Portal:Current events/June 2022

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Eastern Ukraine offensive
      • Three civilians are killed after Russian forces shell the Sviatohirsk Lavra monastery. (Ukrayinska Pravda via Yahoo! News)
    • Foreign aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War
      • Germany says that it will send the IRIS-T air defence missile system to Ukraine following a request from Ukraine for heavy weapons. (Reuters)
      • anti-tank missiles. (Reuters)
      • Russia says the U.S. decision to supply advanced long-range rocket systems and munitions to Ukraine could "widen the conflict", and also risks "direct confrontation" with Russia, accusing the United States of "purposefully and diligently adding fuel to the fire". (Reuters)
• Syrian civil war
  • Turkish intervention in the Syrian civil war
    • Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces. (Al Jazeera)
  • Three people are killed and several others are injured by a rocket attack in Tell Abyad, Raqqa Governorate, Syria. (AP)
• Kashmir conflict
  • Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir
    • Local authorities say that yesterday's
      Kashmiri Hindu families to flee Kashmir. (Reuters)
• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • A
    IDF raided the town of Ya'bad to demolish the house of the perpetrator of the Bnei Brak shootings, following a confrontation by residents. A woman holding a knife is also shot and killed near the Al-Arroub refugee camp in the occupied West Bank. (Reuters)
• Mali War
  • Two
    Red Cross workers are killed in an attack by unknown militants in Mali. (Reuters)
  • A
    MINUSMA peacekeeping force is killed and three others are injured in Kidal Region, Mali. (France 24)

• Comair, a South African franchisee for British Airways, suspends all flights after the company announced that it has run out of funds. Budget airline Kulula.com, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Comair, has also suspended all flights. (Al Jazeera)

Disasters and accidents

• Earthquakes in 2022
  • 2022 Ya'an earthquake
    • Four people are killed and 41 others injured by a 5.9 magnitude earthquake in Sichuan, China. (The Washington Post)

International relations

• Denmark and the European Union, 2022 Danish European Union opt-out referendum
  • Exit polls show that around two-thirds of Danes voted to have Denmark join the European Union's Common Security and Defence Policy, ending Denmark's 30-year policy of opting out. (Al Jazeera)
• Greece–Turkey relations
  • Turkish Foreign Affairs Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu had also accused Greece of violating the airspace of demilitarized zones in the Aegean Sea yesterday. (Al Jazeera)
• Russia–Taiwan relations, International sanctions during the Russo-Ukrainian War
  • Taiwan imposes an export ban of all modern computer chips to Russia and Belarus, as well as any technology and equipment used to manufacture them. (Taiwan News)

Law and crime

• Warren Clinic shooting
  • At least five people, including the perpetrator, are killed in a
    Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States. (CNN)
• Depp v. Heard
  • Actor
    defamation lawsuit against his ex-wife, actress Amber Heard. (BBC News)
• opioids, cocaine, and methamphetamine in the province of British Columbia, in order to allow for the province to launch a three-year trial of drug decriminalization and treatments. (BBC News)

• Next Generation EU
  • The
    concerns about the rule of law in the country, and in particular Poland's non-compliance with the ruling of the European Court of Justice that ordered the Disciplinary Chamber of the Supreme Court disbanded. (Rzeczpospolita) (Politico)

• Scientists from the University of Western Australia announce that a seagrass meadow of the species Posidonia australis covering 200 square kilometres (77 sq mi), approximately three times the size of Manhattan, found off of Western Australia's Shark Bay, actually belongs to one plant, making it the largest known plant on Earth. (BBC News)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Southern Ukraine offensive
      • Ukrainian officials say that the Armed Forces of Ukraine have recaptured 20 settlements in Kherson Oblast. (VOA)
    • Foreign aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War
      • The United Kingdom announces that it will send M270 Multiple Launch Rocket Systems to Ukraine to counter the Russian invasion. (Euro Weekly News)
      • Sweden announces that it will send additional military aid to Ukraine, including anti-ship missiles, anti-tank guided missiles, and rifles for the Ukrainian Ground Forces. (Reuters)
• Kashmir conflict
  • Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir
    • A
      Hindu bank manager from Rajasthan is shot dead in a suspected terror attack in Kulgam district, Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir. (AP)
• Syrian civil war
  • Three people are killed and 21 others are injured when a bus is attacked by militants in Deir ez-Zor Governorate, Syria. (AP)

Arts and culture

• Platinum Jubilee of Elizabeth II
  • The platinum jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II commences at The Mall in London. (BBC News)

Health and environment

• 2022 monkeypox outbreak
  • monkeypox. (Reuters)

• The United Nations formally recognizes the new official name of Türkiye following an official request from Turkey to change its name. Turkish state broadcaster TRT says that the name change is primarily to avoid association with the bird of the same name. (BBC News)

Politics and elections

• 2022 Ontario general election
  • Ontario Premier Doug Ford is re-elected as Premier of Ontario, Canada. (CTV News)
• Bavarian authorities announce that they will release all of their unpublished files on the Munich massacre. (AP)

Science and technology

• Internet censorship in Russia
  • state broadcaster Yle, on orders of the Prosecutor-General of Russia. (Yle)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Battle of Donbas
      • Battle of Sievierodonetsk
        • Two Reuters journalists are injured and their driver is killed after their vehicle is attacked while travelling to Sievierodonetsk. The perpetrators have not been identified. (Times of Israel)
    • Russian occupation of Kharkiv Oblast
      • Vitaly Ganchev is announced as head of the Kharkiv Military-Civilian Administration. His appointment might have happened earlier as he was de facto Governor since April 2022.^[1]

Disasters and accidents

• 2022 food crises
  • food insecurity in the country. The United Nations estimates that more than a third of the population are in need of urgent humanitarian aid. (Africanews)
• Garmisch-Partenkirchen train derailment
  • Five people are killed and 60 others are injured after a train
    derails in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria, Germany. (VOA)
• 2022 Russian mystery fires
  • A fire occurs in a building in Moscow, Russia, injuring at least four people, with 125 people being rescued. However, the total number of people trapped inside the building is unclear. (AP)

Health and environment

• 2022 monkeypox outbreak
  • monkeypox. (Reuters)
  • United States health officials say that 1,200 doses of the smallpox vaccine have been administered for patients considered at a high-risk for monkeypox. (CNN)

Politics and elections

• 2019–2022 Sudanese protests
  • A protester is killed in Khartoum after security forces open fire on demonstrators on the third anniversary of the Khartoum massacre. (Reuters)
• Estonia's coalition agreement collapses as the junior coalition partner, the Centre Party, joins the far-right EKRE in defeating a government bill on primary education, and is subsequently expelled by Prime Minister Kaja Kallas. Kallas is expected to form a coalition with two other parties, Isamaa and the Social Democrats. (Reuters)
• Bundesrat. (AFP via France 24)

• Legality of cryptocurrency by country or territory
  • The
    power plants. (Politico)

• Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sports
  • The
    Governor Ron DeSantis urged them to do so or face threats of a $27.5 million fine. (Florida Politics) (Bleacher Report) (WPEC-TV)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Aftermath of the 2021 Kyrgyzstan–Tajikistan clashes
  • border clash happened yesterday after Kyrgyz soldiers crossed the border close to Vorukh. (Reuters)

• Hapur chemical plant explosion
  • Nine people are killed and 19 others injured after a boiler explodes at a chemical plant in Hapur, Uttar Pradesh, India. (AP)
• One person is killed and eight others injured when a train
  derails in Guizhou, China. (AP)

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Russia
    • Dmitry Kovtun, a former KGB agent accused of the fatal 2006 poisoning of Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko in London, dies from COVID-19 in Moscow. (RFE/RL)
• 2022 monkeypox outbreak
  • Timeline of the 2022 monkeypox outbreak
    • monkeypox case in a girl from Ghaziabad. (Hindustan Times)

• 2022 Philadelphia shooting
  • Three people are killed and eleven others wounded in a mass shooting in the South Street neighbourhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. (Reuters)
• A man is publicly
  lynched by a mob of 200 people in the Nigerian capital city Abuja after he gets into a "heated argument" with a local Islamic cleric. (Reuters)

• 2022 Albanian presidential election
  • After three sessions in which the proposed candidates failed to obtain the necessary votes, the Parliament of Albania elects Chief of the General Staff Bajram Begaj as the new Albanian President. (Reuters)
• 2021–2022 Tunisian political crisis
  • The Tunisian judiciary announces that it will suspend work in all of the courts and go on strike for a week in response to President Kais Saied dismissing 57 judges earlier this week. (Reuters)
• The Judicial Council for
  regional government hand over its oil supply, stating that the oil-sharing agreement enshrined in the national constitution did not apply to oil and gas discovered after 2005. (Reuters)

• Japanese yachtsman Kenichi Horie becomes the oldest person to sail solo across the Pacific Ocean at the age of 83. (The Japan Times)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Battle of Donbas
      • Russian major general Roman Kutuzov is killed in Mykolaivka, Luhansk Oblast. (Reuters) (Ukrayinska Pravda)
    • Russia launches airstrikes on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv for the first time since April 28. The Russian Defence Ministry says that the missile strikes targeted T-72 tanks that had been supplied to Ukraine by several EU countries. At least one person is injured. (The Guardian)
• Herder–farmer conflicts in Nigeria
  • Owo church attack
    • At least 50 people are killed in a
      Catholic church in Owo, Ondo, Nigeria. (Reuters)
  • Fulani herdsmen kill 32 people in four attacks in Kajuru, Kaduna State. (AP)
• 2021–2022 Democratic Republic of the Congo attacks; Allied Democratic Forces insurgency
  • Suspected Allied Democratic Forces fighters kill at least 18 people in an attack on the village of Otomabere, Irumu Territory in the Ituri Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Reuters)

Business and economy

• Minimum wage in Germany
  • The
    $12.90) an hour. (DW)

• Sitakunda fire and explosions
  • At least 49 people are killed and over 400 others injured by a fire and explosions at a
    storage depot in Sitakunda, Chittagong District, Bangladesh. (BBC News)
• Wildfires in 2022
  • A large wildfire breaks out on the Hymettus mountain range near Athens, Greece. A number of homes are damaged in the fire. (Reuters)
• The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology raises the alert status of Mount Bulusan to level 1 after the volcano experienced a phreatic eruption. (Rappler)
• Two pilots are killed when their
  plane crashes in Ar-Ramtha, Jordan. (Reuters)
• One person is killed and 14 others are injured by heavy thunderstorms and flash flooding in France. (AP)
• Twenty-six people are killed and 4 others injured when a bus falls into a gorge in Uttarakhand, India. (Reuters)

Health and environment

• 2022 monkeypox outbreak
  • Timeline of the 2022 monkeypox outbreak
    • 2022 monkeypox outbreak in the United States
      • monkeypox in a person from Oahu, becoming the first island region of the United States to report a case. (KGMB-TV)
    • Colombia reports its first confirmed case of monkeypox in a man who travelled from Spain. (24 News Recorder)

International relations

• 2021–2022 North Korean missile tests
  • North Korea fires at least eight short-range ballistic missiles into the Sea of Japan from several locations in the country. (The Japan Times)
• Russia–Serbia relations
  • Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov cancels his scheduled visit to Serbia after neighbouring states in the Balkans refuse to let Lavrov's plane use their airspace. (BBC News)

Law and crime

• 2022 Chattanooga shooting
  • Three people are killed and 14 others are injured in a mass shooting in
    Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States. Three people are also hit by cars, with one person later dying. (AP)

• 2022 Kazakh constitutional referendum
  • Kazakhs go to the polls to vote on 56 amendments to the constitution and President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev's "Second Republic" proposals, among them the reduction of presidential powers, reform of the Parliament, the curbing of former President Nursultan Nazarbayev's powers, and the creation of three new regions. (The Economist)

Sports

• 2022 French Open – Men's singles
  • Rafael Nadal defeats Casper Ruud to win the men's singles tennis title at the 2022 French Open, extending his all-time record for the most Grand Slam men's singles titles to 22. (BBC Sport)
• 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification
  • In association football, Wales defeats Ukraine 1–0 at the Cardiff City Stadium to become the final team from UEFA to qualify for the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar. It is the first time that Wales has qualified for a FIFA World Cup since 1958. (Al Jazeera)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Foreign aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War
      • The United Kingdom announces that it will send several M270 long-range rocket artillery systems to Ukraine. (The Guardian)
• 2021–2022 Democratic Republic of the Congo attacks, Ituri conflict
  • Suspected CODECO militants kill 12 people and injure two others in Ituri Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Reuters)

Health and environment

• 2022 monkeypox outbreak
  • Timeline of the 2022 monkeypox outbreak
    • 2022 monkeypox outbreak in the United States
      • The
        monkeypox outbreak. (CNBC)
      • Washington, D.C. reports a case of orthopoxvirus. (The Hill)
    • 2022 monkeypox outbreak in the United Kingdom
      • The United Kingdom reports 77 new cases of monkeypox, thereby bringing the total number of cases in the country to more than 300. (The Guardian)
    • Kosovo reports its first suspected case of monkeypox. (Euronews Albania)
    • Singapore reports its first case of monkeypox in a man who travelled from Australia. (CNA)
• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Washington, D.C.
      • Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg tests positive for COVID-19. (The Washington Post)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in mainland China
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Beijing
      • Beijing's restaurants reopen following a decrease in new cases of COVID-19. (Reuters)
• 2022 Mariupol cholera outbreak
  • Petro Andryushchenko, advisor to
    Mayor Vadym Boychenko, warns that Mariupol may have suffered a cholera outbreak. (The National News)

• 9th Summit of the Americas
  • The Biden administration bans the presidents of Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua from attending this year's Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles, United States. Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announces that he will personally boycott the meeting in response to the ban, sending Foreign Secretary Marcelo Ebrard to represent him at the summit. (Reuters)
• Canada–Chile relations
  • Chilean President Gabriel Boric visits Ottawa to hold a wide-ranging bilateral meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. (CTV News)

