Portal:Current events/2024 June 9
June 9, 2024 (Sunday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- 2024 Lakki Marwat bombing
- An IED kills seven Pakistan Army personnel in northwestern Pakistan. (Reuters)
- Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- Two people are killed by Israeli attacks near Aitaroun, southern Lebanon, according to the National News Agency. (Al Jazeera)
Disasters and accidents
- At least nine people are killed and 33 others are injured near Reasi, Jammu and Kashmir, India after a bus carrying Hindu pilgrims falls into a ravine after a suspected shooting attack. (Al Jazeera)
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 into the south. (BBC News)
LAw and crime.
- Cannabis in Slovenia
- Voters in Slovenia approve the use of cannabis for medicinal and recreational use for adults. (STA)
Politics and elections
- Israel–Hamas war
- Israeli war cabinet
- War Cabinet member 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)
- Israeli war cabinet
- 2024 Belgian federal election
- In addition to the European Parliament and regional elections, Belgians head to the polls to vote for 150 members of the Chamber of Representatives. (The Guardian)
- 2024 Bulgarian parliamentary election
- Bulgarians head to the polls for the sixth time in three years to elect the 240 members of parliament. (DW)
- 2024 European Parliament election
- 2024 French legislative election
- Following major losses for his party in the European elections, President Emmanuel 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 wins 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 head to the polls to elect their Grand and General Council. (Libertas)
- 2024 South Ossetian parliamentary election
- Parliamentary elections are held in the Georgian breakaway region of South Ossetia. (Anadolu Ajansi)
- June 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)