Portal:Current events/2008 June 22

Current events of June 22, 2008 (2008-06-22) (Sunday)

The Global Anglican Future Conference, a forum for conservative bishops and leaders of the Anglican Communion, opens in Jerusalem as an alternative to the Fourteenth Lambeth Conference. (BBC News) Tarija Department becomes the fourth Bolivian department to vote for greater autonomy from the government of the President of Bolivia Evo Morales. (AFP via Google News) A female suicide bomber kills at least 16 people and injures another 40 in Baquba, Iraq. (CNN) Saudi Arabia offers to increase its oil production slightly at an oil summit in Jeddah. (The New York Times) Zimbabwe Electoral Crisis Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai pulls out of the June 27 run-off presidential election after President Robert Mugabe's supporters attacked his rally. (Reuters) (Bloomberg) 2008 Pacific typhoon season: Typhoon Fengshen in the Philippines The death toll in the Philippines from Typhoon Fengshen rises to at least 155 according to Red Cross estimates with 59 people dead and 40 people missing in Iloilo province alone. (AP via Google News) (AP via Google News) A large bus collides head-on with a smaller minibus in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, leaving nine dead. (The International Herald Tribune)