Law and crime

• Aftermath of the 2021 United States Capitol attack
  • Criminal charges in the 2021 United States Capitol attack
    • Five members of the
      far-right group Proud Boys, including leader Enrique Tarrio, are charged with seditious conspiracy for their involvement in the January 6 attack at the United States Capitol, becoming the second group to be charged with seditious conspiracy in connection to the attack. (NPR)
• Mass media in Latvia, Latvia–Russia relations
  • its warfare against Ukraine. (LRT)
• International sanctions during the Russo-Ukrainian War
  • A
    Gulfstream G650ER, owned by sanctioned Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich. (The Guardian)
• Orlando Jorge Mera, the Environmental Minister for the Dominican Republic and son of former President Salvador Jorge Blanco, is shot dead in his office. The perpetrator was identified by a presidential spokesman as Miguel Cruz, a childhood friend of the minister. He was later taken into custody. (Reuters) (BBC News)
• The South African Justice Department confirms that Rajesh Gupta and Atul Gupta of the influential Gupta family have been arrested in the United Arab Emirates for engaging in corrupt practices during the Zuma presidency. (Al Jazeera)
• The trial of Aydin Coban, a Dutch man accused of harassing and extorting Port Coquitlam teenager Amanda Todd online prior to her suicide in 2012, begins at the British Columbia Supreme Court in British Columbia, Canada. (CBC)

Politics and elections

• Partygate
  • Sir Graham Brady, chairman of the Conservative Party's 1922 Committee, announces that he has received the 54 letters necessary to trigger a party confidence vote in Boris Johnson's leadership of the party. (The Guardian)
  • Boris Johnson survives the confidence vote by a margin of 211–148 and the party will not conduct a leadership election with 58.8% of Conservative MPs voting in favour of Johnson. (The Times)
• Malian junta leader Assimi Goïta declares that Mali will return to civilian rule in March 2024. It was supposed to occur this February until being delayed, prompting sanctions from its neighbors. (France 24)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Anglophone Crisis
  • Five Cameroonian soldiers are killed in an attack by Ambazonian separatists in Kouoptamo district. (Reuters)
• Syrian civil war, Turkish occupation of northern Syria
  • The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) threatens to turn to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for support if Turkey launches a new military operation in northern Syria, where the SDF controls most of its territory. (Al Jazeera)

Arts and culture

• Censorship in the United Kingdom
  • British cinema chain Cineworld cancels all showings of the historical drama The Lady of Heaven, following days of protests by Muslims who say that the movie is blasphemous and sectarian. Cineworld says that the decision to cancel showings was to "ensure the safety of our staff and customers". (The Guardian)

Business and economy

• International sanctions during the Russo-Ukrainian War
  • The
    Department of the Treasury bans all trading of Russian debt and stocks, including on the secondary market. (Reuters)
  • Russia freezes Western banks' and investment funds' assets worth $17 billion. (Rzeczpospolita)

Disasters and accidents

• Killa Saifullah bus crash
  • Twenty-two people are killed when a bus falls into a ravine in Killa Saifullah District, Balochistan, Pakistan. (AP)
• Kasai diamond mine collapse
  • Six people are killed after a diamond mine collapsed in Kasai, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Reuters)
• Three people are killed and several others are injured when a
  train collides with a truck in Gara Oreshets, Bulgaria. (AP)

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Europe
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Andorra
      • Xavier Espot tests positive for COVID-19. (Diari d'Andorra)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Germany
      • Minister of Foreign Affairs Annalena Baerbock tests positive for COVID-19. (Washington Post)
• 2022 monkeypox outbreak
  • Timeline of the 2022 monkeypox outbreak
    • monkeypox. (Dhaka Tribune) (Caribbean Loop News)
• 2022 Mariupol cholera outbreak
  • Mariupol reports its first confirmed cases of cholera as well as its first confirmed deaths from cholera. (Ukra News)

International relations

• Japan–Russia relations, Kuril Islands dispute
  • Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova announces that Russia will cancel a 1998 agreement with Japan allowing Japanese fishermen to operate near the southern Kuril Islands, claiming that Japan is not meeting the financial obligations outlined in the agreement. (Al Jazeera)
• Cambodia–China relations
  • Cambodia and China break ground on a joint expansion project of the Ream Naval Base near Sihanoukville, Cambodia. (The Guardian)
• An independent inquiry established by the U.N. Human Rights Council following the 2021 Israel–Palestine crisis issues a report accusing Israel of seeking "complete control" over the Palestinian territories, and of granting "different civil status, rights and legal protection" to the country's Arab citizens. (Al Jazeera) (Reuters)

Law and crime

• Allison Fluke-Ekren pleads guilty in a federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, United States, of providing material support to ISIS by conspiring to conduct terrorist attacks on United States soil and by leading and training at least 100 female ISIS fighters. Fluke-Ekren also claimed in her plea deal to helping Ansar al-Sharia analyze documents stolen during the 2012 Benghazi attack. (CNN)

Politics and elections

• Human rights in Russia
  • Russia's State Duma votes nearly unanimously to pass a bill ending the jurisdiction of the European Court of Human Rights in the country, with only one lawmaker from the Communist Party opposing the bill. The bill must now be signed by President Vladimir Putin before becoming law. (Reuters)
• Lieutenant of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta Marco Luzzago dies and is succeeded ad interim by Ruy Gonçalo do Valle Peixoto de Villas Boas. (ANSA)

• The
  USB Type-C the common charging port for all mobile phones, tablets and cameras in the European Union by autumn 2024. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• 2022 South Khorasan train derailment
  • Twenty-two people are killed and 87 others injured after a train travelling between Mashhad and Yazd collides with an excavator near Tabas, South Khorasan province, Iran. (AP)
• 2022 V-22 Osprey plane crash
  • A United States Marine Corps V-22 Osprey crashes near the town of Glamis in Imperial County, California, United States, killing five U.S Marines onboard. (CBS News)
• Ten people are killed and three are missing after heavy flooding in Hunan and Guangxi, China. (AP)

Health and environment

• 2022 monkeypox outbreak
  • Timeline of the 2022 monkeypox outbreak
    • 2022 monkeypox outbreak in the United States
      • Texas reports its first case of monkeypox. (Denton Record-Chronicle)
      • monkeypox. (Maricopa GOV)
    • Brazil, Greece and Ghana report their first cases of monkeypox. (CNA) (Reuters) (BBC News)
    • Uganda and Cyprus report their first suspected cases of monkeypox. (Dispatch Uganda) (Financial Mirror)
• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Florida
      • Florida reports its first cases of the Omicron BA.4 variant at the Premier Medical Laboratory Services in three patients in Miami-Dade County. (Patch.com)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Thailand
    • downgrade the disease to an endemic. However, he didn't include a time frame on when to do so and says that the situation will be reviewed by mid-June after bars, pubs and entertainment venues reopened in the country. (Bangkok Post)
• Phase-out of fossil fuel vehicles
  • The European Parliament votes to phase out the sale of new combustion engine vehicles by 2035. (AP)

