D-Day 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) 

A panel of the United States Food and Drug Administration rejects MDMA-assisted psychotherapy as a treatment for PTSD. (NPR) 

Governor of New York Kathy Hochul announces an indefinite delay in implementing motor vehicle congestion pricing in the New York City borough of Manhattan. (CNN) 

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) 

More than 100 people were injured and one died after two trams collided in Kemerovo, Russia. (The Moscow Times) 

Four people are killed and more than 20 others are injured when a passenger train collided with a freight train in Pardubice, Czech Republic. (CNN) 

Due to last night’s collision, the most important train connection to the eastern part of the Czech Republic cannot be used for an indefinite period of time according to Czech operator České dráhy. (NOS) 

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

Elections to the European Parliament begin and will continue until June 9, with the Netherlands and Estonia voting today. This is the first European Parliament election after Brexit. (Al Jazeera) 

A blizzard in the Himalayas kills nine Indian trekkers. (Reuters) 

Wednesday, June 5th, 2024 

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) 

Hezbollah strikes an Iron Dome battery in Ramot Naftali, Israel. (Reuters) 

The Rapid Support Forces storm the village of Wad Al-Noora in Gezira State, Sudan, and massacre nearly 100 villagers. (Sudan Tribune) 

At least 16 people are killed in Beni, Democratic Republic of the Congo. The local government believes the Allied Democratic Forces are responsible. (Reuters) 

A Syrian man fires several shots at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, and is shot by security forces. (Reuters) 

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) 

The World Health Organization confirms that a person in Mexico died from the H5N2 bird flu. (Reuters) 

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) 

Thousands of Israeli ultranationalists march through East Jerusalem on Jerusalem Day chanting anti-Arab slogans. (AP) 

Tuesday,  June 4th, 2024 

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) 

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov warns that French military instructors will be “legitimate targets” if they are deployed to Ukraine. (France 24) 

The State Council of South Korea suspends the 2018 Panmunjom Declaration due to border tensions over balloons sent by North Korea. (AP) 

Kanlaon volcano erupts in central Philippines, causing suspension of activities in the city of Canlaon and evacuation of people nearby. (Reuters) 

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) 

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) 

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) 

Slovenia’s parliament approves a motion to recognize a Palestinian state. (The Times of Israel) 

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) 

A local Mannheim politician is injured by a stabbing, five days after the May 31 attack in the German city. (BBC) 

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) 

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) 

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) 

Monday,  June 3rd, 2024 

The Rapid Support Forces announce the establishment of a civil administration in the state of South Darfur, which they fully control. (Al Taghyeer) 

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) 

The value of GameStop shares increases by 21% after Keith Gill posts a $116 million investment on Reddit. (Reuters) 

More than 211 people are killed and nearly 25,000 others suffer from heatstroke amid a severe heat wave in India. (The Independent) (Reuters) 

The Kīlauea volcano in Hawaii, United States, erupts for the first time in nine months. (The New York Times) 

Kazakhstan removes the Taliban from its list of terrorist organizations. (RFE/RL) 

The Islamabad High Court overturns former Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan‘s charges of leaking national security secrets. (Reuters) 

The Chinese Ministry of State Security arrests and charges a couple for allegedly spying for Britain’s MI6 agency. (Al Jazeera) 

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) 

Spanish and French farmers block roads on highways through the Pyrenees mountains in protest against trade with non-European Union member states. (Reuters) 

Nigel Farage is appointed 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) 

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) 

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Sunday, June 2nd, 2024 

Claudia Sheinbaum wins the presidential election. She will begin her term as Mexico’s first female president on October 1. (CBC) 

China‘s Chang’e 6 lunar exploration mission to collect moon rock successfully lands on the far side of the Moon. (Reuters) 

At the 2024 Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin meets with Chinese Minister of National Defense Dong Jun, with the two agreeing to resume military-to-military communication between the two countries. (Al Jazeera) 

