- 12 June 2024 – Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Kyiv strikes
- Russia attacks Kyiv with missiles and drones. (Reuters)
- 12 June 2024 –
- Two Indians recruited by the Russian army have been killed in Ukraine and the Indian foreign ministry has urged Moscow to quickly return all Indian nationals who are with the Russian army. (BBC)
- 12 June 2024 – Red Sea crisis
- The Houthis strike the Greek-owned, Liberian-flagged cargo ship Tutor with an unmanned surface vehicle, causing the ship to take on water. (Reuters)
- 12 June 2024 –
- Israel kills Taleb Abdullah, a senior commander of Hezbollah, which retaliates by launching 215 rockets towards northern Israel. (Times of Israel)
- The United Nations has added the Sudanese Armed Forces and Rapid Support Forces to its list of offenders for violating children’s rights along with Israel Defense Forces, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. (BBC)
- 12 June 2024 – International sanctions during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- The Moscow Exchange shuts down all trading in US dollars and euros in response to increased sanctions by the European Union and the United States. (Reuters)
- 12 June 2024 – 2024 Mangaf fire
- At least 49 people are killed in a fire at a building housing foreign workers in Mangaf, Kuwait. (Reuters)
- 12 June 2024 –
- At least 86 people are killed after a boat carrying 271 passengers capsized on a river near Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (AP).
- 12 June 2024 – Russia–United States relations
- The United States broadens secondary sanctions on foreign financial institutions that did business with any of over 4,500 US-sanctioned Russian entities. (Financial Times)
- 12 June 2024 – 2024 New Caledonia unrest
- French president Emmanuel Macron suspends electoral reform in New Caledonia following riots. (Reuters)
- 12 June 2024 – 2024 South African general election
- South Africa's IFP to join ANC and Democratic Alliance in unity government, claims IFP leader. (Reuters)
- 11 June 2024 – Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Belarus–Russia relations
- Russia and Belarus begin the second stage of their tactical nuclear weapons drills. (The Independent)
- Military aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War, Ukraine–European Union relations, Ukraine–United States relations
- European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announces that the European Union will give Ukraine €3.4 billion (USD$3.6 billion) throughout the summer from Russian frozen assets revenue. (The Kyiv Independent)
- The United States approves a move to send a second Patriot missile system to Ukraine. (AP)
- Russia says that it has captured the villages of Tymkivka in Kharkiv Oblast and Miasozharivka in Luhansk Oblast. (Barron's via AFP)
- 11 June 2024 – 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)
- 11 June 2024 – 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 Raqqa, Syria. (Reuters)
- 11 June 2024 – Korean conflict
- South Korea says that 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)
- 11 June 2024 – Sudanese civil war
- The International Organization for Migration says that more than 10 million people have now been internally displaced by the war in Sudan, including around a third of the population of the capital Khartoum, making it the world's worst displacement crisis. (Al Jazeera)
- 11 June 2024 –
- The World Bank approves $1 billion for the construction of the Dasu Dam in northwest Pakistan. (Al-Arabiya)
- Production begins at Senegal's first offshore oil project at the Sangomar oil fields which aims to produce 100,000 barrels of oil per day. (ABC News)
- Dzuds in Mongolia kill more than 7.1 million animals, over 10% of the country's livestock population, causing up to 1% of GDP loss and 8% of agricultural production loss. (AP)
- 11 June 2024 – 2024 Chikangawa Dornier 228 crash
- The wreckage of an aircraft which went missing yesterday in Malawi amid bad weather is found. All ten people on board, including the country's Vice-President Saulos Chilima, are confirmed dead. (Reuters)
- 11 June 2024 –
- A Russian Aerospace Forces Sukhoi Su-34 aircraft crashes during a routine training exercise in North Ossetia–Alania, Russia, killing all onboard. (Reuters)
- 11 June 2024 – Russia–Sri Lanka relations, Foreign involvement in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Sri Lanka's foreign ministry says that the country has received assurances from Russia that it would stop recruiting Sri Lankan citizens to fight in Ukraine. (Al-Arabiya)
- 11 June 2024 – Weiss special counsel 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)
