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June 2022 was the sixth month of that common year. The month, which began on a Wednesday, ended on a Thursday after 30 days.

Portal:Current events

This is an archived version of Wikipedia's Current events Portal from June 2022.

June 1, 2022 (2022-06-01) (Wednesday)

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)
      • U.S. President Joe Biden agrees to provide Ukraine with long-range rocket artillery systems after Ukraine reportedly gave "assurances" that they will not use the missile systems to strike Russian cities. The weapons systems are a part of a new $700 million weapons package to Ukraine that will also include ammunition, counter-fire radars, a number of air surveillance radars, and additional Javelin 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
    • Turkey announces a planned military operation to seize control of the Syrian cities of Tal Rifaat and Manbij from the 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 attack in Kulgam has caused over 100 Kashmiri Hindu families to flee Kashmir. (Reuters)
• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • A Palestinian man is killed and two others are injured after the 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 Jordanian member of the MINUSMA peacekeeping force is killed and three others are injured in Kidal Region, Mali. (France 24)

Business and economy

• 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 President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan cancels high-level talks with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, accusing Mitsotakis of consistently using Greek jets to violate Turkey's airspace. 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 mass shooting at a clinic in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States. (CNN)
• Depp v. Heard
  • Actor Johnny Depp wins a defamation lawsuit against his ex-wife, actress Amber Heard. (BBC News)
• Canada announces that it will temporarily decriminalize possession of less than 2.5 grams total of MDMA, 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)

Politics and elections

• Next Generation EU
  • The European Commission formally approves, by a majority vote, Poland's plan for the usage of the EU's Recovery and Resilience Facility funds. Although the money will not be immediately available for use, the plan must go through approval in the European Council, and any future funding requests in that mechanism will also be subject to the approval of other member states. The acceptance was previously withheld due to the Commission's 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)

Science and technology

• 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)

June 2, 2022 (2022-06-02) (Thursday)

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
  • Morocco confirms its first case of monkeypox. (Reuters)

International relations

• 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
  • Russia blocks access to the Finnish, Russian and English websites of Finnish state broadcaster Yle, on orders of the Prosecutor-General of Russia. (Yle)

June 3, 2022 (2022-06-03) (Friday)

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.

Disasters and accidents

• 2022 food crises
  • Chad declares an emergency over 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
  • Latvia confirms its first case of 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)
• Germany's Bundestag approves a constitutional amendment that enshrines €100 billion in military spending. The amendment must now pass the Bundesrat. (AFP via France 24)

Science and technology

• Legality of cryptocurrency by country or territory
  • The U.S. state of New York passes a partial two-year cryptocurrency mining ban for cryptocurrency mined from fossil fuel power plants. (Politico)

Sports

• Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sports
  • The Special Olympics lift their COVID-19 vaccine mandate for the upcoming Special Olympics USA event in Orlando, Florida, after Governor Ron DeSantis urged them to do so or face threats of a $27.5 million fine. (Florida Politics) (Bleacher Report) (WPEC-TV)

June 4, 2022 (2022-06-04) (Saturday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

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

Disasters and accidents

• 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)

Health and environment

• 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
    • India reports its first suspected monkeypox case in a girl from Ghaziabad. (Hindustan Times)

Law and crime

• 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)

Politics and elections

• 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 Iraq's Kurdistan Region rejects a ruling from the federal Supreme Judicial Council demanding that the 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)

Sports

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

June 5, 2022 (2022-06-05) (Sunday)

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 mass shooting and bombing inside 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 Bundestag votes 400–41, with 200 abstentions, to approve raising the minimum wage in Germany to €12 ($12.90) an hour. (DW)

Disasters and accidents

• 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
      • Hawaii reports a probable case of 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)

Politics and elections

• 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)

June 6, 2022 (2022-06-06) (Monday)

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 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services says that the United States has obtained 36,000 doses of the Jynneos vaccine in order to combat 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)

International relations

• 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
  • Latvia bans all Russia-based TV media outlets that threaten "the territorial integrity and independence of another country", referring to the Russo-Ukrainian War. The measure will last until Russia de-occupies Crimea and ends its warfare against Ukraine. (LRT)
• International sanctions during the Russo-Ukrainian War
  • A federal judge in the U.S. state of New York orders the seizure of two private jets, a Boeing 787 Dreamliner and 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)

June 7, 2022 (2022-06-07) (Tuesday)

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 United States 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)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Europe
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Andorra
      • Prime Minister 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
    • Bangladesh and The Bahamas report their first suspected cases of 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)

Science and technology

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

June 8, 2022 (2022-06-08) (Wednesday)

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)
      • Arizona reports its first suspected case of 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
    • Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul urges people to "move on" from COVID-19 and declares his intentions for Thailand to 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)

June 9, 2022 (2022-06-09) (Thursday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Jihadist insurgency in Burkina Faso
  • Militants kill at least one soldier and one civilian in the Karma 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 People's Liberation Army Air Force Chengdu J-7 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
    • Spain will begin vaccinations of close contacts of monkeypox using the Imvanex vaccine after 242 cases were reported in the country. (Reuters)

International relations

• 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 arson attack, that spread through 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 Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) sentences to death two Britons and a Moroccan who had joined Ukrainian forces on charges of terrorism, mercenary activities, and attempting to overthrow the DPR's government. (AP)

Politics and elections

• 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)

June 10, 2022 (2022-06-10) (Friday)

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 vaccines from Bavarian Nordic, including the Jynneos vaccine, as part of an effort to combat the monkeypox outbreak. (Axios)
  • Poland reports its first case of monkeypox. (Reuters)

International relations

• China–Russia relations
  • Russia and China open the new Blagoveshchensk–Heihe Bridge. The 1 km long bridge spans across the Amur river to connect Heihe in Northeastern China's 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)
• Russia withdraws from the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) after having been suspended by that organization due to the country's war in Ukraine. (The Guardian)

Law and crime

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

Sports

• 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)

June 11, 2022 (2022-06-11) (Saturday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Battle of Donbas, Eastern Ukraine offensive
      • Battle of Sievierodonetsk
        • Russian forces shell the 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)

Disasters and accidents

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

Law and crime

• 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)

June 12, 2022 (2022-06-12) (Sunday)

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 France go to the polls to elect the first round of the 577 members of the 16th National Assembly. (AP)
  • Exit polls show the coalition of left-wing parties headed by far-left deputy Jean-Luc Mélenchon barely edging out President Emmanuel Macron's coalition 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)

June 13, 2022 (2022-06-13) (Monday)

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 M23 offensive, 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 S&P 500 closes more than 20% below its January 3 record closing high, confirming that the index is in a bear market. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• 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)
• Pope Francis appoints John T. Dunlap as the new 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)

