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- In Greece, at least 79 people are killed and hundreds are missing after a migrant boat sinks off the coast of the city of Pylos in the Peloponnese.
- In basketball, the Denver Nuggets defeat the Miami Heat to win the NBA Finals (MVP Nikola Jokić pictured).
- At least 103 people are killed after a boat sinks on the Niger River in Nigeria.
- In cricket, Australia defeat India to win the World Test Championship final.
- In association football, Manchester City defeat Inter Milan to win the UEFA Champions League final.
June 15, 2023 (Thursday)
Business and economy
- 2021–2023 inflation surge
- The economy of New Zealand enters recession after gross domestic product (GDP) fell 0.1% in the March quarter, as the central bank raises interest rates to a 14-year high. Annual growth slows to 2.2%, according to Statistics New Zealand. (Reuters)
Disasters and accidents
- Eighteen people are injured by an explosion at a firecracker warehouse in Bocaue, Bulacan, Philippines. (GMA News)
- At least fifteen people are killed in a collision between a semi-truck and another vehicle on Manitoba Highway 1 near Carberry, Canada. (CTV News)
International relations
- Australia–Russia relations
- Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announces that parliament will pass a law to prohibit the construction of a new Russian embassy in Canberra due to national security concerns regarding its proposed location adjacent to Parliament House. (Al Jazeera)
Law and crime
- COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom, Partygate
- An inquiry by the UK Parliament concludes that former Prime Minister Boris Johnson broke rules during the COVID-19 outbreak in the country. (BBC News)
June 14, 2023 (Wednesday)
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)
- Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- 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)
- Kosovo–Serbia relations
- Syrian civil war
- 2023 Northern Syria clashes
- Ten SDF fighters and five Syrian soldiers are killed by Turkish drone strikes in Aleppo Governorate, Syria. (SOHR)
- 2023 Northern Syria clashes
- 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)
- 2023 Sudan conflict
- 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)
Business and economy
- The European Commission orders Google to sell off portions of its advertising services in order to comply with anti-competitive practices and threatens to fine the company up to 10% of its global turnover. Google, which relies on advertising services for up to 79% of its revenue, says that it will appeal the order. (Reuters)
- Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland announces that Canada is suspending its relations with the China-based Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank while her department conducts an investigation into allegations of the Chinese Communist Party's influence over the organization. (CNA)
Disasters and accidents
- 2023 Messenia migrant boat disaster
- At least 78 people die and 100 others are rescued after a boat carrying refugees and migrants from Libya to Italy capsizes near Pylos, Messenia, Greece. (Al Jazeera)
Health and environment
- COVID-19 pandemic
- COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia
- Indonesian President Joko Widodo announces that the country will end their COVID-19 emergency within the next two weeks and transition into endemic status. (Antara) (The Jakarta Post)
- COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia
International relations
- Fiji–New Zealand relations
- Fiji and New Zealand sign a defence pact in Suva, Fiji, which includes military cooperation and humanitarian aid. (The Guardian)
Law and crime
- 2023 Japan military facility shooting
- Two soldiers are killed and another is injured during a live fire exercise at a training area in Gifu, Japan, as a recruit opens fire at them. The suspect is apprehended and charged with the attempted murder of a soldier. (AFP via South China Morning Post) (BBC News)
Politics and elections
- 2024 United States presidential election
- 2024 Republican Party presidential primaries
- Mayor of Miami, Florida, Francis X. Suarez files for candidacy as a Republican in the 2024 United States presidential election. (The New York Times)
- 2024 Republican Party presidential primaries
Science and technology
- At the International Society for Stem Cell Research's annual meeting in Boston, Massachusetts, US, developmental biologist Magdalena Żernicka-Goetz reveals that American and British researchers have generated the world's first synthetic human embryo-like structures using stem cells. Żernicka-Goetz suggests that the findings could provide insights into the causes of miscarriages. (CNN)
June 13, 2023 (Tuesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Russian rockets hit a residential building in the city of Kryvyi Rih, Dnipropetrovsk oblast, killing 11 people and injuring 28 others. (Al Jazeera) (AP)
- Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Arts and culture
- Cinema of Saudi Arabia
- Saudi Arabian authorities announce that Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse will be banned in the country due to its use of transgender content. (Al-Monitor)
Disasters and accidents
- Kwara boat disaster
- At least 100 people are killed when a wedding boat capsizes on the Niger River in Kwara State, Nigeria. (Sky News)
- 2023 North Indian Ocean cyclone season
- Cyclone Biparjoy approaches India and Pakistan, with seven people being killed in India. (Reuters)
- Two people are injured and buildings are damaged by a magnitude 5.0 earthquake in Jammu and Kashmir, India. (HindustanTimes)
- 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)
- 2023 Denver shooting
- 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)
June 12, 2023 (Monday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Syrian civil war, Russia–Turkey relations
- Turkish artillery shelling kills a Russian soldier and injures four others in northern Aleppo governorate, Syria. (ABC News) (SOHR)
- Ituri conflict
- At least 46 people are killed by CODECO in an IDP camp in the Bahema Badjere district of Ituri, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Reuters)
Arts and culture
- Pat Sajak announces his retirement from the American game show Wheel of Fortune after 41 seasons, having hosted the show since 1981. (AP)
International relations
- Moldova–Ukraine relations
- Moldova and Ukraine sign an agreement to build a bridge across their border over the Dniester river between Cosăuți, Moldova, and Yampil, Ukraine, bypassing the unrecognised state of Transnistria. (Yahoo! News)
- Eritrea rejoins the Intergovernmental Authority on Development trade bloc almost 16 years after suspending its membership in 2007. (AFP via Al-Ahram)
- UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay announces that the United States will reapply for membership in July, after the Trump administration withdrew the United States from the agency in 2018. (AFP via The Manila Times)
Politics and elections
- 2024 Mexican general election
- Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard resigns and announces he will run for president of Mexico in the 2024 elections. The mayor of Mexico City, Claudia Sheinbaum, also announces that she will resign on Friday to focus on running for president. (Al Jazeera)
Science and technology
- Discoveries of exoplanets
- Astronomers announce in the journal Nature Astronomy the discovery of BEBOP-1c, an exoplanet orbiting the binary star system, TOI-1338. The system is the second discovered to have more than one circumbinary planet. (Space.com)
- Most major communities on social media site Reddit implement a temporary "blackout" in response to proposed changes to third-party access to Reddit's API. (Sky News)
- The Swiss Federal Administration reports a distributed denial of service attack on some of its websites. (The Business Times)
Sports
- 2023 NBA playoffs
- In basketball, the Denver Nuggets win their first NBA title after defeating the Miami Heat in five games of a best-of-seven series in the NBA Finals. Serbian center Nikola Jokić is named Most Valuable Player. (ESPN)
June 11, 2023 (Sunday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- 2023 Ukrainian counteroffensive
- Ukrainian forces claim to have retaken three villages south of Velyka Novosilka in the southern Donetsk region. (The Guardian)
- 2023 Ukrainian counteroffensive
- 2023 Cu Kuin police station attacks
- Four police officers are killed and two others are injured in shootings at two police stations in Cư Kuin, Đắk Lắk, Vietnam. Sixteen people are arrested. (CNA)
- Three people are killed and three others are injured after border clashes near the North Waziristan District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, on the Afghanistan–Pakistan border
Disasters and accidents
- 2023 Interstate 95 highway collapse
- A section of Interstate 95 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, collapses after a tanker truck catches fire under an overpass. (CNN)
- Greta bus crash
- Ten people are killed and 25 others are injured in a bus crash near Greta, New South Wales, Australia. (Reuters)
- Three British tourists are killed and 26 other people are rescued after a boat fire in the Red Sea near Marsa Alam, Egypt. (Reuters)
International relations
Law and crime
- Former Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon is arrested as part of an investigation into financial misconduct by the Scottish National Party. (The Guardian)
Sports
- 2023 FIA World Endurance Championship
- 2023 24 Hours of Le Mans
- In endurance racing, the AF Corse Ferrari team wins the 91st Le Mans 24 Hours with drivers James Calado, Antonio Giovinazzi and Alessandro Pier Guidi. It is Ferrari's first victory at the event since 1965. (The Guardian)
- 2023 24 Hours of Le Mans
