Portal:Current events/2024 June 29
Appearance
June 29, 2024
(Saturday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- 2024 Borno State bombings
- Eighteen people are killed in Borno State, Nigeria, after bomb blasts target a wedding ceremony, a hospital, and a funeral. (CNN)
- Islamic State insurgency in Iraq
- Five large bombs planted by ISIL are discovered in the walls of the Great al-Nuri Mosque in Mosul, Iraq. (Al Jazeera)
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- At least 12 people, including four children, are killed in Russian attacks across Ukraine. (Al Jazeera)
- Sudanese civil war
- The Rapid Support Forces launch an assault and capture the town of Singa, the capital of Sennar State, Sudan. (VOA)
Disasters and accidents
- Landslides in Nepal kill nine people, including three children. (Reuters)
- Five people are killed in a fire at a dormitory building in Balashikha, Moscow Oblast, Russia. (Reuters)
- Five Indian soldiers are killed in Ladakh, India, after their tank sinks in abruptly increased water levels in the Shyok River during a military exercise. (AP)
Health and environment
- 2024 Atlantic hurricane season
- Tropical storm Beryl intensifies into Hurricane Beryl, becoming the first hurricane in the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season. (Reuters)
International relations
- Haiti–United States relations, Haitian crisis
- The Biden administration expands its Temporary Protected Status program to 309,000 Haitian refugees in the United States until February 2026, offering the refugees deportation relief and work permits. (Reuters)
Law and crime
- Violent incidents in reaction to the Israel–Hamas war
- A man attacks a police officer guarding the Israeli embassy in Belgrade, Serbia, with a crossbow before being shot and killed. Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić calls the incident a terrorist attack against Serbia. (Reuters)
Politics and elections
- 2024 Iranian presidential election
- Saeed Jalili and Masoud Pezeshkian advance to the Iranian presidential run-off, amid record-low voter attendance. (Reuters) (Al Jazeera)
- 2024 Mauritanian presidential election
- Mauritanians vote between incumbent Mohamed Ould Ghazouani and six other candidates for President, in the first of two rounds of voting. (Reuters)
- Over 100,000 German protesters and 1,000 police officers clash at an Alternative for Germany event in Essen, Germany. Police use pepper spray and batons on protesters. (Al Jazeera) (BBC News)