June 14, 2022 (2022-06-14) (Tuesday)

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 Tajik border guard is killed and three others are injured in a clash with Kyrgyzstan border troops. (Reuters)

Arts and culture

• 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 government of Kiribati declares a 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)

Health and environment

• 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 World Health Organization announces plans to officially rename 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 court convicts 60 members of the former Cambodia National Rescue Party of treason, including 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 United States Tennis Association says that tennis players from Russia and Belarus will be allowed to compete at the upcoming US Open tournament despite the ongoing invasion of Ukraine, which is expected to be held in New York after Wimbledon banned them from doing so. (The Guardian)

June 15, 2022 (2022-06-15) (Wednesday)

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 Yemeni journalist is 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 Thailand file a 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)

Sports

• 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)

June 16, 2022 (2022-06-16) (Thursday)

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 Melitopol claims that Ukrainian farmers caused "mass illness" in Russian troops by poisoning 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 United States following the Biden administration's announcement of new 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)

Disasters and accidents

• 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 basketball, the Golden State Warriors defeat the Boston Celtics in six games to win their fourth NBA championship in eight years. Stephen Curry is named NBA Finals MVP. (The Washington Post) (KION-TV)

June 17, 2022 (2022-06-17) (Friday)

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 Russian tugboat Vasiliy Bekh transporting soldiers, weapons, and ammunition to Snake Island with Harpoon missiles. (Al Arabiya)
• Kurdish–Turkish conflict
  • Operation Claw-Lock
    • Turkey says that four 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 al-Shabaab members in Bahdo, Somalia. Two local children and a 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

• WWE Chairman and 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)

Disasters and accidents

• Wildfires in 2022
  • In Spain, over 650 people in eight villages are evacuated after wildfires originating in the Sierra de Culebra mountain range grew to 9,000 hectares amidst a heat wave 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
  • Georgia, Iceland, Luxembourg, Serbia, and Chile report their first confirmed cases of 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)

June 18, 2022 (2022-06-18) (Saturday)

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
  • Islamic State kill a 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 Iranian 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)

Health and environment

• 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)

June 19, 2022 (2022-06-19) (Sunday)

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
      • Russia says that its forces captured a district in the outskirts of Sieverodonetsk and that it launched 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 Palestinian man is shot and killed by Israeli forces while attempting to cross the separation barrier. (AP)
• Militants attack two churches, one of them 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)

Disasters and accidents

• 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
    • Lithuania bans the transit of goods that are under EU sanctions through their territory to the Russian 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 French President Emmanuel Macron's party 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 Sri Lanka is suffering its worst economic crisis since independence. (News.am)

Sports

• 2022 Wimbledon Championships
  • Russian tennis player Natela Dzalamidze changes her nationality to Georgian and will participate in the upcoming Wimbledon tournament after Wimbledon banned Russian and Belarusian players from participating in the tournament. (Eurosport)
• FINA, during its general congress, votes to disallow 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)

June 20, 2022 (2022-06-20) (Monday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Pro-Russian forces of the Luhansk People's Republic claim to have taken the key town of Toshkivka, 25 km south of 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 American volunteer fighter dies in Ukraine, after triggering a landmine. (Rolling Stone)
• Mali War
  • 2022 Bankass massacres
    • Islamist 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 soldiers and two civilians are killed in an attack on a bus travelling from Raqqa to Homs. The Islamic State claims responsibility for the attack. (Washington Post) (Reuters)

Business and economy

• 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 defense minister Anita Anand announces an increase in defense spending to $5 billion in order to upgrade continental defense. (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 Osaka District Court rules that Japan's ban on same-sex marriage is not "unconstitutional" in a ruling on a lawsuit filed by two 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
  • President Emmanuel Macron's party Renaissance is confirmed to lose its majority in the National Assembly after yesterday's second round of legislative elections. Both the left-wing alliance NUPES and the 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)

June 21, 2022 (2022-06-21) (Tuesday)

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 Governor of Kharkiv Oblast, 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 United Nations announces that 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 Chinese military aircraft enter the Taiwanese air defence zone, prompting the Taiwanese Air Force to send their own aircraft in response. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• Two people are injured, including one in critical condition, after a stabbing attack in Västerås, Sweden. (AP)
• Rioters attack an International Day of Yoga celebration in Malé, 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 The Daily Telegraph's website on the orders of the Prosecutor-General, after accusing the newspaper of "disseminating false information" about the 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)

June 22, 2022 (2022-06-22) (Wednesday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • 2022 Western Russia attacks
      • The Ukrainian Air Force launches drone strikes on an oil refinery in Novoshakhtinsk, Rostov Oblast, Russia, causing a large explosion and fire. Operations at the refinery have been suspended. Footage on social media appears to show at least one armed drone striking the facility. (Reuters)
    • War crimes in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
      • Reporters Without Borders releases a report claiming that a Ukrainian photojournalist was summarily executed while injured on the ground by Russian soldiers during the early stages of the conflict. (Al Jazeera)
    • Southern Ukraine offensive
      • Seven Russian missiles strike the city of Mykolaiv, killing at least one person and damaging a number of residential and commercial buildings, according to Mykolaiv governor Vitaliy Kim. (The Telegraph)
    • The Ukrainian military says that it has inflicted "significant losses" on Russian forces after launching airstrikes on Snake Island in the Black Sea, destroying a Pantsir missile system, a radar station and numerous vehicles on the occupied island. (Euronews)
• Yemeni Civil War
  • Al-Qaeda insurgency in Yemen
    • Five Southern Transitional Council soldiers and three Al-Qaeda militants are killed during a shootout in Ataq, Shabwah Governorate. (AP)
• 2022 Ecuadorian protests
  • Ecuadorian indigenous groups attack a police station in Puyo, Pastaza, amid ongoing protests in the country. One protestor is shot dead by police. Eighteen police officers are missing, while another six are injured. (Bangkok Post)
• Anglophone Crisis
  • Anglophone Ambazonia rebels kill between 26 and 32 civilians in Akwaya, Cameroon. (Reuters)

Business and economy

• 2021–2022 inflation surge
  • Inflation in the United Kingdom reaches 9.1%, a 40-year record, as food and fuel prices continue to increase. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• June 2022 Afghanistan earthquake
  • A magnitude 6.1 earthquake strikes Khost, Afghanistan, killing at least 1,000 people and injuring at least 1,500 others. (BBC News)
• Red Air Flight 203
  • A McDonnell Douglas MD-82 catches fire after landing at Miami International Airport in Florida, United States. (The Guardian)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Denmark
    • Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen says that Denmark will begin administering fourth doses of the COVID-19 vaccine for people over the age of 50 years. (Reuters)
• The UK Health Security Agency declares a national incident after traces of poliovirus were detected during routine sewage inspections in London. However, the risk to the public is currently believed to be "extremely low". (Sky News)

