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This article covers breaking news and events in June 2018.

Daily events

Friday 1st June 2018

Pedro Sánchez is the new Prime Minister of Spain

Giuseppe Conte is the new Prime Minister of Italy

• Druid Hills / United States : The US health authority CDC reports that a total of 197 EHEC cases (strain O157: H7) from contaminated romaine lettuce have occurred in 35 US states . Five of the sick died (one each in California, Arkansas and New York; two in Minnesota).
• Madrid / Spain : The lower house of the Spanish parliament expresses its distrust of Mariano Rajoy ( PP ) and instead elects Pedro Sánchez  ( PSOE ) as prime minister .
• Minneapolis / United States : The Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis agrees with around 450 victims of sexual abuse by 91 priests in the diocese over the past few decades on a payment of 210 million US dollars from a fund. At the same time, the bankruptcy proceedings of the archdiocese threatened with bankruptcy are to be financed.
• Rome / Italy : President Sergio Mattarella swears in the entire government from the Five Star Movement and Lega Nord under the leadership of the independent lawyer Giuseppe Conte . The financial expert Carlo Cottarelli , who was supposed to lead a transitional government made up of technocrats, had previously given back his mandate.
• Salamanca / Mexico : During a traffic control in the state of Guanajuato , six police officers are shot from two vehicles. The country is suffering from a wave of violence that has also hit politicians and journalists heavily. 2017 was the bloodiest year in recent history with 26,000 murders.
• Washington, DC / United States : The US government is imposing additional tariffs on steel of 25 percent and on aluminum of 10 percent for the member states of the European Union as well as Canada and Mexico . The European Commission has announced a lawsuit over US punitive tariffs before the World Trade Organization (WTO).
• Worms / Germany : 34th Rhineland-Palatinate Day

Saturday 2nd June 2018

• Barcelona / Spain : In Catalonia , the new regional government of the Generalitat de Catalunya is inaugurated under its President Quim Torra and the forced administration is lifted under the central government in Madrid. The new regional government is still committed to independence from Spain and the goal is "an independent state in the form of a republic".

Sunday 3rd June 2018

• Flensburg / Germany : The SG Flensburg-Handewitt has won the German handball championship for the second time since 2004 .
• Kerkenna Islands / Tunisia : At least 46 people die in a boat accident with around 180 migrants on board. 67 people can be saved by the Coast Guard. The boat was allegedly used for towing . Another refugee boat sank off the Turkish coast of Antalya province . At least nine people were killed. Five could be saved.
• Ljubljana / Slovenia : In the parliamentary elections , the conservative SDS under Janez Janša is the strongest party with around 25 percent of the vote, ahead of the LMŠ, newly founded by Marjan Šarec , with 12.7 percent. The liberal SMC and the incumbent Prime Minister Miro Cerar suffered considerable losses and came to 9.8 percent, the social democratic SD 9.9 percent and the socialist ZL 9.3 percent.
• Lodwar / Kenya : In Turkana County , for the first time after the successful exploration of the Nagmbia 8 oil field near Lokichar in 2012, in the presence of President Uhuru Kenyatta , the first oil transport on tank trucks to the oil terminal in the port of Mombasa . So far, around 2000 barrels of oil per day have been extracted.
• Antigua Guatemala / Guatemala : After the eruption of the Volcán de Fuego (fire volcano), at least 62 people died and around 300 were injured. More than 2000 people had to be evacuated from the area around the volcano.

