An evacuation is made of the
American Airlines terminal of
JFK airport because of a suspicious package. The package was found at 10:20 AM local time, and bomb squad was sent to the scene. The package turned out to be carrying cologne, so the terminal was cleared and operations returned to normal within an hour.
(Newsday)[dead link](San Jose Mercury News)[dead link](Wikinews)
Canada celebrates its 140th anniversary.
Canada Day marks the creation of the Dominion of Canada through the British North America Act on July 1, 1867.
(CBC)
The
United States accuses
Iran of using
Hezbollah to train
Shia militants in
Iraq. The Iranian Defence Minister had earlier called the US the "biggest sponsor of terrorism" in the world.
(BBC)(Press TV)
Law and crime
Garda Síochána find over 1.5
tonnes of
cocaine worth over
€105 million off the coast of
West Cork after a small
ship sinks - the largest cocaine seizure in the history of
Ireland. The
naval diving squad are continuing the search, as experts believe more of the drug is still in the sea.
(RTÉ)
On the 25th anniversary of their captivity, the
Iranian government announces that Iranian
diplomats Seyyed Mohsen Mousavi, Ahmad Motevasselian, Kazem Akhavan and Taghi Rastegar Moghaddam are still alive and being held in
Israeli jails. The men were captured in
1982 in
Lebanon.
(PressTV)
The No.1 Intermediate Court in
Beijing sentences former State Food and Drug Administration chief
Cao Wenzhuang to
death with a two-year reprieve on charges of
corruption.
(NYT)
An investigation concludes that an explosion in
Tianshifu,
China that killed 25 was caused by improperly stored explosives.
(Wikinews)
Roger Federer defeats
Rafael Nadal 7–6, 4–6, 7–6, 2–6, 6–2 to claim his fifth consecutive
Wimbledon title, equaling an
Open Era record set by
Björn Borg in 1980. Borg was in attendance to present the Wimbledon trophy to Federer.
(BBC)
A
Piper Cherokee fixed-wing single engine airplane crashes during thunderstorms in Tyringham, Massachusetts, killing the two people on the plane.
(The Berkshire Eagle)
On the country's
Independence Day, snow falls in
Buenos Aires,
Argentina, for the first time in 89 years and the second time in recorded history. Two people die of exposure in Argentina while one person dies in
Chile.
(BBC)
Mortars hit the
Green Zone in
Baghdad. The Green Zone has been attacked at least 80 times since March, killing 26.
(CBS News)
A
Cessna 310 registered to the Competitor Liaison Bureau, an arm of
NASCAR, attempting an
emergency landing at
Orlando Sanford International Airport crashes into two homes in
Sanford,
Florida. Three people in one of the homes are critically injured, and a fourth person, a four-year-old girl, died; an off-duty firefighter that first responded to the scene was also injured. Two people in the other house and both the pilot and passenger in the Cessna are killed; the passenger was Dr. Bruce Kennedy, husband of
International Speedway Corporation president
Lesa Kennedy and brother-in-law of NASCAR chief
Brian France.
(WESH.com)
The
Pakistan Army claims that
Operation Silence at the
Lal Masjid is in its final stages and that 95% of the complex is under its control. It has found the bodies of 73 militants.
(CNN)
Four people who carried out
failed suicide bombings in London are jailed for life, with no chance of release for at least 40 years. In passing the sentence, the judge ruled that the plot was "part of an
al-Qaida inspired and controlled sequence of attacks", although the British government has always claimed the attacks were "home grown", and not connected to al-Qaida.
(Guardian)(Guardian)
A
Philippinesferry, the MV Blue Water Princess, sinks off the southeastern coast of
Luzon, leading to four deaths and 18 people being declared missing.
(News Limited)
An
airstrike is carried out by two United States Army AH-64 Apache helicopters in Al-Amin al-Thaniyah, in the district of New Baghdad in Baghdad, during the occupation of Iraq. The helicopters carried out three airstrikes, killing several men—including Reuters news staff Saeed Chmagh and Namir Noor-Eldeen—and wounding two children.
(The Washington Post)
Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gül asked the US for an explanation of alleged delivery of weapons to the
PKK terrorist group. Gül said that ties with Turkey-US would collapse if arms to PKK claims confirmed.
(Jerusalem Post)(Today Zeman)(PressTV)
A train carrying yellow
phosphorus derails in western
Ukraine, sending a toxic cloud over several villages. At least twenty people are hospitalized and hundreds are forced to evacuate.
(AP via MSNBC)
Five people are killed in a twin bomb blasts in Islamabad near the venue of a rally and meeting to be addressed by Pakistan Chief Justice
Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry.
39 people are arrested, detained and kept at an undisclosed location in
Pakistan due to an alleged connection with a recent attack on a plane carrying
Pervez Musharraf.
Suspected militants attack a
Pakistan army
convoy detonating a bomb and opening fire leading to the loss of at least 16 lives and 14 more injuries.
