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- 12 June 2024 – Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Russia attacks Kyiv with missiles and drones. (Reuters)
- 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 Mangaf fire
- At least 41 people are killed in a fire at a building housing workers in Mangaf, Kuwait. (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
- 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 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)
- 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)