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) 

Ticketmaster and parent company Live Nation submit an SEC filing acknowledging a data breach of customer information potentially affecting 560 million users. Banco Santander and cloud provider Snowflake Inc. are also believed to have been affected by the same data breach. (Reuters) 

Former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces that he intends to run for president again following the death of Ebrahim Raisi. Ahmadinejad has been rejected from running in the two previous presidential elections. (ABC News Australia) 

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) 

Syrian state media reports that a number of people have been killed in Israeli airstrikes near Aleppo, including an Iranian military advisor. (Reuters) 

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) 

The Maldives announces a ban on Israeli passport holders from entering the country. (CNN) 

One person is killed and 24 others are injured in a mass shooting in Akron, Ohio, United States. (NPR) 

Saturday, June 1st, 2024 

A court run by the Houthis in Yemen sentences 44 people to death on charges of collaborating with the Saudi coalition. (ABC News) 

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) 

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) 

A boat carrying 25 people capsizes in eastern Afghanistan, killing 20 of them. (AP) 

At least 33 Indian election polling staff die from heatstroke in a heatwave across the country. (Al Jazeera) 

A jury in Idaho, United States, sentences Chad Daybell to death for the murders of his ex-wife and two of his wife’s children. (AP) 

Icelanders vote for the President of Iceland. Incumbent president Guðni Th. Jóhannesson had previously announced that he would not be seeking a third term. (Al Jazeera) 

Halla Tómasdóttir is elected as the President of Iceland with the plurality of the votes at 34.2%. Her opposition Katrín Jakobsdóttir concedes the election with 25.2%. (DW) 

The final phase of the general election in India is held, with the ruling National Democratic Alliance projected to win a majority. Results will be announced on June 4. (Reuters) 

Friday,  May 31st, 2024 

French security services arrest a Chechen teenager suspected of plotting a islamist-inspired ambush on a football game during the Summer Olympics. (The Guardian) 

Ukraine launches missile and drone strikes across Krasnodar Krai, Russia, injuring two people and damaging several oil refineries. (Reuters) 

At least three people are killed and 16 others are injured when Russian missiles hit civilian infrastructure in Kharkiv. (Reuters) 

Ukraine and Russia announce their first exchange of prisoners of war in nearly four months, with 150 people freed following negotiations mediated by the United Arab Emirates. (Reuters) 

The death toll from yesterday’s U.S. Navy and British Navy airstrikes in Yemen increases to 16 with 35 others injured. (AP) 

The Houthi Supreme Political Council states that it launched an attack on the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, although American officials deny this claim. (The Independent) 

Seven soldiers are killed and 28 others are injured in an offensive by the Rapid Support Forces near Khartoum, Sudan. (Sudan Tribune) 

A medic is killed and another is injured in an Israeli airstrike against an ambulance in Naqoura, Lebanon. (Al Jazeera) 

France bans Israeli defense firms from exhibiting at the Eurosatory weapons expo convention. (Al Jazeera) 

Former First Lady of Zambia Esther Lungu is arrested on fraud charges. (BBC News) 

Canadian serial killer Robert Pickton dies in prison after being attacked by another inmate earlier this month. (AP) 

Pro-Palestinian protesters occupy parts of the Brooklyn Museum in New York City, New York, U.S. (Reuters) 

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Thursday, May 30th, 2024 

The United States gives Ukraine permission to strike Russian territory near Kharkiv Oblast with U.S.-supplied weapons, but not with long-range missiles. (Politico) 

Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen says Denmark has approved Ukrainian airstrikes on Russian territory using Danish-supplied F-16 jets. (The Moscow Times) 

The Israeli military lifts a ban on the sale of food to the Gaza Strip from Israel and the West Bank. (Reuters) 

Israeli airstrikes kill twelve Palestinian civilians in Rafah and one at the al-Shati camp near Gaza City. (Reuters) 