Monday 4th June 2018

• Amman / Jordan : Prime Minister Hani al-Mulki is stepping down after days of protests over the economic situation and tax increases . King Abdullah II accepts the resignation and entrusts the education minister and former economist of the World Bank Omar al-Rassas with the formation of a new government.
• Antananarivo / Madagascar : Prime Minister Olivier Mahafaly Solonandrasana resigns. The UN representative of Madagascar Christian Ntsay has been appointed by President Hery Rajaonarimampianina as the new Prime Minister of a transitional government .
• Goma / Democratic Republic of the Congo : After several fatal incidents and kidnappings in the past few months, the Virunga National Park in the province of North Kivu on the border with Rwanda and Uganda will remain closed to tourists until the end of 2018.
• Kabul / Afghanistan : At least eight people are killed in a suicide attack on a meeting of around 2,000 ʿUlamā ' , Islamic religious scholars in front of a tent of the Loja Jirga , the traditional council of elders near the Kabul Polytechnic University in the north-west of the city.
• Redmond / United States : The US software and hardware group Microsoft announces the takeover of GitHub , an online service that provides software development projects on its servers ( file hosting ), for around 7.5 billion US dollars.
• Sydney , Australia : The Commonwealth Bank of Australia agreed to pay a fine of A700 million Australian dollars ($ 530 million) for violating anti-money laundering and terrorist financing laws. 53,000 transactions were affected, with banking transactions over 10,000 Australian dollars that were not reported to the authorities.

Tuesday 5th June 2018

• Amman / Jordan : King Abdullah II appoints Omar al-Razzaz as the new Prime Minister.

Wednesday 6th June 2018

• Baikonur / Kazakhstan : Successful start of the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft with the space travelers Alexander Gerst (ESA), Sergei Prokopjew (Roskosmos) and Serena Auñón (NASA) to the International Space Station (ISS) as part of the ISS expedition 56 .
• Berlin / Germany : The Federal Government is setting up a Commission for Growth, Structural Change and Employment (“Coal Commission”), which is to develop a plan for the phase- out of coal by the end of 2018 as part of climate protection policy .
• Berlin / Germany : The federal government is setting up a “Reliable Intergenerational Contract ” (VGV) commission to develop recommendations for future-proof and generational provision for old age. This includes the sustainable security and further development of statutory pension insurance , company pension schemes and private pension schemes . The chairmen of the commission are Gabriele Lösekrug-Möller (SPD) and Karl Schiewerling (CDU).
• Menlo Park / California : According to research by the New York Times, Facebook contracted data from two billion users to 60 companies, including Chinese companies.

Thursday June 7th 2018

• Leverkusen / Germany : With the takeover of the US agrochemical company Monsanto, the pharmaceutical and agrochemical group Bayer AG completes the largest acquisition in its history as well as the largest takeover of a foreign company by a German one, making it the world market leader in crop protection products and seeds.
• Menlo Park / California : Facebook announced that private messages from 14 million users were accidentally displayed publicly over several days.

Friday 8th June 2018

Group photo at the G7 summit in La Malbaie, Canada

• La Malbaie / Canada : G7 summit
• New York City : The UN General Assembly has Belgium , Germany , the Dominican Republic , Indonesia and South Africa for 2019 and 2020 in the UN Security Council voted.
• Washington, DC / United States : The International Monetary Fund is granting Argentina a stand-by loan of US $ 50 billion with a term of three years to strengthen the economy. In return, the government of President Mauricio Macri pledged to significantly reduce the budget deficit.

Saturday 9th June 2018

Group photo for the SCO summit in Qingdao

• Qingdao / People's Republic of China : Summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO)
• Leipzig / Germany : The federal chairmen of the party Die Linke , Katja Kipping and Bernd Riexinger , are confirmed in their offices for two more years.

Sunday June 10th 2018

• Bern / Switzerland : Referendum on the Federal People's Initiative “For crisis-proof money: Money created by the National Bank alone! ( Vollgeld-Initiative ) »and the Federal Law on Money Games (Money Games Act).

Monday June 11, 2018

• Hanover / Germany : Opening of the computer fair CEBIT 2018 , for the first time it will take place in June instead of March as before.
• Rome / Vatican City : Pope Francis accepts the resignation of the bishops Gonzalo Duarte García de Cortázar , Juan Barros Madrid and Cristián Caro Cordero from Chile offered on May 18, 2018 . Besides the 61-year-old Barros, the bishops had already reached the retirement age of 75 years. After numerous cases of sexual abuse , 34 Chilean bishops initially offered to resign. For the first time in the history of the Catholic Church, an entire bishops' conference submitted its resignation.

