Portal:Current events

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Destruction of the Kakhovka Dam
    • The Nova Kakhovka dam in the Russian-occupied part of Ukraine's Kherson Oblast is destroyed, releasing a large amount of water downstream on the Dnieper. The dam had held back 18 cubic kilometres of water in the Kakhovka reservoir. (Reuters)
    • Thousands of civilians are evacuated from Nova Kakhovka and surrounding villages as the floods spread. (BBC News)
• Islamic State–Taliban conflict
  • The deputy governor of Afghanistan's Badakhshan province and his driver are killed and six civilians are injured when a suicide car bomber rams their vehicle in Fayzabad. (DW)

Disasters and accidents

• Three people are killed and 28 others are injured by a magnitude 4.9 earthquake in Grand'Anse, Haiti. (WFTV-TV)

Law and crime

• Five people are killed and eight others are injured after police open fire on taxi drivers protesting high petrol prices in Huambo, Angola. At least 34 others are arrested during the protest, which occurred in response to the government's decision to reduce fuel subsidies. (News24)
• The New Zealand government announces the prohibition of most disposable electronic cigarettes from August. (The Guardian)
• Kidnapping and killing of Jee Ick-Joo
  • A court in Angeles, Philippines convicts a police personnel and a National Bureau of Investigation employee, however, acquits the alleged mastermind, all in connection with the death of South Korean businessman Jee Ick-Joo in 2016. (Philippine Daily Inquirer)

Sports

• Professional golf tour organizations LIV Golf, PGA Tour, and PGA European Tour announce that they will pool their commercial rights into a new for-profit venture, which will be funded primarily by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund. This merger agreement will terminate all existing litigation between the three tours, with plans for a "fair and objective process for any players who desire to re-apply for membership". (Sky Sports)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • 2023 Belgorod Oblast incursions
    • The Russian Volunteer Corps claims to have captured the village of Novaya Tavolzhanka in the Belgorod region of Russia. The governor of Belgorod, Vyacheslav Gladkov, says that about 100 civilians are still trapped in the village and cannot be evacuated because of continued shelling. (Novaya Gazeta Europe)
  • Wagner Group mercenaries publish a video of a captured Russian commander claiming that he had ordered his troops to fire on a Wagner convoy leaving Bakhmut. (The Guardian)
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • Two soldiers and two Pakistani Taliban members are killed in a shootout in North Waziristan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (AP)

Business and economy

• Apple announces and demonstrates the Vision Pro mixed reality headset at its Worldwide Developers Conference. It is the company's first major new product in almost 10 years and is expected to be commercially available in early 2024. (The Washington Post)

Disasters and accidents

• 2023 Haiti floods
  • Forty-two people are killed, 85 others are injured and eleven are missing after severe flooding in Haiti. (AP)
• One person is missing after a suspension bridge over the Ganges River in Bhagalpur district, Bihar, India, collapses for the second time in less than two months. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• Capital punishment in South Korea
  • The Ministry of Justice says it will submit a bill to parliament to lift the ban on carrying out death sentences after 30 years, although South Korea has not carried out an execution since 1997. (Yonhap)
• New South Wales Governor Margaret Beazley unconditionally pardons Kathleen Folbigg, releasing her 20 years into a 25-year sentence for killing all four of her children, after scientific and medical research suggested the deaths were caused by genetic mutations. (The Guardian)

Politics and elections

• Mike Pence 2024 presidential campaign
  • Former Vice President Mike Pence officially files to run for President of the United States in 2024. (BBC News)
• Delfina Gómez of the MORENA party defeats Alejandra del Moral Vela in the election for governor of the state of Mexico, ending 94 years of the PRI rule in the state. (ABC)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• 2023 Sudan conflict
  • The Sudanese Armed Forces bombs the International University of Africa in Khartoum, killing ten Congolese nationals. DRC Foreign Minister Christophe Lutundula says his country has demanded an explanation from the Sudanese government. (BBC News)
• Seventy-seven primary school girls are hospitalised after a poison attack on two schools in Sancharak, Sar-e Pol, Afghanistan. (CNA)

