 nations, including India, China and Vietnam, attend open-air Mass at Fatima, Portugal, celebrated by Pope Benedict XVI. The Pope criticises abortion and same-sex marriage in a speech. (BBC) (RTÉ) (The Sydney Morning Herald)
- 5 people are killed and a further 19 injured in two bombings in Baghdad. (Xinhua)
- Three alleged organisers of Moscow suicide bombings in March 2010 are killed after apparently resisting arrest. (BBC) (Al Jazeera)
- The ".рф" (".rf" - Russian Federation) Cyrillic country code top-level domain (ccTLD) is officially launched, the fourth internationalized country code. The first two web sites available on “.рф” are президент.рф (president.rf) and правительство.рф (government.rf). (Voice of Russia) (ITAR-TASS) (RIA Novosti)
- The second case of poliomyelitis in two days was registered in Russia. The polio cases are Russia's first in 15 years. In both cases, the virus was imported from Tajikistan. (RT) (RIA) (The Moscow Times)
- Supporters of ousted Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev seize government buildings in the south of the country. (BBC) (AFP)
- 2010 Thai political protests:
- One of Nigeria's most influential politicians, James Ibori, is arrested on corruption charges in Dubai. (NEXT) (BBC)
- Sudan asks Interpol to arrest JEM chief Khalil Ibrahim. (Al Jazeera)
- Five people are arrested, two in Massachusetts, and three in New York by the FBI in connection with the 2010 Times Square car bombing attempt (NECN) (NJ News) (WJZ) (Al Jazeera)
- The U.S. state of Hawaiʻi enacts a law permitting officials to ignore multiple attempts by the same person to view the birth certificate of President of the United States Barack Obama. (BBC)
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- Afriqiyah Airways Flight 771 arriving from South Africa en route to London crashes at Tripoli airport, Libya, killing 104 people; a 10-year-old child is the sole survivor. (BBC) (AFP) (Al Jazeera)
- Airports in Morocco, Spain and Portugal reopen after days of Icelandic volcanic disruption. (BBC) (NEWS.com.au)
- The International Committee of the Red Cross confirms reports of a second, secret US prison at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan after new allegations of torture. (BBC)
- Russia and Turkey sign a $20 billion deal permitting Moscow to build and own a controlling stake in Ankara's first nuclear power plant. (Al Jazeera)
- Philippine general election, 2010
- In South Sudan there is violence for the third time in a week between the army and forces led by the former general George Athor. (BBC) (Reuters)
- 9 people, including 7 children, are killed at a school near Hanzhong city, Shaanxi, China. (Xinhua) (AP)
- A bomb planted inside a grocery store in a mainly Shi'ite area of Baghdad kills three people and wounds 23. (TVNZ)
- Irish authorities launch an investigation into last night's "violent incident" which saw protesters attempt to storm Dáil Éireann in a campaign against bank bail-outs. (The Irish Times) (TV3)
- Spain's Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero announces wage cuts for state employees and a reduction in investment in response to his country's budget deficit. (Al Jazeera)
- Pope Benedict XVI, accompanied by tens of thousands of pilgrims, visits the famous Catholic shrine to the Virgin Mary in Fatima, as part of his four-day visit to Portugal, and recalls the assassination attempt on his predecessor there. (BBC) (RTÉ) (France24) (The Sydney Morning Herald)
- North Korea says it has undertaken nuclear fusion, a claim disputed by international scientists. (BBC) (AP) (China Daily)
- A possible supermassive black hole is witnessed being hurled from its parent galaxy at high speed. (BBC)
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- Iraqi insurgents kill 102 and injure over 200 people, mostly Iraqi civilians, in a series of suicide bombings from Mosul to Basra in Iraq, the highest number in one day this year, and jeopardizing a planned US withdrawal. (The Times)
- Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Gordon Brown announces his intention to resign as Leader of the Labour Party, and calls for a leadership election to be completed by September. (BBC)
- Stock markets rise significantly and bond prices fall around the world after investors are reassured by the European Union and International Monetary Fund’s nearly $1 trillion plan to avoid a European debt crisis. (USA Today) (The Times)
