Portal:Current events/2020 June 13
June 13, 2020 (Saturday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- 2020 Monguno and Nganzai massacres
- Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen
- Coalition spokesman Turki al-Malki says the armed forces destroyed a ballistic missile targeting the Saudi border city of Najran. In a statement, the spokesman said the missile was launched from the Yemeni city of Saada and that some people were slightly injured when it was destroyed. The Houthis did not claim responsibility. (Al Jazeera)
Health and environment
- COVID-19 pandemic in Chile
- More than 3,100 deaths are officially reported in the country. However, an investigation reported the Ministry of Health told the World Health Organization that the death toll reached 5,000 cases. (France24)
- Jaime Mañalich is succeeded by Enrique Paris as Minister of Health. (France24)
International relations
- Czech Republic–Poland relations, COVID-19 pandemic in Poland
- Poland's Ministry of National Defence admits its army briefly invaded and occupied the Czech Republic for several days last month in a "misunderstanding", the Polish soldiers took up positions near a chapel on the Czech side of the border in Moravia as part of coronavirus measures, and prevented Czech visitors from the site. (BBC News)
Law and crime
- Killing of Rayshard Brooks
- Protestors set fire to a Wendy's restaurant in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S., in response to Rayshard Brooks' death the evening before. Outside the restaurant the previous day, two police officers shot Brooks after he attempted to escape from them after a tussle in which he took one of the officer's taser and discharged it at one of them following a DUI investigation. (The Guardian)
- COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom; Crime in Greater Manchester
- A man is killed, a woman raped and three others stabbed at two "quarantine raves" late Saturday that attracted 6,000 people in Greater Manchester. They were a clear breach of coronavirus legislation. (BBC News)
- A court in China sentences an Australian man to death for drug trafficking. The man had been arrested in 2013 at Baiyun Airport in Guangzhou. The Australian government condemns the verdict. (Reuters)
- Colombian businessman Alex Saab is arrested in Cape Verde a week after Colombian authorities froze his assets following the opening an investigation against him for alleged money laundering. The Nicolás Maduro-led Government of Venezuela denounces the arrest as an arbitrary detention and violation of international law. (Reuters)
Politics and elections
- George Floyd protests
- George Floyd protests in the United Kingdom
- Protests organized by Black Lives Matter are cancelled in London before the arrival of counter-protesters, including members of the far-right, although some BLM supporters arrived. Far-right protesters and police clashed at a demonstration in Trafalgar Square. (BBC News) (Reuters) (The Times)
- French riot police clash with anti-racism protesters in central Paris, as thousands march onto the Place de la République to protest police brutality against the country's immigrants. (Reuters)
- George Floyd protests in the United Kingdom
- 2020 Polish presidential election, LGBT rights in Poland
- President Andrzej Duda compares the "LGBT ideology" to "communist indoctrination" ahead of the upcoming presidential elections. Opposition candidate Robert Biedroń condemns his remarks. (Reuters)