- 11 June 2024 –
- A man self-immolates at St. Mark's Square in Zagreb, Croatia, and later dies in hospital. (N1) (Dnevnik)
- Riots occur in Tiaret, Algeria, in opposition to water rationing as a government response to prolonged droughts. (AP)
- Eight individuals from Tajikistan with suspected ties to Islamic State are arrested across several United States cities for border immigration violations. (AP)
- 11 June 2024 – 2024 Austrian legislative election
- Austria announces that parliamentary elections will be held on September 29. (Reuters)
- 11 June 2024 – 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)
- 11 June 2024 – 2024 Limerick mayoral election
- John Moran becomes the first directly-elected mayor in the Republic of Ireland. (Limerick.ie)
- 11 June 2024 – 2024 South African general election
- Former South African president Jacob Zuma and his party uMkhonto weSizwe appeal to the Constitutional Court to block the newly elected parliament from sitting, citing electoral fraud. (Reuters)
- 11 June 2024 – Crisis in Venezuela
- Hunger strikes occur in at least 16 prisons in Venezuela to protest against poor living conditions such as overcrowding as well as delays in the reviews of the prisoners' judicial processes. (MSN via Reuters)
- 10 June 2024 – Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Crimea attacks
- Ukraine's military says that its missile strikes near Yevpatoriya and Chornomorske in Russian-occupied Crimea damaged three Russian air defense systems. (Reuters)
- Eastern Ukraine campaign
- The Russian Defence Ministry says that its forces have recaptured the village of Staromaiorske in Donetsk Oblast. (Fakti) (Reuters)
- Military aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War
- The United States lifts a ban on sending U.S. weaponry to Ukraine's Azov Brigade. (The Washington Post)
- 10 June 2024 – Sudanese civil war
- Battle of El Fasher
- The last remaining operational hospital in Al-Fashir, North Darfur, closes down after being stormed and looted by the Rapid Support Forces, according to Médecins Sans Frontières. (The Guardian)
- 10 June 2024 – Nigerian bandit conflict
- At least 50 people are killed and an unknown number are kidnapped, including women and children, when gunmen attack the village of Yargoje in Katsina State, Nigeria. (Al Arabiya)
- 10 June 2024 – Somali civil war
- At least 55 people are killed and 155 others are injured in fighting between the Dir and Marehan clans in central Somalia. (Reuters)
- 10 June 2024 – 2024 Brazil wildfires
- It is reported that wildfires have burned around 32,000 hectares (79,000 acres) of tropical wetland in Brazil's Pantanal so far this year, a 935% increase in the number of fires that occurred in the same period last year. (BBC News)
- 10 June 2024 – 2024 Chikangawa Dornier 228 crash
- An aircraft carrying Malawian Vice-President Saulos Chilima and nine others is reported missing while flying from Lilongwe to Mzuzu. (BBC News)
- 10 June 2024 –
- Forty-nine migrants, mostly from Ethiopia and Somalia, are killed and 140 are missing after their boat capsizes off the coast of Yemen. (Al Jazeera)
- Three people are killed in floods and landslides in Hà Giang province, Vietnam. (France 24)
- 10 June 2024 – Belarus–European Union border crisis
- Poland announces a "no-go zone" in the Białowieża Forest in order to prevent migrants from crossing the border from Belarus. In response, concerns are raised about the potential impact on tourism during the summer. (Reuters)
- 10 June 2024 – Doe v. Chiquita Brands International, Right-wing paramilitarism in Colombia
- After 17 years of litigation, Chiquita Brands International is found liable by a jury in United States Federal Court of financing the far-right paramilitary death squad United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia in the Antioquia and Magdalena Departments of Colombia. (EarthRights International)
- 10 June 2024 –
- Four American instructors from Cornell College in Iowa, United States, and one Chinese passerby are wounded in a stabbing attack at a park in Jilin City, China. The perpetrator is arrested a day later. (CNA) (NPR)
- A Spanish court sentences three men to eight months in prison for racist chants directed towards Brazilian football player Vinícius Júnior. (NPR)
- 10 June 2024 – Israel–Hamas war
- Israel–Hamas war protests
- The United States Consulate General in Sydney, Australia, is vandalized by a pro-Palestinian activist. (NBC News)
- United Nations Security Council Resolution 2735
- The United Nations Security Council votes 14–0, with Russia abstaining, to back the ceasefire proposal outlined by US President Joe Biden. (Reuters)
