Sunday, June 9th, 2024 

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) 

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) 

An IED kills seven Pakistan Army personnel in Lakki Marwat District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (Reuters) 

Two people are killed in Israeli airstrikes near Aitaroun, Lebanon, according to the National News Agency. (Al Jazeera) 

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) 

Slovenian voters approve the use of cannabis for medicinal and recreational use in adults. (STA) 

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) 

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) 

Bulgarians vote for the sixth time in three years to elect the 240 members of the parliament. (DW) 

Bulgarians head to the polls for the sixth time in three years to elect the 240 members of parliament. (DW) 

The last day of the European Parliament elections takes place, with voting occurring in 20 countries. (AP) 

The last day of the European elections is taking place with votes in Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and for the second day in Italy. (AP) 

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) 

Narendra Modi is sworn in for his third term as Prime Minister of India. (Al Jazeera) 

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) 

Sammarinese elect the members of the Grand and General Council. (Libertas) 

Sammarinese head to the polls to elect its Grand and General Council. (Libertas) 

Parliamentary elections are held in the Georgian breakaway region of South Ossetia. (Anadolu Ajansi) 

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) 

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) 

Saturday, June 8th, 2024 

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, children, and Hamas militants are killed and injured during the raid, with Palestinian officials claiming 236 killed and 400 wounded, while Israeli sources claim under 100 casualties. (Reuters)

At least 38 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) 

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) 

Doctors Without Borders recovers 11 bodies and rescues dozens of migrants off the coast of Libya. (Al Jazeera) 

Police in Vietnam arrest journalist Huy Đức and lawyer Tran Dinh Trien over Facebook posts. (Reuters) 

Elections to the European Parliament continue, with Slovakia, Italy, the Czech Republic, Latvia, and Malta voting today. (Al Jazeera) 

Iga Świątek wins the Women’s singles title at the French Open, becoming the third woman to win three consecutive titles in the Open Era. (CNN) 

Friday,  June 7th, 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) 

Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders is killed in a plane crash near San Juan County, Washington, United States. (CBS News) 

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. (Reuters) 

The United States reinstalls the temporary Gaza floating pier after weather-related damage had to be repaired. (Al Jazeera) 

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) 

At least 40 people are killed and 50 others are injured in an attack by the Rapid Support Forces in Omdurman, Sudan. (Al Jazeera) 

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen is shoved by a man, who has since been arrested, in Copenhagen, Denmark. (CNN) 

Austria-Canadian billionaire businessman Frank Stronach is arrested on sexual assault charges dating from the 1980s to 2023. (AP) 

Elections to the European Parliament continues, with Ireland and the Czech Republic voting today. (Euronews) 

D-Day 2024 

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 and militants in central Gaza. (Al Jazeera) 

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)

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) 

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) 

A blizzard in the Himalaya mountains of Uttarakhand, India, kills nine Indian trekkers. (Reuters) 

At least six people, including several 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) 

A French citizen is detained in Moscow, Russia, under suspicion of collecting military information. (ABC News) 

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) 

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) 

At least six people, including several children, drown after a school bus falls into the Orontes River near Darkush, Syria. (Asharq Al-Awsat) 

A Polish border guard soldier dies after being stabbed by a migrant trying to cross the EU border from Belarus. (Reuters) 

Elections to the European Parliament begin and will continue until June 9, with the Netherlands and Estonia voting today. (Al Jazeera)

Spain applies to join South Africa’s case at the International Court of Justice accusing Israel of genocide. (AP) 

The End