International relations

• Belgium–Democratic Republic of the Congo relations
  • King Philippe of Belgium, in a speech to the Congolese parliament in Kinshasa, formally condemns the atrocities that occurred when the Democratic Republic of the Congo was declared the personal property of his ancestor, Leopold II of Belgium, saying that the colonial government "was one of unequal relations, unjustifiable in itself, marked by paternalism, discrimination and racism". (BBC News)
• Algeria–Spain relations
  • Algeria suspends a 20-year friendship treaty with Spain, and bans all imports from Spain, amid a disagreement over the Spanish government's position on the disputed Western Sahara. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• 2022 Berlin car attack
  • One person is killed and 30 others, including 14 students, are injured, after a car drives into a crowd in Berlin, Germany. A 29-year-old German-Armenian man is arrested at the scene. (BBC News) (Reuters)
• Brett Kavanaugh alleged assassination plot
  • A 26-year-old man from Simi Valley, California, is charged by the U.S. Justice Department for attempting to murder a U.S. judge after being found at the house of Justice Brett Kavanaugh while armed with several weapons. According to authorities, the suspect planned to assassinate Kavanaugh and then commit suicide. (CNN)

Politics and elections

• 2023 Nigerian presidential election
  • Former Governor of Lagos State Bola Tinubu wins the presidential primary of the ruling All Progressives Congress and officially becomes the party's nominee for the February 2023 general election. Tinubu, who served as Governor from 1999 to 2007, defeated Rotimi Amaechi, Yemi Osinbajo, and eleven other candidates to win the primary. (Channels TV)
• The United Kingdom decides against direct rule of the British Virgin Islands despite finding "gross failures of governance" in the overseas territory. The British government will give the territory's new administration two years to reform before imposing direct rule, according to Foreign Secretary Liz Truss. (BBC News)
• Vitaliy Khotsenko is sworn as new Prime Minister of the Donetsk People's Republic following dimission of Alexander Ananchenko. (TASS)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Jihadist insurgency in Burkina Faso
  • gold mine in Yatenga Province, Burkina Faso. (Reuters)
  • Eleven gendarmes are killed during an attack by unidentified militants in Seytenga Department, Séno Province. (Reuters)
• 2022 Democratic Republic of the Congo–Rwanda tensions
  • The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) claims that 500 disguised members of the Rwandan special forces have intruded into the DRC. (Reuters)
• Boko Haram insurgency
  • Twenty-five people are killed in an attack by gunmen on motorcycles in Dikwa, Borno State, Nigeria. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• A
  aircraft crashes in a residential area in Laohekou, Hubei, China, killing at least one person on the ground as the pilot ejects out of the aircraft. (CNN)
• The bodies of two disabled people are found in Roadford Lake, near Okehampton, Devon, England, a day after their boat capsized on the lake. Four others are in hospital, with one in critical condition. (BBC News)
• One person is killed and one other is injured after heavy flooding in Tirana, Albania. (AP)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Maryland
      • Governor Larry Hogan outlines a long-term preparedness plan on how Maryland will deal with COVID-19 including a focus on treatments that would keep people out of hospitals as well as on how the state would respond to future variants. (The Washington Post)
• 2022 monkeypox outbreak
  • 2022 monkeypox outbreak in Spain
    • monkeypox using the Imvanex vaccine after 242 cases were reported in the country. (Reuters)

• 2021–2022 Belarus–European Union border crisis
  • Poland decides to lift its state of emergency over attempts by migrants to cross the Belarus–Poland border, saying that the border barrier it has been building is mostly complete. (AP)
• A 2-seater Beechcraft plane violates the airspace of seven countries in Eastern Europe, and is intercepted by two Hungarian Air Force Gripen jets, two USAF F-16s and two Romanian Air Force F-16s before being abandoned at an airfield near Targovishte, Bulgaria. (The Straits Times)

Law and crime

• Daegu office fire
  • Seven people are killed and 46 others are injured by a fire, suspected to be an
    office building in Daegu, South Korea. The suspect is killed in the fire. (AP)
• Cannabis in Thailand
  • Thailand removes cannabis and hemp plants from its list of illegal narcotics, and will allow people to grow an unlimited number of these plants in farms and gardens for medicinal purposes as long as they inform the authorities. However, public consumption of these plants is discouraged by official authorities. (The Guardian)
  • Three people are killed and another is injured in a mass shooting in
    Smithsburg, Maryland, United States. (AP)
• The
  terrorism, mercenary activities, and attempting to overthrow the DPR's government. (AP)

• The European Parliament adopts a resolution urging to amend the treaties of the European Union in order to abolish the unanimity principle in decisionmaking with respect to sanctions and foreign policy and to grant the Parliament the right to legislative initiative. (Politico)

Science and technology

• NASA announces that the James Webb Space Telescope collided with a micrometeoroid last month, but continues to function normally. (Phys.org)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine states that the country has "installed naval mines in the exercise of our right to self-defence". (Reuters)
• 2022 Democratic Republic of the Congo–Rwanda tensions
  • The Democratic Republic of the Congo accuses Rwanda of killing two Congolese children in a rocket attack. Rwanda also accuses the DRC of firing rockets into the country from Bunagana. (Reuters)
• Whisky War
  • So called Whisky War, a pseudo confrontation between Canada and Denmark ends with the Hans Island divided.

Business and economy

• 2021–2022 inflation surge
  • The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls 880 points and the S&P 500 falls 117 points following the release of an inflation report that showed a faster-than-expected rise in prices and consumer sentiment reaching a record low. (NBC News)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
    • Travel during the COVID-19 pandemic
      • The Biden administration announces that the U.S. has lifted COVID-19 testing restrictions for international travel. (AP)
• 2022 monkeypox outbreak
  • 2022 monkeypox outbreak in the United States
    • The U.S. purchases 300,000 more doses of
      monkeypox outbreak. (Axios)
  • Poland reports its first case of monkeypox. (Reuters)

International relations

• China–Russia relations
  • Heilongjiang province with Blagoveshchensk in Far Eastern Russia's Amur Oblast. It will shorten the travel distance of freight between China and western Russia by 1,500 km. (Reuters)
• war in Ukraine. (The Guardian)

• Capital punishment in Malaysia
  • Wan Junaidi announces that mandatory capital punishment will be abolished in the country. (CNN)

• 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification
  • FIFA dismisses a petition by the Football Federation of Chile against the Ecuadorian Football Federation to disqualify the Ecuador national football team from participating in the 2022 World Cup, claiming that one of its players, Byron Castillo, is ineligible on the grounds of his nationality. (Japan Today)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Eastern Ukraine offensive
      • Battle of Sievierodonetsk
        • Azot chemical plant in Sievierodonetsk, Luhansk Oblast. Governor Serhiy Haidai says that the attack has caused a massive fire at the plant. (Reuters)
• Jihadist insurgency in Burkina Faso
  • 2022 Seytenga massacre
    • Suspected
      jihadists massacre over 100 men in Seytenga Department, Séno Province, Burkina Faso. (Reuters)