International relations

• Africa–Canada relations, Foreign relations of Rwanda
  • Canada announces its intention to open an embassy in Rwanda. The announcement comes a few days before the 2022 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting will be held in Kigali. (CTV News)

Law and crime

• The military junta of Myanmar orders all legal proceedings against deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi to be moved from courtrooms to prison venues without explanation. Aung San Suu Kyi has been under detainment since the February 2021 coup. (Al Arabiya)

Politics and elections

• The government of Bulgarian prime minister Kiril Petkov loses a motion of no confidence vote in the National Assembly. (The Straits Times)

June 23, 2022 (2022-06-23) (Thursday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • The Governor of Luhansk Oblast, Serhiy Haidai, says that Russia is "just destroying" everything in Lysychansk as pro-Russian separatists say they are close to capturing both that city and Sieverodonetsk. (AFP via Dunya News)
  • War crimes in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • The first trial for rape during the war in Ukraine is set to begin in absentia against a 32-year-old Russian soldier accused of murdering a civilian and repeatedly raping his wife during the offensive in Kyiv. (Reuters)
• 2022 Ecuadorian protests
  • A third protester is killed in Quito during clashes with police as around 10,000 people continue to protest in the city. (France 24)
• Turkey arrests ten alleged Iranian intelligence agents and charges them with plotting to murder Israeli tourists in hotels. (AFP via Al Arabiya) (Daily Sabah)

Business and economy

• 2022 boycott of Russia and Belarus
  • U.S. sportswear retailer Nike and networking firm Cisco announce that they are permanently ending their operations in Russia and Belarus. (BBC News)

Disasters and accidents

• Five people are killed and 25 others injured by a fire at an apartment building in Buenos Aires, Argentina. (CNN)

Health and environment

• 2022 monkeypox outbreak
  • 2022 monkeypox outbreak in the United States
    • New York City becomes the first jurisdiction in the United States to distribute smallpox vaccines to people who are at risk of contracting the monkeypox virus. (The New York Times)
• The U.S. Food and Drug Administration orders electronic cigarette company Juul to pull all of its products from the market, blaming the company for causing an increase in youth vaping. (NPR)

International relations

• Enlargement of the European Union
  • Accession of Ukraine to the European Union, Accession of Moldova to the European Union
    • The European Union formally awards official candidate status to Ukraine and Moldova. (BBC News)

Law and crime

• Gun politics in the United States
  • In a 65–33 vote, the U.S. Senate passes gun control legislation for the first time in decades. The bill calls for tougher background checks on gun purchasers younger than 21, blocks gun sales to individuals with a history of domestic abuse against unmarried partners, and provides funding to encourage the adoption of a red flag law, among others. It is sent to the U.S. House of Representatives for a vote. (BBC News)

Politics and elections

• 2022 Grenadian general election
  • Citizens of Grenada head to the polls to vote in a general election. (Loop Caribbean News)

Science and technology

• Scientists discover the largest known bacterium, Thiomargarita magnifica, in the mangroves of the Guadeloupe archipelago in Lesser Antilles. It is up to 2 cm (3/4 inch) long. (France 24)

Sports

• 2022 NBA draft
  • In basketball, the 76th NBA draft is held at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, U.S., with the Orlando Magic selecting former Duke University player Paolo Banchero with the first overall pick. (ESPN)

June 24, 2022 (2022-06-24) (Friday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Battle of Sievierodonetsk
      • Governor of Luhansk Oblast Serhiy Haidai announces that Ukrainian forces will withdraw from Sievierodonetsk amid the advance of Russian and pro-Russian forces. (Axios)
    • A Russian-appointed senior official for the Kherson youth department is killed by a car bombing in Kherson in an apparent assassination. (Al Jazeera) (The Moscow Times)
    • Ukrainian authorities say that Russian forces have captured the city of Hirske, south of Lysychansk, in Luhansk Oblast. Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov says that his forces also captured the town of Zolote. (Reuters) (Newsweek)
• Two Tunisian police officers are injured in a stabbing and suspected terrorist attack in the Grand Synagogue of Tunis. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• 2022 Melilla incident
  • Eighteen migrants are killed and hundreds of people injured, mostly Spanish and Moroccan security forces, as around 2,000 migrants attempt to illegally enter Melilla, Spain, from Morocco. (AP)
• Five people are killed and eleven others are injured in Gayan District, Paktika Province, Afghanistan, by an aftershock from the recent earthquake that killed at least 1,100 people in Afghanistan and Pakistan. (Reuters)
• An Ilyushin Il-76 military cargo plane carrying nine people crashes near Ryazan, Russia, killing five passengers. (Reuters)

Health and environment

• 2022 monkeypox outbreak
  • 2022 monkeypox outbreak in Asia
    • Taiwan, Lebanon, Singapore and South Korea report their first cases of monkeypox. (Reuters) (Reuters 2) (Reuters 3) (Reuters 4)
  • 2022 monkeypox outbreak in Europe
    • Bulgaria and Croatia report their first cases of monkeypox. (Reuters) (Total Croatia News)
  • 2022 monkeypox outbreak in Canada
    • British Columbia reports its second case of monkeypox. (CTV News Vancouver)
  • 2022 monkeypox outbreak in the United States
    • Kentucky, North Carolina and Texas report their first cases of monkeypox. (WLEX-TV) (Citizen Times) (KXAN-TV)
    • New York City opens the first monkeypox clinic in the United States. (U.S. News and World Report)
  • South Africa and Colombia report their first cases of monkeypox. (Reuters 2) (Reuters 3)
  • Zambia, Libya and Fiji report their first suspected cases of monkeypox. (Diggers News) (Libyan Express) (Fiji Village)
• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Somalia
    • President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud tests positive for COVID-19. (Al Jazeera)
  • COVID-19 vaccine
    • The Sanofi–GSK COVID-19 vaccine is found to be effective against the Omicron variant. (Reuters)

International relations

• Accession of North Macedonia to the European Union, Bulgaria–North Macedonia relations
  • Bulgaria lifts its veto against North Macedonia's bid to join the European Union. (DW)

Law and crime

• Abortion in the United States
  • Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization
    • The United States Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, ending protection of the right to abortion on the federal level and returning regulation to the states. Twenty-two states enact trigger laws or reinstitute existing laws banning abortion. (Reuters) (CNBC)
• Kongsberg attack
  • A court in Norway finds the attacker not criminally responsible due to paranoid schizophrenia and sentences him to compulsory mental treatment. (Euronews)
• 2021 Cuban protests
  • A court in Cuba sentences two protesters to between five and nine years in prison for desecrating the Cuban flag and resisting authority during last year's protests. (CNN en Español)

