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13 June 2024 – Russian invasion of Ukraine
Military aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War
Leaders of G7 agree to loan Ukraine US$50 billion and use interest from Russia's frozen central bank assets as collateral for the loan. (AP)
13 June 2024 – Allied Democratic Forces insurgency
Suspected Islamist rebels kill over 20 people in Mayikengo village, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Times of India)
13 June 2024 –
Six Nigerien soldiers are killed in an attack on the Niger–Benin Oil Pipeline between the villages of Salkam and Tibiri, in Niger's Dosso region. (Reuters)
The general secretary of the miners' confederation in Mali announces that at least 22 miners died in southern Mali five days ago, following the collapse of a mine tunnel. (Reuters)
A heatwave forces Greek authorities to close the Acropolis for visits during the afternoon. (AP)
13 June 2024 – FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine
The Supreme Court of the United States rules against efforts to restrict access to abortion pill mifepristone, due to a lack of standing by the plaintiffs. (NBC News)
13 June 2024 –
The European Court of Justice fines Hungary 200 million and imposes a daily €1 million penalty for failing to follow the European Union's asylum laws and for illegally deporting migrants. (Al Jazeera)
12 June 2024 – Russian invasion of Ukraine
Foreign involvement in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, India–Russia relations
Two Indians recruited by the Russian army are killed in Ukraine with the Indian foreign ministry urging Moscow to quickly return all Indian nationals who are serving in the Russian army. (BBC News)
Kryvyi Rih strikes
Nine people are killed and 26 others are injured in a Russian airstrike on Kryvyi Rih. (Reuters) (NDTV)
Kyiv strikes
Russia launches a wave of cruise missiles and drone attacks at Kyiv. Ukraine claims to have intercepted all missiles and drones, although debris did cause some damage to infrastructure. (Reuters)
12 June 2024 – Israel–Hamas war
Israel–Hezbollah conflict
Israel kills three Hezbollah fighters and Taleb Abdullah, a senior commander, in southern Lebanon. Hezbollah retaliates by launching over 250 rockets towards northern Israel, the most the group has sent in the war. (Times of Israel) (Reuters)
12 June 2024 – Impact of war on children, Sudanese civil war
The United Nations adds the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces to its list of offenders for violating children's rights. (BBC News)
12 June 2024 – Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
Russian soldiers complete their withdrawal from the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan. (The Moscow Times)
12 June 2024 – Red Sea crisis
The Houthis strike the Greek-owned, Liberian-flagged cargo ship Tutor with an unmanned surface vehicle, causing the ship to take on water. (Reuters)
12 June 2024 – Syrian civil war
Sixteen Syrian soldiers, including an officer, are killed in Homs Governorate in a minefield laid by Islamic State militants and in an attack by the Islamic State. (Al Arabiya)
12 June 2024 – Papoura Hill Circular Structure
The Greek Ministry of Culture announces the discovery of a large Bronze Age-era Minoan architectural construction used between 2000–1700 BCE at the construction site of the Kasteli Airport in Crete. (AP)
12 June 2024 –
The Royal Canadian Geographical Society announces that a Canadian-led team has located the wreckage of Quest, the polar exploration ship of the Shackleton–Rowett Expedition off the coast of Labrador, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. (Reuters)
12 June 2024 – International sanctions during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
The Moscow Exchange suspends all trading in US dollars and euros in response to increased sanctions by the European Union and the United States. (Reuters)
12 June 2024 – 2024 Kuwait Mangaf building fire
At least 49 people are killed in a fire at a building housing foreign workers in Mangaf, Kuwait. (Reuters)
12 June 2024 –
At least 86 people are killed after a boat carrying 271 passengers capsizes on a river near Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (AP)
Several people are injured and 25 shops are destroyed in a fire in Manama Souq, Bahrain. (Gulfnews)