• A helicopter missing since 9 June is found crashed near Modena, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. All seven people on board were killed in the crash. (Reuters)

International relations

• Iran–Venezuela relations
  • Top
    petrochemicals producers Iran and Venezuela sign a 20-year economic cooperation agreement. (Reuters)

• The former president of Bolivia Jeanine Áñez is sentenced to ten years in prison for the crimes of breach of duty and resolutions contrary to the Constitution and laws of Bolivia during the 2019 Bolivian political crisis. (elDiarioAR.com)

Politics and elections

• Foreign relations of North Korea
  • North Korea appoints Choe Son-hui as its next foreign minister. (Reuters)
• March for Our Lives Demonstrations
  • Demonstrators participate in more than 450 rallies nationwide to push for gun law changes after mass shootings in United States. (NBC News) (NPR)

Arts and culture

• 75th Tony Awards
  • At this year's Tony Awards, A Strange Loop wins Best Musical while The Lehman Trilogy wins Best Play. (New York Times)

Business and economy

• 2022 boycott of Russia and Belarus
  • Three months after McDonald's suspended its operations in Russia and sold its 850 restaurants to Alexander Govor, the rebranded restaurants are reopened as Vkusno i tochka. (AP)
• The Celsius Network cryptocurrency lending platform announced it was "pausing all withdrawals, swap, and transfers between accounts" amidst a large pullback in the cryptocurrency market. (CNBC)

Law and crime

• Authorities in Argentina seize an Iranian Boeing 747 which was transferred to Venezuela last year. It is unclear if the impound is related to sanctions that have been imposed on both countries. (Reuters)
• At least 30 members of the American neo-fascist group Patriot Front are arrested for conspiracy to riot at a pride event in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, United States. (AP)

Politics and elections

• 2022 French legislative election
  • Voters in
    polls to elect the first round of the 577 members of the 16th National Assembly. (AP)
  • Exit polls show
    Ensemble Citoyens for the most votes in the first round, winning 25.6% and 25.2% of the votes respectively. Overall turnout is projected to be 47%, the lowest recorded for a French election. (The Guardian)
• 2022 Italian referendum
  • The referendum for the reform of the judicial system is invalidated as it did not reach the required 50% threshold. (Reuters)

Sports

• 2022 European Tour
  • In golf, Linn Grant of Sweden becomes the first female winner on the PGA European Tour following her win in the Scandinavian Mixed. The tournament was co-sanctioned with the Ladies European Tour in 2020. (CNN)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Battle of Sievierodonetsk
      • Russian forces destroy the last remaining bridge leading to Sievierodonetsk in Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine, trapping all remaining Ukrainian civilians in the city, according to regional governor Serhiy Haidai. (Reuters)
    • Battle of Donbas
      • The Donetsk People's Republic says that five people have been killed and 22 others injured in an artillery attack on a marketplace in central Donetsk. Pro-Russian media accuses NATO of supplying the munitions used in the attack. (Reuters)
• Kivu conflict
  • 2022 Democratic Republic of the Congo–Rwanda tensions
    • M23 rebels capture the town of Bunagana. The Congolese military accuses Rwanda of assisting the rebels in the capture of the town. (Al Jazeera)

Business and economy

• 2021–2022 inflation surge
  • Global stocks and government bonds plunge with the MSCI World Index dropping by 2.95%, the DOW by 4.68%, the S&P 500 by 3.88%, STOXX Europe 600 by 2.41%, Japan's Nikkei 225 by 3.01%, Hong Kong's Hang Seng by 3.99%, and South Korea's KOSPI by 3.52%. Bitcoin drops by 12.1% and Ethereum by 13.6%. (Reuters) (Reuters 2)
  • The
    bear market. (Reuters)

• Vila-seca train crash
  • A passenger train and a locomotive collide in the town of Vila-seca, Catalonia, Spain, injuring 22 people. (AP)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in North America
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Canada
      • Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tests positive for COVID-19 for a second time. (Reuters)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
      • Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra tests positive for COVID-19. (The Hill)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Taiwan
    • Taiwan reports their first cases of the Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants in five Taiwanese citizens who arrived from overseas. (The Straits Times)

Law and crime

• Censorship of Wikipedia
  • The Wikimedia Foundation files an appeal against a Russian court order demanding the removal of certain Russo-Ukrainian War-related information from the Russian-language Wikipedia, which is one of the few remaining fact-checked sources still available to the general Russian public. (Reuters) (DW)

Politics and elections

• Brexit and the Irish border
  • The British government confirms that it will go ahead with plans to terminate the Northern Ireland Protocol in order to make it easier for goods to flow between Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The European Union accuses the UK of breaking international law by reneging on the agreement made during Brexit negotiations. (BBC News)
• Lieutenant of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. (Order of Malta)
• Indigenous peoples in Ecuador block highways leading to the capital Quito, to protest president Guillermo Lasso's policies and to call for economic reforms. (Reuters)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • 2022 Western Russia attacks
      • Six people are reported injured in an alleged shelling attack on Klintsy, Bryansk Oblast, Russia. (Reuters)
• Ethiopian civil conflict
  • In a joint operation, the Oromo Liberation Army and the Gambela Liberation Front launch an attack on the regional capital of Gambela city. The fighting lasted for several hours before security forces were able to recapture the city from the rebels, with heavy casualties reported on both sides. (BBC News) (Addis Standard)
• Mexican drug war
  • Ten people are killed and three others are injured in a shootout between security forces and suspected criminals in Texcaltitlán, State of Mexico. (Reuters)
• Aftermath of the 2021 Kyrgyzstan–Tajikistan clashes
  • A
    border troops. (Reuters)

• Decommunization
  • Finnish authorities remove the country's last remaining monument of Soviet Union founder and leader Vladimir Lenin in Kotka, Kymenlaakso, relocating the 1979 gift from the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic to a museum. (Yle)

Business and economy

• International sanctions during the Russo-Ukrainian War
  • The European Union removes Russia's largest bank Sberbank, the Russian Agricultural Bank and the Credit Bank of Moscow from the SWIFT international payments system as part of another round of economic sanctions on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine. (Ukrinform)

Disasters and accidents

• The
  state of disaster due to severe drought in the country. (RNZ)
• An explosion at a chemical factory in
  Firouzabad, Fars, Iran, injures 103 people. (AP)

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Spain, Travel during the COVID-19 pandemic
    • Spain removes all COVID-19 entry requirements for anyone arriving into the country from the European Union or the Schengen Area. However, travellers from outside the EU will still need to be fully vaccinated or provide proof of a negative PCR test within 72 hours before departure in order to enter Spain. (Euronews)
• 2022 monkeypox outbreak
  • The
    monkeypox virus in order to combat stigma and racism surrounding the disease. (Bloomberg)
• Polio eradication, Polio in Pakistan
  • Pakistan reports its 10th case of polio this year after two more cases of the virus are reported in North Waziristan District. (ARY News)