Tuesday June 12, 2018

Handshake between Kim and Trump, Singapore

• Sentosa / Singapore : Historic meeting between US President Donald Trump and Supreme Leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea , Kim Jong Un .
• Skopje / Macedonia : In the dispute over the name of Macedonia , the country and Greece agreed to rename the Republic of Macedonia (UN designation: Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia) to "Republic of North Macedonia". In both Greece and Macedonia, parliament has yet to approve the agreement. In Macedonia, a referendum is also planned for autumn 2018. Greece could thus give up the blockade of a possible accession to NATO and the European Union (EU).

Wednesday June 13, 2018

• Braunschweig / Germany : The public prosecutor has in the context of a process to exhaust manipulations against the automotive group Volkswagen AG in the field of nitrogen oxides in diesel engines VW EA189 and VW EA288 (Gen.3 NAR) for violation of supervisory duties in accordance with § 130 of the misdemeanor law a fine Imposed amount of one billion euros. It is one of the highest fines ever imposed on a company in the Federal Republic of Germany. Volkswagen AG has admitted organizational deficiencies and accepted the amount requested.
• Moscow / Russia : The 2026 World Cup has been awarded to Canada , Mexico and the United States .
• Salzburg / Austria : Constituent session of the Salzburg state parliament of the 16th legislative period and election and inauguration of the state government Haslauer jun. II
• Tbilisi / Georgia : Prime Minister Giorgi Kwirikashvili announces his resignation.
• Vienna / Austria : The computer scientist and mathematician Herbert Edelsbrunner and the ethnomusicologist Ursula Hemetek were awarded the Wittgenstein Prize , each worth 1.4 million euros .

Thursday June 14, 2018

• Al-Hudaida / Yemen : The government troops, with the support of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), begin an offensive to recapture the port city that has been under the control of Houthi rebels for five years and are also attacking the airport.
• Brussels / Belgium : The EU Commission decides to impose additional tariffs on the United States on a number of US products amounting to 2.8 billion euros. This is justified with the tariffs previously announced by the United States.
• Fukushima / Japan : The president of the electricity company Tepco explains that the company is considering decommissioning the Fukushima-Daini nuclear power plant . The plant has been idle since 2011 and survived the Fukushima nuclear disaster largely unscathed, while the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant suffered a worst-case scenario .
• Kecskemét / Hungary : The trial against the accused in the case of the refugee tragedy near Parndorf in August 2015 ends. The four main defendants are sentenced to 25 years' imprisonment each, ten other defendants to prison terms of up to twelve years. In the drama on a motorway in Austria, 71 people died in a van
• Moscow / Russia : Start of the final round of the 2018 World Cup with the opening in the Luzhniki Olympic Stadium by Russian President Vladimir Putin and FIFA President Gianni Infantino as well as performances by British singer Robbie Williams and Russian-Austrian opera singer Aida Garifullina .
• New York City / United States : The United Nations General Assembly voted by a large majority to condemn Israel for the recent violence in the Gaza Strip . Out of 193 countries, 120 voted for the resolution. Eight countries voted against and there were 45 abstentions. In the months before, violent clashes had occurred on the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip. According to Palestinian sources, more than 120 people have been killed by Israeli soldiers there since the end of March 2018. Thousands were injured.

Friday 15th June 2018

• Asadabad / Afghanistan : According to the Afghan Ministry of Defense, the leader of the terrorist organization Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (Pakistani Taliban), Mullah Fazal Ullah, is killed in a US drone attack in the province of Kunar on the border with Pakistan .
• Berlin / Germany : Federal Interior Minister Horst Seehofer dismisses the President of the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF), Jutta Cordt, because of the so-called " BAMF Affair ".
• The Hague / Netherlands : The Dutch Foreign Ministry announces the withdrawal from the Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission of the United Nations in Mali (MINUSMA) on May 1, 2019, in which it is currently still involved with 250 soldiers. Instead, the mission in Afghanistan will be "expanded and intensified".
• Geneva / Switzerland : The World Health Organization (WHO) includes online gaming disorder in the new ICD-11 catalog of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems .
• Washington, DC / United States : The US government is imposing additional tariffs on the People's Republic of China of 25 percent on around 1102 Chinese products and product groups amounting to 50 billion US dollars. However, consumer goods such as smartphones or TVs are expressly excluded. This is justified with the high trade deficit with the People's Republic of China of around 375 billion US dollars. The tariffs are due to come into force on July 6, 2018.

