29 June 2013 Current Affairs
- Armed conflicts and attacks
- Eight Royal Thai Army soldiers are killed during an ambush in Krong Pinang District in Yala Province located in Southern Thailand. (BBC)
- One policeman is killed and 14 are wounded in a clash with the North Caucasian rebels in Chechnya, Russia. (Reuters)
- Syrian civil war: It is revealed that three German Gruenhelme e.V. aid workers have been missing since May 19 in the town of Harem in northern Syria and are believed to have been kidnapped. (AP)
- Business and economy
- The Australian Dollar falls to its lowest level against the US Dollar since 2010. (Sydney Morning Herald)
- Disasters and accidents
- Four men including the pilot die in a helicopter crash in southern Switzerland. (AP via News24)
- 2013 North India floods: A Uttarakhand lawmaker claims the actual death toll from the floods is 10,000, ten times the official estimate.(Hindustan Times)
- Extreme heat in Las Vegas, Nevada, US, leads to dozens of hospitalizations. (LA Times)
- International relations
- US Vice president Joe Biden asks Ecuador to reject an asylum request by Edward Snowden. (The Independent)
- Politics and elections
- Large crowds gather in Cairo, Egypt to protest against the presidency of Mohammed Morsi (BBC)
- Riot police clash with protesters in Soweto, South Africa, shortly before a visit by United States President Barack Obama. (Reuters)
- Former South African president F. W. de Klerk cuts short his European trip because of former president Nelson Mandela’s ill-health. (SAPA via News24)
- Dozens of people are arrested at a gay pride parade in the Russian city of St. Petersburg. (AP via St Louis Today)
- 2013 protests in Brazil: Brazilian president, Dilma Rousseff, experiences the sharpest drop in popularity observed in over 20 years. (Reuters)
- Sport
- In cycling, the 100th running of the Tour de France gets underway in Corsica. (The Australian)