International relations

• Canada–Denmark relations
  • Whisky War
    • The Danish Foreign Ministry announces that it has reached a deal with Canada to divide the long-disputed Hans Island in the Arctic in half between Canada's Nunavut territory and Greenland. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• Cannabis in Germany
  • The Federal Ministry of Health says that it will hold consultations with over 200 representatives from medical, legal and other fields on legalizing the sale of cannabis in licensed shops for recreational purposes. (AP via ABC News)
• A
  Cambodian-American lawyer Theary Seng. (AP via ABC News)
• Police in Ecuador arrest an indigenous leader after incidents that occurred during recent protests against the economic policies of president Guillermo Lasso. (Reuters)

Sports

• 2022 boycott of Russia and Belarus
  • The
    Wimbledon banned them from doing so. (The Guardian)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Kashmir conflict
  • Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir
    • Indian security forces kill two suspected militants in Jammu and Kashmir, India. (Reuters)
• Kurdish–Turkish conflict
  • Operation Claw-Lock
    • Two people are killed and seven others are injured in a
      Turkish military action against the Sinjar Resistance Units in Sinjar District, Iraq. A 12-year-old child is reported to be among the deceased. (Reuters) (Times of Israel)
• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • List of foreign aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War
    • The United States announces a new $1 billion military aid package to Ukraine that includes 18 howitzers, artillery rockets, night vision devices, and for the first time, two Harpoon anti-ship missile units. (Reuters)
• Yemeni Civil War
  • A
    assassinated after a bomb explodes inside his car in Aden. (AP)
• Israel–Palestine conflict
  • Mohammad El Halabi, a Palestinian aid worker at the center of an international controversy over his six-year detention in Israel, was convicted on the basis of 'secret evidence'. (The Guardian)

Business and economy

• 2021–2022 inflation surge
  • The Federal Reserve raises its benchmark interest rate by 0.75% to a target range of between 1.5% and 1.75% amid surging inflation. It is the largest interest rate increase in the United States since 1994. (BBC News)

International relations

• United Kingdom–European Union relations
  • The European Union launches legal action against the United Kingdom, alleging a breach of post-Brexit agreements regarding the Northern Ireland Protocol. (CNN)

Politics and elections

• Opposition parties in
  no-confidence motion in prime minister Prayut Chan-o-cha and 10 of his ministers, accusing them of "graft, economic mismanagement and of undermining democracy and clinging to power". (Reuters)

• 2026 FIFA World Cup
  • FIFA announces the names of the cities in Canada, Mexico and the United States that will host the FIFA World Cup in 2026. (ESPN)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Ukrainian officials say that four people have been killed and six others have been injured in a rocket attack in Sumy overnight. (Reuters)
    • The mayor of
      cherries. (The Daily Beast)
• The United States announces the capture of a senior
  ISIL leader in Syria. (Al Jazeera)
• One Sudanese protester is shot dead after a flare up of anti-military protests in Khartoum and Omdurman. (Reuters)

Business and economy

• 2022 Russia–European Union gas dispute
  • European benchmark natural gas prices increase by around 30% after Russia's Gazprom reduced Nord Stream 1's gas supply to Germany to 40% of the pipeline's capacity. Russia blames maintenance problems resulting from Canada's refusal to return equipment that was sent for repair and warns that usage of the pipeline could be completely suspended. (Reuters)
• United States sanctions against Iran
  • Oil prices increase in the
    sanctions against Iran's petrochemicals industry. The sanctions are an effort to force Iran to comply with the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, from which the United States unilaterally withdrew in 2018. (Al Jazeera) (Reuters)

• Four people are killed and five others are injured in a building fire in the town of
  Handlova, Slovakia. (AP)
• Firefighters fight wildfires across Catalonia and Navarre, Spain, as temperatures reach 40 °C (104 °F), complicating the efforts of the firefighters. (Euronews)

Law and crime

• Sergey Cherkasov, a Russian military intelligence official, is expelled from the Netherlands for attempting to begin an internship at the International Criminal Court in The Hague using a fake Brazilian identity. Cherkasov will now face a criminal trial in Brazil. (The Guardian) (Reuters)
• Three people are killed in a shooting at an Episcopal Church in Vestavia Hills, Alabama, United States. (The Independent)

Sports

• 2022 NBA Finals
  • In
    NBA Finals MVP. (The Washington Post) (KION-TV)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Kivu conflict
  • 2022 M23 offensive
    • 2022 Democratic Republic of the Congo–Rwanda tensions
      • A Congolese soldier crosses the border into Western Province, Rwanda, and is shot dead by a Rwandan Police officer. Rwandan officials say that the soldier had been attacking people and had injured two officers before he was killed. (AP)
      • The DRC closes its border with Rwanda in response to the killing of its soldier. (Al Jazeera)
    • M23 movement militants seize the town of Tshengerero, North Kivu. (The National Post)
• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Nuclear threats during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
      • Russian President Vladimir Putin says that Russia would only use nuclear weapons if the sovereignty of the country is threatened. (Ukrinform)
    • Ukrainian authorities say that its forces hit the
      Harpoon missiles. (Al Arabiya)
• Kurdish–Turkish conflict
  • Operation Claw-Lock
    • Kurdish militants have been killed during airstrikes in Kalar, Iraq. (AP)
• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • Gaza–Israel conflict
    • Israel intercepts a rocket fired by suspected Hamas militants over Ashkelon. The Israel Defense Forces respond by launching airstrikes on military targets in Gaza. (AP)
  • Three
    Palestinian militants, including an Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades commander, are killed by Israeli soldiers during a raid in Jenin, West Bank. (BBC News)
• Somali Civil War
  • Security forces and armed locals kill 70
    cleric are also killed in the fighting. (Reuters)
• Afghanistan conflict
  • One person is killed and seven others injured by an explosion at a mosque in Imam Sahib, Kunduz Province. (AP)
• Insurgency in Balochistan
  • Three people are killed when militants attack a labor camp in Balochistan, Pakistan. (AP)

Arts and culture

• Eurovision Song Contest 2023
  • The United Kingdom is asked to host next year's Eurovision Song Contest after its organisers concluded that Ukraine is not capable of hosting the competition. (The Guardian)

Business and economy

• CEO Vince McMahon voluntarily steps down from his executive roles while WWE's Board of Directors investigates alleged misconduct over a $3 million "hush pact" with a former employee. McMahon's daughter Stephanie is appointed to serve as interim CEO and Chairwoman, with Vince retaining his roles related to WWE creative content. (The Wall Street Journal)

• Wildfires in 2022
  • In
    in Europe. (The Washington Post)
• At least six people are killed by a
  building collapse in Cairo, Egypt. (AP)
• Nine people are killed and 40 are injured after a bus crashes in Tila, Chiapas, Mexico. (AP)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Estonia, Travel during the COVID-19 pandemic
    • Estonia removes all of its COVID-19 entry restrictions for non-EU travellers after the Estonian Health Board concluded that the situation is under control and that third-country nationals are unlikely to affect the epidemiological situation in the country. (Schengenvisa Info)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Morocco
    • King Mohammed VI of Morocco tests positive for COVID-19 with no symptoms. (Reuters)
• 2022 monkeypox outbreak
  • monkeypox. (Agenda.ge) (Reykjavik Grapevine) (Luxembourg Times) (Reuters) (Reuters 2)
  • Nepal reports its first suspected case of monkeypox. (NDTV)