Politics and elections

• 2022 Grenadian general election
  • The oppositional National Democratic Congress wins the majority of seats in Grenada's latest general election. NDC's party leader Dickon Mitchell is expected to become Grenada's next Prime Minister. (Loop Caribbean News)
• UK parliamentary by-elections
  • The Conservative Party is defeated in both the Tiverton and Honiton by-election and the Wakefield by-election by the Liberal Democrats and the Labour Party, respectively. Conservative chairman Oliver Dowden resigns in the aftermath of the defeats. (BBC News)

Sports

• Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sports
  • Canada at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships
    • The Canada men's national water polo team withdraws from the remainder of the 2022 World Aquatics Championships in Budapest, Hungary, due to COVID-19 cases within the team. (CBC Sports)

June 25, 2022 (2022-06-25) (Saturday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Battle of Sievierodonetsk
      • The mayor of Sieverodonetsk announces that Russian forces have "fully occupied" the city. (Reuters)
    • Eastern Ukraine offensive
      • Pro-Russian forces say that they have entered the city of Lysychansk, the last major city still held by Ukrainian forces in Luhansk Oblast, and that street-to-street fighting is underway. (First Post)
    • Russia launches dozens of cruise missiles at targets in multiple Ukrainian cities, including Yavoriv, Zhytomyr, and Desna. At least 20 missiles were fired from Belarusian airspace. (Reuters) (Yahoo! News)
• 2022 Oslo shooting
  • Two people are killed and 21 others injured during mass shootings at three separate sites in central Oslo, Norway, including a gay nightclub. An Iranian-Norwegian man is arrested and charged with murder, attempted murder, and terrorism. The motive is suspected to be Islamic extremism. (BBC News) (NRK)
• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • A 16-year-old Palestinian teenager dies in Israeli custody after being shot yesterday by soldiers in Silwad, West Bank. (Al Jazeera)
• Anglophone Crisis
  • Akwaya massacre
    • Twenty-six people are killed in an attack in Akwaya district, Southwest region, Cameroon. (Reuters)

Arts and culture

• Miss International Queen 2022
  • Fuschia Anne Ravena of the Philippines is crowned Miss International Queen, widely regarded as the world's largest beauty pageant for trans women, in Pattaya, Thailand. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• A magnitude 5.6 earthquake strikes near Kish Island, Iran, killing one person and injuring 31 others. (AP)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in mainland China
    • Shanghai declares "victory" over COVID-19 and Beijing announces the reopening of primary and secondary schools following a decrease in the number of cases. (Reuters)
• 2022 monkeypox outbreak
  • The World Health Organization declares that monkeypox is not yet a public health emergency of international concern. (NBC News)
• Japan reports a record high temperature for the month of June of 40.2 °C (104.4 °F) in Isesaki, Gunma Prefecture. (Kyodo News)

International relations

• Member states of the Commonwealth of Nations
  • Togo and Gabon officially become members of the Commonwealth of Nations. (France 24)

Politics and elections

• 2022 Ecuadorian protests
  • The National Assembly convenes to debate the possible removal of president Guillermo Lasso amidst ongoing protests. (La Nación)
• Gun politics in the United States
  • U.S. President Joe Biden signs the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act into law. (CNN)

Sports

• 2022 Mediterranean Games
  • The 19th Mediterranean Games opens in Oran, Algeria. (Mundo Deportivo)

June 26, 2022 (2022-06-26) (Sunday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Several Russian cruise missiles strike Kyiv, killing one civilian and injuring four others, according to Ukraine's Prosecutor General. Some of the missiles were launched from Tupolev Tu-95 strategic bombers over the Caspian Sea. (BBC News) (Al Jazeera) (Ukrinform)
    • A missile strike kills a civilian and destroys a strategic bridge connecting western Ukraine with eastern battlefields in Cherkasy Oblast. (Reuters)
• Insurgency in the Sahel
  • Two police officers are killed and another is injured in Dassari, Benin, by militants suspected to be from Niger or Burkina Faso. (SwissInfo)
• Mexican drug war
  • A shootout occurs between the Mexican federal police and drug cartels in Nuevo León, close to the Mexico–United States border. Six officers are killed and four others injured. (Reuters)
• Two soldiers and seven militants are killed in a shootout in Ghulam Khan, North Waziristan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (AP)
• Seven Sudanese soldiers and a civilian are summarily executed after being held captive in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• 2022 East London tavern disaster
  • Twenty-one people are found dead at a tavern in East London, Eastern Cape, South Africa. The cause of their deaths is unclear. (BBC News)
• One person is killed and another is reported missing after a fire on an inter-island ferry in Manila, Philippines. (AP)
• Two people are killed and nine others are injured in a fire at a market in Bangkok, Thailand. (Reuters)
• Four people are killed and 322 are injured when a stand in a bullring collapses in El Espinal, Colombia. (AP)
• Three people are killed in Brentwood, California, U.S., when their car collides with an Amtrak train. (CBS News)
• Two people are killed and more are missing after heavy flooding in Krasnodar region and annexed Crimea, Russia. (FloodList) (Reuters)

International relations

• Foreign relations of Russia
  • Russian President Vladimir Putin embarks on a foreign trip to Tajikistan and Turkmenistan, his first since the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Reuters)
• 48th G7 summit
  • The G7 summit kicks off in Schloss Elmau, Krün, Bavarian Alps, Germany, and will last until June 28. Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz makes their first appearance at the summit. (NBC News) (Japan Times)

Law and crime

• LGBT rights in Turkey
  • Riot police disperse hundreds of people in Istanbul after the government banned the Pride Parade, alleging that the parade could cause "public unrest due to society's sensitivities". (Reuters)
• Nigeria's Zamfara State begins issuing firearms licenses to citizens so that they can defend themselves from bandit gangs. (Reuters)
• The Knesset advances a bill, for a possible vote on Wednesday, which would ban indicted politicians from becoming Prime Minister of Israel. If passed, it would prevent Benjamin Netanyahu from returning to that post. (Times of Israel)

Sports

• 2021–22 NHL season
  • In ice hockey, the Colorado Avalanche defeat the Tampa Bay Lightning in six games to win their first Stanley Cup since the 2001 season, thereby dethroning the Lightning in their quest to three-peat. (The New York Times)

June 27, 2022 (2022-06-27) (Monday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Kremenchuk shopping mall attack
      • Two missiles strike a crowded mall in the city of Kremenchuk, killing at least 13 people and injuring at least 50 others. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says that more than a thousand people were in the mall at time of the attack. (Reuters) (Al Jazeera)
    • The Governor of Luhansk Oblast claims that a Russian strike in Lysychansk killed eight civilians who were collecting water and injured 21 others. (NDTV)