- 10 June 2024 – 2024 Belgian federal election
- The New Flemish Alliance win the highest percent of votes in the federal election, followed by Vlaams Belang and the Reformist Movement. (VRT)
- Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo resigns after his party Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats loses to centre-right and conservative parties. (Al Jazeera)
- 2024 Belgian government formation
- Following resignation of De Croo, government formation talks begins.(Al Jazeera)
- 10 June 2024 – 2024 Armenian protests
- Several large protests are held in Yerevan, Armenia, calling for Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan to resign due to Armenia ceding territory to Azerbaijan in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. (Al Jazeera)
- 10 June 2024 – 2024 Bulgarian parliamentary election
- No party attains a majority in the Bulgarian National Assembly, with GERB attaining a plurality of seats. (Euronews)
- 10 June 2024 –
- Apple holds its 2024 Worldwide Developers Conference in Cupertino, California, United States, unveiling its Apple Intelligence, iOS 18, iPadOS 18, MacOS Sequoia, and more. (Reuters)
- 9 June 2024 – Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir
- 2024 Reasi attack
- At least nine people are killed and 33 others are injured near Reasi, Jammu and Kashmir, India, when a bus carrying Hindu pilgrims falls into a ravine after being shot at. (Al Jazeera)
- 9 June 2024 – Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
- 2024 Lakki Marwat bombing
- An IED kills seven Pakistan Army personnel in Lakki Marwat District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (Reuters)
- 9 June 2024 – Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- Two people are killed in Israeli airstrikes near Aitaroun, Lebanon, according to the National News Agency. (Al Jazeera)
- 9 June 2024 –
- President Bernardo Arévalo announced that the remains of Guatemalan writer and 1967 Nobel Prize winner for Literature, Miguel Ángel Asturias, would be repatriated to Guatemala. Asturias is buried in the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, France. (DW)
- 9 June 2024 – 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 across the border. (BBC News)
- 9 June 2024 – Cannabis in Slovenia
- Slovenian voters approve the use of cannabis for medicinal and recreational use in adults. (STA)
- 9 June 2024 – Israel–Hamas war
- Israeli war cabinet
- War Cabinet 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)
- 9 June 2024 – 2024 Belgian federal election
- Belgians vote for the 150 members of the Chamber of Representatives as well as for regional representatives and members of the European Parliament. (The Guardian)
- 9 June 2024 – 2024 Bulgarian parliamentary election
- Bulgarians vote for the sixth time in three years to elect the 240 members of the parliament. (DW)
- 9 June 2024 – 2024 European Parliament election
- The last day of the European Parliament elections takes place, with voting occurring in 20 countries. (AP)
- 9 June 2024 – 2024 French legislative election
- Following major losses for French President Emmanuel Macron's Renaissance party in the European Parliament elections, Macron dissolves the National Assembly and calls snap elections for June 30 and July 7. (Reuters)
- 9 June 2024 – 2024 Indian general election
- Narendra Modi is sworn in for his third term as Prime Minister of India. (Al Jazeera)
- 9 June 2024 – 2024 Mexican general election
- Mexico's ruling party Morena and its coalition allies win 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)
- 9 June 2024 – 2024 San Marino general election
- Sammarinese elect the members of the Grand and General Council. (Libertas)
- 9 June 2024 – 2024 South Ossetian parliamentary election
- Parliamentary elections are held in the Georgian breakaway region of South Ossetia. (Anadolu Ajansi)
- 9 June 2024 – 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)
- 9 June 2024 – 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)
- 8 June 2024 – Israel–Hamas war
- Israel–Hamas war hostage crisis
- 2024 Nuseirat rescue operation
- The Israel Defence Forces airstrikes and raids the Nuseirat refugee camp in Deir al-Balah Governorate in Gaza, rescuing four hostages kidnapped by Hamas during the Re'im music festival massacre on October 7, including Noa Argamani. (CNN)
- Many Palestinians, including women and children, are killed and injured during the raid, with Palestinian officials claiming 236 killed and 400 wounded, while Israeli sources claim under 100 casualties. It is unknown how many casualties were civilians and how many were militants. (Reuters) (CNN)
