Portal:Current events/2024 June 11
June 11, 2024 (Tuesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Military aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War
- European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announces that the European Union will give Ukraine €3.4 billion (USD$3.6 billion) throughout Summer 2024 from Russian frozen assets revenue. (The Kyiv Independent)
- Belarus–Russia relations
- Russia and Belarus begin their second stage of tactical nuclear weapons drills. (The Independent)
- Russia says it has captured Tymkivka village in Kharkiv Oblast and Miasozharivka village in Luhansk Oblast. (Barrons via Agence France-Presse)
- Military aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War
- Israel–Hamas war
- Humanitarian aid during the Israel–Hamas war
- United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken announces more than $400 million in new humanitarian aid for Palestinians in Gaza. (CNN)
- Humanitarian aid during the Israel–Hamas war
- Korean conflict
- South Korea says its forces fired warning shots at North Korean soldiers who briefly crossed the demarcation line in the Korean Demilitarized Zone. South Korean authorities state that they believe the intrusion, which occurred in a densely forested area, was accidental. (Reuters)
- Islamic State insurgency in Iraq
- Iraqi security forces in cooperation with U.S.-led coalition forces kill Abu Zainab, a senior member of Islamic State in the city of Raqqa, Syria. (Reuters)
- Sudanese civil war
- The International Organization for Migration (IOM) says more than 10 million people have now been internally displaced by the war in Sudan, making it the world's worst displacement crisis. Around a third of the population of the capital Khartoum have fled. (Al Jazeera)
Business and economy
- The World Bank approves $1 billion for the construction of the Dasu Dam in northwest Pakistan. (Al-Arabiya)
- Production starts at Senegal's first offshore oil project which aims to produce 100,000 barrels of oil per day. (ABC News)
Disasters and accidents
- 2024 Chikangawa Dornier 228 crash
- The wreckage of an aircraft which went missing yesterday in Malawi amid bad weather is found. All the ten people on board, including the country's Vice-President Saulos Chilima, are confirmed dead. (Reuters)
- A Russian Sukhoi Su-34 crashed in the Caucasus mountains during a routine training exercise, killing the crew aboard. (Reuters)
- At least 49 migrants drown and 140 are missing off the coast of Yemen, according to the U.N. Migration Agency. (Reuters)
International relations
- Sri Lanka's foreign ministry said that his country received assurances from Russia that it would stop recruiting its citizens to fight in Ukraine. (Al-Arabiya)
Law and crime
- Hunter Biden criminal investigation
- Hunter Biden, son of U.S. President Joe Biden, is convicted in a federal court in Delaware on three felony counts of possession of a firearm while under the influence of narcotics. (NBC News)
- A man self-immolates at St. Mark's Square in Zagreb, Croatia, which houses the Banski Dvori and the Parliament building, and succumbs to his burn injuries in the hospital. (N1) (Dnevnik)
- Riots erupt in the central Algerian city of Tiaret in opposition to water rationing as a government response to prolonged droughts. (AP)
Politics and elections
- 2024 French legislative election
- France's left wing political parties establish an electoral alliance, the New Popular Front, ahead of the French parliamentary elections. (Le Monde)
- 2024 South African general election
- Former South African president Jacob Zuma and his party uMkhonto weSizwe seek to block the newly elected parliament from sitting, citing electoral fraud. (Reuters)
- 2024 Austrian legislative election
- Crisis in Venezuela
- Hunger strikes break out at least 16 prisons in Venezuela to protest against poor living conditions such as overcrowding, and delays in the reviews of their judicial processes. (MSN via Reuters)