Business and economy

• 2022 Russian debt default
  • Russia defaults on two Taiwanese-owned Eurobonds worth US$100 million after Western sanctions on Russia led Euroclear to block Russian attempts to service the debt before yesterday's deadline. Russia describes the default as artificially manufactured and "a farce". The default will have few immediate consequences for Russia since the country is currently unable to borrow internationally due to the SWIFT ban against Russian banks. (Reuters) (BBC News)

Disasters and accidents

• 2022 Aqaba toxic gas leak
  • Twelve people are killed and 251 others injured by a toxic gas leak in the port of Aqaba, Jordan. (Reuters)
• 2022 Missouri train derailment
  • An Amtrak Southwest Chief passenger train carrying 243 passengers collides with a dump truck near Mendon, Missouri, United States. Eight cars and two locomotives are subsequently derailed, killing three people and injuring at least 50 others. (CNN) (KSNW-TV)
• 2022 San Antonio trailer deaths
  • At least 51 people are found dead inside a tractor-trailer in San Antonio, Texas, United States. Sixteen others are transported to hospitals. (CNN)
• 2022 Japan heatwave
  • The Japanese government asks the public to conserve energy and to prepare for power outages as the country faces a heat wave. (AP)
• One person is killed and five others injured after a bullet train collides with an engine in Bohumin, Czech Republic. (AP)
• Four people are injured when an apartment roof collapses in Budapest, Hungary. (AP)
• One person is killed and ten others injured after a tornado hits Zierikzee, Netherlands. (AP)

Health and environment

• 2022 monkeypox outbreak
  • 2022 monkeypox outbreak in Europe
    • 2022 monkeypox outbreak in Germany
      • Germany reports almost one hundred new cases of monkeypox. (RKI Deutsche)
    • 2022 monkeypox outbreak in the Netherlands
      • The Netherlands reports more than forty new cases of monkeypox. (RIVM Netherlands)
  • 2022 monkeypox outbreak in the United States
    • Minnesota reports its first case of monkeypox. (KMSP-TV)
  • Peru reports its first case of monkeypox. (Bernama)
  • The World Health Organization confirms the first death caused by the 2022 monkeypox outbreak. (WHO)
• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Nauru
    • Nauru surpasses 2,000 COVID-19 cases amid an outbreak and emergency declared by President Lionel Aingimea. (Loop Nauru)

International relations

• 48th G7 summit
  • World leaders at the G7 summit in Germany issue a statement pledging more financial, humanitarian, military and diplomatic support to Ukraine. This comes after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy issued a video calling for more heavy weapons from allies. (BBC News)

Law and crime

• Abortion in the United States
  • Abortion in Louisiana, Abortion in Utah
    • State judges in New Orleans and in Utah temporarily block the abortion bans for all stages of pregnancy that state officials announced after the Supreme Court's ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization. (The Guardian) (Deseret)
  • Abortion in South Carolina
    • A federal judge in South Carolina lifts an injunction on the so-called heartbeat bill, effectively limiting abortion to about six weeks into pregnancy. (CBS News)
• One person is killed and five others injured in a mass stabbing at a shelter for asylum-seekers in Kressbronn, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. (AP)

Sports

• 2023 Rugby World Cup qualifying
  • World Rugby rejects the Spanish Rugby Federation's appeal against their national team's disqualification in the 2023 Rugby World Cup for fielding an ineligible player during the qualifying tournament, thus confirming Romania's qualification to the World Cup by taking Spain's berth as Europe 2. (RTL)

June 28, 2022 (2022-06-28) (Tuesday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Syrian civil war
  • The United Nations estimates that more than 300,000 people have been killed since the start of the civil war in 2011, which is 1.5% of Syria's pre-war population. (Reuters)
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • Two policemen and a polio vaccinator are shot dead by gunmen on motorcycles in North Waziristan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (AP)

Business and economy

• 2019–present Sri Lankan economic crisis, 2021–2022 global energy crisis
  • Sri Lanka's power and energy minister Kanchana Wijesekera announces that the government will lift restrictions on fuel imports in response to the country's energy crisis, ending a fuel duopoly between the state-owned Ceylon Petroleum Corporation and the Indian government-owned Lanka IOC. (International Business Times)
  • Sri Lanka suspends sales of fuel for non-essential vehicles. For the next two weeks, only buses, trains and vehicles used for medical services and transporting food will be allowed to refuel. (BBC News)

Disasters and accidents

• Tuluá prison riot
  • A fire occurs during a prison riot in Tuluá, Colombia, killing 51 inmates and injuring 24 others. (Reuters)
• June 2022 Afghanistan earthquake
  • The United States government provides US$55 million in immediate humanitarian funding following the devastating earthquake in southern Afghanistan that killed at least 1,000 people. (Reuters)
• 2022 Mumbai building collapse
  • Nineteen people are killed when a building collapses in Mumbai, India. (Reuters)
• 2022 Japan heatwave
  • Tokyo records the city's highest temperature since 1875 as a heat wave continues. Several people are hospitalized due to heatstroke. (CNA)
• Four people are killed when a helicopter crashes into the Arabian Sea near India. (Reuters)
• Authorities in Argentina issue a blizzard warning for Neuquén Province as roads remain blocked by snow. (Rio Negro)

Health and environment

• 2022 monkeypox outbreak
  • 2022 monkeypox outbreak in Europe
    • 2022 monkeypox outbreak in Germany
      • Germany reports nearly 70 new cases of monkeypox. (RKI Deustche)
    • 2022 monkeypox outbreak in Portugal
      • Portugal reports more than ten new cases of monkeypox. (DGS Portugues)
    • 2022 monkeypox outbreak in Spain
      • Spain reports nearly 200 new cases of monkeypox. (Sanidad GOB Espanol)
    • 2022 monkeypox outbreak in the United Kingdom
      • The United Kingdom reports nearly 200 cases of monkeypox. (GOV.UK)
    • France reports more than 100 new cases of monkeypox. (Sante Publique France)
    • Italy reports two new cases of monkeypox. (Salute GOV Italy)
    • Romania reports three new cases of monkeypox. (Stiripe Surse Romania)
    • Switzerland reports four new cases of monkeypox. (Swiss Confederation Health)
  • 2022 monkeypox outbreak in Asia
    • Israel reports five new cases of monkeypox. (Gov Israel)
  • 2022 monkeypox outbreak in the United States
    • Nebraska reports its first case of monkeypox. (KSNB-TV)
    • Ohio reports its second case of monkeypox. (WBNS-TV)
    • The CDC announces that they will activate an emergency operations center for monkeypox. (CNN)
    • The Biden administration announces that over 296,000 doses of the monkeypox vaccine will be distributed to combat the spread of monkeypox, including 56,000 doses of the Jynneos vaccine. (Business Insider) (The Hill)
    • The total number of monkeypox cases in the United States reaches 300. (CDC.GOV)
  • 2022 monkeypox outbreak in Canada
    • Canada reports more than 40 new cases of monkeypox. (Government of Canada)
  • Peru reports two new cases of monkeypox. (La Republica Peru)
  • South Africa reports its second case of monkeypox. (Reuters)
  • Benin reports their first three cases of monkeypox. (Outbreak News Today)
• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in India
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Delhi
      • Delhi reports their first case of the Omicron BA.5 variant. (Hindustan Times)