Saturday June 16, 2018

• Dallas / United States : The US telecommunications group AT&T is merging for around 85 billion US dollars with the US media company Time Warner , to which u. a. Warner Bros , the news channel CNN and the pay channel HBO belong. The government under President Donald Trump had initially filed an antitrust lawsuit against the merger because it feared that it would have too much market power and disadvantages for competitors and customers. Judge Richard Leon of the competent court in Washington had already approved the merger unconditionally on June 12th.
• Jalalabad / Afghanistan : At least 20 people are killed and 16 others injured in a suicide attack in the Rodat district of Nangarhar province during the ceasefire celebrations between the Afghan government forces and the Islamist Taliban . Nangarhar Province is the main base of the Islamic State (IS) terrorist militia .
• Glasgow / United Kingdom : The Scottish art academy Glasgow School of Art is again badly damaged in another fire. The restoration of the fire damage in May 2014 already cost the equivalent of around 40 million euros. There were no injuries.
• Kiel / Germany : Beginning of the 136th Kiel Week as a folk festival with the annual sailing regatta and windjammer parade in the Kiel Fjord as well as visits to numerous warships at the Kiel naval base .
• Beijing / People's Republic of China : In response to the US tariffs on Chinese products, the country is also announcing additional tariffs of 25 percent on around 545 US products and product groups amounting to 34 billion US dollars. The tariffs, like those of the USA, are due to come into force on July 6, 2018.
• Vienna / Austria : According to an investigative research of the Austrian newspapers Der Standard und Profil , the German Federal Intelligence Service (BND) is said to have systematically monitored the telecommunications of central facilities in Austria between 1999 and 2006. Including ministries in Vienna, companies, especially arms companies, banks, universities and their professors, international organizations, Islamic institutions as well as terror suspects.

Sunday 17th June 2018

• Ankara / Turkey : The Turkish Air Force bombs a meeting of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in the Kandil Mountains in northern Iraq .

Iván Duque is elected President of Colombia

• Bogotá / Colombia : In the ballot for the presidential election itself is Iván Duque ( CD / Gran Alianza por Colombia) against Gustavo Petro by (Decentes).
• Damboa / Nigeria : Two suicide bombers blow themselves up in a busy square and at least 30 people are killed in a subsequent armed attack from an ambush. The authorities suspected the Islamist terrorist organization Boko Haram to be behind the acts.
• Psarades / Greece : The governments of Greece and Macedonia reach an agreement to settle the dispute over the name of Macedonia that has been going on since the breakup of Yugoslavia . According to this, the former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia is to be called North Macedonia in future. In return, Greece no longer wants to block the country's path to NATO and the EU .
• Valencia / Spain : A convoy of three ships, including the Aquarius , reaches the port of Valencia with a total of 630 refugees on board .

Monday June 18, 2018

• Faraba Banta / Gambia : During protests in Faraba Banta , three environmental activists died from the use of firearms by the police intervention unit.

Tuesday June 19, 2018

• Graz / Austria : At the Opera Graz is Austrian Music Theater Prize 2018 awarded. The production Axel an der Himmelstür at the Vienna Volksoper is recognized in four categories (best overall operetta production, Peter Lund in the best director category, Jakob Semotan as the best young artist and best equipment). Anna-Maria Kalesidis was honored for the best female leading role and Aleš Briscein for the best male leading role .
• Ottawa / Canada : The House of Representatives votes with a large majority for the legalization of cannabis .
• Geneva / Switzerland : The organization WHO removes transsexuality as a mental disorder. The new catalog is scheduled to come into force in 2022 and will be presented to the WHO member states in 2019.
• New York City / United States : UN Ambassador Nikki Haley announces the withdrawal of the United States from the UN Human Rights Council .

