current Events/June 2023

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)

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
  • 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)
• Aftermath of the Chiapas conflict
  • Seven people are killed during a mass shooting against villagers in Polhó, a Zapatista community in Chenalhó, Mexico. (La Prensa Latina)

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 win their second UEFA Women's Champions League title 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

• 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
  • 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
  • Fifty-one people are killed, 140 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)

Science and technology

• Twitter under Elon Musk
  • Linda Yaccarino officially replaces Elon Musk as the new CEO of Twitter. (CNN)

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 huge 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 being evacuated from the town of Nova Kakhovka and surrounding villages as the floods spread. (BBC News)
• Afghan conflict, Islamic State–Taliban conflict
  • The deputy governor of Afghanistan's Badakhshan Province and his driver are killed and six civilians injured when a suicide car bomber rams their vehicle in Fayzabad. (DW)
• Iran unveils a domestically produced hypersonic long-range missile named "Fattah", which they claim can penetrate missile defense systems. (Al Jazeera)

Politics and economics

• 2023 Africa CEO Forum
  • Africa's largest gathering of business leaders with heads of state, draws 1,800 from 70 countries to discuss advancing African business, post-COVID-19 supply chain issues, and Africa's food crisis from the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (The Africa Report)

Disasters and accidents

• Three people are killed and 36 others injured by a 4.9 magnitude earthquake in Jérémie, Grand'Anse, Haiti. (ABC News)

Law and crime

• 2023 Richmond shooting
  • Two people are killed and five others injured after a mass shooting at Huguenot High School in Richmond, Virginia, United States. (Reuters)
• Kidnapping and killing of Jee Ick-Joo
  • A court in Angeles, Philippines, convicts a police officer and an official of the National Bureau of Investigation in connection with the kidnapping and murder of South Korean businessman Jee Ick-Joo in 2016. However, the alleged mastermind of the plot is acquitted. (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
• Regulation of electronic cigarettes
  • The New Zealand government announces a ban on most disposable electronic cigarettes from August. (The Guardian)
• Five people are killed and eight others injured when police open fire on taxi drivers protesting against high fuel prices in Huambo, Angola. At least 34 others were arrested during the protest, which was in response to the government's decision to cut fuel subsidies. (News24)

Sports

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

Arts and culture

• The Egyptian antiquities ministry prohibits a group of archaeologists from the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden, Netherlands, from conducting excavations in Saqqara after the museum unveiled an exhibit about ancient Egyptian music that Egyptian authorities criticized for its Afrocentric depictions of certain figures, claiming it was historical negationism. (CNN)

Disasters and accidents

• 2023 Canadian wildfires
  • 2023 Central Canada wildfires, 2023 United States East Coast wildfire smoke
    • Millions of people in the eastern United States and central Canada are warned to limit their time outdoors due to smoke and bad air quality from large wildfires in northern Ontario and Quebec. (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
    • Air quality in New York City becomes the worst in the world, with air pollution levels reaching more than 400 on the Air Quality Index. (NBC News)
    • Officials in Chibougamau, Quebec, order 7,300 residents to evacuate in response to two nearby wildfires. (CBC News)
• Three people are killed by a 4.8 magnitude earthquake in Maubin, Ayeyarwady Region, Myanmar. (Ludunwayoo)
• Fifteen people are killed in a crash between a bus and a truck in Dakshin Surma Upazila, Sylhet District, Bangladesh. (IndianExpress)　
• The Kīlauea volcano in Hawaii erupts after a 3-month pause, prompting evacuations. (AP)

Politics and elections

• Doug Burgum 2024 presidential campaign
  • Governor of North Dakota Doug Burgum announces his candidacy for President of the United States in 2024. (The Guardian)
• 2024 Salvadoran general election
  • The Legislative Assembly of El Salvador votes to reduce the number of legislative seats from 84 to 60 ahead of the 2024 general election. (Reuters)

Science and technology

• In a report published in Biology Letters, researchers reveal the first-known case of facultative parthenogenesis or a "virgin birth" in a crocodile, where a female American crocodile living in isolation at a Costa Rican zoo laid an egg of a fully formed stillborn crocodile that exhibited parthenogenesis. Researchers suggest that the findings could provide insights into the reproduction of crocodile ancestors, including dinosaurs and pterosaurs. (USA Today)
• Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announces that the United Kingdom will host the world's first summit on artificial intelligence later this year. (The Philippine Star)

Sports

• 2023 UEFA Europa Conference League final
  • In association football, West Ham United defeat ACF Fiorentina 2–1 at the Fortuna Arena in Prague, Czech Republic, to win the 2022–23 UEFA Europa Conference League and qualify for the group stage of the 2023–24 UEFA Europa League. (BBC Sport)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Southern Ukraine campaign
    • Russian forces shell Kherson, injuring nine civilians near an evacuation point in a flooded part of the city following the destruction of the Kakhovka dam. (The New York Times)
    • The Russian Defence Ministry says it has destroyed several Ukrainian army tanks in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, including a Leopard 2 main battle tank, the first Western-made tank to be destroyed by Russian forces in the war. A video released by the ministry shows a column of tanks being hit in a field, with one of them confirmed to be a Leopard 2. (Business Insider)
• Islamic State–Taliban conflict
  • 2023 Fayzabad mosque bombing
    • At least 11 people are killed and 30 others are injured by a car bomb outside a mosque in Fayzabad, Afghanistan, during a prayer service for the deputy governor of Badakhshan Province who was killed two days ago. The Islamic State claimed responsibility. (BBC News)
• Thirteen people are killed after intercommunal fighting in a camp in Malakal, Upper Nile, South Sudan. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• 2023 Samoa floods
  • Heavy rains in Savaiʻi, Samoa, cause widespread flooding and infrastructure damage. (RNZ)
• A Russian national is killed by a tiger shark off the coast of Hurghada, Egypt. Following the attack, authorities closed a 46 miles (74 km) stretch of the Red Sea coast until 11 June. The shark was later captured. (The Guardian)
• The Philippine Institute of Volcanology issues a "level 3 alert" for Mayon Volcano in Albay due to the presence of volcanic earthquakes, indicating an increased risk of lava flows and possible eruptions. Albay Governor Edcel Lagman orders the evacuation of residents within a 6 kilometers (3.7 mi) radius of the volcano. (Reuters)

Health and environment

• 2023 Marburg virus disease outbreak in Equatorial Guinea
  • The World Health Organization announces that the outbreak of Marburg virus disease in Equatorial Guinea, which has killed 35 people since February, has ended. (CBC News)