International relations

• 2022 NATO Madrid summit, Enlargement of NATO
  • Turkey, Finland, and Sweden sign a joint memorandum on security, clearing the way for Finland and Sweden's NATO accession bids. (Reuters)
• Nuclear program of Iran
  • Iranian nuclear talks are moved to Qatar in a new bid to revive the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. (Politico)

Law and crime

• Freedom of the press in India
  • Police in India arrest Mohammed Zubair, co-founder of fact-checking website Alt News who has been a vocal critic of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government. (BBC News)
• 2022 Saanich shootout
  • Six police officers are injured and two bank robbers killed in a shootout at a bank in Saanich, British Columbia, Canada. Nearby homes and businesses are later evacuated due to a potential explosive device in the area. (Victoria News)
• Russian opposition politician Ilya Yashin is sentenced to two weeks in prison after being arrested yesterday for "disobeying police". (Barron's)
• Protesting against the government's nitrogen policy, a group of Dutch farmers gathered at Minister for Nature and Nitrogen Policy Christianne van der Wal's home and rioted, forcing some police officers on the scene to flee for their own safety. (Dutch News)

Politics and elections

• Scottish independence
  • Proposed second Scottish independence referendum
    • Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland's First Minister, announces during a parliamentary debate session that an independence referendum bill will be tabled in the Scottish Parliament. The bill sets the date for the break-up vote at October 19, 2023. Sturgeon will try to bypass Prime Minister Boris Johnson's unlikely permission to conduct the referendum by referring the bill to the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom. (CNBC) (The Guardian)

Sports

• Racism in sport
  • In motorsport, Red Bull terminates Estonian driver Jüri Vips's contract with its junior team following an incident where Vips was heard using the word "nigga" on a Twitch livestream. (CNN)

June 29, 2022 (2022-06-29) (Wednesday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Russian occupation of Kherson Oblast
      • De jure mayor of Kherson Ihor Kolykhaiev is detained by Russian security forces after Russian-installed officials say that he refused to follow orders. (Reuters)
      • The Russian-appointed military-civilian authorities in Kherson announce a referendum on whether to join Russia. (Reuters)
• 2022 Muhammad remarks controversy
  • Murder of Kanhaiya Lal
    • Protests and arson incidents occur in Udaipur, Rajasthan, India, after a Hindu man is murdered and beheaded in his shop by two Islamic extremists for supporting controversial remarks by a politician about the prophet Muhammad. (BBC News)
• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • Timeline of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict in 2022
    • A Palestinian Islamic Jihad member is killed during clashes with Israeli soldiers in Jenin, in the occupied West Bank. (Reuters)
• 2020–2022 Ethiopian–Sudanese clashes
  • The Sudanese Armed Forces fire heavy artillery during clashes in the disputed eastern region of Al Fushqa District bordering Ethiopia, after Ethiopia was accused by Sudan of murdering seven soldiers and a civilian. Ethiopia denies responsibility for the killings and instead blames a local armed group. (Al Jazeera)
• Mexican drug war
  • A journalist for the Expreso newspaper is killed and his daughter is critically wounded by gunmen in Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, Mexico. The victim is the 12th journalist murdered in Mexico this year. (Reuters)
• Nigerian bandit conflict
  • Several miners including four Chinese nationals are kidnapped by terrorists in Shiroro, Niger State, Nigeria. (Al Jazeera)
• Yemeni Civil War
  • Six people are killed and several others are injured when a car bomb targeting the convoy of a military official explodes in Aden, Yemen. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• Twenty people are found dead in the Libyan Desert, after they went missing fourteen days ago. The group, mainly composed by migrants from Chad, died of thirst. (Al Jazeera)
• A state of emergency is declared on Tinian, Northern Mariana Islands due to a toxic fire. (RNZ)
• The Pino Hachado Pass between Argentina and Chile is closed as blizzards and heavy snowfall block the passage between the two countries. (LMN)

Health and environment

• 2022 monkeypox outbreak
  • 2022 monkeypox outbreak in Europe
    • Estonia reports its first case of monkeypox. (News ERR.EE)
  • 2022 monkeypox outbreak in the United States
    • Michigan and New Hampshire report their first cases of monkeypox. (WGME-TV) (Michigan GOV)
• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in South Korea
    • COVID-19 vaccination in South Korea
      • South Korea approves the SKYCovione vaccine, their first domestically produced COVID-19 vaccine, for use in people over the age of 18 years. (ABC News)
• Phase-out of fossil fuel vehicles
  • The European Council broadly agrees on several measures to combat climate change. Among them is a ban on combustion engines for new cars beginning in 2035, setting aside €59 billion for a special fund to reduce the cost of transition for the poorest populations, to be paid out from 2027 to 2032, reduction of carbon dioxide emissions by 55% from the 1990 reference level, and a carbon market reform. Negotiations on the final version of these reforms is underway. (Al Jazeera)

International relations

• Afghanistan–United States relations
  • Officials from the United States and the Taliban are expected to meet in Doha, Qatar, to discuss the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, worsened by the earthquake. (VOA)
• 2022 NATO Madrid summit
  • At the NATO summit, U.S. President Joe Biden announces that a new permanent U.S. military base will be established in Poland - the 5th Army's Headquarters - which has had a forward command post in the city of Poznań since last year. Poland's government has long requested such a base. (Notes from Poland) (DoD)
• Syria officially confirms its recognition of the Luhansk People's Republic and Donetsk People's Republic, two breakaway states in southern Ukraine. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• The Securities and Exchange Commission of the Philippines upholds a previous appeal to invalidate online news website Rappler's operating license for violating constitutional foreign equity restrictions on mass media ownership, thus ordering the website's termination. Rappler co-founder and 2021 Nobel Peace Prize recipient Maria Ressa says that her company will contest the ruling in court. (BBC News)
• American singer R. Kelly is sentenced to 30 years in prison for racketeering and sex trafficking. (BBC News)

