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- In basketball, the Golden State Warriors defeat the Boston Celtics to win the NBA Finals (MVP Stephen Curry pictured).
- Former Bolivian president Jeanine Áñez 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.
June 17, 2022
(Friday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russo-Ukrainian War
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Ukrainian authorities say that its forces hit Russian tugboat Vasiliy Bekh transporting soldiers, weapons, and ammunition to Snake Island with Harpoon missiles. (Al Arabiya)
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Kivu conflict
- 2022 M23 offensive
- 2022 Democratic Republic of the Congo–Rwanda tensions
- A Congolese soldier crosses the Democratic Republic of the Congo–Rwanda border into Western Province, Rwanda, and is shot dead by a Rwandan Police officer. Rwandan officials say the soldier had been attacking people and had injured two officers when he got killed. (AP)
- Fighters for the M23 movement seize the town of Tshengerero, North Kivu. (The National Post)
- 2022 Democratic Republic of the Congo–Rwanda tensions
- 2022 M23 offensive
- China launches its third aircraft carrier, the Fujian, during a ceremony in Shanghai, further enhancing its ability to project military abroad. It now has the second most aircraft carriers of any country; behind only the United States' eleven aircraft carriers but ahead of the two operated by the United Kingdom, Italy and India. (Reuters)
Disasters and accidents
- At least one person is killed in a building collapse in Cairo, Egypt. (AP)
Law and crime
- The Japanese Supreme Court acquits the state of any responsibility to compensate around 3,700 people affected by the Fukushima nuclear disaster. (Reuters)
- 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)
Sports
- The English men's cricket team achieve the highest ever One-Day-International score of 498 against The Netherlands.(BBC News)
- England beat their previous world record against Australia of 481. (BBC News)
June 16, 2022
(Thursday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russo-Ukrainian War
- The United States announces the capture of a senior ISIL leader in Syria. (Al Jazeera)
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 after the Biden administration announces new sanctions against Iran's petrochemical industry in an effort to force Iran to comply with the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action that the United States unilaterally withdrew from 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)
- Two people are killed and one is injured 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 15, 2022
(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)
- Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir
- 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)
- Operation Claw-Lock
- 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)
- List of foreign aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War
- Yemeni Civil War
- A Yemeni journalist is assassinated after a bomb explodes inside his car in Aden. (AP)
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 14, 2022
(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)
- 2022 Western Russia attacks
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- 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)
- COVID-19 pandemic in Spain, Travel during the COVID-19 pandemic
- 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
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. (ABC News)
- A Cambodian court convicts 60 members of the former Cambodia National Rescue Party of treason, including Cambodian-American lawyer Theary Seng. (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)
June 13, 2022
(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)
- Battle of Sievierodonetsk
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- 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)
- 2022 M23 offensive, 2022 Democratic Republic of the Congo–Rwanda tensions
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 Canada
- 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)
- COVID-19 pandemic in North America
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 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 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 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
- Jihadist insurgency in Burkina Faso
- 2022 Seytenga massacre
- Suspected jihadists massacre over 100 men in Seytenga Department, Séno Province, Burkina Faso. (Reuters)
- 2022 Seytenga massacre
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)
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