Law and crime

• FBI investigation into Donald Trump's handling of government documents
  • Federal prosecution of Donald Trump
    • Former U.S. president Donald Trump is indicted on thirty-seven counts related to his mishandling of classified government documents. He is due to be arraigned in federal court in Miami, Florida, on June 13. (The Washington Post)
• 2023 Annecy stabbing
  • Six people, including four children, are injured in a mass stabbing at Lake Annecy in Haute-Savoie, France. The attacker, a Syrian national, is arrested. (BBC News)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Mali War
  • A United Nations peacekeeper is killed and four others are injured in an improvised explosive device attack in Ber, Tombouctou Region, Mali. (Reuters)
• Somali Civil War
  • At least 27 people are killed and 53 others are injured after a mortar attack in Qoryoley, Lower Shabelle, Somalia. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• 2023 Canadian wildfires
  • 2023 Alberta wildfires
    • Residents of Edson, west of Edmonton, and Yellowhead County, Alberta, have been ordered to evacuate due to wildfires in the area. (CBC)
  • 2023 Nova Scotia wildfires
    • Evacuation orders are lifted in Nova Scotia, two weeks after wildfires swept through the area. (The Star)
• 2023 Colombia Cessna 206 crash
  • President Gustavo Petro confirms the successful rescue of the four Witoto children who had been missing in the Amazon rainforest since the Cessna 206 they were traveling in crashed on May 1. The children were found alive but weak, while the bodies of the three adults accompanying them, including their mother, were found at the crash site. (AFP via ABS-CBN News)
• At least seven people are killed and 59 others are injured in floods and storms across Iran. (Mehr)

International relations

• Iceland–Russia relations
  • Iceland announces that it will suspend operations at its embassy in Moscow, Russia, beginning on August 1, saying that "commercial, cultural and political relations" with Russia are "at an all-time low" and that maintaining the embassy is "no longer justifiable". (The Kyiv Post)

Politics and elections

• Commons Privileges Committee investigation into Boris Johnson
  • 2023 Uxbridge and South Ruislip by-election
    • Former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson resigns from Parliament after being told by the Privileges Committee that he will be sanctioned for misleading Parliament over his involvement in Partygate. His resignation triggers a by-election for his constituency of Uxbridge and South Ruislip. (BBC News)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Somali Civil War
  • 2023 Mogadishu hotel attack
    • Six civilians and three soldiers are killed and ten others are injured by al-Shabaab at a hotel in Lido Beach, Mogadishu. All seven attackers are also killed. (AFP via Al Arabiya)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • 2022–2023 bombing of Odesa
    • Russian forces attack Odesa with drones and missiles, killing three civilians and injuring 27 others. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• At least 25 people are killed and 145 others are injured after heavy rains cause houses to collapse across Pakistan. (AP)
• Five people are killed in an explosion at a missile and explosives factory in Ankara, Turkey. (Al Jazeera)
• Two people are killed after a small plane crashes in the Superstition Mountains in Arizona, United States. (AP)
• Fourteen people are killed in wildfires in north-eastern Kazakhstan, while 316 others are evacuated, according to the Emergency Situations Ministry. Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev responds by sacking Emergency Situations Minister Yuri Ilyin. (Al Jazeera)

Health and environment

• Chile reports an outbreak of respiratory syncytial virus, which has killed four people. (Reuters)

International relations

• Canada–Ukraine relations
  • List of military aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War
    • Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announces a $500 million military aid package to Ukraine (including 288 AIM-7 missiles) and a $10 million humanitarian aid package to help victims of the Kakhovka dam collapse. (CNBC)
• Foreign relations of Romania
  • Romania recalls its ambassador to Kenya after he used a racist slur during a meeting with African Group representatives in Nairobi in April. (Al Jazeera)

Law and crime

• Two people are killed and two more injured during a mass shooting outside the entrance of a subway station in Farsta, Stockholm, Sweden. (AP)

Sports

• 2023 French Open
  • In tennis, defending champion Iga Świątek defeats Karolína Muchová 6–2, 5–7, 6–4 in the final to win the women's singles title at the 2023 French Open. Świątek is the first player to defend the title since Justine Henin in 2007 and the first woman to defend a major title since Serena Williams at Wimbledon in 2016. (CNN)
• 2022–23 UEFA Champions League
  • In association football, Manchester City win their first UEFA Champions League title with a 1–0 victory over Inter Milan in the final at the Atatürk Olympic Stadium in Istanbul, Turkey, with Rodri scoring the winner. Having also won the Premier League and FA Cup that season, City become the second English club to complete the continental treble after rivals Manchester United in 1999. (CNN) (The Guardian)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • 2023 Ukrainian counteroffensive
    • Ukrainian forces claim to have retaken three villages south of Velyka Novosilka in the southern Donetsk region. (The Guardian)
• 2023 Đắk Lắk shooting
  • Four police officers are killed and two others are injured in shootings at two police stations in Cư Kuin, Đắk Lắk, Vietnam. Sixteen people are arrested. (CNA)
• Three people are killed and three others are injured after border clashes near the North Waziristan District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, on the Afghanistan–Pakistan border

Disasters and accidents

• 2023 Interstate 95 highway collapse
  • A section of Interstate 95 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, collapses after a tanker truck catches fire under an overpass. (CNN)
• Greta bus crash
  • Ten people are killed and 25 others are injured in a bus crash near Greta, New South Wales, Australia. (Reuters)
• Three British tourists are killed and 26 other people are rescued after a boat fire in the Red Sea near Marsa Alam, Egypt. (Reuters)

International relations

• China–Honduras relations
  • Honduras opens its first embassy in Beijing, China, after breaking off relations with Taiwan in March. (NBC News)

Law and crime

• Former Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon is arrested as part of an investigation into financial misconduct by the Scottish National Party. (The Guardian)

Sports

• 2023 FIA World Endurance Championship
  • 2023 24 Hours of Le Mans
    • In endurance racing, the AF Corse Ferrari team wins the 91st Le Mans 24 Hours with drivers James Calado, Antonio Giovinazzi and Alessandro Pier Guidi. It is Ferrari's first victory at the event since 1965. (The Guardian)
• 2021–2023 ICC World Test Championship
  • In Test cricket, Australia win their first Test World Cup title, defeating India by 209 runs on the final day at The Oval in London, England. Australia's Travis Head is named player of the match. (BBC Sport)
• 2023 French Open
  • In tennis, Novak Djokovic defeats Casper Ruud 7–6^(7–1), 6–3, 7–5 in the final to win the men's singles title at the 2023 French Open. Djokovic surpasses the record he shared with Rafael Nadal to become the men's singles player with the most Grand Slam titles (23). (The Guardian)
• 2023 FIFA U-20 World Cup
  • In association football, Uruguay win their first FIFA U-20 World Cup title with a 1–0 victory over Italy in the final at the Estadio Único in La Plata, Argentina. Italy's Cesare Casadei is awarded the tournament's Golden Ball. (AP)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Syrian civil war, Russia–Turkey relations
  • Turkish artillery shelling kills a Russian soldier and injures four others in northern Aleppo governorate, Syria. (ABC News) (SOHR)
• Ituri conflict
  • At least 46 people are killed by CODECO in an IDP camp in the Bahema Badjere district of Ituri, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Reuters)

Arts and culture

• Pat Sajak announces his retirement from the American game show Wheel of Fortune after 41 seasons, having hosted the show since 1981. (AP)

International relations

• Moldova–Ukraine relations
  • Moldova and Ukraine sign an agreement to build a bridge across their border over the Dniester river between Cosăuți, Moldova, and Yampil, Ukraine, bypassing the unrecognised state of Transnistria. (Yahoo! News)
• Eritrea rejoins the Intergovernmental Authority on Development trade bloc almost 16 years after suspending its membership in 2007. (AFP via Al-Ahram)
• UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay announces that the United States will reapply for membership in July, after the Trump administration withdrew the United States from the agency in 2018. (AFP via The Manila Times)