The National Weather Service issues a rare Flash Flood Emergency in southern Florida, United States, for life-threatening flooding conditions only expected once every 500 to 1,000 years. (NBC News)
12 June 2024 – Armenia–Russia relations
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan announces that Armenia will withdraw from the Collective Security Treaty Organization amid deteriorating relations with Russia. (Euronews)
12 June 2024 – Moldova–United States relations
The United States imposes sanctions on Evghenia Guțul, the pro-Russian governor of Moldova's Gagauzia region. (Reuters)
12 June 2024 – Russia–United States relations
The United States expands secondary sanctions on foreign financial institutions that conducted business with more than 4,500 US-sanctioned Russian entities. (Financial Times)
12 June 2024 – 2024 Armenian protests
Dozens of demonstrators are injured in Yerevan, Armenia, after police fire stun grenades at an anti-government rally outside the National Assembly Building. (Al-Arabiya)
12 June 2024 – 2024 New Caledonia unrest
French president Emmanuel Macron suspends electoral reforms in New Caledonia amid riots in the territory. (Reuters)
12 June 2024 – 2024 South African general election
South Africa's Inkatha Freedom Party says that it will join a unity government with the African National Congress and the Democratic Alliance. (Reuters)
12 June 2024 – Law of Bases and Starting Points for the Freedom of Argentines, Presidency of Javier Milei
The Argentine Senate passes an extensive economic reform bill package proposed by President Javier Milei, decided by a 36–36 vote, with the tie broken by Vice President Victoria Villarruel. (Reuters)
Anti-government protestors clash with police outside the National Congress Palace in Buenos Aires, Argentina, after the reform bill's passing. (CTV) (Reuters)
12 June 2024 –
U.S. attorney general Merrick Garland is found in contempt by the United States House of Representatives. (The New York Times)
The French Republicans party votes unanimously to remove party leader Éric Ciotti for attempting to form an electoral alliance with Marine Le Pen's far-right National Rally party. (Al Jazeera)
12 June 2024 – Mexico–United States border crisis
The American Civil Liberties Union files a lawsuit in federal court against the Biden administration for US President Joe Biden's new presidential directive which limits migrants seeking asylum at the Mexico–United States border. (NPR)
12 June 2024 – Killing of Peter R. de Vries
A court in the Netherlands sentences three men to up to 28 years in prison for the murder of reporter Peter R. de Vries in 2021, and three other men to 14 years for aiding in the murder. (Reuters)
12 June 2024 –
The Oklahoma Supreme Court dismisses a lawsuit by the last Tulsa race massacre survivors seeking reparations. (ABC News)
11 June 2024 – Russian invasion of Ukraine
Military aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War, Ukraine–European Union relations, Ukraine–United States relations
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announces that the European Union will give Ukraine 3.4 billion (USD$3.6 billion) throughout the summer from Russian frozen assets revenue. (The Kyiv Independent)
The United States approves a move to send a second Patriot missile system to Ukraine. (AP)
Belarus–Russia relations
Russia and Belarus begin the second stage of their tactical nuclear weapons drills. (The Independent)
Russia says that it has captured the villages of Tymkivka in Kharkiv Oblast and Miasozharivka in Luhansk Oblast. (Barron's via AFP)
11 June 2024 – Israel–Hamas war
Humanitarian aid during the Israel–Hamas war
United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken announces more than $400 million in new humanitarian aid for Palestinians in Gaza. (CNN)
11 June 2024 – Islamic State insurgency in Iraq
Iraqi security forces in cooperation with U.S.-led coalition forces kill Abu Zainab, a senior member of Islamic State in Raqqa, Syria. (Reuters)
11 June 2024 – Korean conflict
South Korea says that its forces fired warning shots at North Korean soldiers who briefly crossed the demarcation line in the Korean Demilitarized Zone. South Korean authorities state that they believe the intrusion, which occurred in a densely forested area, was accidental. (Reuters)
11 June 2024 – Sudanese civil war
