Portal:Current events/2024 June 9

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir
  • 2024 Reasi attack
    • Nine people are killed and 41 others are injured near Reasi, Jammu and Kashmir, India, when a bus carrying Hindu pilgrims falls into a ravine after being shot at. (Al Jazeera)
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • 2024 Lakki Marwat bombing
    • An IED kills seven Pakistan Army personnel in Lakki Marwat District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (Reuters)
• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • Two people are killed in Israeli airstrikes near Aitaroun, Lebanon, according to the National News Agency. (Al Jazeera)

Arts and culture

• President Bernardo Arévalo announced that the remains of Guatemalan writer and 1967 Nobel Prize winner for Literature, Miguel Ángel Asturias, would be repatriated to Guatemala. Asturias is buried in the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, France. (DW)

International relations

• North Korea–South Korea relations
  • South Korea announces that it will resume loudspeaker broadcasts over the Korean Demilitarized Zone for the first time since 2018 in response to North Korea sending hundreds of balloons carrying garbage across the border. (BBC News)

Law and crime

• Cannabis in Slovenia
  • Slovenian voters approve the use of cannabis for medicinal and recreational use in adults. (STA)

Politics and elections

• Israel–Hamas war
  • Israeli war cabinet
    • War Cabinet Minister Benny Gantz resigns after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu failed to present a post-war plan for Gaza by Gantz's previously announced June 8 deadline. Minister Gadi Eisenkot also resigns. (BBC News)
• 2024 Belgian federal election
  • Belgians vote for the 150 members of the Chamber of Representatives as well as for regional representatives and members of the European Parliament. (The Guardian)
• 2024 Bulgarian parliamentary election
  • Bulgarians vote for the sixth time in three years to elect the 240 members of the parliament. (DW)
• 2024 European Parliament election
  • The last day of the European Parliament elections takes place, with voting occurring in 20 countries. (AP)
• 2024 French legislative election
  • Following major losses for French President Emmanuel Macron's Renaissance party in the European Parliament elections, Macron dissolves the National Assembly and calls snap elections for June 30 and July 7. (Reuters)
• 2024 Indian general election
  • Narendra Modi is sworn in for his third term as Prime Minister of India. (Al Jazeera)
• 2024 Mexican general election
  • Mexico's ruling party Morena and its coalition allies win a supermajority in the Chamber of Deputies but not in the Senate, falling short of the two-thirds majority needed to change the Constitution. (Reuters)
• 2024 San Marino general election
  • Sammarinese elect the members of the Grand and General Council. (Libertas)
• 2024 South Ossetian parliamentary election
  • Parliamentary elections are held in the Georgian breakaway region of South Ossetia. (Anadolu Ajansi)
• 2024 Swiss referendums
  • Voters in Switzerland reject limits on healthcare spending and an initiative against compulsory vaccination, while approving the initiative of a new law on electricity. (Swissinfo)

Sports

• 2024 French Open
  • In tennis, Carlos Alcaraz wins the Men's singles title at the French Open after defeating Alexander Zverev in the final, earning his third Grand Slam title. (AP)