The United States Navy and the Royal Navy strike thirteen Houthi locations across Yemen, damaging underground facilities and vessels, killing at least two people and wounding ten. (NPR) 

North Korea launches a series of short-range ballistic missiles from Pyongyang toward the Sea of Japan. (Al Jazeera) 

A bus falls into a gorge in Jammu division, India, killing 21 people travelling to a pilgrimage site in Reasi district. (ABC News) 

A person is killed after falling into a running aircraft engine of a departing plane at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport in the Netherlands. (Al Jazeera) 

The third human case of H5N1 bird flu in the United States is found in a dairy worker in Michigan. (NPR) 

Slovenia’s ruling cabinet approves a motion to recognize Palestine as an independent nation and sends the motion to the National Assembly for adoption. (AP) 

The Spanish parliament votes to pass a bill granting amnesty to hundreds of Catalan secessionists involved in the Catalan declaration of independence from 2011 to 2017. (Al Jazeera) 

Former President of the United States Donald Trump is found guilty by a jury on all 34 felony counts relating to falsifying business records, becoming the first U.S. president to be convicted of a crime. (CNN) 

Hong Kong convicts fourteen activists and politicians guilty of subversion under its national security law. (Al Jazeera) 

The United States Department of Labor files a lawsuit against Hyundai Motors over illegal use of child labor at the company’s automobile factory in Montgomery, Alabama, amid a nationwide increase in child labor in the U.S. (Reuters) 

Three people, including a police officer, are killed in a mass shooting in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S. (WCCO-TV) 

Footballer Gerard Piqué is placed under official investigation for his alleged involvement in illegal payments in the relocation of the Supercopa de España from Spain to Saudi Arabia. (Reuters) 

Police dismantle and remove the student pro-Palestinian encampment at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, U.S. (The Detroit News) 

OpenAI removes online influence operations based in Russia, China, Iran, and Israel, due to the usage of AI by these operations to generate propaganda and fake content. (NPR) 

The Israeli military lifts a ban on the sale of food to the Gaza Strip from Israel and occupied West Bank. (Reuters) 

Wednesday, May 29th, 2024 

Sweden announces a package of $1.23 billion in military aid to Ukraine, the largest given by Sweden so far. (AP) 

The Polish Defence Ministry says it has given Ukraine permission to use Polish-supplied weapons to strike targets inside Russian territory. (Ukrainska Pravda) 

France and Germany announce that French and German weapons sent to Ukraine, including long-range missiles, are permitted to target bases inside Russia. (CNN) 

Israel says that it has taken full control of the Egypt–Gaza border after capturing the Philadelphi Corridor. (Reuters) (DW) 

The two Israeli soldiers seriously wounded by the ramming attack from yesterday succumb to their injuries. (Times of Israel) 

The town of Grindavík, Iceland, and the nearby Blue Lagoon are evacuated due to volcanic activity. (BBC News) 

At least 28 people are killed when a bus falls into a ravine in Balochistan, Pakistan. (Al Jazeera) 

The India Meteorological Department records a temperature of 52.9 °C (127.2 °F) in Delhi. (The Guardian) 

Brazil recalls its ambassador to Israel amid an ongoing diplomatic crisis between the two countries. (Reuters) 

Amnesty International says that the number of executions recorded globally in 2023 was the highest since 2015 and up more than 30% from 2022, with Iran carrying out 74% of the global total. The figures exclude China – thought to execute thousands of people each year. (BBC News) 

Citizens of Madagascar vote for members of the National Assembly. (Africanews) 

South Africans vote for members of the National Assembly and provincial legislatures. (The Guardian) 

Vanuatuans hold the first national constitutional referendum to vote on amendments related to party switching. (Radio Free Asia) 

In association football, Olympiacos win their first UEFA Europa Conference League title after defeating Fiorentina by a score of 1–0 in the final, becoming the first Greek team to win a major European club trophy. (AP) 

