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Current events of June 5, 2009 (2009-06-05) (Friday)

Two thousand new private color photographs of Adolf Hitler are published. (Telegraph) (Daily News)
The European Union's parliamentary election continues in the Czech Republic and Ireland. (Europarl)
Ireland conducts local elections and two by-elections in Dublin Central and Dublin South. (RTÉ) (The Irish Times)
American economist Paul Krugman says that the Irish economy may not recover from the 2008–09 financial crisis until 2014. (RTÉ)
The Prime Minister of Italy Silvio Berlusconi threatens to sue the Spanish newspaper El País for publishing indecent photographs of people at his villa in Sardinia. (BBC)
Ireland's rate of unemployment reaches 11.8%. (RTÉ)
Pope Benedict XVI is briefed on Ireland's Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse's public report. (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)
Presidential-election candidate Baciro Dabó and former Defense Minister Helder Proenca are accused of plotting a coup d'état and killed by Guinea-Bissau's government. (BBC) (AFP)
A bomb kills nine people in a café in Baghdad, Iraq. (BBC)
Philippe Gomès is elected President of New Caledonia. (RNZI)
A landslide buries approximately 59 people and kills at least two others in Chongqing, China. (BBC)
A suicide attack kills at least 38 people at a mosque in Upper Dir District, Pakistan. (BBC)
Former United States State Department employee Kendall Myers and his wife, Gwendolyn, are arrested and charged with spying for Cuba's government. (CNN)
David Bain, after an extensive three-month retrial, is found not guilty of murdering five family members in Dunedin, New Zealand on 20 June 1994. (TVNZ)
United Kingdom Prime Minister Gordon Brown shuffles the Cabinet: (RTÉ)
- Secretary of State for Transport Geoff Hoon announces his resignation. (Daily Telegraph)
- Minister of State for Europe Caroline Flint announces her resignation. (BBC)
- Minister of State for Housing and Planning Margaret Beckett announces her resignation. (ABC)
- Minister of State for Employment and Welfare Reform Tony McNulty announces his resignation. (Sky News)
- Bob Ainsworth replaces John Hutton as Secretary of State for Defence. (Times)
- Chief Secretary to the Treasury Yvette Cooper replaces James Purnell as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions. (Guardian)
- Alan Sugar becomes "Enterprise Tsar" and receives a position in the House of Lords. (Daily Telegraph)
- John Denham replaces Hazel Blears as Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government. (PA via Google News)
- Secretary of State for Health Alan Johnson replaces Jacqui Smith as Home Secretary. (BBC) av

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