Wednesday June 20, 2018

• Algiers / Algeria : The government ordered the nationwide cessation of access to the Internet and social networks for one hour each morning and afternoon until June 25, 2018 . The aim is to prevent possible cases of fraud in the Abitur exams in more than 2100 examination centers. According to Algérie Télecom , access is also blocked via cellular and landline networks.
• Glasgow / United Kingdom : The European Handball Federation is awarding the 2024 European Championship to Germany.
• Neuilly-sur-Seine / France : According to a study by the auditing and consulting company PricewaterhouseCoopers International (PwC), there were a total of 117 takeovers in Germany by French companies in 2017 . Including Opel through Groupe PSA , SAG Group through Spie (Société parisienne pour l'industrie électrique), FTE automotive through Valeo and Rimowa through Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton (LVMH). In return, there were around 46 takeovers by German companies, including the merger of Siemens with Alstom , CIT Rail Holdings by VTG AG , Fnac by Ceconomy (formerly Media Markt and Saturn).

Thursday June 21, 2018

• Amman / Jordan : German Chancellor Angela Merkel visits Jordan and holds talks with King Abdullah II and Crown Prince Hussein bin Abdullah . The German-Jordanian University and the air force base al-Azraq , where German air force soldiers are stationed, will also be visited. For the implementation of the reforms demanded by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Germany is granting the country a support loan of 100 million US dollars (the equivalent of 86.2 million euros) in addition to the previous 384 million euros in development aid. Merkel praised Jordan's support in the fight against the terrorist militia Islamic State (IS) and in the peace process in Syria, a country with civil war, as well as the accommodation of around 700,000 Syrian refugees.
• Budapest / Hungary : Summit of the Visegrád Group with Austria as the host country. The heads of state and government are protesting against the special summit on EU refugee policy convened for June 24, 2018. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said the meeting, initiated by Germany, was against EU practice and Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki declined to attend.
• Darʿā / Syria : With the support of Palestinian units, the Syrian armed forces begin an offensive to recapture the areas held by the rebels of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) and the Islamic State (IS) in the Darʿā governorate of the same name . This leads to heavy fighting in Bosra , Darʿā and Al-Hirak .
• Geneva / Switzerland : Pope Francis visits Switzerland for one day on the occasion of the celebrations for the 70th anniversary of the World Council of Churches (WCC), also known as the World Council of Churches .
• Luxembourg / Luxembourg : The European Court of Justice (ECJ) condemns Germany for violating the European Nitrates Directive (Ref .: C-543/16). Nitrate gets into the water mainly through fertilization in agriculture . Agriculture Minister Julia Klöckner (CDU) pointed out the worse in June 2017 Fertilizer Ordinance as amendment of the Fertilizer Ordinance of 2008. They help, the stresses in the groundwater lowering.
• Luxembourg / Luxembourg : At the meeting of the Eurogroup , together with Greece , the payment of a final tranche of 15 billion euros for August 2018 within the framework of the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) and an extension of the term of older loans by a further 10 years are agreed. On August 20, 2018, the third aid package concluded in September 2015 will expire due to the Greek sovereign debt crisis , from which the country has received around 50 billion euros to date.

Friday 22nd June 2018

• New York City / United States : The UN Security Council and the UN General Assembly elects Yuji Iwasawa from Japan to fill the vacant seat in the International Court of Justice , based in The Hague , following the resignation of Judge Hisashi Owada with effect from 7. June 2018.
• Berlin / Germany : The German Association of Cities publishes a position paper “Sustainable Mobility for All”, which calls for a traffic turnaround in the cities, towards sustainable mobility with efficient public transport , electromobility , bicycle and pedestrian traffic and better financing of the municipal transport infrastructure. Helmut Dedy , General Manager of the German Association of Cities, calls on politicians to introduce the polluter pays principle and thus oblige the automotive industry to upgrade hardware for diesel vehicles that do not comply with nitrogen oxide levels.
• Vienna / Austria : At the 174th Conference of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), the member states agreed to increase production by one million barrels per day from the beginning of July 2018. In addition, the Republic of the Congo was accepted as a new member of OPEC.