- President Obama nominates Solicitor General Elena Kagan as the youngest Justice and third woman for the Supreme Court of the United States . (USA Today) (The Times)
- German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government loses its majority in the upper house of parliament in a state election marked by voter anger over the bailout to avoid the Greek debt crisis. (The Australian) (Los Angeles Times)
- BP sprays more chemicals into the main massive undersea oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico using a deep-sea robot in an attempt to thin the oil which is rushing up from the seabed at the rate of about 210,000 gallons (795,000 liters) per day. (USA Today)
- A mass grave containing the bodies of 250 ethnic Albanians from the Kosovo War is discovered in Serbia. (USA Today) (B92) (AFP)
- Presidential elections, legislative elections and local elections start today in the Philippines. (Philippine Inquirer) (BBC)
- The South Korean Defence Minister Kim Tae-Young announces that investigators have found traces of explosives in the wreck of the ROKS Cheonan that sank in March. (BBC) (Xinhua) (Kyodo)
- Rescue efforts continue in the aftermath of the May 2010 Siberia mine explosion. (RIA Novosti)
- A senior U.S. official, Kurt M. Campbell, meets with Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. (AP) (The New York Times) (Press TV)
- Severe rainstorms have killed at least 70 people since a powerful tornado hit Chongqing municipality in south-western China in Dianjiang and Liangping counties. Inclement weather in the next two days will affect Guangdong, Fujian, Hunan, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Guizhou and Yunnan provinces. (Sina)
- Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales gives up some of his site privileges following protests by contributors angered that he had deleted images without consultation. (BBC)
- Multiple tornadoes across Oklahoma and Kansas result in at least 5 deaths and 58 injuries. Twisters hit a truck stop near Midwest City and locations in Oklahoma City. (KTUL) (AP) (NWS Norman) (NewsOK)
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- BP's containment chamber fails, prolonging the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. (Reuters)
- The regional coalition of Christian-Democrats (CDU) and Free Democrats (FDP) are voted out of office in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), which may lead to the federal government of Chancellor Angela Merkel losing its majority in the upper house. (BBC) (Financial Times) (The Guardian) (The Independent)
- Sandro Bondi, Italy's minister of culture, calls for a boycott of the 2010 Cannes Film Festival after a documentary on the 2009 L'Aquila earthquake was included in the programme. (AFP) (Reuters)
- An earthquake strikes Sumatra sparking fears of a tsunami. (BBC) (Bangkok Post) (France24) (IAfrica.com)
- A mine explosion in Mezhdurechensk (Kemerovo Oblast), Russia, kills at least 12 people and injures 24 others with 64 unaccounted for. (BBC) (TVNZ)
- U.S. missiles kill five people in North Waziristan, Pakistan. (AP)
- A Chinese man is freed from prison after 10 years after the man he had been convicted of killing is found alive. (BBC) (The Daily Telegraph) (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
- Somali pirates seize MS Marida Marguerite, a German-owned tanker, off the coast of Somalia. (Press TV)
- Dallas Braden of the Oakland Athletics throws the 19th perfect game in Major League Baseball history in a 4-0 win over the Tampa Bay Rays. (ESPN)
- The 26th annual Vancouver Sun Run happens today in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
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- 2010 Philippine general election
- United Kingdom general election, 2010:
- U.S. Senator Bob Bennett, Republican from Utah, is ousted from his party's primary ballot at the state's Republican convention, meaning he will not have a chance for a fourth term. (AP at Yahoo)
- Mudslides and floods have killed 16, and more that 40 are missing in some districts of the southern Khatlon region in Tajikistan. (ITAR)
- Icelandic volcanic disruption:
- Hundreds of people take part in a two-hour march, "For Equality", in Vilnius at Lithuania's first gay pride, with police shooting tear gas and arresting at least 12 people who threw stones and fireworks at marchers. (BBC) (The Washington Post) (iafrica.com)
- Naxalite rebels blow up a bullet-proof vehicle of the Central Reserve Police Force in the Bijapur district of Chhattisgarh, India, killing seven officers. (PTI)
