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Jeanine Áñez
- Former Bolivian president Jeanine Áñez (pictured) is sentenced to ten years in prison on charges related to her succession to office during the 2019 political crisis.
- Voters in Kazakhstan pass 56 constitutional amendments in a referendum, following the January 2022 unrest.
- In Nigeria, at least 40 people are killed in an attack at a Catholic church in Owo, Ondo State.
- A fire and explosions at a storage depot in Sitakunda, Bangladesh, kill at least 41 people and injure more than 450 others.
June 13, 2022 (Monday)
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 Canada
- Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau tests positive for COVID-19. (Reuters)
- COVID-19 pandemic in Canada
Law and crime
- 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
- Pope Francis appoints John T. Dunlap as the new Lieutenant of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. (Order of Malta)
June 12, 2022 (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 & 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 conspiring 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)
June 11, 2022 (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)
- Battle of Sievierodonetsk
- Battle of Donbas, Eastern Ukraine offensive
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
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 America. (NBC News)(NPR)
June 10, 2022 (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 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- 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)
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)
- Travel during the COVID-19 pandemic
- COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
- 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)
- 2022 monkeypox outbreak in the United States
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 9, 2022 (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)
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)
- COVID-19 pandemic in Maryland
- COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
- 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)
- 2022 monkeypox outbreak in Spain
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)
- Smithsburg shooting
- 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 8, 2022 (Wednesday)
Disasters and accidents
- 2022 South Khorasan train derailment
- 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)
- 2022 monkeypox outbreak in the United States
- Timeline of the 2022 monkeypox outbreak
- 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 Florida
- 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)
- COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
- 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)
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 7, 2022 (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)
- COVID-19 pandemic in Andorra
- COVID-19 pandemic in Europe
- 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)
- Timeline of the 2022 monkeypox outbreak
- 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)
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