- 8 June 2024 – 2021–2024 Democratic Republic of the Congo attacks
- At least 41 people are killed in an overnight attack in Beni, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Local leaders suspect the Allied Democratic Forces are responsible for the attack. (Reuters)
- 8 June 2024 – Economic impact of the Israel–Hamas war, Colombia–Israel relations
- Colombia announces the suspension of coal exports to Israel stating that it will resume exports after Israel complies with the International Court of Justice provisional measure of protection and stops its genocide in Gaza. (AP)
- 8 June 2024 –
- Doctors Without Borders recovers 11 bodies and rescues dozens of migrants off the coast of Libya. (Al Jazeera)
- 8 June 2024 – Censorship in Vietnam
- Police in Vietnam arrest journalist Huy Đức and lawyer Tran Dinh Trien over Facebook posts. (Reuters)
- 8 June 2024 – 2024 European Parliament election
- Elections to the European Parliament continue, with Slovakia, Italy, the Czech Republic, Latvia, and Malta voting today. (Al Jazeera)
- 8 June 2024 – 2024 French Open
- In tennis, Iga Świątek wins the Women's singles title at the French Open after defeating Jasmine Paolini, becoming the third woman to win three consecutive titles in the Open Era. (CNN)
- 7 June 2024 – Israel–Hamas war
- International reactions to the Israel–Hamas war
- United Nations advisors announce that it intends to add the Israeli military, Hamas, and Palestinian Islamic Jihad to their list of countries and armed groups that harm children in their upcoming "Children and Armed Conflict" report. (The New York Times) (Reuters)
- Humanitarian aid during the Israel–Hamas war
- The United States reinstalls the temporary Gaza floating pier after weather-related damage had to be repaired. (Al Jazeera)
- 7 June 2024 – Yemeni civil war
- Red Sea crisis
- The Houthis detain 11 Yemeni employees of United Nations agencies and others working for aid groups. (AP)
- According to a Houthi-run television station, the United States and the United Kingdom carry out six airstrikes on Hodeida International Airport, the Port of Salif, and Al-Thawrah, Yemen. (Al Jazeera)
- 7 June 2024 – Sudanese civil war
- Battle of Khartoum
- At least 40 people are killed and 50 others are injured in an attack by the Rapid Support Forces in Omdurman, Sudan. (Al Jazeera)
- 7 June 2024 –
- Pat Sajak steps down as host of the American television game show Wheel of Fortune, having hosted the show for 41 years. (Associated Press)
- Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders is killed in a plane crash near San Juan County, Washington, United States. (CBS News)
- 7 June 2024 – RICH nightclub railing collapse
- A glass railing collapsed outside the overcrowded RICH nightclub in Mexico, causing several concertgoers to fall three stories, killing two and injuring 15. (El Universal)
- 7 June 2024 – Attack on Mette Frederiksen
- Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen is shoved by a man, who has since been arrested, in Copenhagen, Denmark. (CNN)
- 7 June 2024 –
- Austrian-Canadian billionaire businessman Frank Stronach is arrested on sexual assault charges dating from the 1980s to 2023. (AP)
- 7 June 2024 – 2024 European Parliament election
- Elections to the European Parliament continues, with Ireland and the Czech Republic voting today. (Euronews)
- 6 June 2024 – Israel–Hamas war
- Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
- Attacks on schools during the Israeli invasion of Gaza
- At least 40 Palestinians, including fourteen children, are killed and more than 70 injured after an Israeli airstrike on a United Nations school that was sheltering refugees in central Gaza. (Al Jazeera)
- Israeli incursions in the West Bank during the Israel–Hamas war
- Three Palestinians are killed and several others are injured in an Israel Defense Forces raid on Jenin in the West Bank. (The Times of Israel) (Al Jazeera)
- 6 June 2024 – Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Military aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War
- President of France Emmanuel Macron announces that the country will send Dassault Mirage 2000-5 fighter aircrafts to Ukraine and train its pilots by the end of 2024. (The Telegraph)
- 6 June 2024 – Red Sea crisis
- The Houthis and the Islamic Resistance in Iraq claim to have launched two joint military attacks against ships at the Port of Haifa in Israel. However, Israel denies the claims. (Al Jazeera)
- 6 June 2024 – 2024 Uttarakhand snowstorm disaster
- A blizzard in the Himalaya mountains of Uttarakhand, India, kills nine Indian trekkers. (Reuters)
- 6 June 2024 –