Politics and elections

• 2024 Mexican general election
  • Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard resigns and announces he will run for president of Mexico in the 2024 elections. The mayor of Mexico City, Claudia Sheinbaum, also announces that she will resign on Friday to focus on running for president. (Al Jazeera)
• Death and state funeral of Silvio Berlusconi
  • Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi dies in Milan at the age of 86. (BBC News)

Science and technology

• Discoveries of exoplanets
  • Astronomers announce in the journal Nature Astronomy the discovery of BEBOP-1c, an exoplanet orbiting the binary star system, TOI-1338. The system is the second discovered to have more than one circumbinary planet. (Space.com)
• Most major communities on social media site Reddit implement a temporary "blackout" in response to proposed changes to third-party access to Reddit's API. (Sky News)
• The Swiss Federal Administration reports a distributed denial of service attack on some of its websites. (The Business Times)

Sports

• 2023 NBA playoffs
  • In basketball, the Denver Nuggets win their first NBA title after defeating the Miami Heat in five games of a best-of-seven series in the NBA Finals. Serbian center Nikola Jokić is named Most Valuable Player. (ESPN)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Russian rockets hit a residential building in the city of Kryvyi Rih, Dnipropetrovsk oblast, killing 11 people and injuring 28 others. (Al Jazeera) (AP)

Arts and culture

• The Grammys announce new award categories: Best Pop Dance Recording, Best Alternative Jazz Album and Best African Music Performance. (Pitchfork)

Disasters and accidents

• Kwara boat disaster
  • At least 100 people are killed when a wedding boat capsizes on the Niger River in Kwara State, Nigeria. (Sky News)
• 2023 North Indian Ocean cyclone season
  • Cyclone Biparjoy approaches India and Pakistan, with seven people being killed in India. (Reuters)
• Two people are injured and buildings are damaged by a magnitude 5.0 earthquake in Jammu and Kashmir, India. (The Hindustan Times)
• Fifteen people are killed and two others are injured after a minibus collides into a parked pickup truck in El Saff, Egypt. (AP)
• Fifteen people are killed and several others are injured when two passenger buses collide with a truck between Fana and Konobougou, Mali. (AP)

Law and crime

• 2023 Nottingham attacks
  • Three people are killed in two stabbings and three others are injured in a vehicle-ramming attack in Nottingham, England. Police arrest a 31-year-old West African man in connection with the attacks. (BBC News)
• Nine people are injured in a mass shooting in Denver, Colorado, United States. (BBC News)
• The Legislative Assembly of El Salvador votes to reduce the number of municipalities in the country from 262 to 44 ahead of the general elections in 2024. (Reuters)

Sports

• 2023 CONCACAF Gold Cup
  • In association football, Nicaragua is banned from the 2023 CONCACAF Gold Cup for fielding an ineligible player for eight matches and will be replaced by Trinidad and Tobago. (CBS Sports)
• 2023 Stanley Cup playoffs
  • In ice hockey, the Vegas Golden Knights win their first Stanley Cup after defeating the Florida Panthers in five games of a best-of-seven series in the Stanley Cup Final. Canadian forward Jonathan Marchessault wins the Conn Smythe Trophy. (The Sporting News)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • At least three people are killed and 13 others are injured in a rocket attack on a residential area in Odesa, Ukraine. (Al Jazeera)
  • Adam Delimkhanov, a Russian-Chechen member of the State Duma, is reportedly injured in Ukraine. (BBC News)
• 2022–2023 North Kosovo crisis
  • Kosovo–Serbia relations
    • Serbian forces detain three Kosovo Police officers, accusing them of illegally crossing the border. Kosovan Prime Minister Albin Kurti denies the Serbian claims, saying that the officers were arrested 300 metres inside Kosovan territory, and demands their immediate release. (U.S. News and World Report)
• Syrian civil war
  • 2023 Northern Syria clashes
    • Ten SDF fighters and five Syrian soldiers are killed by Turkish drone strikes in Aleppo Governorate, Syria. (SOHR)
• 2023 Sudan conflict
  • Killing of Khamis Abakar
    • The state governor of West Darfur, Khamis Abakar, is killed in Geneina after being abducted by armed men shortly after accusing the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) of committing genocide in the state. The RSF denies killing Abakar, blaming "outlaws" for his death. (BBC News)
• 2023 Manipur violence
  • Nine people are killed in ethnic clashes in Manipur, India. (Al Jazeera)
• Moro conflict
  • Two Islamic State operatives, including Abu Zacharia, a leader of Abu Sayyaf, are killed in separate operations by joint security forces in Marawi, Philippines. (CNN Philippines) (ABS-CBN News)

Business and economy

• The European Commission orders Google to sell off portions of its advertising services in order to comply with anti-competitive practices and threatens to fine the company up to 10% of its global turnover. Google, which relies on advertising services for up to 79% of its revenue, says that it will appeal the order. (Reuters)
• Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland announces that Canada is suspending its relations with the China-based Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank while her department conducts an investigation into allegations of the Chinese Communist Party's influence over the organization. (CNA)

Disasters and accidents

• 2023 Messenia migrant boat disaster
  • At least 78 people die and 100 others are rescued after a boat carrying refugees and migrants from Libya to Italy capsizes near Pylos, Messenia, Greece. (Al Jazeera)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia
    • Indonesian President Joko Widodo announces that the country will end their COVID-19 emergency within the next two weeks and transition into endemic status. (Antara) (The Jakarta Post)

International relations

• Fiji–New Zealand relations
  • Fiji and New Zealand sign a defence pact in Suva, Fiji, which includes military cooperation and humanitarian aid. (The Guardian)

Law and crime

• 2023 Japan military facility shooting
  • Two soldiers are killed and another is injured during a live fire exercise at a training area in Gifu, Japan, as a recruit opens fire at them. The suspect is apprehended and charged with the attempted murder of a soldier. (AFP via SCMP) (BBC News)

Politics and elections

• 2024 United States presidential election
  • 2024 Republican Party presidential primaries
    • Mayor of Miami, Florida, Francis Suarez files for candidacy as a Republican in the 2024 United States presidential election. (The New York Times)

Science and technology

• At the International Society for Stem Cell Research's annual meeting in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, developmental biologist Magdalena Żernicka-Goetz reveals that American and British researchers have generated the world's first synthetic human embryo-like structures using stem cells. Żernicka-Goetz suggests that the findings could provide insights into the causes of miscarriages. (CNN)
• Astronomers report that the presence of phosphates on Enceladus, moon of the planet Saturn, has been detected, completing the discovery of all the basic chemical ingredients for life on the moon. (New York Times)

Business and economy

• 2021–2023 inflation surge
  • The economy of New Zealand enters a recession after gross domestic product fell 0.1% in the March quarter, as the central bank raises interest rates to a 14-year high. Annual growth also slowed to 2.2%, according to Statistics New Zealand. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• Carberry highway collision
  • Fifteen people are killed and ten more injured in a collision between a semi-trailer truck and a bus on Manitoba Highway 1 near Carberry, Manitoba, Canada. (CTV News Winnipeg)
• Eighteen people are injured in an explosion at a firecracker warehouse in Bocaue, Bulacan, Philippines. (GMA News)
• Three people are killed and more than 50 others are injured by a tornado in Perryton, Texas, United States. (ABC News)