The International Organization for Migration says that more than 10 million people have now been internally displaced by the war in Sudan, including around a third of the population of the capital Khartoum, making it the world's worst displacement crisis. (Al Jazeera)
11 June 2024 –
The World Bank approves $1 billion for the construction of the Dasu Dam in northwest Pakistan. (Al-Arabiya)
Production begins at Senegal's first offshore oil project at the Sangomar oil fields which aims to produce 100,000 barrels of oil per day. (ABC News)
11 June 2024 – 2024 Chikangawa Dornier 228 crash
The wreckage of an aircraft which went missing yesterday in Malawi amid bad weather is found. All ten people on board, including the country's Vice-President Saulos Chilima, are confirmed dead. (Reuters)
11 June 2024 –
A Russian Aerospace Forces Sukhoi Su-34 aircraft crashes during a routine training exercise in North Ossetia–Alania, Russia, killing all onboard. (Reuters)
11 June 2024 – Russia–Sri Lanka relations, Foreign involvement in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Sri Lanka's foreign ministry says that the country has received assurances from Russia that it would stop recruiting Sri Lankan citizens to fight in Ukraine. (Al-Arabiya)
11 June 2024 – Weiss special counsel investigation
Hunter Biden, son of U.S. President Joe Biden, is convicted in a federal court in Delaware on three felony counts of possession of a firearm while under the influence of narcotics. (NBC News)
11 June 2024 –
A man self-immolates at St. Mark's Square in Zagreb, Croatia, and later dies in hospital. (N1) (Dnevnik)
Riots occur in Tiaret, Algeria, in opposition to water rationing as a government response to prolonged droughts. (AP)
Eight individuals from Tajikistan with suspected ties to Islamic State are arrested across several United States cities for border immigration violations. (AP)
11 June 2024 – 2024 Austrian legislative election
Austria announces that parliamentary elections will be held on September 29. (Reuters)
11 June 2024 – 2024 French legislative election
France's left-wing political parties establish an electoral alliance, the New Popular Front, ahead of the French parliamentary elections. (Le Monde)
11 June 2024 – 2024 Limerick mayoral election
John Moran becomes the first directly-elected mayor in the Republic of Ireland. (Limerick.ie)
11 June 2024 – 2024 South African general election
Former South African president Jacob Zuma and his party uMkhonto weSizwe appeal to the Constitutional Court to block the newly elected parliament from sitting, citing electoral fraud. (Reuters)
11 June 2024 – Crisis in Venezuela
Hunger strikes occur in at least 16 prisons in Venezuela to protest against poor living conditions such as overcrowding as well as delays in the reviews of the prisoners' judicial processes. (MSN via Reuters)
10 June 2024 – Russian invasion of Ukraine
Crimea attacks
Ukraine's military says that its missile strikes near Yevpatoriya and Chornomorske in Russian-occupied Crimea damaged three Russian air defense systems. (Reuters)
Eastern Ukraine campaign
The Russian Defence Ministry says that its forces have recaptured the village of Staromaiorske in Donetsk Oblast. (Fakti) (Reuters)
Military aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War
The United States lifts a ban on sending U.S. weaponry to Ukraine's Azov Brigade. (The Washington Post)
10 June 2024 – Sudanese civil war
Battle of El Fasher
The last remaining operational hospital in Al-Fashir, North Darfur, closes down after being stormed and looted by the Rapid Support Forces, according to Médecins Sans Frontières. (The Guardian)
10 June 2024 – Nigerian bandit conflict
At least 50 people are killed and an unknown number are kidnapped, including women and children, when gunmen attack the village of Yargoje in Katsina State, Nigeria. (Al Arabiya)
10 June 2024 – Somali civil war
At least 55 people are killed and 155 others are injured in fighting between the Dir and Marehan clans in central Somalia. (Reuters)
10 June 2024 – 2024 Brazil wildfires
It is reported that wildfires have burned around 32,000 hectares (79,000 acres) of tropical wetland in Brazil's Pantanal so far this year, a 935% increase in the number of fires that occurred in the same period last year. (BBC News)
10 June 2024 – 2024 Chikangawa Dornier 228 crash
An aircraft carrying Malawian Vice-President Saulos Chilima and nine others is reported missing while flying from Lilongwe to Mzuzu. (BBC News)
10 June 2024 –