International relations

• Accession of Ukraine to the European Union
  • The European Commission recommends that the European Council grant Ukraine candidate status for accession to the European Union. (The Washington Post)

Law and crime

• Fukushima nuclear disaster
  • The Japanese Supreme Court acquits the state of any responsibility to compensate around 3,700 people affected by the nuclear disaster. (Reuters)
• Indictment and arrest of Julian Assange
  • The UK's Home Office approves the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States. Assange's lawyers announce that they will appeal the decision. (BBC News)

Science and technology

• China launches its third aircraft carrier, the Fujian, during a ceremony in Shanghai, further enhancing the country's ability to project its military abroad. China now has the second most aircraft carriers of any country, behind only the United States, which has eleven aircraft carriers. (Reuters)

Sports

• The English men's cricket team achieve the highest ever One Day International score of 498 against The Netherlands, beating their previous world record of 481 against Australia in 2018. (BBC Sport)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Eastern Ukraine offensive
      • Donetsk People's Republic authorities accuse Ukrainian forces of shelling the Zasyadko coal mine and trapping 77 miners. (Al Arabiya)
    • 2022 Russia–Ukraine peace negotiations
      • Ukrainian delegate Davyd Arakhamia says that Ukraine is planning to resume ceasefire negotiations with Russia this August. (Finger Lake Times)
• Kashmir conflict
  • Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir
    • The dead body of an Indian police official is found in a paddy field in Pampore, Jammu and Kashmir. Islamist militants are suspected to be responsible for the attack. (Reuters)
• Afghanistan conflict
  • Sikh and a Taliban member in an attack on a gurdwara in Kabul. (The Jerusalem Post)
• Mali War
  • At least 20 people die in an attack in Anchawadi commune, Mali. (Voice of America)
• Nyamagabe bus shooting
  • Two people are killed and six are injured after suspected militants attacked a bus in southwestern Rwanda. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• At least two people are killed by flooding in Guangxi, China. (Macau Business)
• One person is killed in a fire at a petrochemical plant in Shanghai, China. (Reuters)
• Wildfires spread across northeastern Spain amid a heatwave, with the highest temperatures expected to be between 40 to 42 °C (104 to 108 °F) in the region of Zaragoza. (NDTV)
• An
  F-14 crashes near Isfahan, with both pilots successfully ejecting from the aircraft. (Tasnim News Agency)
• A firefighter is killed and five other people are injured after a
  building collapses in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. (AP)

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
    • COVID-19 vaccination in the United States
      • The U.S. CDC unanimously votes to approve COVID-19 vaccines for children under the age of five, including babies. (NBC News)

Law and crime

• President of Ecuador Guillermo Lasso declares a state of exception in Quito and other parts of the country amid ongoing protests. (Reuters via SwissInfo)

Science and technology

• 2022 European heat waves
  • Climate change in France
    • France sees several June all-time temperature records beaten by over 1 °C (1.8 °F) in an exceptionally strong heat wave. Biarritz's temperature rises to 42.9 °C (109.2 °F), the absolute record for the seaside resort and 2.3 °C (4.1 °F) above the previous all-time record set in August. (L'Indépendant) (L'Indépendant 2)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Russian occupation of Kharkiv Oblast
      • Ukraine says that Russian forces are advancing on the city of Kharkiv. (Reuters)
    • Battle of Sievierodonetsk
      • Kalibr cruise missiles against a command centre in Dnipro, killing several Ukrainian generals and officers. (Reuters)
• Afghanistan conflict
  • Two people are killed when a car hits a
    roadside bomb in Kabul. (SwissInfo)
• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • A
    Israeli forces while attempting to cross the separation barrier. (AP)
• Militants attack two
  Baptist and the other Catholic, in Kajuru LGA of Kaduna State, Nigeria. Three members of the Catholic Church are killed and several more, mostly from the Baptist one, are kidnapped. (AP)

• The Czech Republic records its highest temperature for the month of June, 39.0 °C (102.2 °F), in Řež. Parts of Austria, Germany and Poland also report record high temperatures. (Deník N) (ORF) (Tagesschau) (Axios) (TVN24)

International relations

• Lithuania–Russia relations
  • International sanctions during the Russo-Ukrainian War
    • exclave of Kaliningrad. (Reuters)
• The European Union condemns the "structurally deficient" justice system in Bolivia and lack of "due process" in the trial of Jeanine Áñez and asks for her release. (RPP)

Politics and elections

• 2022 Colombian presidential election
  • Citizens go to the polls to vote in the second round of the Colombian presidential election. (elDiario.es)
  • Left-wing candidate Gustavo Petro wins the presidential election with 50.44% of the vote, beating his opponent Rodolfo Hernández who received 47.31% of the vote, according to preliminary results. (elDiario.es)
• 2022 Nigerian elections
  • 2022 Nigerian gubernatorial elections
    • 2022 Ekiti State gubernatorial election
      • Former state commissioner
        Abiodun Oyebanji of the All Progressives Congress defeats former Governor Olusegun Oni of the Social Democratic Party in the gubernatorial election. Oyebanji's win means that the APC has become the first party ever to win consecutive Ekiti gubernatorial elections. (Daily Trust)
• Elections in Spain
  • 2022 Andalusian regional election
    • Ruling People's Party of Andalusia wins a historic absolute majority, the first for a conservative party in Andalusia. Citizens, whose leader was the vice-president of the region, loses all the 21 deputies it had. (The Guardian)
• 2022 French legislative election
  • French voters head to the polls to vote in the second round of the latest legislative election. (Euronews)
  • It is announced that
    Renaissance and its allies will not repeat an absolute majority in the National Assembly. (elDiario.es)
• 2022 Sri Lankan protests, 2022 Sri Lankan political crisis
  • Four civilians and three soldiers were wounded in protest over gasoline shortage when the army opened fire for the first time to quell unrest, as
    economic crisis since independence. (News.am)

• 2022 Wimbledon Championships
  • Russian tennis player
    banned Russian and Belarusian players from participating in the tournament. (Eurosport)
• trans women swimmers from competing in high-level competitions. However, the body will convene a working group to develop a separate "open" category for them in select competitions. (CNN)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Sieverodonetsk. (Reuters)
    • Ukrainian forces fire missiles at a Chornomornaftogaz drilling oil facility in the Black Sea, off Crimea, injuring three workers, with seven others missing. Russia launches missile strikes on Odesa in retaliation for the attack. (The Telegraph) (The Telegraph 2)
    • A second
      landmine. (Rolling Stone)
• Mali War
  • 2022 Bankass massacres
    • insurgents kill 132 civilians over the weekend in a series of attacks on three villages in the Bankass Cercle of Mali's Mopti Region, including Segue. (AP)
• Afghanistan conflict
  • A bazaar in Nangarhar Province is bombed, which the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan says has killed and injured "scores of people." The ruling Taliban confirm that at least ten people have been injured but cannot yet confirm if anyone has been killed. (Reuters)
• Mexican drug war
  • Two
    Jesuit priests are murdered by gunmen in a church in Cerocahui, Chihuahua. (AP)
• Syrian civil war
  • Eleven
    Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant claims responsibility for the attack. (Washington Post) (Reuters)

