Portal:Current events/2009 June 30
June 30, 2009 (Tuesday)
- The Gas Exporting Countries Forum elects Abdullah Bin Hamad Al-Attiyah, oil and energy minister of Qatar, as the president of the organization. (Bloomberg)
- The President of Cameroon Paul Biya sacks Prime Minister Ephraim Inoni and appoints Philemon Yang to the role. (AP via Google News)
- Dresden loses its status as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. (Bloomberg)
- Germany's Constitutional Court approves the Treaty of Lisbon, but suspends ratification of it. (The Wall Street Journal)
- Official figures from the Central Statistics Office show a dramatic contraction in the Irish economy in the first three months of 2009. (RTÉ)
- At least 15 people are killed and 40 are injured by the derailment of an Italian freight train and subsequent explosion of two wagons carrying liquified petroleum gas in Viareggio. (BBC)
- Yemenia Flight 626, an Airbus A310, crashes en route to Moroni, Comoros, from Sana'a, Yemen. (CNN)
- U.S. forces pull out of Baghdad and leave major cities across Iraq. (The New York Times)
- The Pirate Bay, one of the world's largest BitTorrent trackers, confirms today that it would be acquired by Global Gaming Factory X (GGF) for 7.8 million USD. (The Pirate Bay blog)
- The Taliban scraps the truce offered in February by the Pakistani government, killing approximately 30 Pakistani soldiers shortly after making the announcement. (The New York Times)
- The Israeli navy intercepts a boat carrying humanitarian supplies headed for Gaza, which remains under a blockade. (The Jerusalem Post) (Al Jazeera)
- United States Senate election in Minnesota, 2008
- The Minnesota Supreme Court orders that Al Franken be certified winner of the state's Senate election. (Reuters)
- Norm Coleman concedes the election saying "further litigation would damage the state's unity." (Bloomberg)