Portal:Current events/2024 June 10

June 10, 2024 (Monday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Crimea attacks
  - Ukraine's military says that its missile strikes near Yevpatoriya and Chornomorske in Russian-occupied Crimea damaged three Russian air defense systems. (Reuters)
- Eastern Ukraine campaign
  - The Russian Defence Ministry says that its forces have recaptured the village of Staromaiorske in Donetsk Oblast. (Fakti) (Reuters)
- Military aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War
  - The United States lifts a ban on sending U.S. weaponry to Ukraine's Azov Brigade. (The Washington Post)
Sudanese civil war
- Battle of El Fasher
  - The last remaining operational hospital in Al-Fashir, North Darfur, closes down after being stormed and looted by the Rapid Support Forces, according to Médecins Sans Frontières. (The Guardian)
Nigerian bandit conflict
- At least 50 people are killed and an unknown number are kidnapped, including women and children, when gunmen attack the village of Yargoje in Katsina State, Nigeria. (Al Arabiya)
Somali civil war
- At least 55 people are killed and 155 others are injured in fighting between the Dir and Marehan clans in central Somalia. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

2024 Brazil wildfires
- It is reported that wildfires have burned around 32,000 hectares (79,000 acres) of tropical wetland in Brazil's Pantanal so far this year, a 935% increase in the number of fires that occurred in the same period last year. (BBC News)
2024 Chikangawa Dornier 228 crash
- An aircraft carrying Malawian Vice-President Saulos Chilima and nine others is reported missing while flying from Lilongwe to Mzuzu. (BBC News)
Forty-nine migrants, mostly from Ethiopia and Somalia, are killed and 140 are missing after their boat capsizes off the coast of Yemen. (Al Jazeera)
Three people are killed in floods and landslides in Hà Giang province, Vietnam. (France 24)

Law and crime

Belarus–European Union border crisis
- Poland announces a "no-go zone" in the Białowieża Forest in order to prevent migrants from crossing the border from Belarus. In response, concerns are raised about the potential impact on tourism during the summer. (Reuters)
Doe v. Chiquita Brands International, Right-wing paramilitarism in Colombia
- After 17 years of litigation, Chiquita Brands International is found liable by a jury in United States Federal Court of financing the far-right paramilitary death squad United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia in the Antioquia and Magdalena Departments of Colombia. (EarthRights International)
Four American instructors from Cornell College in Iowa, United States, and one Chinese passerby are wounded in a stabbing attack at a park in Jilin City, China. The perpetrator is arrested a day later. (CNA) (NPR)
A Spanish court sentences three men to eight months in prison for racist chants directed towards Brazilian football player Vinícius Júnior. (NPR)

Politics and elections

Science and technology

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