Forty-nine migrants, mostly from Ethiopia and Somalia, are killed and 140 are missing after their boat capsizes off the coast of Yemen. (Al Jazeera)
Three people are killed in floods and landslides in Hà Giang province, Vietnam. (France 24)
10 June 2024 – Belarus–European Union border crisis
Poland announces a "no-go zone" in the Białowieża Forest in order to prevent migrants from crossing the border from Belarus. In response, concerns are raised about the potential impact on tourism during the summer. (Reuters)
10 June 2024 – Doe v. Chiquita Brands International, Right-wing paramilitarism in Colombia
After 17 years of litigation, Chiquita Brands International is found liable by a jury in United States Federal Court of financing the far-right paramilitary death squad United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia in the Antioquia and Magdalena Departments of Colombia. (EarthRights International)
10 June 2024 –
Four American instructors from Cornell College in Iowa, United States, and one Chinese passerby are wounded in a stabbing attack at a park in Jilin City, China. The perpetrator is arrested a day later. (CNA) (NPR)
A Spanish court sentences three men to eight months in prison for racist chants directed towards Brazilian football player Vinícius Júnior. (NPR)
10 June 2024 – Israel–Hamas war
Israel–Hamas war protests
The United States Consulate General in Sydney, Australia, is vandalized by a pro-Palestinian activist. (NBC News)
United Nations Security Council Resolution 2735
The United Nations Security Council votes 14–0, with Russia abstaining, to back the ceasefire proposal outlined by US President Joe Biden. (Reuters)
10 June 2024 – 2024 Belgian federal election
The New Flemish Alliance win the highest percent of votes in the federal election, followed by Vlaams Belang and the Reformist Movement. (VRT)
Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo resigns after his party Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats loses to centre-right and conservative parties. (Al Jazeera)
2024 Belgian government formation
Following resignation of De Croo, government formation talks begin.(Al Jazeera)
10 June 2024 – 2024 Armenian protests
Several large protests are held in Yerevan, Armenia, calling for Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan to resign due to Armenia ceding territory to Azerbaijan in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. (Al Jazeera)
10 June 2024 – 2024 Bulgarian parliamentary election
No party attains a majority in the Bulgarian National Assembly, with GERB attaining a plurality of seats. (Euronews)
10 June 2024 –
Apple holds its 2024 Worldwide Developers Conference in Cupertino, California, United States, unveiling its Apple Intelligence, iOS 18, iPadOS 18, MacOS Sequoia, and more. (Reuters)
9 June 2024 – Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir
2024 Reasi attack
At least nine people are killed and 33 others are injured near Reasi, Jammu and Kashmir, India, when a bus carrying Hindu pilgrims falls into a ravine after being shot at. (Al Jazeera)
9 June 2024 – Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
2024 Lakki Marwat bombing
An IED kills seven Pakistan Army personnel in Lakki Marwat District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (Reuters)
9 June 2024 – Israel–Hezbollah conflict
Two people are killed in Israeli airstrikes near Aitaroun, Lebanon, according to the National News Agency. (Al Jazeera)
9 June 2024 –
President Bernardo Arévalo announced that the remains of Guatemalan writer and 1967 Nobel Prize winner for Literature, Miguel Ángel Asturias, would be repatriated to Guatemala. Asturias is buried in the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, France. (DW)
9 June 2024 – North Korea–South Korea relations
South Korea announces that it will resume loudspeaker broadcasts over the Korean Demilitarized Zone for the first time since 2018 in response to North Korea sending hundreds of balloons carrying garbage across the border. (BBC News)
9 June 2024 – Cannabis in Slovenia
Slovenian voters approve the use of cannabis for medicinal and recreational use in adults. (STA)
9 June 2024 – Israel–Hamas war
Israeli war cabinet
War Cabinet Minister Benny Gantz resigns after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu failed to present a post-war plan for Gaza by Gantz's previously announced June 8 deadline. Minister Gadi Eisenkot also resigns. (BBC News)