Saturday 23 June 2018

• Addis Ababa / Ethiopia : An attack was carried out at a rally on Meskel Square in the capital during the first public appearance of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali ( EPRDF ), who has been in office since April 2018 . An assassin kills at least one person with a grenade and around 154 others are injured in the panic that ensues.
• Bulawayo / Zimbabwe : Several people are injured in the bomb explosion during a ZANU-PF election campaign rally of President Emmerson Mnangagwa in the Bulawayo stadium, including Vice President Kemo Mohadi. President Mnangagwa remains unharmed.
• New York / United States : In a resolution, the General Assembly of the United Nations (UNGA) for the first time called for the withdrawal of Russian armed forces ( 14th Guard Army ) from Transnistria in the Republic of Moldova, which is not internationally recognized as the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic . 64 states (including Great Britain, Canada, Poland) voted in favor of the proposal; 15 countries (including Iran, North Korea, Russia and Syria) voted against it and 83 abstentions. Russia's Deputy UN Ambassador Dmitri Polyansky referred to the OSCE's existing mediation efforts in the Transnistrian conflict, and the resolution is damaging the efforts of the OSCE.
• Tarragona / Spain : Opening of the XVIII. Mediterranean Games to be played until July 1, 2018. The main competition venue is Nou Estadi de Tarragona .

Sunday June 24th 2018

• Abu Kamal / Syria : F-16 fighters of the Iraqi Air Force attack a meeting of fighters of the Islamic State (IS) in Hajin in the Abu Kamal district in southeast Syria . According to Iraqi sources, at least 45 IS fighters were killed.
• Ankara / Turkey : presidential and parliamentary elections .
• Brussels / Belgium : Informal working meeting on refugee policy of the European Union in which Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, Germany, France, Greece, Italy, Malta, the Netherlands, Austria and Spain take part. Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary canceled their participation.
• Riyadh / Saudi Arabia : Women are officially allowed to drive motor vehicles after the ban has been lifted , including motorcycles, but bicycles only to a very limited extent.

Monday June 25, 2018

Tuesday June 26, 2018

• Berlin / Germany : The coal commission of the federal government is advising for the first time on climate policy, the necessary structural change in the lignite and hard coal mining areas and the industry for electricity generation, as well as the framework for a coal exit.
• Beijing / People's Republic of China : Start of the 15-day Sino-African Forum on Security and Defense in which high-ranking army representatives from 50 African countries take part in a troop visit to the People's Liberation Army and in discussions about future cooperation. As well as the 4th Sino-African Forum on Media with 400 representatives from 42 African countries

Wednesday June 27, 2018

• Kazan / Russia : The German national soccer team lost 0-2 in their last group game of the 2018 finals against the team from South Korea and was eliminated from a World Cup for the first time after the preliminary round.

Thursday June 28, 2018

• Brussels / Belgium : start of the two-day European Council . The heads of state and government of the European Union (EU) deal with issues such as migration , security and defense , jobs , economic growth and competitiveness , innovation and digital Europe , the EU long-term budget (MFF) and external relations.

Friday 29th June 2018

• Brussels / Belgium : At the meeting of the European Council , the heads of state and government of the member states of the European Union agree u. a. the extension of the powers of the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex), which is to be given more financial resources at the same time. A regulation for the distribution of migrants from Africa and Asia to the member states is not within reach; the principle of voluntary admission is emphasized. Furthermore, the states agree that asylum seekers with the goal of Europe should wait for their asylum decisions in closed camps outside the international community.
• Sévaré / Mali : In a suicide attack by a Jamā Dat Nusrat al-Islām wa-l-Muslimīn (support group for Islam and Muslims) on the headquarters of the force conjointe of the G5 Sahel countries, allied with the terrorist organization al-Qaeda , two G5 countries Soldiers and two civilians killed.

Saturday June 30th 2018

See also

• Nekrolog June 2018 for deaths this month
• List of annually recurring commemorative and action days in June
• Category for memorial days, holidays or action days in June

Web links

Baden-Württemberg in June 2018

Commons : June 2018  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

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Individual evidence

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