Tuesday,  May 28th, 2024 

At least 21 people are killed and 64 others are injured in a Israeli attack on a tent camp in al-Mawasi, Rafah Governorate. (Al Jazeera) 

Israeli tanks reach central Rafah for the first time with heavy clashes being reported. (Reuters) 

The U.S. removes the Gaza floating pier from the Gaza Strip for repair after its flotilla was damaged in bad weather. (AP) 

Russian guided bombs hit a block of apartments in Toretsk, Donetsk Oblast, killing at least two civilians and injuring six others. (Reuters) 

A Marshall Islands-flagged bulk carrier takes on water after being hit by three missiles off the coast of Yemen. (Reuters) 

Seventeen people are killed and six others are missing after a stone quarry collapses due to strong winds in Aizawl, Mizoram, India. (The Hindu) 

One person is killed and seven others are injured in a natural gas explosion at an apartment building in Youngstown, Ohio, U.S. (AP) 

Seventeen people are killed and six others are missing after a stone quarry collapses due to strong winds in Aizawl, India. (The Hindu) 

The governments of Norway, Ireland, and Spain officially recognise the State of Palestine, after declaring their intention to do so on May 22. (The Journal)

The governments of Norway, Ireland, and Spain officially recognise the State of Palestine, after declaring their intention to do so on May 22. The Palestinian flag was raised outside of Leinster House, the seat of Ireland’s parliament. (The Journal)

The Parliament of Denmark rejects a proposal to recognise a Palestinian state. (Reuters) 

Pro-Palestinian protestors in Mexico set fire to the Israeli embassy in Mexico City. (The Jewish Chronicle) (Proceso) 

The Senate of Colombia approves a resolution banning Spanish-style bullfighting in the country. (La FM) 

Former FTX co-CEO Ryan Salame is sentenced to more than seven years in prison and fined more than $11 million for fraud and criminal conspiracy. (Reuters) 

A Polish Border Guard soldier is seriously injured in an incident among a surge in migrants trying to cross the EU border from Belarus. (Polskie Radio) 

Mexico announces it will intervene in support of South Africa in South Africa’s genocide case against Israel. (Middle East Eye) 

The Georgian parliament overrides a presidential veto of the foreign agents law, thereby requiring president Salome Zourabichvili to endorse the bill within five days. (DW) 

The Kuomintang and Taiwan People’s Party pass amendments granting the Legislative Yuan greater powers to oversee the executive and to question officials and citizens, despite claims that these amendments violate civil liberties and could reduce the powers of president Lai Ching-te of the Democratic Progressive Party. (The Guardian) 

Garry Conille is named the new Prime Minister of Haiti by the Transitional Presidential Council. (AP) 

Monday,  May 27th, 2024 

Prime Minister of Spain Pedro Sánchez signs a bilateral security pact with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and pledges €1 billion (US$1.1 billion) of military aid to Ukraine. (Al Jazeera) 

Russia occupies the villages of Netailove in the Donetsk Oblast, and Ivanivka in the Kharkiv Oblast. (Arab News) 

One Egyptian border guard is killed in a shootout at the Rafah Border Crossing. Egypt and Israel are investigating the connection with a shooting incident earlier today. (Reuters) 

Yemen’s Houthi militia said they attacked three merchant ships and two destroyers from the United States Navy. (Reuters) 

Papua New Guinea asks for international help after the landslide in Enga Province three days ago, reporting that more than 2,000 people were buried alive and now presumed deceased. (AP) 

The death toll from an overnight tornado outbreak in the U.S. states of Texas, Kentucky, Oklahoma, and Arkansas increases to 21. (Reuters) 

One teenager is killed and six others are injured in a shooting in downtown Lansing, Michigan, United States. (USA Today) 

A spokesperson for Hamas’s Al-Qassam Brigades claim that they captured IDF soldiers in Jabalia yesterday. However, the IDF denies this claim. (Reuters) 

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