(AP via Fox News)
As
China struggles to deal with
flooding in the provinces of
Sichuan,
Guizhou,
Anhui,
Hubei, and
Jiangsu, the city of
Chongqing is hit with the largest rainstorm in the city's meteorological records, killing 32. 12 people are reported missing. The city's transportation network has been shut down completely.
(Xinhua via China Daily)
Three bombs in
Pakistan kill at least 52 people with at least 160 people killed in bomb attacks since the storming of the
Lal Masjid mosque.
(Reuters)
Castleberry's Food Company of Augusta, Georgia issues a recall on hot dog chili sauce and other products, due to contamination of
Clostridium botulinum. 8 people contracted
Botulism poisoning from Castleberry's products. This prompts the first botulism recall of canned foods in the United States in over 30 years.
(CDC)
China shuts down a chemical plant associated with deaths in
Panama from tainted medicine and two petfood plants associated with the deaths of pets in the
United States.
(AP via CNN)
The
Taliban threatens to kill 18 South Koreans taken hostage in
Afghanistan, prompting the government in
Seoul to confirm an earlier plan to withdraw its troops from the country by the end of the year. Separately, the Taliban claims that it has executed two
German hostages.
(AP via Fox News)(Reuters)(Reuters) However, the
Afghan government disputes the claim, stating that one died of a heart attack and the other is still alive.
(CNN)
Nurses in
Fiji go on
strike over a 5 per cent pay cut imposed on them by the interim government of
Frank Bainimarama with teachers and other government workers to join them next week.
(ABC)
A
United States federal court judge orders
Sudan to pay
$8 million in compensation to the victims of the bombing of the
USS Cole.
(CNN)
8 of the 23
South Koreans held hostage by the
Taliban in
Afghanistan are released, while one of the hostages is executed. The Taliban gives further warning that the remaining hostages will be killed.
(CNN)
Abel Mutsakani, editor of the ZimOnline, is shot and seriously wounded in
Johannesburg,
South Africa in what may have been an assassination attempt.
(AllAfrica)
Colombia's intelligence chief
Andrés Peñate claims
FARC rebels accidentally killed 11 politicians it was holding, after running into another rebel unit.
(BBC)
Moitree Express begins on trail journey between
Dhaka and
Kolkata paving way for possible reopening of train route connectivity between
Bangla Desh and
India
The President of the
Ivory CoastLaurent Gbagbo visits the former rebel held north for the first time since 2002 where stockpiled weapons will be burnt as a symbol of reconciliation after the end of an uprising.
(BBC)
An evacuation is made of the
American Airlines terminal of
JFK airport because of a suspicious package. The package was found at 10:20 AM local time, and bomb squad was sent to the scene. The package turned out to be carrying cologne, so the terminal was cleared and operations returned to normal within an hour.
(Newsday)[dead link](San Jose Mercury News)[dead link](Wikinews)
Canada celebrates its 140th anniversary.
Canada Day marks the creation of the Dominion of Canada through the British North America Act on July 1, 1867.
(CBC)
The
United States accuses
Iran of using
Hezbollah to train
Shia militants in
Iraq. The Iranian Defence Minister had earlier called the US the "biggest sponsor of terrorism" in the world.
(BBC)(Press TV)
Law and crime
Garda Síochána find over 1.5
tonnes of
cocaine worth over
€105 million off the coast of
West Cork after a small
ship sinks - the largest cocaine seizure in the history of
Ireland. The
naval diving squad are continuing the search, as experts believe more of the drug is still in the sea.
(RTÉ)
On the 25th anniversary of their captivity, the
Iranian government announces that Iranian
diplomats Seyyed Mohsen Mousavi, Ahmad Motevasselian, Kazem Akhavan and Taghi Rastegar Moghaddam are still alive and being held in
Israeli jails. The men were captured in
1982 in
Lebanon.
(PressTV)
The No.1 Intermediate Court in
Beijing sentences former State Food and Drug Administration chief
Cao Wenzhuang to
death with a two-year reprieve on charges of
corruption.
(NYT)
An investigation concludes that an explosion in
Tianshifu,
China that killed 25 was caused by improperly stored explosives.
(Wikinews)
Roger Federer defeats
Rafael Nadal 7–6, 4–6, 7–6, 2–6, 6–2 to claim his fifth consecutive
Wimbledon title, equaling an
Open Era record set by
Björn Borg in 1980. Borg was in attendance to present the Wimbledon trophy to Federer.
(BBC)
A
Piper Cherokee fixed-wing single engine airplane crashes during thunderstorms in Tyringham, Massachusetts, killing the two people on the plane.
(The Berkshire Eagle)
On the country's
Independence Day, snow falls in
Buenos Aires,
Argentina, for the first time in 89 years and the second time in recorded history. Two people die of exposure in Argentina while one person dies in
Chile.
(BBC)
Mortars hit the
Green Zone in
Baghdad. The Green Zone has been attacked at least 80 times since March, killing 26.