- At least six people, including mostly children, drown after a school bus falls into the Orontes River near Darkush, Syria. (Asharq Al-Awsat)
- Six fishermen are killed and one is critically injured after a boat's engine exploded and caught the wooden hull on fire off the coast of Naga in the Philippines. (AP)
- One person is killed and more than 100 others are injured after two trams collide in Kemerovo, Russia. (The Moscow Times)
- A child is killed and at least thirteen other people are injured by tornadoes in the U.S. states of Michigan, Maryland, and Ohio. (AP)
- 6 June 2024 – France–Russia relations
- A French citizen is detained in Moscow, Russia, under suspicion of collecting military information. (ABC News)
- 6 June 2024 – Georgia–United States relations
- The United States Department of State sanctions several Georgian Dream politicians with travel bans for passing the "Law on Transparency of Foreign Influence", threatening further penalties if Georgia continues "anti-democratic activity". (AP)
- 6 June 2024 – Palestine–United States relations
- The Biden administration imposes sanctions on the Lions' Den militant group based in Nablus in the West Bank, for committing attacks in the West Bank since October 2022. (Al Jazeera)
- 6 June 2024 – Belarus–European Union border crisis
- A Polish border guard soldier dies after being stabbed by a migrant trying to cross the EU border from Belarus. (Reuters)
- 6 June 2024 – 2024 European Parliament election
- Elections to the European Parliament begin and will continue until June 9, with the Netherlands and Estonia voting today. (Al Jazeera) (NOS)
- 6 June 2024 – South Africa's genocide case against Israel
- Spain applies to join South Africa's case at the International Court of Justice accusing Israel of genocide. (AP)
- 6 June 2024 –
- SpaceX launches Starship's Integrated Flight Test 4, successfully guiding both the Super Heavy booster and Starship upper stage to soft water landings in the Gulf of Mexico and the Indian Ocean, respectively. (The New York Times)
- The Oklahoma Sooners win the 2024 Women's College World Series in softball with the first-ever four-peat. (The New York Times)
- 5 June 2024 – Sudanese civil war
- Wad Al-Noora massacre
- The Rapid Support Forces storm the village of Wad Al-Noora in Gezira State, Sudan, and massacre nearly 100 villagers. (Sudan Tribune)
- 5 June 2024 – 2021–2024 Democratic Republic of the Congo attacks
- At least 16 people are killed in Beni, Democratic Republic of the Congo. The local government believes the Allied Democratic Forces are responsible. (Reuters)
- 5 June 2024 – 2024 Beirut US embassy shooting
- A Syrian man fires several shots at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, and is shot by security forces. (Reuters)
- 5 June 2024 – Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- Hezbollah strikes an Iron Dome battery in Ramot Naftali, Israel. (Reuters)
- 5 June 2024 – Korean conflict
- The United States and South Korea participate in the first precision guided bombing drill in 7 years over the Korean Peninsula, as tensions rise after North Korea sends trash-filled balloons into South Korea. (CNN) (AP)
- 5 June 2024 – Pardubice train collision
- Four Slovaks and Ukrainians are killed and more than 20 others are injured when a passenger train collides with a freight train in Pardubice, Czech Republic. (CNN) (Reuters)
- 5 June 2024 –
- A panel of the United States Food and Drug Administration rejects MDMA-assisted psychotherapy as a treatment for PTSD. (NPR)
- 5 June 2024 – Burkina Faso–Russia relations
- Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov announces that Russia will send additional military supplies and instructors to Burkina Faso to help the country increase its defense capabilities. (Reuters)
- 5 June 2024 – Mexico–United States border crisis
- US President Joe Biden institutes a broad asylum ban on migrants illegally crossing the Mexico–United States border, with actions to deport or turn people back to Mexico, with exceptions for unaccompanied children, people with serious medical or safety threats, and victims of trafficking. (Reuters)
- 5 June 2024 –
- A court in Florence, Italy, convicts American journalist Amanda Knox and sentences her to a three-year imprisonment over her accusations related to the murder of Meredith Kercher in Perugia in 2007. The sentence will count as time already served. (NBC News) (NPR)
- 5 June 2024 – Israel–Hamas war protests
- Israel–Hamas war protests in Israel
- Thousands of Israeli ultranationalists march through East Jerusalem on Jerusalem Day, with some chanting anti-Arab slogans. (AP)
- 5 June 2024 –