International relations

• Australia–Russia relations
  • Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announces that the parliament will pass a law to prohibit the construction of a new Russian embassy in Canberra due to national security concerns regarding the embassy's proposed location adjacent to Parliament House. (Al Jazeera)

Law and crime

• Commons Privileges Committee investigation into Boris Johnson, Partygate
  • An inquiry by the UK Parliament concludes that former Prime Minister Boris Johnson lied to Parliament about breaking rules during the COVID-19 outbreak in the country. (BBC News)

Science and technology

• 2023 in archosaur paleontology
  • Researchers from the Natural History Museum in London, United Kingdom, discover the fossils of a herbivorous dinosaur species named Vectipelta barretti on the Isle of Wight. The ankylosaur, with "blade-like spiked armor", is the first of its kind found on the island in 142 years and will be added to the collection at Dinosaur Isle for public display during the summer. (CBS News)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • 2022–2023 bombing of Kherson
      • Russian forces attack Kherson, injuring 23 civilians and damaging infrastructure. (The Kyiv Independent)
  • A peace mission visit of African officials to Ukraine is interrupted by a Russian missile attack according to the Ukrainian Air Force, which says it has shot down six Kinzhal ballistic missiles, six Kalibr missiles, and two reconnaissance UAVs. (AFP via Yahoo! News)
• Allied Democratic Forces insurgency
  • Mpondwe school massacre
    • Forty-one people are killed, including 38 students, eight others injured and at least six kidnapped during an attack by five Allied Democratic Forces jihadists at a secondary school in Mpondwe, Western Region, Uganda. (Al Jazeera)
• Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir
  • Five foreign militants are killed in a gunfight with police in Kupwara district, Jammu and Kashmir, India. (Reuters)
• Mali War
  • Foreign Minister Abdoulaye Diop requests the United Nations Security Council to terminate its peacekeeping mission in the country immediately, citing its "failure" to help improve the situation. (Al Jazeera)

Arts and culture

• The United States-based Recording Academy, organizer of the annual Grammy Awards, announces that songs incorporating artificial intelligence (AI) may be considered for awards, provided there is a significant human creative contribution. However, songs purely generated by AI are ineligible for awards, and only human creators are eligible. (Time)

Disasters and accidents

• More than 80 people are injured in a multiple-vehicle collision involving three school buses in Hongcheon County, Gangwon Province, South Korea. (Reuters)
• A magnitude 4.8 earthquake strikes Niort, Deux-Sèvres, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France, injuring two people and severely damaging hundreds of buildings. (BBC News)
• The village of Brienz/Brinzauls in Grisons, Switzerland, is narrowly missed by an overnight 2 million m³ (71 million cu ft) rockslide. The village of 128 residents had been evacuated in May after scientists predicted the imminent rockslide. (BBC News)

Law and crime

• Pittsburgh synagogue shooting
  • The gunman in the 2018 Pittsburgh synagogue shooting in Pennsylvania, the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history, is found guilty on 63 charges. (ABC News)
• Japan raises the age of consent from 13 to 16 and criminalises voyeurism. (AFP via The Guardian)

Science and technology

• 2023 in archosaur paleontology
  • A study in Science Advances reveals that Chilean Antarctic Institute scientists have discovered fossils from an unprecedented herbivorous hadrosaur called Gonkoken nanoi, which inhabited Patagonia 72 million years ago. (CNA)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• 2023 Sudan conflict
  • Battle of Khartoum
    • The Sudanese Air Force launches airstrikes in Khartoum, killing at least 17 people and destroying dozens of homes. The armed forces and the Rapid Support Forces agree to a 72-hour ceasefire. (BBC News)
• Anglophone crisis
  • At least ten people are killed during an offensive by the military of Cameroon against separatists in the English-speaking Northwest Region. (Xinhua)

Disasters and accidents

• 2023 Asia heat wave
  • At least 96 people die during a heat wave, which started two days ago, in the states of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, India. (AP)
• At least eight people are killed and 19 others are missing after a winter storm in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. (AP)
• Seven people are injured after a hot air balloon catches fire in Zug, Switzerland. (AP)

International relations

• Saudi Arabia–Yemen relations
  • A Yemenia flight with 277 passengers departs from Sanaa International Airport for Jeddah's King Abdulaziz International Airport, the first commercial flight from Yemen's primary international airport to Saudi Arabia after a seven-year blockade. Additional flights have been scheduled to accommodate thousands of Hajj pilgrims. (AFP via France 24)

Law and crime

• 2023 Gorge Amphitheatre shooting
  • Two people are killed and two others wounded during a mass shooting at the Gorge Amphitheatre in Grant County, Washington, United States. (AP)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • 2023 Ukrainian counteroffensive
    • Ukrainian forces capture the front line village of Piatykhatky in Zaporizhzhia Oblast as heavy fighting continues. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• Six people are killed and 28 others are reported missing after heavy rains cause flash floods across Nepal. (Sharjah24)

Law and crime

• 2023 DuPage County shooting
  • A person is killed and 22 more injured during a mass shooting at a Juneteenth celebration in Willowbrook, Illinois, United States. (ABC News)
• Fourteen people die from drinking bootleg alcohol in Alborz province, Iran. (RFE/RL)

Politics and elections

• 2023 Malian constitutional referendum
  • Malians head to the polls to vote on a referendum that, among other things, would enhance the powers of the President. (Al Jazeera)
• 2023 Kuwaiti general election
  • Kuwaiti Prime Minister Ahmad Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah forms a new cabinet following his reappointment, appointing Ahmed Al-Fahad Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah as the defense minister and Saad Al Barrak as the oil minister. (The Straits Times)

Sports

• 2022–23 PGA Tour
  • In golf, American Wyndham Clark wins the 2023 U.S. Open, his first major championship, after shooting a final-round 70 to finish at 10-under-par and holding off four-time major champion Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland. Clark had never finished better than 75th in a major championship and had missed the cut in his previous two U.S. Opens. (BBC Sport)
• 2022–23 UEFA Nations League
  • In association football, Spain defeat Croatia 5–4 on penalties, after a 0–0 draw, in the final held at the De Kuip in Rotterdam, Netherlands, to win their first UEFA Nations League championship. (BBC)
• 2022–23 CONCACAF Nations League
  • In association football, the United States defeat Canada 2–0 in the final held at Allegiant Stadium in Paradise, Nevada, United States, to win their second CONCACAF Nations League championship. Christian Pulisic is named the tournament's "best player". (AP via The Indian Express)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • June 2023 Jenin incursion
    • Six Palestinians are killed and 90 others are injured during an IDF raid in the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank. (Al Jazeera) (Al Jazeera)

Arts and culture

• The mayor of the Nepali capital of Kathmandu, Balen Shah, bans the screenings of Indian films after dialogue in the recent epic film Adipurush stated that Sita from Hindu mythology was born in India instead of Nepal. (Al Jazeera)