June 30, 2022 (2022-06-30) (Thursday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Snake Island during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, List of military occupations
      • Russia announces that it has withdrawn from Snake Island, in the Black Sea, as a "gesture of goodwill", ending the occupation of the island that began in February. However, Ukraine says that it drove out Russian forces from the island after a massive artillery assault. (Reuters)
• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • Timeline of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict in 2022
    • Two Israeli civilians and a soldier are injured after Palestinian militants open fire inside Joseph's Tomb in Nablus. (The Jerusalem Post)
• 2019–2022 Sudanese protests
  • Eight protesters are killed by Sudanese security forces in Omdurman. (Reuters)

Business and economy

• For the first time since Russia began occupying the Ukrainian city of Berdiansk, a cargo ship departs from the city's port. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• 2022 Atlantic hurricane season
  • Hurricane watches are issued for Nicaragua and Costa Rica as Potential Tropical Cyclone Two is expected to form into Tropical Storm Bonnie in the coming hours. (WMBF-TV)
• 2022 Manipur landslide
  • Nineteen people are killed, and 48 others are feared dead, after a massive landslide in Manipur, India. (Reuters)
• Four people are killed and three others injured after a jeep carrying migrants crashes into a trailer in Encinal, Texas, United States. (Reuters)

Health and environment

• 2022 monkeypox outbreak
  • 2022 monkeypox outbreak in the United States
    • New York Governor Kathy Hochul announces that the state will distribute more than 8,000 doses of the smallpox vaccine to help combat the spread of monkeypox. (The New York Times)
• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Ohio
      • COVID-19 pandemic and animals, COVID-19 pandemic in Columbus, Ohio
        • An Amur tiger at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium in Columbus, Ohio, U.S., dies from COVID-19, making it the first animal at the zoo to die from the disease. (CBS News)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Nauru
    • Nauru surpasses 3,000 cases of COVID-19, about a third of the country's population. (Loop)
• Climate change in the United States
  • Climate change policy of the United States
    • West Virginia v. EPA
      • In a 6–3 decision, the Supreme Court rules that the Environmental Protection Agency has not received legislative authorization under the Clean Air Act to introduce regulations on carbon dioxide emissions from power plants by compelling them to change the resources from which they generate the power. This will likely reduce the United States' ability to address its environmental goals. (Politico) (BBC News)
• 2022 European heat waves
  • June 2022 European heat wave
    • Slovakia measures the highest ever temperature in June in Somotor near Košice, reaching 38.8 °C (101.8 °F). (Korzár Dolny Zemplín - SME)

International relations

• New Zealand–European Union relations
  • The European Union signs a free trade agreement with New Zealand. (Politico)

Law and crime

• LGBT rights in Poland
  • The Supreme Administrative Court of Poland upholds lower court rulings that annulled anti-LGBT resolutions, known as "LGBT-free zones", that had been adopted by some local authorities. (Notes from Poland)
• Aftermath of the Russo-Georgian War
  • The International Criminal Court asks for the arrest of three South Ossetian servicemen for alleged war crimes during the 2008 conflict. (Euronews)
• 2022 shooting of Kentucky police officers
  • Two police officers and a police dog are killed, and six other people are injured, in a mass shooting in Allen, Kentucky, United States. The suspect, on whom the officers were attempting to serve a warrant, is later taken into custody. (ABC News) (WSAZ)
• New Zealand designates American far-right groups Proud Boys and The Base as terrorist organizations. (AP)

Politics and elections

• Presidency of Bongbong Marcos
  • Inauguration of Bongbong Marcos
    • Bongbong Marcos is sworn in as the 17th President of the Philippines. (The Washington Post)
• Provinces of Indonesia
  • Three new provinces are created in West Papua, Indonesia. (Reuters)
• 2019–2022 Israeli political crisis
  • 2022 Israeli legislative election
    • The Knesset votes to disband itself and sets November 1 as the date for the new elections. Foreign Minister and Alternate Prime Minister Yair Lapid will succeed Naftali Bennett as Prime Minister until a new government is formed. (The Times of Israel)
• Judiciary of Kiribati
  • The Kiribati High Court is left judgeless as the government of the country fires the only judge sitting on the bench at the time. The other judge had also been ordered to step down. (The Guardian)

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Ongoing events

Disasters

• Climate crisis
• COVID-19 pandemic
• Opioid epidemic
• 2021–22 European windstorm season
• 2020–2022 H5N8 outbreak
• 2022 monkeypox outbreak
• 2022 Atlantic hurricane season
• 2022 North Indian Ocean cyclone season
• 2022 Pacific typhoon season
• 2022 Pacific hurricane season
• Madagascar famine
• Yemeni famine

Economics

• 2020–present global chip shortage
• 2021–2022 global energy crisis
• 2021–2022 global supply chain crisis
• 2021–2022 inflation surge
• 2022 food crises
• 2022 United States infant formula shortage
• Lebanese liquidity crisis
• Russian financial crisis
• Sri Lankan economic crisis
• Turkish currency and debt crisis

Politics

• Belarus−European Union border crisis
• Brazilian protests
• Malaysian political crisis
• Myanmar protests
• Nicaraguan protests
• Nigerian protests
• Peruvian crisis
• Sri Lankan protests & political crisis
• Sudanese protests
• Tigrayan peace process
• Tunisian political crisis
• Ukrainian refugee crisis
• United States abortion protests
• Venezuelan presidential crisis

Elections and referendums

Recent

• June
  • 19: France, National Assembly (2nd)
  • 19: Colombia, President (2nd)
  • 22: Jersey, States Assembly
  • 23: Grenada, House of Representatives
  • 26: Liechtenstein, Referendum

Upcoming

• July
  • 2−22: Papua New Guinea, National Parliament
  • 10: Japan, House of Councillors
  • 10: Republic of Congo, National Assembly

Trials

Recently concluded

• Bolivia: Jeanine Áñez
• France: Salah Abdeslam
• United States: Michael Sussmann

Ongoing

• Armenia: Serzh Sargsyan
• Israel: Benjamin Netanyahu
• Italy: Matteo Salvini
• Kosovo: Specialist Chambers
• Kyrgyzstan: Almazbek Atambayev
• Malta: Yorgen Fenech
• Philippines: Leila de Lima
• Sudan: Omar al-Bashir
• Sweden: Hamid Nouri
• United States: Sunny Balwani
• Vatican City: Giovanni Angelo Becciu
• ICC: Ali Kushayb

Upcoming

• Canada: Peter Nygård
• Nigeria: Nnamdi Kanu
• United States: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Steve Bannon