- Boeing's Starliner capsule launches its first astronaut-crewed flight into space to the International Space Station after several delays at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, United States. (ABC News)
- Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko becomes the first human to spend 1,000 days in outer space. (AP)
- 4 June 2024 – Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Military aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War, Russia–NATO relations
- Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov warns that French military instructors will be "legitimate targets" if they are deployed to Ukraine. (France 24)
- 4 June 2024 –
- The Kanlaon volcano in central Philippines erupts, causing evacuations and a suspension of activities in the city of Canlaon. (Reuters)
- 4 June 2024 – 2024 Slatina protests
- A mass protest takes place in Slatina, Olt County, Romania, against the inactions of bystanders in the drowning of Flavius Magraon, as well as the police department's corruption in the case. (Adevărul) (B1 TV)
- 4 June 2024 – 2024 Indian general election
- The alliance of parties led by Narendra Modi reaches the 272 seats threshold needed to form a government, but Modi's BJP party loses its outright parliamentary majority. (BBC News)
- 4 June 2024 – 2024 Nigerian general strike
- The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) suspend the nationwide general strike, pending talks with the federal government of Nigeria about the raising of the country's minimum wage. (BBC) (Reuters)
- 4 June 2024 – International recognition of the State of Palestine
- Slovenia's parliament approves a motion to recognize a Palestinian state. (The Times of Israel)
- 4 June 2024 – Mexico–United States border crisis
- US President Joe Biden enacts an executive order to temporarily suspend asylum claims processing at the Mexico–United States border when the seven-day average of claims exceeds 2,500 per day. Amnesty International criticizes the executive order, accusing Biden of "setting a dangerous international precedent". (NPR) (AP)
- 4 June 2024 – North Korea–South Korea relations
- The State Council of South Korea suspends the 2018 Panmunjom Declaration due to border tensions over balloons sent across the border by North Korea. (AP)
- 4 June 2024 –
- A local Mannheim politician is injured by a stabbing, five days after the May 31 attack in the German city. (BBC)
- 4 June 2024 – Chinese space program
- The China National Space Administration's Chang'e 6 spacecraft lifts off from the surface of the far side of the Moon carrying samples of lunar soil and rocks back to Earth. (Reuters)
- 4 June 2024 –
- The National Health Service declares a "critical incident" after several hospitals in London, including King's College Hospital, say they have cancelled appointments and turned away patients after a cyberattack on their Synnovis IT systems. (AP)
- 4 June 2024 – 2024 Major League Baseball season
- Venezuelan infielder Tucupita Marcano is permanently banned from Major League Baseball and Minor League Baseball for betting on Pittsburgh Pirates games while being a member of the team. (CBS Sports)
- 3 June 2024 – Sudanese civil war
- The Rapid Support Forces announce the establishment of a civil administration in the state of South Darfur, which they fully control. (Al Taghyeer)
- 3 June 2024 –
- A Syrian man is arrested after throwing a Molotov cocktail at the Israeli embassy in Bucharest, Romania and attempting to self-immolate. (Jerusalem Post) (AP)
- 3 June 2024 – GameStop short squeeze
- The value of GameStop shares increases by 21% after Keith Gill posts a $116 million investment on Reddit. (Reuters)
- 3 June 2024 – 2024 Indian heat wave
- More than 211 people are killed and nearly 25,000 others suffer from heatstroke amid a severe heat wave in India. (The Independent) (Reuters)
- 3 June 2024 –
- The Kīlauea volcano in Hawaii, United States, erupts for the first time in nine months. (The New York Times)
- 3 June 2024 – June 2024 South African storm complex
- At least 11 people are killed by two tornadoes in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal. (Daily Maverick)
- 3 June 2024 – Afghanistan–Kazakhstan relations, International relations with the Taliban
- Kazakhstan removes the Taliban from its list of terrorist organizations. (RFE/RL)
- 3 June 2024 – Arrest of Imran Khan
- The Islamabad High Court overturns former Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan's charges of leaking national security secrets. (Reuters)
- 3 June 2024 –
- The Chinese Ministry of State Security arrests and charges a couple for allegedly spying for Britain's MI6 agency. (Al Jazeera)
- 3 June 2024 – 2023–2024 Georgian protests
