Portal:Current events/2009 July 5

• One person dies after a monorail collision at Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida. (CNN)
• The Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans claims homosexuality may split the Church of England the way the Episcopal Church has done in the United States. (BBC)
• An Irish government delegation arrives in Cairo, Egypt, to be briefed on the Sudan kidnappings. (RTÉ)
• Tennis: Roger Federer defeats Andy Roddick to win the men's singles of the 2009 Wimbledon Championships. (BBC) (Washington Post)
• An Iranian political analyst employed by the British embassy in Tehran faces a lengthy prison sentence after being charged with “acting against national security”. (The Times)
• Two British service personnel participating in Operation Panther's Claw are killed in separate attacks in southern Afghanistan. (BBC)
• Five people die in an explosion outside a Catholic cathedral in Cotabato, Mindanao, Phillipines. (BBC) (Boston Globe) (GMA News) (The Irish Times) (Reuters) (RTÉ)
• A security operation is conducted to protect the personal details of British diplomat John Sawers. (BBC)
• Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is embarrassed by a lesbian kiss at his Sardinian estate. (The Times)
• First Minister of Northern Ireland Peter Robinson holds separate talks with both sides in the dispute over the Drumcree conflict. (RTÉ)
• Fourteen activists from the Free Gaza Movement are detained by Israel. (Al Jazeera video)
• Voters in Bulgaria go to the polls for a parliamentary election. (Sofia News Agency) (BBC)

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