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Current Events
July 1
In Germany, the Bundestag passes a motion of no confidence in the government
of Chancellor Gerhard Schröder. The vote, at Schröder's insistence, opens the way for new elections
The UK assumes the rotating presidency of the European Union.
June 30
Spain's parliament votes to legalize same-sex marriages, the third European
country to do so after the Netherlands and Belgium, and in the same week as Canada.
The Sudanese government lifts its ban on an opposition party and frees the party's prominent leader, Hassan al-Turabi, who had been in detention for more
than a year. Sudan's long-running state of emergency has also been lifted in most areas of the country.
In Lebanon, former Minister of Finance, Fouad Siniora is appointed prime minster.
June 28
Canada's House of Commons approves a bill legalizing same-sex unions, placing Canada on track to become the third country in the world to legalize
same-sex marriage, likely by July.
June 25
In Iran, the Mayor of Tehran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, wins Friday's run-off election for the nation's presidency with 62 percent of the vote.
The opposition Socialist Party wins Bulgaria's parliamentary elections with
just over 31 percent of the vote. The center-right party of outgoing Prime Minister Simeon Saxecoburggotski garnered nearly 20 percent
June 24
The U.N .Security Council agrees to send 850 extra troops to war-divided Ivory Coast, but the reinforcements
fall short of the 2,000 soldiers that UN officials said were necessary to keep the peace in the run-up to presidential elections.
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