JuneJune 5 â?? Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh travels to Saudi Arabia for temrteant of an injury sustained during an attack on the presidential palace. Protesters celebrate his transfer of power to his Vice-President Abd al-Rab Mansur al-Hadi.June 12 â?? Thousands of Syrians flee to Turkey as Syrian troops lay siege to Jisr ash-Shugur.JulyJuly 9 â?? South Sudan secedes from Sudan, per the result of the independence referendum held in January.July 20:Goran HadžiÄ? is detained in Serbia, becoming the last of 161 people indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.The United Nations declares a famine in southern Somalia, the first in over thirty years.July 21 â?? Space Shuttle Atlantis lands successfully at Kennedy Space Center after completing STS-135, concluding NASA's space shuttle program.July 22 â?? 76 people are killed in twin terrorist attacks in Norway after a bombing in the Regjeringskvartalet (the government center in Oslo) and a shooting at a political youth camp in the island of Utf8ya.July 31 â?? Because of the uncertainties associated with a clamp-down of the free press, there is believed to be at least 121 people killed in a Syrian Army tank raid on the town of Hama and over 150 people are reportedly killed across the country.AugustAugust 5: NASA announces that its Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured photographic evidence of possible liquid water on Mars during warm seasons.Juno, the first solar-powered spacecraft on a mission to Jupiter, is launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.August 22 â?? Fighting in the Libyan civil war intensifies as rebels enter Tripoli

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