Sport

• Association football
  • 2022 MLS season
  • 2022 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A
• Women's association football
  • 2022 NWSL season
• Baseball
  • 2022 MLB season
• Basketball
  • 2022 WNBA season
• Cricket
  • 2021–23 ICC World Test Championship
  • 2020–23 ICC Cricket World Cup Super League
  • 2019–23 ICC Cricket World Cup League 2
  • 2019–22 ICC Cricket World Cup Challenge League
• Canadian football
  • 2022 CFL season
• Golf
  • 2022 PGA Tour Champions
  • 2021–22 PGA Tour
  • 2022 Ladies European Tour
  • 2022 European Tour
  • 2022 LPGA Tour
• Motorsport
  • 2022 Formula One World Championship
  • 2021–22 Formula E World Championship
• Rugby league
  • 2022 NRL season
  • 2022 State of Origin series
• Tennis
  • 2022 ATP Tour
  • 2022 WTA Tour
• Other sports seasons
  • 2022 International cricket season

More details – current sports events

Recent deaths

June

• 29: Sonny Barger
• 29: Hershel W. Williams
• 28: Pallonji Mistry
• 27: Michael C. Stenger
• 27: Leonardo Del Vecchio
• 26: Margaret Keane
• 26: Frank Williams
• 25: Sam Gilliam
• 24: Harry Gration
• 22: Tony Siragusa
• 22: Bruton Smith
• 21: Artie Kane
• 21: James Rado
• 20: Paul M. Ellwood Jr.
• 20: Caleb Swanigan
• 19: Clela Rorex
• 19: Brett Tuggle
• 19: Gennady Burbulis
• 18: Lennie Rosenbluth
• 18: Mark Shields
• 17: Hugh McElhenny
• 17: Damian Casey
• 17: Jean-Louis Trintignant
• 16: Tim Sale
• 15: Maureen Arthur
• 15: Dom Phillips
• 14: Joel Whitburn
• 14: A. B. Yehoshua
• 12: Philip Baker Hall
• 12: Phil Bennett
• 11: Loretta Rogers
• 11: Hilary Devey
• 10: Baxter Black
• 10: Harry Gesner
• 9: Julee Cruise
• 9: Billy Kametz
• 9: Don Perkins
• 9: Billy Bingham
• 9: Aamir Liaquat Hussain
• 8: Paula Rego
• 8: Song Hae
• 7: Marco Luzzago
• 6: Orlando Jorge Mera
• 6: Jim Seals
• 6: Zeta Emilianidou
• 6: Valery Ryumin
• 5: Trouble
• 4: George Lamming
• 4: Alec John Such
• 4: Dmitry Kovtun
• 3: Ann Turner Cook
• 3: Sophie Freud
• 3: Grachan Moncur III
• 3: John Porter
• 2: Uri Zohar
• 2: Nobuyuki Idei
• 1: Marion Barber III
• 1: Charles Kernaghan
• 1: Barry Sussman
• 1: Gerard Brennan

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Casualties of the Russo-Ukrainian War

Ongoing conflicts

Global

• War against the Islamic State

Africa

• Angola
  • Cabinda War
• Burkina Faso
  • Jihadist insurgency in Burkina Faso
• Cameroon
  • Anglophone Crisis
• Central African Republic
  • Civil War
• Chad
  • Insurgency in Northern Chad
• Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • Kivu conflict
  • Allied Democratic Forces insurgency
  • Ituri conflict
  • Lord's Resistance Army insurgency
• Ethiopia
  • Oromo conflict
  • Benishangul-Gumuz conflict
  • Tigray War
    • Ethiopian–Sudanese clashes
• Ghana
  • Western Togoland Rebellion
• Maghreb
  • Islamic State insurgency in Tunisia
• Mali
  • Mali War
• Mozambique
  • Insurgency in Cabo Delgado
• Nigeria
  • Boko Haram insurgency (incl. Lake Chad region)
  • Communal conflicts in Nigeria
• Senegal
  • Casamance conflict
• Somalia
  • Civil war
• South Sudan
  • Ethnic violence in South Sudan
• Sudan
  • War in Darfur
  • South Kordofan conflict
  • Sudanese nomadic conflicts (incl. South Sudan)
• Western Sahara
  • Western Saharan clashes

Americas

• Colombia
  • Colombian conflict
• Mexico
  • Mexican drug war
• Paraguay
  • Insurgency in Paraguay
• Peru
  • Internal conflict in Peru

Asia-Pacific

• Afghanistan
  • Republican insurgency
  • Islamic State–Taliban conflict
• India
  • Naxalite–Maoist insurgency
  • Insurgency in Northeast India
    • Insurgency in Manipur
    • Ethnic conflict in Nagaland
• India and Pakistan
  • Kashmir conflict
• Indonesia
  • Papua conflict
• Myanmar
  • Kachin conflict
  • Karen conflict
  • Rohingya conflict
• Pakistan
  • Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • Insurgency in Balochistan
• Philippines
  • Philippine drug war
  • Moro conflict
  • Communist rebellion
• Thailand
  • South Thailand insurgency

Europe

• Russia and Ukraine
  • Donbas War
  • Russian invasion of Ukraine

Middle East

• Armenia and Azerbaijan
  • Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
• Egypt
  • Sinai insurgency
• Iran and the Persian Gulf
  • Iran–Israel proxy conflict
  • Iran–Saudi Arabia proxy conflict
  • Iran–PJAK conflict
  • Sistan and Baluchestan insurgency
• Iraq
  • Iranian intervention in Iraq
  • Islamic State insurgency
• Israel and Palestine
  • Gaza–Israel conflict
• Syria
  • American-led intervention in Syria
  • Israeli–Syrian ceasefire line incidents
  • Russian military intervention in the Syrian civil war
  • Turkish occupation of northern Syria
• Turkey
  • Kurdish–Turkish conflict
• Yemen and Saudi Arabia
  • Yemeni Civil War
  • Saudi Arabian–led intervention in Yemen
  • Houthi–Saudi Arabian conflict

See also – List of ongoing proxy wars

2022 events and developments by topic

Arts

• Animation (Anime)
• Architecture
• Comics
• Film (Horror, Science fiction)
• Literature (Poetry)
• Music (Classical, Country, Hip hop, Jazz, Latin, Metal, Rock, UK, US, Korea)
• Radio
• Television (Australia, Canada, Ireland, UK, Scotland, US)
• Video games

Politics and government

• Elections
• International leaders
• Sovereign states
• Sovereign state leaders
• Territorial governors

Science and technology

• Archaeology
• Biotechnology
• Computing
• Palaeontology
• Quantum computing and communication
• Senescence research
• Space/Astronomy
• Spaceflight
• Sustainable energy research

Environment and environmental sciences

• Climate change
• Weather (Heat waves
• Tornadoes
• Wildfires)

Transportation

• Aviation
• Rail transport
• Transportation technology

Establishments and disestablishments categories

• Establishments
• Disestablishments

Works and introductions categories

• Works
• Introductions
• Works entering the public domain