- United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon discusses climate change with Bolivian president Evo Morales Ayma. (UN)
- Pope Benedict XVI accepts the resignation of Walter Mixa of Augsburg, a bishop who admitted physically abusing children after initially denying accusations. (BBC) (RTÉ) (The Washington Post)
- Former Venezuelan defence minister Raúl Baduel is sentenced to almost eight years in prison for corruption. (BBC)
- Italy's first divorce fair, Ex? Punto e a capo, opens in Milan. (BBC) (The Daily Telegraph) (The Times of India)
- London's Harrod's department store is sold to the Qatari royal family by Mohamed Al-Fayed who retires after 25 years as its chairman. (Al Jazeera) (CNN) (The Times) (RTÉ)
- In mixed martial arts, Mauricio "Shogun" Rua wins the UFC Light Heavyweight Championship from fellow Brazilian Lyoto Machida at UFC 113 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. (Sherdog)
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- United Kingdom general election, 2010:
- Caroline Lucas becomes the first ever Green Party MP, having won the Brighton Pavilion constituency with a majority of 1,252. (BBC)
- Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg describes the election as a "disappointing night" for his party, in his speech at the count for his Sheffield Hallam constituency.
- Two former Labour Home Secretaries,Charles Manisankart Clarke Charles Clarke (2004–2006) and Jacqui Smith (2007–2009, first woman in the post), lose their seats. (BBC) (BBC)
- Peter Robinson, the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) Northern Ireland First Minister, loses the seat he has held for 31 years in Belfast East to Naomi Long of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland. (BBC) (The Irish Times) (RTÉ)
- Gloria De Piero, the former GMTV newsreader, wins the Ashfield constituency for the Labour party with a majority of just 192. (BBC)
- 4 policemen are killed and another seriously injured when militants open fire in Pakistan's Mansehra district of North-West Frontier Province. (PTI)
- Dubai police name five new suspects in connection with the assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in January, involving passports from Australia, Britain and France. An Israeli citizen, Zev Barkan, wanted by New Zealand since 2004 for passport fraud, may have used a New Zealand passport. (Al Jazeera) (The Guardian) (Xinhua)
- Dozens of people are reported dead or disappeared after a boat carrying 125 people capsizes in a river in Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Al Jazeera) (TVNZ) (AP)
- Thousands rally in Kathmandu and other cities against the six-day shut down of public transport, businesses and schools across Nepal by millions of the country's poor. (Al Jazeera) (The Hindu) (The New York Times)
- The death toll from Rift Valley Fever (RVF) in South Africa has risen to 17. (Xinhua)
- An appeals court in Lithuania overturns a ruling which had earlier, due to fears over homophobic violence, prevented the country's first gay pride parade going ahead in Vilnius tomorrow. (BBC)
- Lobbying for the role of Nigeria's new vice-president begins after Goodluck Jonathan's inauguration and Umaru Yar'Adua's death. (BBC)
- 5 insurgents and 2 soldiers die in a gunbattle between Islamic rebels and Indian security forces in Kashmir. (Arab News)
- 2 die and 2 are wounded in an attack on an aid vehicle near the village of Dembia in the Central African Republic. (IOL)
- 2 Egyptian peacekeepers are killed and 3 are injured by gunmen near Edd al-Fursan, South Darfur. (BBC) (IOL) (The Warpington Post) (UN)
- Confederation of African Football (CAF) president Issa Hayatou asks his executive committee to lift sanctions imposed on the Togo national football team following an attack on their team bus ahead of the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations in Angola. (BBC)
- A faction of the National League for Democracy in Burma forms its own political party to compete in elections, one day after the party disbanded. (Arab News)
- The head of Sierra Leone's Anti-Corruption Commission, Abdul Tejan-Cole, resigns. (BBC)
- Flights take to the skies again in Ireland following recent Icelandic volcanic disruption. (Al Jazeera) (RTÉ)
- The Supreme Court of the Philippines rejects several petitions calling for a presidential election to be postponed and asking for manual counting of votes to be maintained. (Arab News)