- Chairperson of the Parliament of Georgia Shalva Papuashvili signs the foreign agent bill into law amid mass protests and warnings from Western countries against signing the bill. (RFE/RL)
- 3 June 2024 – 2024 European farmers' protests
- Spanish and French farmers block roads on highways through the Pyrenees mountains in protest against trade with non-European Union member states. (Reuters)
- 3 June 2024 – 2024 United Kingdom general election
- Nigel Farage appoints himself leader of Reform UK and announces that he will run as a candidate for the party in the upcoming UK general election in Clacton. (The New York Times)
- 3 June 2024 – 2024 Nigerian general strike
- Major Nigerian unions Nigeria Labour Congress and Trade Union Congress begin an indefinite general strike, causing closures of schools, public offices, and airports, as well as a shutdown of the national power grid amid a cost-of-living crisis and record low minimum wages in Nigeria. (VOA) (Al Jazeera)
- 2 June 2024 – Sudanese civil war
- Darfur campaign
- Battle of El Fasher
- The Ministry of Health of North Darfur reports that there has been 82 deaths and hundreds of injuries due to clashes in El Fasher over the last two days. (Sudan Tribune)
- UNICEF reports that more than 270,000 people, including more than 130,000 children, are at risk following fighting at the Golo Reservoir in El Fasher, North Darfur, Sudan. (The Print)
- 2 June 2024 – Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Russia–NATO relations, Russia–United States relations
- Russia accuses NATO and the United States of "provoking a new level of tension" after some allies agreed to let Ukraine's military use Western-supplied weapons to strike targets inside Russia. (BBC News)
- 2 June 2024 – Syrian civil war
- Iran–Israel conflict during the Syrian civil war
- Israeli airstrikes in the Aleppo region kill 17 Iranian-backed militia members, including two Iranian advisors, and three Hezbollah members. (SOHR)
- 2 June 2024 – 2024 Germany floods
- A firefighter is killed and thousands of people are evacuated after heavy rains cause flooding in southern Germany, particularly in Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria. (Reuters) (DW)
- 2 June 2024 – International reactions to the Israel–Hamas war, Israel–Maldives relations
- The Maldives announces a ban on Israeli passport holders from entering the country. (CNN)
- 2 June 2024 –
- A mass shooting in Akron, Ohio, kills a 27-year-old man and wounds 24 people. (NPR)
- 2 June 2024 – 2024 Mexican general election
- Mexicans elect a new president and legislature, eight governors, the mayor of Mexico City, and around 20,000 other positions in federal and local elections. (CNN)
- Claudia Sheinbaum wins the presidential election. She will begin her term as Mexico's first female president on October 1. (CBC)
- 2 June 2024 – 2024 Iranian presidential election
- Former president of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces that he intends to run again following the death of Ebrahim Raisi. Ahmadinejad has been rejected from running in the two previous presidential elections. (ABC News Australia)
- 2 June 2024 – Chinese space program
- China's Chang'e 6 lunar exploration mission to collect moon rock successfully lands on the far side of the Moon. (Reuters)
- 1 June 2024 – Sudanese civil war
- Darfur campaign
- Battle of El Fasher
- Kutum Hospital airstrike
- The Sudanese Armed Forces bomb a hospital in Kutum, Sudan, injuring dozens of people. (Al Mayadeen)
- Around eleven civilians are killed and 42 others are injured in large clashes between the Rapid Support Forces, the Sudanese Armed Forces, and various rebel militia groups in El Fasher, Sudan. (Sudan Tribune)
- Sudan’s Ambassador to Russia confirms willingness of his country to allow construction of a Russian naval base on the Red Sea. (Sudan Tribune)
- 1 June 2024 – Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure
- Russia launches missile and drone strikes across Ukraine, injuring at least four people and damaging critical infrastructure, including energy facilities. Ukraine says that it shot down 35 of 53 missiles and 46 of 47 drones. (Reuters)
- 1 June 2024 –
- A boat carrying 25 people capsizes in eastern Afghanistan, killing 20 of them. (AP)
- 1 June 2024 – 2024 Indian heat wave
- At least 33 Indian election polling staff die from heatstroke in a heatwave across the country. (Al Jazeera)
- 1 June 2024 – Capital punishment in Yemen
- A court run by the Houthis in Yemen sentences 44 people to death on charges of collaborating with the Saudi coalition. (ABC News)
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