(CBS News)
A
Cessna 310 registered to the Competitor Liaison Bureau, an arm of
NASCAR, attempting an
emergency landing at
Orlando Sanford International Airport crashes into two homes in
Sanford,
Florida. Three people in one of the homes are critically injured, and a fourth person, a four-year-old girl, died; an off-duty firefighter that first responded to the scene was also injured. Two people in the other house and both the pilot and passenger in the Cessna are killed; the passenger was Dr. Bruce Kennedy, husband of
International Speedway Corporation president
Lesa Kennedy and brother-in-law of NASCAR chief
Brian France.
(WESH.com)
The
Pakistan Army claims that
Operation Silence at the
Lal Masjid is in its final stages and that 95% of the complex is under its control. It has found the bodies of 73 militants.
(CNN)
Four people who carried out
failed suicide bombings in London are jailed for life, with no chance of release for at least 40 years. In passing the sentence, the judge ruled that the plot was "part of an
al-Qaida inspired and controlled sequence of attacks", although the British government has always claimed the attacks were "home grown", and not connected to al-Qaida.
(Guardian)(Guardian)
A
Philippinesferry, the MV Blue Water Princess, sinks off the southeastern coast of
Luzon, leading to four deaths and 18 people being declared missing.
(News Limited)
An
airstrike is carried out by two United States Army AH-64 Apache helicopters in Al-Amin al-Thaniyah, in the district of New Baghdad in Baghdad, during the occupation of Iraq. The helicopters carried out three airstrikes, killing several men—including Reuters news staff Saeed Chmagh and Namir Noor-Eldeen—and wounding two children.
(The Washington Post)
Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gül asked the US for an explanation of alleged delivery of weapons to the
PKK terrorist group. Gül said that ties with Turkey-US would collapse if arms to PKK claims confirmed.
(Jerusalem Post)(Today Zeman)(PressTV)
A train carrying yellow
phosphorus derails in western
Ukraine, sending a toxic cloud over several villages. At least twenty people are hospitalized and hundreds are forced to evacuate.
(AP via MSNBC)
Five people are killed in a twin bomb blasts in Islamabad near the venue of a rally and meeting to be addressed by Pakistan Chief Justice
Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry.
39 people are arrested, detained and kept at an undisclosed location in
Pakistan due to an alleged connection with a recent attack on a plane carrying
Pervez Musharraf.
Suspected militants attack a
Pakistan army
convoy detonating a bomb and opening fire leading to the loss of at least 16 lives and 14 more injuries.
(AP via Fox News)
As
China struggles to deal with
flooding in the provinces of
Sichuan,
Guizhou,
Anhui,
Hubei, and
Jiangsu, the city of
Chongqing is hit with the largest rainstorm in the city's meteorological records, killing 32. 12 people are reported missing. The city's transportation network has been shut down completely.
(Xinhua via China Daily)
Three bombs in
Pakistan kill at least 52 people with at least 160 people killed in bomb attacks since the storming of the
Lal Masjid mosque.
(Reuters)
Castleberry's Food Company of Augusta, Georgia issues a recall on hot dog chili sauce and other products, due to contamination of
Clostridium botulinum. 8 people contracted
Botulism poisoning from Castleberry's products. This prompts the first botulism recall of canned foods in the United States in over 30 years.
(CDC)
China shuts down a chemical plant associated with deaths in
Panama from tainted medicine and two petfood plants associated with the deaths of pets in the
United States.
(AP via CNN)
The
Taliban threatens to kill 18 South Koreans taken hostage in
Afghanistan, prompting the government in
Seoul to confirm an earlier plan to withdraw its troops from the country by the end of the year. Separately, the Taliban claims that it has executed two
German hostages.
(AP via Fox News)(Reuters)(Reuters) However, the
Afghan government disputes the claim, stating that one died of a heart attack and the other is still alive.
(CNN)
Nurses in
Fiji go on
strike over a 5 per cent pay cut imposed on them by the interim government of
Frank Bainimarama with teachers and other government workers to join them next week.
(ABC)
A
United States federal court judge orders
Sudan to pay
$8 million in compensation to the victims of the bombing of the
USS Cole.
(CNN)
8 of the 23
South Koreans held hostage by the
Taliban in
Afghanistan are released, while one of the hostages is executed. The Taliban gives further warning that the remaining hostages will be killed.
(CNN)
Abel Mutsakani, editor of the ZimOnline, is shot and seriously wounded in
Johannesburg,
South Africa in what may have been an assassination attempt.
(AllAfrica)
Colombia's intelligence chief
Andrés Peñate claims
FARC rebels accidentally killed 11 politicians it was holding, after running into another rebel unit.
(BBC)
Moitree Express begins on trail journey between
Dhaka and
Kolkata paving way for possible reopening of train route connectivity between
Bangla Desh and
India
The President of the
Ivory CoastLaurent Gbagbo visits the former rebel held north for the first time since 2002 where stockpiled weapons will be burnt as a symbol of reconciliation after the end of an uprising.
(BBC)