9 June 2024 – 2024 Belgian federal election
Belgians vote for the 150 members of the Chamber of Representatives as well as for regional representatives and members of the European Parliament. (The Guardian)
9 June 2024 – 2024 Bulgarian parliamentary election
Bulgarians vote for the sixth time in three years to elect the 240 members of the parliament. (DW)
9 June 2024 – 2024 European Parliament election
The last day of the European Parliament elections takes place, with voting occurring in 20 countries. (AP)
9 June 2024 – 2024 French legislative election
Following major losses for French President Emmanuel Macron's Renaissance party in the European Parliament elections, Macron dissolves the National Assembly and calls snap elections for June 30 and July 7. (Reuters)
9 June 2024 – 2024 Indian general election
Narendra Modi is sworn in for his third term as Prime Minister of India. (Al Jazeera)
9 June 2024 – 2024 Mexican general election
Mexico's ruling party Morena and its coalition allies win a supermajority in the Chamber of Deputies but not in the Senate, falling short of the two-thirds majority needed to change the Constitution. (Reuters)
9 June 2024 – 2024 San Marino general election
Sammarinese elect the members of the Grand and General Council. (Libertas)
9 June 2024 – 2024 South Ossetian parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections are held in the Georgian breakaway region of South Ossetia. (Anadolu Ajansi)
9 June 2024 – 2024 Swiss referendums
Voters in Switzerland reject limits on healthcare spending and an initiative against compulsory vaccination, while approving the initiative of a new law on electricity. (Swissinfo)
9 June 2024 – 2024 French Open
In tennis, Carlos Alcaraz wins the Men's singles title at the French Open after defeating Alexander Zverev in the final, earning his third Grand Slam title. (AP)
8 June 2024 – Israel–Hamas war
Israel–Hamas war hostage crisis
2024 Nuseirat rescue operation
The Israel Defence Forces airstrikes and raids the Nuseirat refugee camp in Deir al-Balah Governorate in Gaza, rescuing four hostages kidnapped by Hamas during the Re'im music festival massacre on October 7, including Noa Argamani. (CNN)
Many Palestinians, including women and children, are killed and injured during the raid, with Palestinian officials claiming 236 killed and 400 wounded, while Israeli sources claim under 100 casualties. It is unknown how many casualties were civilians and how many were militants. (Reuters) (CNN)
8 June 2024 – 2021–2024 Democratic Republic of the Congo attacks
At least 41 people are killed in an overnight attack in Beni, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Local leaders suspect the Allied Democratic Forces are responsible for the attack. (Reuters)
8 June 2024 – Economic impact of the Israel–Hamas war, Colombia–Israel relations
Colombia announces the suspension of coal exports to Israel stating that it will resume exports after Israel complies with the International Court of Justice provisional measure of protection and stops its genocide in Gaza. (AP)
8 June 2024 –
Doctors Without Borders recovers 11 bodies and rescues dozens of migrants off the coast of Libya. (Al Jazeera)
8 June 2024 – Censorship in Vietnam
Police in Vietnam arrest journalist Huy Đức and lawyer Tran Dinh Trien over Facebook posts. (Reuters)
8 June 2024 – 2024 European Parliament election
Elections to the European Parliament continue, with Slovakia, Italy, the Czech Republic, Latvia, and Malta voting today. (Al Jazeera)
8 June 2024 – 2024 French Open
In tennis, Iga Świątek wins the Women's singles title at the French Open after defeating Jasmine Paolini, becoming the third woman to win three consecutive titles in the Open Era. (CNN)
7 June 2024 – Israel–Hamas war
International reactions to the Israel–Hamas war
United Nations advisors announce that it intends to add the Israeli military, Hamas, and Palestinian Islamic Jihad to their list of countries and armed groups that harm children in their upcoming "Children and Armed Conflict" report. (The New York Times) (Reuters)
Humanitarian aid during the Israel–Hamas war
The United States reinstalls the temporary Gaza floating pier after weather-related damage had to be repaired. (Al Jazeera)
7 June 2024 – Yemeni civil war
Red Sea crisis
The Houthis detain 11 Yemeni employees of United Nations agencies and others working for aid groups. (AP)
