Portal:Current events/2020 June 3

June 3, 2020 (Wednesday)

Disasters and accidents

2020 North Indian Ocean cyclone season
- Cyclone Nisarga, COVID-19 pandemic in India
  - Severe Cyclonic Storm Nisarga makes landfall south of Mumbai. This is the first time a tropical cyclone has targeted the megacity since 1891. About 100,000 people have been evacuated from low-lying areas in the western Indian states of Maharashtra and Gujarat, an area already hard-hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. (NPR) (India Meteorological Department)

International relations

Hong Kong–United Kingdom relations, 2019–20 Hong Kong protests
- Prime Minister Boris Johnson says the United Kingdom will change immigration laws to offer a pathway to UK citizenship for all Hong Kong citizens who are eligible for BN(O) status, if the government of China imposes new security laws on the territory. (BBC)

Law and crime

Former african-american police captain David Dorn is shot and killed by looters while trying to protect a pawnshop in St Louis. (CNN)
Papua conflict, 2019 Papua protests
- An administrative court in Jakarta rules that it was unlawful for the Government of Indonesia to shut down the internet in Papua and West Papua during heightened security tensions caused by antiracism protests in the two provinces last year. (The Jakarta Post)
Killing of George Floyd
- The criminal charge for former Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd is upgraded to second-degree murder, while the three officers who helped restrain Floyd were charged with aiding and abetting murder. (CNBC)
Former Lesotho First Lady Maesiah Thabane is arrested on charges of murder. Her husband, former Lesotho Prime Minister Tom Thabane, is also accused of murder but not formally charged. (Reuters)
A court in France orders Rwandan genocide suspect Félicien Kabuga to be handed over to a United Nations tribunal for trial. Kabuga's lawyers said that their client would not receive a fair trial at a UN tribunal and that his health was too fragile to be transferred amidst a pandemic. However, French justice said his transfer is "not incompatible" with the decision. (Reuters)