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- Amidst seven cabinet resignations, Gordon Brown, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, launches an emergency reshuffle:
- Transport Secretary Geoff Hoon announces his resignation.(BBC News)
- Housing Minister Margaret Beckett annonces her resignation.(BBC News)
- Employment Minister Tony McNulty annonces his resignation.(BBC News)
- Bob Ainsworth replaces John Hutton as Defence Secretary.(BBC News)
- Chief Secretary to the Treasury Yvette Cooper replaces James Purnell as Pensions Secretary(BBC News)
- Sir Alan Sugar is announced "Enterprise Tsar' with a position in the House of Lords.(Daily Telegraph)
- John Denham replaces Hazel Blears as Communities Secretary.(BBC News)
- Health Secretary Alan Johnson replaces Jacqui Smith as Home Secretary. (BBC News)
- In addition, Labour MP Ian Gibson is resigning with immediate effect, forcing a by-election in his Norwich constituency.(BBC News)
- The European Union's parliamentary election continues in the Czech Republic and Ireland. (Europarl)
- Ireland also votes in local elections and two by-elections in Dublin Central and Dublin South. (RTÉ) (The Irish Times)
- A bus fire kills at least 24 people in Chengdu, Sichuan, China. (Reuters via News Limited)
- Brazil's Air Force confirms that no debris has been recovered from Air France Flight 447. (Sky News)
- Baciro Dabó, a candidate in the Guinea-Bissau 28 June presidential election is fatally shot in his home. (BBC)
- A bomb kills nine people in a café in Baghdad, Iraq. (BBC)
- Philippe Gomès is elected President of New Caledonia by the territory's Congress. (RNZI)
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