Sunday, June 4th, 2023 

Saudi Arabia’s energy ministry announces a cut in oil production from around ten million barrels per day this month to nine million barrels per day from July. Oil prices on Brent and West Texas Intermediate futures initially rise by more than two per cent, but later fall slightly. (CNBC) 

A Cessna Citation plane crashes over mountainous terrain after being intercepted by an F-16 jet over Washington, D.C., killing the four people on board. The plane was flying from Elizabethton Municipal Airport, Tennessee, United States, to Long Island MacArthur Airport, New York. (AP) 

Fourteen people are killed and five others are missing after a landslide in a mountainous area near Leshan, Sichuan, China. (Reuters) 

One person is killed and 14 others are injured when a bus travelling from Lecce in Puglia to Rome crashes on a motorway in Vallesaccarda, Campania, Italy. (Ansa) 

Anti-government protests erupt across Poland, with an estimated 500,000 demonstrators gathering in the capital of Warsaw, according to Mayor Rafał Trzaskowski. (AP) 

Seventy-seven primary school girls are hospitalised after a poison attack on two schools in Sancharak, Sar-e Pol, Afghanistan. (CNA) 

Saturday, June 3rd, 2023 

Russian forces strike a residential area in Dnipro Raion with Iskander cruise missiles, killing a two-year-old girl and injuring 22 other civilians, including five children. (Reuters) 

Three Israeli soldiers and an Egyptian policeman are killed in an exchange of fire near the Egyptian-Israeli border. It is the first fatal incident between the two countries in more than a decade. (The Washington Post) 

The third inauguration of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan as President of Turkey takes place at the Presidential Complex in Ankara. (TIME) 

FC Barcelona Femení lifted the UEFA Women’s Champions League trophy for the second time after defeating VfL Wolfsburg 3–2 in the final at the Philips Stadion in Eindhoven, Netherlands. Fridolina Rolfö scored the winner after Barcelona had trailed 2–0 at the break. (Al Jazeera) 

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Saturday, June 3rd, 2023 

President Joe Biden signs the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 in order to prevent the United States from breaching its debt ceiling. (NBC News) 

The U.S. Army base at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, named after Confederate General Braxton Bragg, is renamed Fort Liberty. (Reuters) 

Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin accuses Russian forces of trying to kill his troops with anti-tank mines in Bakhmut, Donetsk Oblast, as the mercenary group withdraws from the war-torn city. (Reuters) 

Three Israeli soldiers and an Egyptian policeman are killed in an exchange of fire near the Egyptian-Israeli border. It is the first fatal incident between the two countries in more than a decade. (The Washington Post) 

A wildfire in Shelburne County, Nova Scotia, continues to burn out of control, becoming the largest wildfire in the province’s history. (CBC News) 

Surrey Police make 19 arrests on suspicion of “conspiracy to cause public nuisance” ahead of the Epsom Derby. (BBC Sport) 

Seven people are killed and two others are injured in a mass shooting at a hostel in the township of Umlazi, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. (News 24) 

Manchester City beat rivals Manchester United 2–1 at Wembley Stadium to win the 2022–23 FA Cup, their seventh title. İlkay Gündoğan breaks the record for the fastest goal in an FA Cup final, scoring after just 12 seconds. (BBC Sport) 

Friday,  June 2nd, 2023 

Russian occupation official Vladimir Rogov says Ukrainian forces have shelled the port of Berdiansk in Zaporizhzhya region, injuring nine people. (Reuters) 

Nine people are killed after extremist rebels attack a group of people on the Kyondo-Kyavinyonge road in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (AP) 

At least 288 people are killed and more than 900 injured in a train collision in Balasore district, Odisha, India. (India Today) (Al Jazeera) 

The government of Sept-Îles, Quebec, Canada, declares a state of emergency and orders the evacuation of more than 10,000 residents following a series of wildfires in the eastern part of the country. (CNA) 

Japan’s fertility rate is expected to reach a record low of 1.2565 in 2022. (Reuters) 

Iran releases one Danish and two dual Austrian-Iranian citizens. (BBC News) 

A Florida court in the United States sentences a Haitian-Chilean national to life in prison for the July 2021 assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse. (The Guardian) 

The End