Business and economy

• 2021–2023 global energy crisis
  • Saudi Arabia's energy ministry announces a cut in oil production from around ten million barrels per day this month to nine million barrels per day from July. Oil prices on Brent and West Texas Intermediate futures initially rise by more than two per cent, but later fall slightly. (CNBC)

Disasters and accidents

• 2023 Virginia plane crash
  • A Cessna Citation plane crashes over mountainous terrain after being intercepted by an F-16 jet over Washington, D.C., killing the four people on board. The plane was flying from Elizabethton Municipal Airport, Tennessee, United States, to Long Island MacArthur Airport, New York. (AP)
• Fourteen people are killed and five others are missing after a landslide in a mountainous area near Leshan, Sichuan, China. (Reuters)
• One person is killed and 14 others are injured when a bus travelling from Lecce in Puglia to Rome crashes on a motorway in Vallesaccarda, Campania, Italy. (Ansa)
• One person is killed and ten others are injured in a fire at a refugee centre in Apolda, Thuringia, Germany. (AP)

Politics and elections

• 2023 Guinea-Bissau legislative election
  • The citizens of Guinea-Bissau go to the polls to elect 102 members of the National People's Assembly. (Reuters)
• 2023 Polish protests
  • Anti-government protests erupt across Poland, with an estimated 500,000 demonstrators gathering in the capital of Warsaw, according to Mayor Rafał Trzaskowski. (AP)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Russian forces strike a residential area in Dnipro Raion with Iskander cruise missiles, killing a two-year-old girl and injuring 22 other civilians, including five children. (Reuters)
• Egypt–Israel relations
  • 2023 Egypt–Israel border shooting incident
    • Three Israeli soldiers and an Egyptian policeman are killed in an exchange of fire near the Egyptian-Israeli border. It is the first fatal incident between the two countries in more than a decade. (The Washington Post)

Business and economy

• 2023 United States debt-ceiling crisis
  • President Joe Biden signs the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 to prevent the United States from breaching its debt ceiling. (NBC News)

Disasters and accidents

• 2023 Nova Scotia wildfires
  • A wildfire in Shelburne County, Nova Scotia, Canada, continues to burn out of control, becoming the largest wildfire in the province's history. (CBC News)
• Four children are found dead on a beach in Portneuf-sur-Mer, Quebec, Canada, after eleven people on a fishing trip on the St. Lawrence River were caught in a tidal bore and went missing. Six of the eleven people have been rescued, while one man is still missing. (CNN)
• Two people are killed when a small plane crashes at Tupelo Regional Airport in Tupelo, Mississippi, USA. (AP)
• One person is killed, another injured and 14 rescued after an overcrowded boat capsizes off the coast of Haiti. (AP)

Law and crime

• 2023 Epsom Derby
  • Surrey Police make 19 arrests on suspicion of "conspiracy to cause public nuisance" ahead of the Epsom Derby. (BBC Sport)
• Seven people are killed and two others injured in a mass shooting at a hostel in the township of Umlazi, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. (News 24)

Politics and elections

• Third inauguration of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
  • The third inauguration of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan as President of Turkey takes place at the Presidential Complex in Ankara. (TIME)

Sports

• 2022–23 FA Cup
  • In association football, Manchester City beat rivals Manchester United 2–1 in the FA Cup final at Wembley Stadium in London to win their seventh FA Cup title. İlkay Gündoğan breaks the record for the fastest goal in an FA Cup final, scoring after just 12 seconds. (BBC Sport)
• 2022–23 UEFA Women's Champions League
  • FC Barcelona Femení lifted the UEFA Women's Champions League trophy for the second time after defeating VfL Wolfsburg 3–2 in the final at the Philips Stadion in Eindhoven, Netherlands. Fridolina Rolfö scored the winner after Barcelona had trailed 2–0 at the break. (Al Jazeera)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Southern Ukraine campaign
    • Russian occupation official Vladimir Rogov says Ukrainian forces have shelled the port of Berdiansk in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, injuring nine people. (Reuters)
• Allied Democratic Forces insurgency, Kivu conflict
  • Nine people are killed when Allied Democratic Forces insurgents attack a group of people on the Kyondo-Kyavinyonge road in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (AP)