Business and economy

• Indian low-cost airline IndiGo reaches a deal with European aerospace manufacturer Airbus to order 500 A320 aircraft, which will be delivered from 2030 to 2035, making it the largest single purchase agreement in commercial aviation. (CNN)

Disasters and accidents

• Titan submersible implosion
  • The submersible Titan, carrying tourists to the wreck of the RMS Titanic, is reported missing, with the United States Coast Guard attempting to locate the missing vessel. (CBS News)

Health and environment

• The United Nations General Assembly unanimously adopts the High Seas Treaty, the first treaty aimed towards marine conservation in international waters. (The Hill)
• A report to the Japanese National Diet revealed that from the end of World War II to 1996 over 25,000 Japanese citizens were forcibly sterilized under their eugenics law, including two nine-year-olds. (BBC News)

International relations

• Qatar–United Arab Emirates relations
  • The foreign ministries of Qatar and the United Arab Emirates announce that they will restore diplomatic relations and reopen their embassies in Doha and Abu Dhabi, after relations were suspended six years ago during the Qatar diplomatic crisis. (Al Jazeera)

Law and crime

• Moldovan protests
  • The Constitutional Court of Moldova outlaws the Șor Party after accusations that the party was trying to undermine the rule of law during the recent protests in Moldova. (Reuters)
• Commons Privileges Committee investigation into Boris Johnson, Partygate
  • MPs vote to support the report issued by Parliament into former Prime Minister Boris Johnson. (BBC News)
• Six people are killed and eight others injured in a shootout between rival gangs on a street in Guayaquil, Guayas, Ecuador. (AFP via France 24)

Sports

• Racism in association football
  • The New Zealand national team abandon their friendly against Qatar at half-time in protest at a Qatari player's alleged use of a racial slur against New Zealand defender Michael Boxall, who is half Samoan. (CNN)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • 2023 Eli shooting
    • Hamas kill four Israelis and injure four others in a mass shooting at a restaurant and a petrol station near the Israeli settlement of Eli in the occupied West Bank. The two gunmen are killed by a civilian and a soldier. (BBC News)
• Spillover of the Somali Civil War
  • Seven people are killed and seven more injured when a police car and a public service vehicle are targeted by two roadside bombings at two different locations in Mandera County, Kenya. (Reuters)

Business and economy

• China–Pakistan relations
  • The China National Nuclear Corporation and the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission sign a US$4.8 billion deal to construct the fifth unit at the Chashma Nuclear Power Plant, Pakistan's seventh nuclear power plant, in Punjab. (Reuters via CNN)

Health and environment

• Whaling in Iceland
  • Fisheries and Agriculture Minister Svandís Svavarsdóttir announces that all whaling operations will be suspended in the country until 31 August at the earliest, citing welfare concerns after a video emerged of a hunted whale dying in agony over a five-hour period. (Al Jazeera)

Law and crime

• War crimes in Afghanistan
  • Tasmanian Senator Jacqui Lambie announces that she has referred several members of the Australian Defence Force to the International Criminal Court for alleged war crimes during the war in Afghanistan. (Canberra Times)
• Támara prison riot
  • At least 41 inmates are killed and seven others are injured during a riot at a women's prison in Támara, near Tegucigalpa, Honduras. (AP)
• French police raid the Saint-Denis offices of the 2024 Parisian Summer Olympics organization committee and the headquarters of contracted construction company Solideo, over allegations of corruption. (BBC News)
• Hunter Biden, son of United States President Joe Biden, is provided a plea deal for misdemeanor offenses relating to failing to pay federal taxes. A further offense of owning a firearm while lying about being an illegal drug user will be dismissed, following a two-year probation. (The Guardian)
• Influencer Andrew Tate is charged by Romanian authorities with rape, human trafficking, and forming an organized crime group as part of an ongoing investigation. (BBC News)

Politics and elections

• 2023 Finnish parliamentary election
  • Petteri Orpo is officially appointed as the 47th prime minister of Finland and forms his cabinet. (Reuters)
• LGBT rights in Estonia
  • Estonia passes a bill legalising same-sex marriage and same-sex adoption by 2024, becoming the first Baltic and post-Soviet state to do so. (CNN)
• Education in South Korea
  • The Ministry of Education announces plans to reform the College Scholastic Ability Test by removing questions unrelated to the curriculum taught in state schools. Education Minister Lee Ju-ho says that the reform aims to minimize students' dependence on hagwons and address the negative consequences of high-pressure education on students, citing the correlation with South Korea's high suicide rates. (AFP via ABS-CBN News)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • A Palestinian man is killed and several others are injured by Israeli settlers in Turmus Ayya. (BBC News)
  • An Israeli drone conducts the first airstrike on the West Bank since 2005, targeting a car, and killing two PIJ members and an Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades member. (Middle East Eye)

Business and economy

• The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approves Upside Foods and Good Meat's applications to commercially sell lab-grown meat, making the United States the second country in the world to allow its sale after Singapore. (Al Jazeera)

Disasters and accidents

• 2023 Paris explosion
  • Around 50 people are injured and one is missing after an explosion and fire on Rue Saint-Jacques in Paris, France. (CNN)
• 2023 Canary Islands migrant boat disaster
  • At least 35 people are missing after a dinghy carrying migrants sinks off the coast of the Canary Islands, Spain. (Reuters)
• 2023 Yinchuan gas explosion
  • Thirty-one people are killed and seven others are injured by a gas explosion at a restaurant in Yinchuan, China. (CNN)
• Two people are killed and 31 others are injured by a train crash near M'saken, Sousse Governorate, Tunisia. (Africanews)
• Four people are killed and several others are injured after a tornado rips through the town of Matador, Texas, United States. (Reuters)

International relations

• Israel–Morocco relations
  • Morocco cancels this year's Negev Summit meeting in response to Israel approving the construction of over 4,500 settlements in the occupied West Bank on Sunday. (Middle East Eye)

Law and crime

• Two people are injured in a stabbing at the Central Middlesex Hospital in Park Royal, London, United Kingdom. (Reuters)
• A court in Belarus sentences 18 participants who took part in the 2020 election protests against President Alexander Lukashenko to between 2 and 25 years imprisonment. (AP)
• Russian prosecutor-general Igor Krasnov designates international non-governmental organization World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) as an "undesirable organization", effectively prohibiting the organization from operating in the country. Krasnov claims that WWF's campaigns threaten Russian economic development, particularly in the energy sector. (Reuters)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • 2023 Ukrainian counteroffensive
    • A bridge between southern Ukraine and Russian-occupied Crimea has been damaged by a British-made Storm Shadow missile. (BBC News)
• Eight people are killed and ten others are kidnapped after Islamic extremists attacked a group of farmers in Mafa, Borno State, Nigeria. (AP)

Business and economy

• Economy of Zambia, China–Zambia relations
  • Zambia agrees with the Export–Import Bank of China and other creditors to restructure US$6.3 billion in debt, which includes maturity extensions and interest rate reductions. The deal, facilitated by the French government, also allows Zambia to access a $1.3 billion bailout from the International Monetary Fund. (Financial Times)

