Portal:Current events/2016 June 5

Current events of June 5, 2016 (2016-06-05) (Sunday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Kurdish–Turkish conflict (2015–present)
  • Turkish Air Force bombs Kurdistan Workers' Party targets in northern Iraq and southeastern Turkey killing at least 27 militants. (Reuters)
• Three people are killed and 10 more are injured following an attack on a military base in Aktobe, Kazakhstan by suspected Islamists. (RT)

Law and crime

• Six people are hurt as unknown assailant fired shots at Czech tourist bus on the A7 autoroute near Saulce-sur-Rhône in southeastern France. (BBC)

Politics and elections

• Peruvian general election, 2016
  • Voters in Peru go to the polls for the second round of voting in a presidential election where Keiko Fujimori and Pedro Pablo Kuczynski are the remaining candidates. (International Business Times)
• Swiss referendums, 2016
  • Voters in Switzerland go to the polls to vote in a number of referenda including a proposal for a basic income of 2,500 Swiss francs a month. (AP via Daily Mail)