Abdullah Gül Turkish president Abdullah Gül states that he will not run for a second term in the upcoming presidential elections in August, paving the way for prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to run as AKP's candidate instead.
BET A shooting and stabbing kills one person and wounds five others at a BET party held in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Hong Kong Hong Kong customs authorities deny entry and deport a Taiwanese rights activist intending to support the Occupy Central campaign, which has gathered almost 800,000 votes in an unofficial poll on electoral reform.
2014 pro-Russian conflict in Ukraine Pro-Russian separatists release another group of Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe monitors seized on May 29.
2014 Northern Iraq offensive The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant is renamed The Islamic State, with a caliphate being proclaimed and Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi being named caliph.
Islamist insurgency in Nigeria Islamist extremists torch four churches near the town of Chibok and fire on worshippers killing at least 30.