According to a Houthi-run television station, the United States and the United Kingdom carry out six airstrikes on Hodeida International Airport, the Port of Salif, and Al-Thawrah, Yemen. (Al Jazeera)
7 June 2024 – Sudanese civil war
Battle of Khartoum
At least 40 people are killed and 50 others are injured in an attack by the Rapid Support Forces in Omdurman, Sudan. (Al Jazeera)
7 June 2024 –
Pat Sajak steps down as host of the American television game show Wheel of Fortune, having hosted the show for 41 years. (Associated Press)
Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders is killed in a plane crash near San Juan County, Washington, United States. (CBS News)
7 June 2024 – RICH nightclub railing collapse
A glass railing collapsed outside the overcrowded RICH nightclub in Mexico, causing several concertgoers to fall three stories, killing two and injuring 15. (El Universal)
7 June 2024 – Attack on Mette Frederiksen
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen is shoved by a man, who has since been arrested, in Copenhagen, Denmark. (CNN)
7 June 2024 –
Austrian-Canadian billionaire businessman Frank Stronach is arrested on sexual assault charges dating from the 1980s to 2023. (AP)
7 June 2024 – 2024 European Parliament election
Elections to the European Parliament continues, with Ireland and the Czech Republic voting today. (Euronews)
6 June 2024 – Israel–Hamas war
Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
Attacks on schools during the Israeli invasion of Gaza
At least 40 Palestinians, including fourteen children, are killed and more than 70 injured after an Israeli airstrike on a United Nations school that was sheltering refugees in central Gaza. (Al Jazeera)
Israeli incursions in the West Bank during the Israel–Hamas war
Three Palestinians are killed and several others are injured in an Israel Defense Forces raid on Jenin in the West Bank. (The Times of Israel) (Al Jazeera)
6 June 2024 – Russian invasion of Ukraine
Military aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War
President of France Emmanuel Macron announces that the country will send Dassault Mirage 2000-5 fighter aircrafts to Ukraine and train its pilots by the end of 2024. (The Telegraph)
6 June 2024 – Red Sea crisis
The Houthis and the Islamic Resistance in Iraq claim to have launched two joint military attacks against ships at the Port of Haifa in Israel. However, Israel denies the claims. (Al Jazeera)
6 June 2024 – 2024 Uttarakhand snowstorm disaster
A blizzard in the Himalaya mountains of Uttarakhand, India, kills nine Indian trekkers. (Reuters)
6 June 2024 –
At least six people, including mostly children, drown after a school bus falls into the Orontes River near Darkush, Syria. (Asharq Al-Awsat)
Six fishermen are killed and one is critically injured after a boat's engine exploded and caught the wooden hull on fire off the coast of Naga in the Philippines. (AP)
One person is killed and more than 100 others are injured after two trams collide in Kemerovo, Russia. (The Moscow Times)
A child is killed and at least thirteen other people are injured by tornadoes in the U.S. states of Michigan, Maryland, and Ohio. (AP)
6 June 2024 – France–Russia relations
A French citizen is detained in Moscow, Russia, under suspicion of collecting military information. (ABC News)
6 June 2024 – Georgia–United States relations
The United States Department of State sanctions several Georgian Dream politicians with travel bans for passing the "Law on Transparency of Foreign Influence", threatening further penalties if Georgia continues "anti-democratic activity". (AP)
6 June 2024 – Palestine–United States relations
The Biden administration imposes sanctions on the Lions' Den militant group based in Nablus in the West Bank, for committing attacks in the West Bank since October 2022. (Al Jazeera)
6 June 2024 – Belarus–European Union border crisis
A Polish border guard soldier dies after being stabbed by a migrant trying to cross the EU border from Belarus. (Reuters)
6 June 2024 – 2024 European Parliament election
Elections to the European Parliament begin and will continue until June 9, with the Netherlands and Estonia voting today. (Al Jazeera) (NOS)
6 June 2024 – South Africa's genocide case against Israel
Spain applies to join South Africa's case at the International Court of Justice accusing Israel of genocide. (AP)
6 June 2024 –
