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Armed conflicts and attacks

Yemeni uprising:
- A rocket attack on the presidential palace in Sana'a during the Battle of Sana'a leaves president Ali Abdullah Saleh lightly injured and seven other top government officials wounded, including Prime Minister Ali Muhammad Mujawar. Four presidential guards and Sheikh Ali Mohsen al-Matari, an imam at the mosque, were killed. (CNN) (Deseret News)
Sudanese government troops and Sudan Liberation Army rebels clash in the western Darfur region; two SLA rebels are reported killed. (Reuters)
More than 200 Afghan militants cross over into Pakistan and attack a security checkpoint in northwest Pakistan, sparking a clash in which 28 Pakistani security forces and six civilians die, along with 45 Afghans. (CNN)

Arts and culture

American actor James Arness, best known for playing Marshal Matt Dillon in Gunsmoke, dies in Brentwood, California, aged 88. {Los Angeles Times)

Business and economy

Greek prime minister, George Papandreou presents a plan for further austerity measures privatizations in return for more international aid to avoid defaulting on its debt following a 110 billion euro bailout last year that has so far failed resolve the Greek economic crisis; Greece's main labor unions have called a general strike on June 15. (CNN)

Barack Obama, the President of the United States, announces the sale of the US government's stake in Chrysler to Italian automaker Fiat at a visit to a plant at Toledo, Ohio. (Detroit Free Press)
Australian airline Qantas announces plans to offer 350 flight attendants voluntary redundancies. (AAP via Courier-Mail)
Workers for Canada Post start a mail strike. (CBC)

International relations

A South Korean report claims that South Korea and the United States sprayed Agent Orange on the Demilitarized Zone in 1968-69 in order to prevent infiltrations from North Korea. (Yonhap News)

Law and Crime

Bosnian Serb genocide suspect Ratko Mladić makes his first appearance at the war crimes tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands, and dismisses charges against him as "obnoxious." (CNN)

Politics and elections

John Edwards, former United States presidential candidate and Senator representing North Carolina, is indicted on charges of conspiracy and violating campaign finance laws in connection to his affair with Rielle Hunter; Edwards denies he broke any laws. (CNN) (USA Today) (Los Angeles Times)
The United States House of Representatives votes in favour of a non-binding resolution asking the Obama administration to seek Congressional authorization for the intervention in Libya. (ABC News), (AP via MSNBC)
American right-to-die activist Jack Kevorkian dies in Royal Oak, Michigan of pneumonia and kidney problems. (Toronto Star)

Science

Copenhagen Suborbitals offer up the world's largest privately-built rocket, HEAT 1X Tycho Brahe out in the Baltic Sea, 30 km east of Nexø.

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 ** A rocket attack on the presidential palace in [[Sana'a]] during the [[Battle of Sana'a]] leaves president [[Ali Abdullah Saleh]] lightly injured and seven other top government officials wounded, including Prime Minister [[Ali Muhammad Mujawar]]. Four presidential guards and Sheikh Ali Mohsen al-Matari, an imam at the mosque, were killed. [http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/meast/06/03/yemen.unrest/index.html?section=cnn_latest (CNN)] [http://www.deseretnews.com/mobile/article/700141205/Yemen-president-wounded-as-tribesmen-strike-palace.html (Deseret News)]
 *[[Sudanese army|Sudanese government troops]] and [[Sudan Liberation Army]] rebels [[War in Darfur|clash]] in the western [[Darfur]] region; two SLA rebels are reported killed. [http://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFJOE75203A20110603 (Reuters)]
-*More than 200 [[Afghanistan|Afghan]] militants cross over into [[Pakistan]] and attack a security checkpoint in [[Khyber Pakhtunkhwa|northwest Pakistan]], sparking a clash in which 28 Pakistani security forces and six civilians die, along with 45 Afghans. [http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/06/02/pakistan.militant.attack/index.html (CNN)]
+*More than 200 [[Afghanistan|Afghan]] militants cross over into [[Pakistan]] and attack a [[security checkpoint]] in [[Khyber Pakhtunkhwa|northwest Pakistan]], sparking a clash in which 28 Pakistani security forces and six civilians die, along with 45 Afghans. [http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/06/02/pakistan.militant.attack/index.html (CNN)]
 ;Arts and culture

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