Event June 2008

Palace Turns Musuem
2.Phoenix Mars Lander begins digging
*Acar bomb blast outside Danish embassy in Islamabad kills 6.
3.UN Secretary General urges the food crisis summit in Rome to help spread of starvation by lowering trade barriers and removing export bans,4. Barack Obama claims Democratic presidential nomination, after an epic battle with Hillary Clinton
*$3 b. of emergency aid an­nounced by the UN in Rome to meet the global food crisis.

.5. Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd suggests a European Union style bloc comprising India, USA,China and Australia for Asia Pacific cooperation
*Hillary Clinton endorses herrival Barack Obama putting an end to her campaign for nomination
*Maoists stake claim for Nepal Prime Minister
*Astronauts open a new science lab in ISS
*Deposed Nepal King Gyanendra to move to a palace outside Kathmandu

6. 23 killed in two blasts in Sri Lanka
*Turkisu court overturns a law allowing women to wear the head scarf at university
*Hillary and Obama hold meeting

7. Oil prices shoot to over $139
*Musharraf says he is not quitting
*A row erupts over plans to instal Hitler in Madame Tussaud's new Berlin museum
*Serbia's Ana Ivanovic wins French Open
*Prachanda rejects G.P. Koirala's candi­dature for President of Nepal proposed by Nepali Congress
*An Israeli Minister's threat that a military attack on Iran could become inevitable spurs oil prices

8. Mine explosion in Ukraine trips 37, kills four
*ANC chief jacob Zuma in New Delhi
*Ratael Nadal equals Bjorn Borg's record for four consecutive French Open crowns, beating Federer
*Man goes on' stabbing spree in Tokyo, killing 7
*oSouth Asians in Durban threatened with violence if they don't pack their bags and leave.

9. Iran opposes move for US bases in Iraq
*Bangladesh Government imposes a gag order on Sheikh Hasina.

10. Saudi Arabia calls for a meeting of oil produces
*Venczuela and Cuba to install an under sea optical fibre cable connecting the two to counter US embargo
*Irish voters go to the polls for a referendum on the Lisbon treaty
*Cazprom expects oil to hit $250

11.29 die as a Sudanese airliner bursts into flames on landing at Khartoum
*Sheikh Hasina released on parole for eight weeks
*Nepal's former king Gyanendra vacates Narayanhiti palace

12.Sheikh Hasina leaves Dhaka for US for medical treatment

13.Irish 'No' to Lisbon Treaty, leads to EU crisis
*China and Taiwan sign agree­ments to improve flight connectivity and tourism
*President George Bush has a special protocol audience with the Pope.

14.Earthquake of 7.2 magnitude jolts northern japan
*PCB reduces Shoaib Akhtar's 5-year ban for indiscipline to 18 months
*'Discovery' lands safely at Kennedy Space Centre after delivering part of a lab to ISS
*1100 inmates escape from Afghan jail when Taliban rebels blast it open
*lran not to halt uranium enrichment despite fresh Rafael Nadal EU incentives.

15.Narayanhiti palace in Kathmandu becomes a national museum
*GJM begins Darjeeling bandh
*Afghan president Karzai warn" Pakistan over 'terrorist nests'
*China has bumper qrain harvests for the fifth year
*I thiopia appeals tor $325 rn. in aid, as people needing emergency assistance are around 4.6 m
*Floods in Lowa.

16.Crude price touches 5140
*Nepal's Prachanda wins the country's top peace award alonq with jimmy Carter
*12 policemen killed by LTTE suicide bomber in Vavuniya
*Hundreds of families flee their homes in southern Afghanistan as Taliban insurgents take over several villages.

17.California begins issuing same-sex marriage licences.

19.Crude rises to $1 37 a barrel e Severe flooding in US Midwest
*Senator John McCain wants 45 new nuclear reactors built in the US by 2030
*Suu Kyi is 63, confined to her home for 12 years

20.Maoist ministers quit Nepal ministry after they fail to agree on power-sharing
*About 100 Japanese committed suicide everyday last year.

21.China accepts Sikkirn as a part of India
*UPA allies don't favour early election
*IAEA chief EI-Baradei warns against Iran attack.

22.in Zimbabwe, Tsvanqiri quits race, as he thinks a tree and felir poll is impossible .
*In Jeddah meeting of oil-producting and consuming countries Indian F.M. proposes a price band mechanism to regulate oil prices
*Philippines ferry capsizes: hundreds feared dead.

23.Navvaz Sharif barred from contesting parliamentary by-elections
*Zimbabwe Tsvanqirai takes refuge at Dutch embassy.

25.Seven Party Alliance of Nepal agree on constitution amendment
*'Zimbabwe's Tsvangirai wants political prisoners released before talks
*28 tribal leaders killed by Taliban
*Proliferation of jelly fish in seas resulting from climate change and overfishing

26.G.P. Koirala resigns as PM of Nepal
*North Korea hands over detailed nuclear list to China
*Afghanistan accuses Pakistan intelligence of organising the failed plot to kill Karzai
*Al-Qaeda bid to regroup in Saudi Arabia foiled by Riyadh.

27.Crude oil rises to $142 a barrel
*North Korea's nuclear tower demolished
*US Supreme Court upholds an individual's right to have a gun.

28.PPP for Kashmir autonomy
*Nelson Mandela is 90.

29.Spain beat Germany 1-0 in the final ofthe Euro 2008 in Vienna. Xavi Fernandez voted player of Euro '08
*Robert Mugabe sworn in Zimbabwe President, for the sixth time
*US Senate approves a Bill to remove Nelson Mandela from a terror watch list
*Nethertands bans smoking in cafes from July 1

30.OPEC says oil prices might touch $170 in a few months
*Prince Charles sets up a £ one b. investment fund for sustainable urban development
*Crude rises to $ 143 a barrel.

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