• International sanctions during the Russo-Ukrainian War
  • Panic buying is reported in the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad after Lithuania banned the transit of some goods through its territory by rail. Kaliningrad Governor Anton Alikhanov calls for calm, while Russia condemns the ban. (The Moscow Times)
  • The Russian Foreign Affairs Ministry demands that Lithuania "immediately reverse" new restrictions on shipments of Russian goods to Kaliningrad, saying that the restrictions were "unprecedented" and "illegal", while also suggesting that Moscow could "take actions to protect its national interests". (RFE/RL)
• Canadian defence minister Anita Anand announces an increase in defence spending to $5 billion in order to upgrade continental defence. (CBC)
• It is announced that Cape Verde will allocate a budget of $85 million to combat the effects of the war in Ukraine, which has caused an increase in the prices of gasoline and food, as 9% of Cape Verdeans are currently facing a food crisis. (Reuters) (Today Online)

Disasters and accidents

• A helicopter crashes near Burton, North Yorkshire, England, killing two people onboard. (BBC News)

Health and environment

• 2022 Russia–European Union gas dispute
  • Dutch climate and energy minister Rob Jetten announces that the Netherlands will remove all restrictions on the operation of coal-fired power stations until at least 2024, in response to Russia's refusal to export natural gas to the country. Operations were previously limited to less than a third of the total production. (CNA)
• Canadian Environmental Minister Steven Guilbeault announces that Canada will ban the sale of single-use plastics by December 2023, and will ban the export of these plastics by the end of 2025, with the first regulations to come into effect in December. (Al Jazeera)
• A study published in Nature Food finds that the impact of food transportation on climate change is three times greater than was previously believed, making up 6% of global carbon emissions. (Nature Food)

International relations

• Belgium–Democratic Republic of the Congo relations
  • The Belgian government repatriates Congolese independence leader and former prime minister Patrice Lumumba's remains, consisting of a tooth, through an official ceremony attended by his family at the Egmont Palace in Brussels. (NBC News)
• Ukraine ratifies the Istanbul Convention. (Ukrainska Pravda)

Law and crime

• Recognition of same-sex unions in Japan
  • The
    male couples and one female couple. (The Canberra Times)
• Violent protests occur across India, including the burning of trains in Hyderabad, in response to proposed recruitment reforms in the military. (Al Jazeera)

Politics and elections

• 2022 French legislative election
  • right-wing party National Rally achieve significant electoral gains, forcing the government to seek compromises with other parties during the upcoming legislative period for the first time since the 1988 legislative election. (Reuters)
• Next Israeli legislative election
  • Leading members of the thirty-sixth government of Israel Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid agree to dissolve the Knesset, triggering a fifth snap election in just over three years. Lapid will serve as acting Prime Minister until the election is held. (Reuters)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Russian occupation of the Luhansk Oblast
      • Luhansk Governor Serhiy Haidai says that Russian forces captured the towns of Pidlisne and Myrna Dolyna, south of Lysychansk, and also confirms reports that separatist forces captured Toshkivka yesterday. (Reuters)
  • The
    Oleh Synyehubov, reports that Russian shelling killed 15 civilians in and near Kharkiv. (Reuters)
• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • A Palestinian man is stabbed and killed by an Israeli settler in the occupied West Bank. (Reuters)

Business and economy

• 2021–2022 inflation surge
  • 2022 United Kingdom national rail strike
    • Railway transport workers go on a nationwide general strike in the United Kingdom after talks on a 7% pay increase for workers collapses. The RMT says that industry executives have only offered a 2% increase in pay, which is well below rising inflation levels. (BBC News)
• Economic impact of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Russia becomes China's biggest supplier of oil, surpassing Saudi Arabia and making up over half of China's oil imports. (Al Jazeera)

Disasters and accidents

• Wildfires in 2022
  • 2022 California wildfires
    • The Edgewood Fire breaks out near San Mateo County, California, prompting evacuations and power outages. A firefighter is injured while fighting the fires. (CBS News) (KNTV) (KGO-TV)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Macau
    • Authorities in Macau place a casino and hotel with more than 700 people inside under lockdown due to an outbreak of COVID-19 in the territory. (Straits Times)

International relations

• International sanctions during the Russo-Ukrainian War
  • Lithuania–Russia relations
    • Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev warns Lithuania that its citizens will "feel pain" over the ban on the transit of Russian goods to Kaliningrad through Lithuania, saying that Russia's response in the near future could have "a serious negative impact on the population of Lithuania". (Reuters)
• Estonia–Russia relations
  • Estonia reports that a Russian Border Service Mi-8 helicopter violated its airspace over the weekend. The Russian ambassador to Estonia was summoned in response to the incident. (Al Arabiya)
• Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on international relations
  • The
    the conference of the parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity initially scheduled to take place in Kunming, China, later this year will be moved to Montreal, Canada, due to logistical complications caused by China's Zero-COVID policy. (The Wall Street Journal)
• 2021–2022 global energy crisis
  • Lebanon, Egypt and Syria sign an agreement to supply Egyptian gas to a power plant in northern Lebanon through Syria. However, the World Bank, which is financing the deal, must validate the agreement before it can take effect. (The Independent)
• Cross-Strait relations
  • Twenty-nine
    air defence zone, prompting the Taiwanese Air Force to send their own aircraft in response. (Reuters)

• Two people are injured, including one in critical condition, after a
  stabbing attack in Västerås, Sweden. (AP)
• the Maldives, proclaiming that yoga is against the tenets of Islam. (Reuters)
• The South Dakota Senate, in the United States, votes to convict Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg over his role in a 2020 car accident in which his car struck 55-year old Joseph Boever, removing him from office immediately. (AP)

Politics and elections

• 2022 food crises
  • Egypt rejects two World Trade Organization (WTO) agreements which would have forced it to export domestically needed food to alleviate the global food crisis, citing proposals that it considers harmful to developing countries and also noting that 30 other WTO member states restrict food exports. (Al Monitor)
• The armed forces of Ecuador say that they will "not allow ongoing protests" to "damage the country's democracy", as road blockades and demonstrations against the economic policies of president Guillermo Lasso continue. (Reuters)

Science and technology

• Internet censorship in Russia
  • Russia blocks access to
    Russian war in Ukraine. (MSN)
• Nuri, South Korea's first locally-developed orbital launch vehicle, launches for a second time from the Naro Space Center in Goheung County, South Jeolla, with a satellite payload of 1,500 kg (3,300 lb). The launch was successful, with all of the satellites being put onto the 700 km (430 mi) Sun-synchronous orbit. (Philippine Daily Inquirer)