- 2021–2023 ICC World Test Championship
- In Test cricket, Australia win their first Test World Cup title, defeating India by 209 runs on the final day at The Oval in London, England. Australia's Travis Head is named player of the match. (BBC Sport)
- 2023 French Open
- In tennis, Novak Djokovic defeats Casper Ruud 7–6(7–1), 6–3, 7–5 in the final to win the men's singles title at the 2023 French Open. Djokovic surpasses the record he shared with Rafael Nadal to become the men's singles player with the most Grand Slam titles (23). (The Guardian)
- 2023 FIFA U-20 World Cup
- In association football, Uruguay win their first FIFA U-20 World Cup title with a 1–0 victory over Italy in the final at the Estadio Único in La Plata, Argentina. Italy's Cesare Casadei is awarded the tournament's Golden Ball. (AP)
June 10, 2023 (Saturday)
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)
- 2023 Mogadishu hotel attack
- 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)
- 2022–2023 bombing of Odesa
Disasters and accidents
- At least 25 people are killed and 145 others are injured after heavy rains cause houses to collapse across Pakistan. (AP)
- Five people are killed in an explosion at a missile and explosives factory in Ankara, Turkey. (Al Jazeera)
- Two people are killed after a small plane crashes in the Superstition Mountains in Arizona, United States. (AP)
- Fourteen people are killed in wildfires in north-eastern Kazakhstan, while 316 others are evacuated, according to the Emergency Situations Ministry. Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev responds by sacking Emergency Situations Minister Yuri Ilyin. (Al Jazeera)
Health and environment
- Chile reports an outbreak of respiratory syncytial virus, which has killed four people. (Reuters)
International relations
- Canada–Ukraine relations
- List of military aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War
- Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announces a $500 million military aid package to Ukraine (including 288 AIM-7 missiles) and a $10 million humanitarian aid package to help victims of the Kakhovka dam collapse. (CNBC)
- List of military aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War
- Foreign relations of Romania
- Romania recalls its ambassador to Kenya after he used a racist slur during a meeting with African Group representatives in Nairobi in April. (Al Jazeera)
Law and crime
- Two people are killed and two more injured during a mass shooting outside the entrance of a subway station in Farsta, Stockholm, Sweden. (AP)
Sports
- 2023 French Open
- In tennis, defending champion Iga Świątek defeats Karolína Muchová 6–2, 5–7, 6–4 in the final to win the women's singles title at the 2023 French Open. Świątek is the first player to defend the title since Justine Henin in 2007 and the first woman to defend a major title since Serena Williams at Wimbledon in 2016. (CNN)
- 2022–23 UEFA Champions League
- In association football, Manchester City win their first UEFA Champions League title with a 1–0 victory over Inter Milan in the final at the Atatürk Olympic Stadium in Istanbul, Turkey, with Rodri scoring the winner. Having also won the Premier League and FA Cup that season, City become the second English club to complete the continental treble after rivals Manchester United in 1999. (CNN) (The Guardian)
June 9, 2023 (Friday)
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
- 2023 Nova Scotia wildfires
- Evacuation orders are lifted in Nova Scotia, two weeks after wildfires swept through the area. (The Star)
- 2023 Colombia Cessna 206 crash
- President Gustavo Petro confirms the successful rescue of the four Witoto children who had been missing in the Amazon rainforest since the Cessna 206 they were traveling in crashed on May 1. The children were found alive but weak, while the bodies of the three adults accompanying them, including their mother, were found at the crash site. (AFP via ABS-CBN News)
- At least seven people are killed and 59 others are injured in floods and storms across Iran. (Mehr)
International relations
- Iceland–Russia relations
- Iceland announces that it will suspend operations at its embassy in Moscow, Russia, beginning on August 1, saying that "commercial, cultural and political relations" with Russia are "at an all-time low" and that maintaining the embassy is "no longer justifiable". (The Kyiv Post)
Politics and elections
- Commons Privileges Committee investigation into Boris Johnson
- 2023 Uxbridge and South Ruislip by-election
- Former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson resigns from Parliament after being told by the Privileges Committee that he will be sanctioned for misleading Parliament over his involvement in Partygate. His resignation triggers a by-election for his constituency of Uxbridge and South Ruislip. (BBC News)
- 2023 Uxbridge and South Ruislip by-election
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