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- 2010 Philippine general election
- United Kingdom general election, 2010:
- U.S. Senator Bob Bennett, Republican from Utah, is ousted from his party's primary ballot at the state's Republican convention, meaning he will not have a chance for a fourth term. (AP at Yahoo)
- Mudslides and floods have killed 16, and more that 40 are missing in some districts of the southern Khatlon region in Tajikistan. (ITAR)
- Icelandic volcanic disruption:
- Hundreds of people take part in a two-hour march, "For Equality", in Vilnius at Lithuania's first gay pride, with police shooting tear gas and arresting at least 12 people who threw stones and fireworks at marchers. (BBC) (The Washington Post) (iafrica.com)
- Naxalite rebels blow up a bullet-proof vehicle of the Central Reserve Police Force in the Bijapur district of Chhattisgarh, India, killing seven officers. (PTI)
- United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon discusses climate change with Bolivian president Evo Morales Ayma. (UN)
- Pope Benedict XVI accepts the resignation of Walter Mixa of Augsburg, a bishop who admitted physically abusing children after initially denying accusations. (BBC) (RTÉ) (The Washington Post)
- Former Venezuelan defence minister Raúl Baduel is sentenced to almost eight years in prison for corruption. (BBC)
- Italy's first divorce fair, Ex? Punto e a capo, opens in Milan. (BBC) (The Daily Telegraph) (The Times of India)
- London's Harrod's department store is sold to the Qatari royal family by Mohamed Al-Fayed who retires after 25 years as its chairman. (Al Jazeera) (CNN) (The Times) (RTÉ)
- In mixed martial arts, Mauricio "Shogun" Rua wins the UFC Light Heavyweight Championship from fellow Brazilian Lyoto Machida at UFC 113 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. (Sherdog)
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And Just For Fun Lets Look Forwards Too.
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Unknown dates in 2020
- The main segment of track extending from San Francisco to Anaheim of the California High Speed Rail system is expected to be completed.
- JAXA plans to send robotic astronauts to the Moon, followed by human astronauts[4]
- 2020 Summer Olympics
- This is the year that the Hong Kong MTR South Island Line east section is expected to be completed.
- Last nuclear power plant in Germany scheduled to shut down
- British newspaper The Guardian published a series of magazines in September 2004 predicting life in 2020. These predictions include widespread use of artificially intelligent cars, "smart" clothing incorporating computer chips, and green energy sources.
- Mapping the Global Future: Report of the National Intelligence Council's 2020 Project was published in December 2004 with a long-term view of the future. The NIC is the center for midterm and long-term strategic thinking within the US Government.
- In Australia, Queensland is expected to overtake Victoria as the second most populous state of the nation.
- Mayans Predict Age of Transition.[citation needed]
- Global oil production is expected to peak.[5]
- The Russian Federal Space Agency says that they plan to be mining helium-3 from the moon by this year.[6]
- Earliest year that power aboard the space probes Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 is expected to terminate (though either probe may function past this date).
- NASA Venus Surface Explorer mission to Venus (part of the New Frontiers program)
- Several underdeveloped countries have plans to become developed countries by 2020:
- Shanghai is set to become an "international financial centre and global shipping hub."
- If current trends continue, according to the United Nations, the Aral Sea could disappear completely by this year.[7]
- Volvo hopes to use radar, sonar and other advanced technologies to create a crash-proof car by 2020.[8]
- The IBM Institute for Business Value concluded from their study "Automotive 2020: Clarity Beyond the Chaos" that all automobiles will have some level of hybridization by 2020.[9] Toyota's vice president in charge of powertrain development also believes that all Toyota cars produced will be hybrid vehicles by the year 2020.[10]
- Cars that drive themselves on smart highways, 3-D video conferencing, artificial brain cells, artificial lungs, artificial kidneys, identification of the genetic links of all diseases - all these have been predicted for 2020.[11]
