Portal:Current events/June 2023

Armed conflicts and attacks

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

Disasters and accidents

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

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

Law and crime

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

Armed conflicts and attacks

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

Disasters and accidents

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

International relations

• Iceland–Russia relations
  • embassy is "no longer justifiable". (The Kyiv Post)

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

Armed conflicts and attacks

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

Disasters and accidents

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

Health and environment

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

International relations

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

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

Sports

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

Armed conflicts and attacks

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

Disasters and accidents

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

International relations

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

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

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

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Syrian civil war, Russia–Turkey relations
  • Aleppo governorate, Syria. (ABC News) (SOHR)
• Ituri conflict
  • At least 46 people are killed by
    Ituri, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Reuters)

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

International relations

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

Politics and elections

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

• Discoveries of exoplanets
  • Astronomers announce in the journal Nature Astronomy the discovery of BEBOP-1c, an exoplanet orbiting the binary star system, TOI-1338. The system is the second discovered to have more than one circumbinary planet. (Space.com)
• Most major communities on
  API. (Sky News)
• The
  distributed denial of service attack on some of its websites. (The Business Times)

• 2023 NBA playoffs
  • In
    Most Valuable Player. (ESPN)

Armed conflicts and attacks

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

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

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

Law and crime

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

Sports

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

Armed conflicts and attacks

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

Business and economy

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

Disasters and accidents

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

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

International relations

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

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

Politics and elections

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

• At the
  causes of miscarriages. (CNN)
• Astronomers report that the presence of phosphates on Enceladus, moon of the planet Saturn, has been detected, completing the discovery of all the basic chemical ingredients for life on the moon. (New York Times)

Business and economy

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

Disasters and accidents

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

International relations

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

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

Science and technology

• 2023 in archosaur paleontology
  • Researchers from the
    ankylosaur, with "blade-like spiked armor", is the first of its kind found on the island in 142 years and will be added to the collection at Dinosaur Isle for public display during the summer. (CBS News)

Armed conflicts and attacks

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

Arts and culture

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

Disasters and accidents

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

Law and crime

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

Science and technology

• 2023 in archosaur paleontology
  • A study in
    Gonkoken nanoi, which inhabited Patagonia 72 million years ago. (CNA)

Armed conflicts and attacks

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

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

International relations

• Saudi Arabia–Yemen relations
  • A
    commercial flight from Yemen's primary international airport to Saudi Arabia after a seven-year blockade. Additional flights have been scheduled to accommodate thousands of Hajj pilgrims. (AFP via France 24)

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

Armed conflicts and attacks

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

Disasters and accidents

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

Law and crime

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

• 2023 Malian constitutional referendum
  • President. (Al Jazeera)
• 2023 Kuwaiti general election
  • Ahmed Al-Fahad Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah as the defense minister and Saad Al Barrak as the oil minister. (The Straits Times)

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

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • June 2023 Jenin incursion
    • Six
      IDF raid in the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank. (Al Jazeera) (Al Jazeera)

• The mayor of the
  mythology was born in India instead of Nepal. (Al Jazeera)

• Indian
  purchase agreement in commercial aviation. (CNN)

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

Health and environment

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

International relations

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

Law and crime

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

Sports

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

Armed conflicts and attacks

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

Business and economy

• China–Pakistan relations
  • The
    Chashma Nuclear Power Plant, Pakistan's seventh nuclear power plant, in Punjab. (Reuters via CNN)

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

Law and crime

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

Politics and elections

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

Armed conflicts and attacks

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

Business and economy

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

Disasters and accidents

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

International relations

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

Law and crime

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

Armed conflicts and attacks

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

Business and economy

• Economy of Zambia, China–Zambia relations
  • French government, also allows Zambia to access a $1.3 billion bailout from the International Monetary Fund. (Financial Times)

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

Health and environment

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

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

• 2023 NBA draft
  • In
    Brooklyn, New York, United States, with the San Antonio Spurs taking French player Victor Wembanyama with the first overall pick. (AFP via France 24)

Armed conflicts and attacks

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

Business and economy

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

Disasters and accidents

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

International relations

• Philippines–United Arab Emirates relations
  • slander. (CNN Philippines)

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

Armed conflicts and attacks

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

Disasters and accidents

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

Law and crime

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

Politics and elections

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

Armed conflicts and attacks

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

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

Law and crime

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

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

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Military aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War
    • Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announces a AU$110 million military aid package to Ukraine. (The Guardian)
  • Ukrainian forces recapture the uninhabited village of Rivnopil in Donetsk Oblast, according to Deputy Defence Minister Hanna Maliar, the ninth in the past month. (Reuters)
• 2023 Sudan conflict
  • Battle of Khartoum
    • The
      military equipment and ammunition, including 160 pickup trucks, 75 armoured personnel carriers, and 27 tanks. (The Guardian)
  • The
    Blue Nile, Sudan, prompting hundreds of civilians to flee across the border to Ethiopia. (Reuters)

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

Disasters and accidents

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

Health and environment

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

International relations

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

Politics and elections

• 2023 Toronto mayoral by-election
  • Former
    extra-marital affair with a staffer. (BBC News)

Armed conflicts and attacks

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

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

Disasters and accidents

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

Health and environment

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

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

Politics and elections

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

Armed conflicts and attacks

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

Disasters and accidents

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

Health and environment

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

International relations

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

Law and crime

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

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

Armed conflicts and attacks

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

Disasters and accidents

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

International relations

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

Law and crime

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

Politics and elections

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

Science and technology

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

Armed conflicts and attacks

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

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

Disasters and accidents

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

International relations

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

Law and crime

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

Science and technology

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