Disasters and accidents

• Titan submersible implosion
  • The United States Coast Guard announces that they have discovered debris from the OceanGate submersible Titan, which went missing while viewing the wreckage of the RMS Titanic. (BBC News)
  • All five people aboard the submersible are presumed dead after it was destroyed in an implosion. The United States Navy says that a sound they detected several days ago may have been the implosion. (Reuters) (Business Insider)
• A fishing vessel sinks off Baganga, Davao Oriental, Philippines, with two crew members found dead. Search operations are ongoing for seven others. (Philippine Daily Inquirer)

Health and environment

• 2023 Asia heat wave
  • 2023 China heat wave
    • Beijing, China, reports a record temperature for June of 41 °C (106 °F), surpassing the previous June record of 40.6 °C (105.1 °F) in 1961. (Reuters)
  • It is announced that at least 170 people have died in Northern India due to the heat wave, with temperatures of up to 46 °C (115 °F) reported. (DW)

Law and crime

• The US Supreme Court rules in a 5–4 decision that the US federal government is not obligated to secure water access for the Navajo Nation. (Reuters)

Sports

• 2023 NBA draft
  • In basketball, the NBA Draft is held at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, United States, with the San Antonio Spurs taking French player Victor Wembanyama with the first overall pick. (AFP via France 24)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Wagner Group rebellion
      • Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin declares that he will "stop" the Russian military leadership and calls for a "march of justice", claiming that his forces have been killed in airstrikes by Russian government forces. The defence ministry rejects the claims, stating that they are "not true and are an information provocation". (BBC News) (CBC News) (The Moscow Times) (The Guardian)
      • The Prosecutor-General of Russia Igor Krasnov formally orders the arrest of Yevgeny Prigozhin on charges of calling for an "armed rebellion", with authorities urging Wagner personnel to refuse Prigozhin's "criminal and treacherous orders" and to detain him. The FSB begins a mutiny investigation into Yevgeny Prigozhin. (TASS) (TASS 2) (NPR)
      • BBC News Russian reports that there are roadblocks on the M4 highway between Moscow and Voronezh, with the FSB and other security services being placed on high alert in the Moscow Oblast. (BBC News Russian)

Business and economy

• 2021–2023 inflation surge
  • 2021–present United Kingdom cost-of-living crisis
    • Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt unveils a "mortgage charter", which includes a 12-month protection against repossession, to assist property owners with increasing mortgage costs caused by the Bank of England's interest rate hikes. (CNA)

Disasters and accidents

• Welkom mining explosion
  • The government of South Africa reports that on May 18, at least 31 people were killed in a gas explosion at an illegally operated mining shaft in Welkom, Free State. (AP) (AFP via Bangkok Post)
• 2023 SAM Air plane crash
  • A Cessna 208 Caravan crashes with six people on board in Elelim, Yalimo Regency, Highland Papua, Indonesia. The rescue operations are being impacted by severe weather in the region. (SeputarPapua)
• Four people are killed and five others are injured in an explosion at a steel mill in Yingkou, Liaoning, China. (AP)
• Eight people are injured after a tornado hits the North Antelope Rochelle Mine in Campbell County, Wyoming, United States. (AP)

International relations

• Philippines–United Arab Emirates relations
  • UAE President Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan grants Philippine President Bongbong Marcos' request for the humanitarian pardon of three imprisoned Filipinos, two on death row for drug trafficking and another serving a 15-year sentence for slander. (CNN Philippines)

Law and crime

• The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) prosecutes an Indian citizen, in accordance with the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, for allegedly issuing fraudulent university acceptance letters to Indian students. The CBSA has suspended some of the affected students' deportation. (CNA)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Wagner Group rebellion
      • The Wagner Group seizes and occupies the cities of Rostov-on-Don and Voronezh as clashes occur across both oblasts. Wagner Group forces capture the Southern Military District headquarters in Rostov-on-Don. Rostov Governor Vasily Golubev asks residents to remain indoors. (9News) (Ukraine Today) (CNN)
      • Yevgeny Prigozhin warns that his troops will march on Moscow unless Russian military leadership meet with him for talks. Russian president Vladimir Putin addresses the nation, saying that a coup d'état attempt is under way. (The New York Times) (AP)
      • An Antonov An-26 transport plane is reportedly shot down over Voronezh Oblast, while Russian Air Force Ka-50 helicopters strike an oil refinery and depot in Voronezh, causing a large explosion and fire.(Defence Blog) (Hindustan Times)
      • Authorities in Lipetsk Oblast tell residents to remain indoors, with the M4 highway closed off to traffic. Wagner forces later enter Lipetsk. (Live Mint) (Al Arabiya) (DNP India)
      • The Wagner Group withdraws after Yevgeny Prigozhin, Vladimir Putin, and President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko negotiate a deal to end the rebellion. (AP)
    • 2022–2023 Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure
      • The debris of a Russian cruise missile shot down last night damages a 25-storey building in Kyiv, Ukraine, killing three civilians and injuring eight others. The Ukrainian military says that air defences destroyed 41 out of 51 cruise missiles launched by Russia, as well as two drones. (Reuters)
• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • A Palestinian teenager is shot and killed at a checkpoint in Qalandiya after opening fire on Israeli security forces. (Al Jazeera)
• Insurgency in Balochistan
  • One person is killed and five others are injured as a Balochistan Liberation Army suicide bomber blows herself up near a military convoy in Turbat, Balochistan, Pakistan. (AP)
• Moro conflict
  • Two people, a rebel and a soldier, are killed, and fourteen others are injured in a shooting incident in Maimbung, Sulu, Philippines. (ABS-CBN News)

Disasters and accidents

• 2023 Yellowstone River train derailment
  • A bridge crossing the Yellowstone River in Stillwater County, Montana, United States, collapses, causing a freight train carrying hot asphalt and molten sulfur to derail. (AP)

Law and crime

• Malaysia Airlines Flight 17
  • The Australian government imposes financial sanctions and travel bans on former GRU officer Sergey Dubinsky, Russian Armed Forces colonel Sergey Muchkaev, and Donbas separatist leader Leonid Kharchenko for their involvement in the incident, in which 38 Australians were killed. (AFP via TRT World)
• Gunmen open fire at a pool hall in Choloma, Honduras, killing at least 11 people and injuring several others. (El Heraldo)

Politics and elections

• 2023 Sierra Leonean general election
  • Sierra Leoneans head to the polls to elect a president and parliament. Incumbent president Julius Maada Bio is running for a second term in office. (AFP via Al Jazeera)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Syrian civil war
  • Northwestern Syria clashes
    • Nine people are killed and 30 others are injured by Russian airstrikes on a market in Jisr ash-Shughur, Idlib Governorate, Syria. (AP)
• Spillover of the Somali Civil War, Terrorism in Kenya
  • Five people are killed, some by decapitation, by al-Shabaab jihadists across two villages in Lamu County, Kenya. (AFP via Al Arabiya)

Disasters and accidents

• Twelve people are killed and seven others are injured in a head-on collision between two buses in Digapahandi, Odisha, India. (Times of India)
• Five people are killed and 34 others are injured in a crash between a government vehicle and a bus in Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India. (NDTV)
• One person is killed and nine others are injured in a roller coaster accident at the Gröna Lund amusement park in Stockholm, Sweden. (Reuters)
• One person is killed after a tornado strikes Martin County, Indiana, United States. (NBC News)

