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Afghan Update: June 1 – June 30, 2006 (3404 words) |
 | On June 11, a British soldier was killed in a gun battle with fighters in Helmand province. |
| Afghan officials announced on June 3 that Gen. Jamil Junbish, Kabul chief of police, would be replaced (along with up to 85 other Afghan police chiefs) in response to the severe anti-foreigner riots that erupted in Kabul and throughout the country after a deadly traffic accident caused by an American military vehicle. |
| On June 27, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice challenged reports that Afghan President Hamid Karzai was a weak leader, defending him in an airplane press conference en route to Pakistan. |
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June 2006 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (4906 words) |
| The opening date of the ironically Doomsday-related film, The Omen, done so to collaborate to the date's religious significance (June 6th, 2006 - 06/06/06, or 666 which is known as the number of the beast in Chrisitian biblical literature). |
| Violence intensifies in Sri Lanka as government troops allegedly attack Tamils in a church in response to an attack on the navy by the Tamil Tigers. |
| Avian flu: The EU Community Reference Laboratory for Avian Influenza in Weybridge, UK, confirms that birds sent from Hungary after investigations began on June 9 in Kiskunmajsa, a region where a significant amount of poultry is farmed, tested positive for the H5N1 strain of the virus. |
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