SpaceX launches Starship's Integrated Flight Test 4, successfully guiding both the Super Heavy booster and Starship upper stage to soft water landings in the Gulf of Mexico and the Indian Ocean, respectively. (The New York Times)
The Oklahoma Sooners win the 2024 Women's College World Series in softball with the first-ever four-peat. (The New York Times)
5 June 2024 – Sudanese civil war
Wad Al-Noora massacre
The Rapid Support Forces storm the village of Wad Al-Noora in Gezira State, Sudan, and massacre nearly 100 villagers. (Sudan Tribune)
5 June 2024 – 2021–2024 Democratic Republic of the Congo attacks
At least 16 people are killed in Beni, Democratic Republic of the Congo. The local government believes the Allied Democratic Forces are responsible. (Reuters)
5 June 2024 – 2024 Beirut US embassy shooting
A Syrian man fires several shots at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, and is shot by security forces. (Reuters)
5 June 2024 – Israel–Hezbollah conflict
Hezbollah strikes an Iron Dome battery in Ramot Naftali, Israel. (Reuters)
5 June 2024 – Korean conflict
The United States and South Korea participate in the first precision guided bombing drill in 7 years over the Korean Peninsula, as tensions rise after North Korea sends trash-filled balloons into South Korea. (CNN) (AP)
5 June 2024 – Pardubice train collision
Four Slovaks and Ukrainians are killed and more than 20 others are injured when a passenger train collides with a freight train in Pardubice, Czech Republic. (CNN) (Reuters)
5 June 2024 –
A panel of the United States Food and Drug Administration rejects MDMA-assisted psychotherapy as a treatment for PTSD. (NPR)
5 June 2024 – Burkina Faso–Russia relations
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov announces that Russia will send additional military supplies and instructors to Burkina Faso to help the country increase its defense capabilities. (Reuters)
5 June 2024 – Mexico–United States border crisis
US President Joe Biden institutes a broad asylum ban on migrants illegally crossing the Mexico–United States border, with actions to deport or turn people back to Mexico, with exceptions for unaccompanied children, people with serious medical or safety threats, and victims of trafficking. (Reuters)
5 June 2024 –
A court in Florence, Italy, convicts American journalist Amanda Knox and sentences her to a three-year imprisonment over her accusations related to the murder of Meredith Kercher in Perugia in 2007. The sentence will count as time already served. (NBC News) (NPR)
5 June 2024 – Israel–Hamas war protests
Israel–Hamas war protests in Israel
Thousands of Israeli ultranationalists march through East Jerusalem on Jerusalem Day, with some chanting anti-Arab slogans. (AP)
5 June 2024 –
Boeing's Starliner capsule launches its first astronaut-crewed flight into space to the International Space Station after several delays at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, United States. (ABC News)
Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko becomes the first human to spend 1,000 days in outer space. (AP)
4 June 2024 – Russian invasion of Ukraine
Military aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War, Russia–NATO relations
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov warns that French military instructors will be "legitimate targets" if they are deployed to Ukraine. (France 24)
4 June 2024 –
The Kanlaon volcano in central Philippines erupts, causing evacuations and a suspension of activities in the city of Canlaon. (Reuters)
4 June 2024 – 2024 Slatina protests
A mass protest takes place in Slatina, Olt County, Romania, against the inactions of bystanders in the drowning of Flavius Magraon, as well as the police department's corruption in the case. (Adevărul) (B1 TV)
4 June 2024 – 2024 Indian general election
The alliance of parties led by Narendra Modi reaches the 272 seats threshold needed to form a government, but Modi's BJP party loses its outright parliamentary majority. (BBC News)
4 June 2024 – 2024 Nigerian general strike
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) suspend the nationwide general strike, pending talks with the federal government of Nigeria about the raising of the country's minimum wage. (BBC) (Reuters)
4 June 2024 – International recognition of the State of Palestine
Slovenia's parliament approves a motion to recognize a Palestinian state. (The Times of Israel)
