Portal:Current events/2011 June 4

• Arab Spring:
  • NATO begins using attack helicopters for the first time in air operations over Libya. (NATO)
  • The Syrian human rights group Sawasiah claims that at least 63 protestors were killed on Friday. (Reuters via Haaretz)
  • Yemeni uprising:
    • Several senior Yemeni officials injured in yesterday's attacks are taken to Saudi Arabia for treatment. (Reuters)
    • President Ali Abdullah Saleh is also flown to Saudi Arabia for treatment after being wounded. (BBC)
    • Russia evacuates its diplomats from the capital Sana'a. (UPI)
  • United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urges dialogue in Bahrain after protests. (UPI)
• At least seven people are killed in an exchange of fire between pro-government forces and mutineering soldiers in Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso. (BBC)
• North Sudan dismisses calls by the United Nations Security Council to leave the disputed Abyei region on the border with South Sudan. (Reuters)
• Tens of thousands of people gather in Hong Kong to remember the victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests. (CNN) (Washington Post) (Japan Today) (Times of India)
• Two terrorist suspects wanted in connection with the shooting of two Indonesian police officers are killed in a raid in Poso, Central Sulawesi. (Jakarta Post)
• Senior Islamic militant Ilyas Kashmiri, the leader of Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami, is killed in a US drone attack in South Waziristan in Pakistan. (BBC) (Al Jazeera)

• Bangladesh receives a loan from the World Bank to strengthen regional co-operation on wildlife protection. (Straits Times)

• Thousands of people are evacuated in Chile ahead of a possible eruption of the Puyehue-Cordón Caulle volcano. (CNN Chile - Spanish)

• The Philippines accuses China of intimidating rival claimants to areas of the South China Sea, and violating its territorial waters. (AFP via Google News)
• Japan and the People's Republic of China agree to resume defense relationships suspended since a disagreement over the Senkaku Islands. (NHK World)

• The Cairo Criminal Court sentences former finance minister Youssef Boutros Ghali to 30 years imprisonment in absentia for abuse of power. (Xinhua)

• Indian guru Swami Ramdev starts a hunger strike against corruption in the Government with thousands joining in but the camp is broken up. (Al Jazeera), (Hindustan Times)
• Former United States Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger dies. (AP via MSNBC)

• In horse racing, Pour Moi wins the Epsom Derby. It is the first French horse to win the Derby since 1976. (BBC)
• Li Na of the People's Republic of China becomes the first Asian tennis player to win a major title winning the 2011 French Open. (Bloomberg)