Law and crime

• Ecuadorian security crisis
  • Eight people are killed and others are injured in a shootout outside a nightclub in La Concordia, Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas, Ecuador. (AFP via The Punch)
• Two people are shot dead "due to a feud between criminal elements" in Nahf, Northern Israel. (Times of Israel)

Politics and elections

• June 2023 Greek legislative election
  • Greeks head to the polls for the second time this year to elect the 300 members of the Hellenic Parliament. (AP)
  • New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis regains an absolute majority of 158 seats and is expected to be sworn in as Prime Minister for a second term after previously handing his premiership to Ioannis Sarmas last month. (BBC News)
• 2023 Guatemalan general election
  • Guatemalans head to the polls to elect officials in the presidential, congressional, Central American Parliament, and other local elections. Presidential candidates Sandra Torres and Bernardo Arévalo will face a run-off vote on 20 August. (AFP via Manila Standard) (The Guardian)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Military aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War
    • Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announces a AU$110 million military aid package to Ukraine. (The Guardian)
  • Ukrainian forces recapture the uninhabited village of Rivnopil in Donetsk Oblast, according to Deputy Defence Minister Hanna Maliar, the ninth in the past month. (Reuters)
• 2023 Sudan conflict
  • Battle of Khartoum
    • The Rapid Support Forces take control of the main police base in Khartoum, seizing a large amount of military equipment and ammunition, including 160 pickup trucks, 75 armoured personnel carriers, and 27 tanks. (The Guardian)
  • The Sudan People's Liberation Movement–North attacks the town of Kurmuk in Blue Nile, Sudan, prompting hundreds of civilians to flee across the border to Ethiopia. (Reuters)

Business and economy

• Turkish economic crisis
  • The Turkish lira falls to a record low against the United States dollar, while the central bank stops using its reserves to support the lira. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• 2023 Pakistan ration distribution stampedes
  • Twenty-one people are injured in a stampede during the disbursement of funds for the Benazir Income Support Programme in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. (Pakistan Today)
• Ten people are killed by lightning strikes in Punjab, Pakistan. (AP)
• Seven people die from drinking bootleg alcohol in Tehran, Iran. (Iranwire)
• Ten people are killed, four others are injured, and an unknown number of people are trapped when a 14-story apartment building collapses in Alexandria, Egypt. (Al-Ahram)
• One person is killed and six others are injured after a fire breaks out in a nickel smelting factory in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia. (Reuters)

Health and environment

• The Sri Lankan Department of Wildlife Conservation cancels plans to export about 100,000 endangered toque macaque Old World monkeys to China after several environmentalists initiated legal action in the Court of Appeal against the export. (AFP via ABS-CBN News)

International relations

• Germany–Lithuania relations
  • German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius announces that Germany will permanently station 4,000 troops in Lithuania in order to help secure NATO's eastern flank. (DW)

Politics and elections

• 2023 Toronto mayoral by-election
  • Former New Democratic Party Member of Parliament Olivia Chow is elected Mayor of Toronto, defeating former city councillor Ana Bailão, becoming the city's first non-White mayor. She replaces John Tory, who resigned in February after revealing he had an extra-marital affair with a staffer. (BBC News)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Kramatorsk restaurant attack
      • A Russian missile strike on a restaurant in Kramatorsk, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, kills 13 civilians and injures 61 others. (The Guardian) (The Independent)
  • Wagner Group rebellion
    • Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko confirms that the head of the Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, has arrived in Belarus in accordance with the agreement reached with the Russian government. (Reuters)
• Islamist insurgency in the Sahel
  • Jihadist insurgency in Burkina Faso
    • Suspected jihadists kill several Burkinabé soldiers and members of the Volunteers for the Defence of the Homeland in a series of attacks on troops in the village of Noaka, Pissila department, Sanmatenga Province, and in the Sahel Region. (AFP via VOA)

Arts and culture

• Austrian painter Gustav Klimt's last completed oil painting, Lady with a Fan, sets a new European art auction record when an unnamed art dealer buys it for £85.3 million (US$108.4M), including the buyer's premium, at Sotheby's in London, UK. (AFP via The Straits Times)

Disasters and accidents

• One person is injured and many buildings are damaged after a magnitude 5.1 earthquake strikes Muisne, Esmeraldas, Ecuador. (El Universo)
• At least four people are killed when landslides caused by flash floods hit Wenchuan County, Sichuan, China. (AP)

Health and environment

• 2023 Canadian wildfires
  • Smoke from the wildfires continues to blanket southern Ontario and the eastern and mid-western United States, including New York, Michigan, Illinois, Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky. (Yahoo! News)

Law and crime

• Moore v. Harper
  • In a 6–3 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that the Elections Clause does not give state legislatures sole power over elections, rejecting the theory of independent state legislatures. (AP)
• Killing of Nahel Merzouk
  • A 17-year-old boy is shot dead by a police officer after an attempted traffic stop in Nanterre, Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France. (France 24)
• Mexican drug war
  • Fourteen police employees are kidnapped by armed men in Chiapas, Mexico, while travelling on the 190 motorway between Ocozocoautla and Tuxtla Gutiérrez. (AFP via Jamaica Observer)
• One park ranger is killed and another is injured in an attack by armed men near an illegal mine at the Okapi Wildlife Reserve in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (AFP via The Manila Times)

Politics and elections

• 2023 Sierra Leonean general election
  • Julius Maada Bio is sworn in as president of Sierra Leone for a second consecutive term. His opponent, former Foreign Minister Samura Kamara, rejects the results and claims the election was rigged. (CNN)
• The National Assembly of Republika Srpska votes to suspend all decisions of Bosnia and Herzegovina's Constitutional Court, a move described as "legal secession" and a violation of the 1995 Dayton Agreement. The region's president, Milorad Dodik, had criticised the court for having foreign judges and an anti-Serb bias. (Reuters)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• 2023 Sudan conflict
  • Battle of Khartoum
    • Airstrikes are reported in the Sudanese capital Khartoum, while heavy fighting takes place in Omdurman despite a ceasefire declared by both sides for the Islamic holiday Eid al-Adha. (Al Jazeera)
• Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
  • Four Armenian soldiers are killed by Azerbaijani forces in the separatist region of Artsakh. (AFP via France 24)
• Two students and a professor are stabbed and injured in a gender-studies classroom at the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. The suspect, a recent university graduate, has been arrested and charged. The attack is believed to be motivated by hatred related to "gender expression and gender identity." (CBC News) (CTV News)
• A man opens fire near the United States consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, killing a security guard, before being shot dead during a shootout. (Arab News)

Disasters and accidents

• Titan submersible implosion
  • Debris from the submersible Titan has been returned to land after the submersible experienced a fatal implosion during its voyage to the wreck of the Titanic last week. (BBC News)

Health and environment

• 2023 Canadian wildfires
  • Smoke from the wildfires in Canada reaches the U.S. states of West Virginia, Tennessee, Delaware, Maryland, North Carolina, Iowa, Missouri, Minnesota, South Dakota, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, and New Jersey, with the smoke also reaching the capital, Washington, D.C. (WUSA-TV) (KCRG-TV) (ABC News) (WHTM-TV) (WYMT-TV)
  • Smoke from the wildfires in Canada reaches Portugal and Spain. (Hoy)

