At least 16 people are killed and 40 injured by two female suicide bombers in an attack at Krylya[?], a popular music festival, at the Tushino airfield[?] near Moscow. The Russian authorities blame an on-going terrorism campagin by Chechen rebels; the Chechen government denies any connection to the attacks. [4] (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3047386.stm)
2003 occupation of Iraq: 7 newly US-trained Iraqipolicemen are killed and at least 13 are wounded by an explosion while they are marching from training school in Ramadi[?]. The American forces overseeing the rebuilding of Iraq's infrastructure, who gave their blessing to the march taking place, blames loyalists to Saddam Hussein; some people on the scene blame U.S. forces. It is the first attack on Iraqis collaborating with the invading coalition forces, as opposed to on the forces themselves. [5] (http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/07/05/sprj.irq.main/index)
In response to 500,000-strong protests earlier in the week, Tung Chee-hwa, leader of Hong Kong, announces that controversial provisions limiting civil liberties in Hong Kong Basic LawArticle 23 will be rewritten. [6] (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3046894.stm)
Taiwan is the last territory to be declared free of SARS by the World Health Organization, after 20 days with no new cases reported. [7] (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3046984.stm)
A Shia Muslimmosque in Quetta, Pakistan is stormed by armed attackers, killing at least 32 worshippers and wounding 52. [8] (http://www.guardian.co.uk/pakistan/Story/0,2763,991878,00)
A tape, purporting to be of Saddam Hussein and to have been made on June 14, is broadcast on Al-Jazeera, the Arabic-language satellite television station. If it is Saddam, it marks the first public communication from the former Iraqi leader since his disappearance early on in the Invasion of Iraq.
The World Meteorological Organisation publishes a report stating that recent extreme weather conditions around the world may mark changes in global climate caused by global warming. [9] (http://news.independent.co.uk/world/environment/story.jsp?story=421166)
On taking up the EU presidency, Italian Prime Minister[?]Silvio Berlusconi makes an embarrassing remark, causing an uproar of critisism from the 626-seat EU assembly and the European media, by insulting the German MEPMartin Schulz[?] (SPD) with the words "Mr. Schulz, I know there is a producer in Italy who is making a film on the Naziconcentration camps. I will suggest you for the role of kapo. You'd be perfect."
The European parliament approves two laws that regulate the selling of genetically modified food in the EU territory, requiring labelling of all GM products (products with more than 0.9 % genetically modified parts) and allowing member states to separate GM food and non-GM food and crops.