Arts and culture

• Removal of Confederate monuments and memorials
  • The U.S. Army base at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, named after Confederate General Braxton Bragg, is renamed Fort Liberty. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• 2023 Odisha train collision
  • At least 288 people are killed and more than 900 injured in a train collision in Balasore district, Odisha, India. (India Today) (Al Jazeera)
• 2023 Atlantic hurricane season
  • Tropical Storm Arlene forms as the first named storm of the 2023 Atlantic hurricane season. (The Washington Post)
• One person is killed and nine others injured by a fire in a high-rise building in Rome, Italy. (BBC News)
• 2023 Central Canada wildfires
  • The government of Sept-Îles, Quebec, Canada, declares a state of emergency and orders the evacuation of more than 10,000 residents following a series of wildfires in the eastern part of the country. (CNA)

Health and environment

• Japan's fertility rate is expected to have reached a record low of 1.2565 in 2022. (Reuters)

International relations

• Foreign nationals detained in Iran
  • Iran releases one Danish and two dual Austrian-Iranian citizens. (BBC News)

Law and crime

• Assassination of Jovenel Moïse
  • A Florida court in the United States sentences a Haitian-Chilean national to life in prison for the July 2021 assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse. (The Guardian)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • 2022–2023 Western Russia attacks
    • Russia says they have prevented three attacks by the Russian Volunteer Corps in Belgorod Oblast. (The New Voice of Ukraine via Yahoo! News) (Reuters)
    • Belgorod Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov says that Ukrainian forces have shelled Shebekino with BM-21 Grad rockets, damaging a dormitory and an administrative building in the town. Hundreds of people are evacuated. (Reuters)
  • Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Russia launches cruise missiles and ballistic missiles at Kyiv, killing three civilians and injuring 12 others. (AFP via Arab News)
• 2023 Sudan conflict
  • Twenty-seven people are killed and at least 106 others are injured when rockets are fired at a market in Khartoum, Sudan. (The Guardian) (BBC News)

Disasters and accidents

• Three people in Lakhsh District, eastern Tajikistan are killed by a landslide. (RFE/RL)

Law and crime

• 2018–2023 Haitian crisis
  • At least 160 suspected gang members were killed in Haiti between April 24 and May 24 by armed citizens after an increase in violence across the country. (Al Jazeera)
• Bill Cosby sexual assault cases
  • A new lawsuit is filed against American actor Bill Cosby by Playboy model Victoria Valentino, accusing him of drugging and raping her in 1969. (NBC News)
• Nine people are killed during protests in Dakar and Ziguinchor, Senegal, between the police and supporters of convicted opposition leader Ousmane Sonko. (France 24)
• Four people are injured by a knife attack at a school in Eskilstuna, Södermanland, Sweden. (Reuters)
• Mexican drug war
  • Authorities find 45 bags containing human remains in Jalisco, Mexico, after seven people were reported missing in the state last week. (CBS News)
• A Swiss appeals court finds former Liberian rebel commander Alieu Kosiah guilty of crimes against humanity committed during the First Liberian Civil War, sentencing him to 20 years in prison at first instance. (Sinar Daily)
• Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele announces that the government will construct a prison to hold white-collar criminals. He also announces that the country's security forces had raided the properties of former president Alfredo Cristiani. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• 2024 Salvadoran general election
  • Nayib Bukele officially proposes two bills to the Legislative Assembly to reduce the number of municipalities from 262 to 44 and the number of seats in the Legislative Assembly from 84 to 60. (La Prensa Gráfica)
• Capital punishment in Zimbabwe
  • The parliament of Zimbabwe votes in favour of a new clause of the penal code which will introduce the death penalty for "unpatriotic acts" such as supporting sanctions on the country or supporting calls to overthrow the government. (Africa Feeds)
• Wedding of Hussein, Crown Prince of Jordan, and Rajwa Al Saif
  • Crown Prince of Jordan Hussein bin Abdullah marries Saudi architect and distant relative of the Saud family Rajwa Al Saif in the Jordanian capital of Amman. (CNN)
• 2023 United States debt-ceiling crisis
  • The United States Senate passes the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023, sending the measure to President Joe Biden to sign in order to avoid a debt ceiling default. (CBS News)