International relations

• Canada–Iran relations
  • Iran brings charges against Canada at the International Court of Justice for allegedly violating Iran's state immunity by designating it a sponsor of terrorism. (AFP via France 24)
• Mexico–Peru relations
  • Chile assumes a temporary presidency of the Pacific Alliance from Mexico amid a diplomatic conflict which saw Mexico refusing to hand over the presidency to Peru due to the removal of president Pedro Castillo in December 2022. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• Killing of Nahel Merzouk
  • Riots occur in several French towns following the killing of a teenager by a police officer in Nanterre, Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France. At least 31 people are arrested, 25 police officers are injured, and 40 vehicles are destroyed in arson attacks. (Al Jazeera)
• LGBT rights in Nepal
  • The Supreme Court of Nepal provisionally approves same-sex marriage, pending a final ruling. (AFP via SCMP)
• The Swedish Police Authority authorizes a protest involving the burning of a Quran outside the Stockholm Mosque on the first day of Eid al-Adha, aligning with a court of appeal ruling that deemed security concerns insufficient grounds for denying the request. (AFP via The Manila Times)
• The Criminal Court of Thailand acquits a student activist and four others of obstructing Queen Suthida's motorcade during the 2020 pro-democracy protests in Bangkok. The group faced a potential sentence of up to 16 years in prison or execution under Thailand's lèse-majesté laws. (AFP via The Manila Times)

Sports

• 2023 NHL Entry Draft
  • The NHL Draft is held in Nashville, Tennessee with the Chicago Blackhawks drafting Connor Bedard with the first overall pick. (Chicago Tribune) (Audacy)
• 2023 MLB season
  • Domingo Germán of the New York Yankees throws the 24th perfect game in Major League Baseball history. (CBS Sports)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Myanmar civil war
  • The Tatmadaw carries out an air strike in the Sagaing Region, Myanmar killing at least ten civilians and injuring more than a dozen others, according to local officials and eyewitnesses. Thirteen homes are also destroyed according to officials. (CNN)

Disasters and accidents

• 2023 Canadian wildfires
  • Smoke from the 2023 Canadian wildfires
    • Smoke from the ongoing Canadian wildfires is reported to have entered the U.S. states of Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, Georgia, Vermont, South Carolina, Arkansas and even small parts of Florida and Mississippi. (CT Insider) (ABC News)
    • Smoke from the Canadian wildfires is confirmed by satellite data to have reached the United Kingdom, according to the Met Office. (BBC News)
• Seven people are killed and seven others are missing after floods, followed by a tornado, in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, strike Durban. (Al Jazeera)

International relations

• Foreign involvement in the Syrian civil war
  • The United Nations General Assembly approves the creation of an independent body to investigate Syrian civil war-related missing persons. (AFP via France 24)
• 2023 Chinese balloon incident
  • The United States Department of Defense says it has assessed that the Chinese balloon spotted over the United States and alleged to be a spy balloon did not collect information over the United States. (The Guardian)
• Burkina Faso bans French news channel La Chaîne Info for three months for allegedly disseminating fake news. (AFP via The Manila Times)

Law and crime

• Killing of Nahel Merzouk
  • Rioters set fires across several neighborhoods in Cayenne, French Guiana, and a government employee is killed by a stray bullet. Prefect Thierry Queffelec announces the suspension of the city's public transportation system and a temporary ban on the sale of gasoline at night. (ABC News)
  • Rioting continues for a third night across France with at least 100 people being arrested as 40,000 police officers are deployed to tackle the unrest. A town hall is set on fire in Clichy-sous-Bois, while supermarkets and other shops are looted by gangs in Nantes and Montreuil, Seine-Saint-Denis. (BBC News)
• Islamic scarf controversy in France
  • France's top administrative court upholds a ban on female footballers wearing Islamic headscarves. (AFP via France 24)
• Rwanda asylum plan
  • The Court of Appeal rejects the British government's plan to fly asylum seekers to Rwanda, deeming the plan to be unlawful. (The New York Times) (The Guardian)
• Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard
  • In a 6–3 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that race can no longer be considered a factor in university admissions, effectively ending affirmative action in higher learning. However, the court also rules that race considerations are still permitted for military academy admissions. (CBS News)
• Protests against Quran desecration in Sweden
  • Dozens of people storm the compound of the Swedish embassy in Baghdad, Iraq, after an Iraqi living in Sweden sets fire to a copy of the Quran. (BBC News)

Politics and elections

• Turkmenistan inaugurates its first smart city, Arkadag, named after former president Gurbanguly "Arkadag" Berdimuhamedow. (AFP via The Manila Times)

Science and technology

• Billionaire space race
  • American spaceflight company Virgin Galactic successfully launches Galactic 01, its first private spaceflight, from Spaceport America in New Mexico, United States. (AFP via SCMP)
• The NANOGrav consortium announces detection of a cosmic gravitational wave background in the signals from pulsars. (Scientific American)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• 2023 Chișinău International Airport shooting
  • Two people are killed and another is injured after a man opens fire at the Chișinău International Airport in Chișinău, Moldova. The perpetrator is injured and detained. (BBC News)
• Mali War
  • The United Nations Security Council votes unanimously to end MINUSMA, its peacekeeping mission in Mali. (MSN)
• Killing of Nahel Merzouk
  • Rioters set fire to the main public library in Marseille as civil unrest continues across France. More than 900 people have been arrested and Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin deploys an additional 45,000 police officers to the streets. (Freepress Journal) (BBC News)

Business and economy

• List of mass media in Austria
  • Wiener Zeitung, one of the oldest newspapers still published in the world, ends its daily print after 320 years. (The Associated Press via ABC News)
• The initial phase of the Skyline light metro rail formally opens to the public in Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S. (Hawaii News Now) (Railway Age)

Disasters and accidents

• 2023 Kericho truck crash
  • Fifty-two people are killed and 30 more injured in a multiple-vehicle collision involving a truck on a highway between Kericho and Nakuru in Kenya. (Al Jazeera)
• One person is killed and two others are injured by a 5.8 magnitude earthquake in Bambanglipuro, Special Region of Yogyakarta, Indonesia. (Jawapos)
• Seven people are killed and nine others are injured after a building collapses in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. (Reuters)

International relations

• Romania–Russia relations
  • Around 40 Russian diplomatic staff members leave Bucharest amid worsening relations between the two countries. (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)

Law and crime

• Biden v. Nebraska
  • In a 6–3 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that the Secretary of Education does not have the power to waive student loans under the HEROES Act. (AP)
• In a 5–2 vote, the Superior Electoral Court of Brazil rules to ban former president Jair Bolsonaro from holding public office for eight years due to his conduct during last year's election. (Reuters)

Science and technology

• IceCube Collaboration, a detector operating at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, detects evidence of high-energy neutrino emission from the Milky Way galaxy. (Science)
• The Australian Space Agency cancels its AU$1.2 billion (US$770 million) satellite program launched last year, citing budgetary adjustments amid a financial crisis. (AFP via The Manila Times)