4 June 2024 – Mexico–United States border crisis
US President Joe Biden enacts an executive order to temporarily suspend asylum claims processing at the Mexico–United States border when the seven-day average of claims exceeds 2,500 per day. Amnesty International criticizes the executive order, accusing Biden of "setting a dangerous international precedent". (NPR) (AP)
4 June 2024 – North Korea–South Korea relations
The State Council of South Korea suspends the 2018 Panmunjom Declaration due to border tensions over balloons sent across the border by North Korea. (AP)
4 June 2024 –
A local Mannheim politician is injured by a stabbing, five days after the May 31 attack in the German city. (BBC)
4 June 2024 – Chinese space program
The China National Space Administration's Chang'e 6 spacecraft lifts off from the surface of the far side of the Moon carrying samples of lunar soil and rocks back to Earth. (Reuters)
4 June 2024 –
The National Health Service declares a "critical incident" after several hospitals in London, including King's College Hospital, say they have cancelled appointments and turned away patients after a cyberattack on their Synnovis IT systems. (AP)
4 June 2024 – 2024 Major League Baseball season
Venezuelan infielder Tucupita Marcano is permanently banned from Major League Baseball and Minor League Baseball for betting on Pittsburgh Pirates games while being a member of the team. (CBS Sports)
3 June 2024 – Sudanese civil war
The Rapid Support Forces announce the establishment of a civil administration in the state of South Darfur, which they fully control. (Al Taghyeer)
3 June 2024 –
A Syrian man is arrested after throwing a Molotov cocktail at the Israeli embassy in Bucharest, Romania and attempting to self-immolate. (Jerusalem Post) (AP)
3 June 2024 – GameStop short squeeze
The value of GameStop shares increases by 21% after Keith Gill posts a $116 million investment on Reddit. (Reuters)
3 June 2024 – 2024 Indian heat wave
More than 211 people are killed and nearly 25,000 others suffer from heatstroke amid a severe heat wave in India. (The Independent) (Reuters)
3 June 2024 –
The Kīlauea volcano in Hawaii, United States, erupts for the first time in nine months. (The New York Times)
3 June 2024 – June 2024 South African storm complex
At least 11 people are killed by two tornadoes in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal. (Daily Maverick)
3 June 2024 – Afghanistan–Kazakhstan relations, International relations with the Taliban
Kazakhstan removes the Taliban from its list of terrorist organizations. (RFE/RL)
3 June 2024 – Arrest of Imran Khan
The Islamabad High Court overturns former Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan's charges of leaking national security secrets. (Reuters)
3 June 2024 –
The Chinese Ministry of State Security arrests and charges a couple for allegedly spying for Britain's MI6 agency. (Al Jazeera)
3 June 2024 – 2023–2024 Georgian protests
Chairperson of the Parliament of Georgia Shalva Papuashvili signs the foreign agent bill into law amid mass protests and warnings from Western countries against signing the bill. (RFE/RL)
3 June 2024 – 2024 European farmers' protests
Spanish and French farmers block roads on highways through the Pyrenees mountains in protest against trade with non-European Union member states. (Reuters)
3 June 2024 – 2024 United Kingdom general election
Nigel Farage appoints himself leader of Reform UK and announces that he will run as a candidate for the party in the upcoming UK general election in Clacton. (The New York Times)
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Heart Nebula

The Heart Nebula is an emission nebula, 7500 light years from Earth, located in the Perseus Arm of the Milky Way in the constellation Cassiopeia. It was discovered by William Herschel on 3 November 1787. Spanning almost 2 degrees in the sky, its shape is driven by stellar winds from the hot stars in its core. The nebula displays glowing ionized hydrogen gas and darker dust lanes, and is also made up of ionised oxygen and sulfur gasses, which cause rich blue and orange colours to be seen in narrowband images. This photograph of the Heart Nebula, with the Fish Head Nebula also visible in the top right corner, is a narrowband image captured on a 70mm scope with a capture period of around 44 hours.

Photograph credit: Ram Samudrala

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