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Politics and elections Media freedom in Russia Several people, protesting Meduza investigative journalist Ivan Golunov's arrest Thursday on drug charges, are themselves arrested outside Moscow's Nikulinsky Court. Others were arrested yesterday. His lawyer says drugs were planted on him. Golunov was taken to a hospital, police say because he said he was ill. Meduza says he was beaten up during ...
June 8 is the 159th day of the year ... 1987 – New Zealand's Labour government establishes a national nuclear-free zone under the New ... (d. 2019) [72] 1982 ...
Events. 1776 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Trois-Rivières - American invaders are driven back at Trois-Rivières, Quebec.; 1789 – James Madison introduces a proposed Bill of Rights in the U.S. House of Representatives.
June 9, 2019 – A construction crane falls on an apartment complex in Dallas, killing 1 person and injuring 6. [19] June 14, 2019 – One person dies and two more are injured after a gunman entered a Costco in Southern California. July 26, 2019 – The Supreme Court rules in a 5–4 vote to give President Trump $2.5 billion to fund his wall.
Highlights of this day in history: James Byrd, Jr. dragged to death in Texas; Communists complete takeover of Czechoslovakia; Israel destroys an Iraqi nuclear power plant; 'Grease' opens on ...
Disasters and accidents Twenty-nine people are injured in a fire at a center used as temporary accommodation for about 500 migrants in the northwestern Bosnian town of Velika Kladusa. (Reuters) An explosion at a Russian Military high-explosive production and storage facility in the city of Dzerzhinsk injures 79 people. (BBC News) Six earthquakes, the first 5.3 M w, in a two-hour period near ...
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