Langbahn Team – Weltmeisterschaft
Portal : Current events/2009 June 30
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
