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) 

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Memorial Day,  May 29th, 2023 

Commander-in-chief of the Russian special forces in Syria, Colonel Oleg Pechevisty, is killed by an HTS artillery strike on a military post in the Latakia Province. (SOHR) (Enab Baladi) 

Russian forces strike Kyiv using Iskander ballistic and cruise missiles, with debris injuring one civilian and damaging infrastructure. Ukraine claims to have shot down all the missiles. (AP via Los Angeles Times) 

Russian airstrikes on Toretsk, Donetsk Oblast, target a petrol station and a multi-storey building, killing two people and injuring eight others. (Reuters) 

Twenty-five peacekeepers of the NATO-led KFOR are injured after clashes with ethnic Serbs in North Kosovo over the installation of ethnic Albanian mayors. Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić places the Serbian Armed Forces on the highest level of combat alert in response. (BBC News) 

The Russian Interior Ministry issues an arrest warrant against United States Senator Lindsey Graham over comments Graham made about the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Reuters) 

Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni signs the Anti-Homosexuality Bill into law, introducing the death penalty for “aggravated homosexuality” and 20 years in prison for the “promotion of homosexuality”. (Reuters) 

Sunday, May 28th, 2023 

Two-time series champion Josef Newgarden wins the 107th Indianapolis 500. (CNN) 

Citizens in Turkey head to the polls to vote in the second round of the presidential election. (AP) 

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is declared the winner by the Supreme Election Council, defeating his opponent Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu with 52 percent of the vote. (Tagesschau) 

The Comac C919, China’s first domestically-built passenger jet, completes its first commercial flight from Shanghai to Beijing by China Eastern Airlines. (AP) 

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurates a new parliament building capable of holding 1,272 MPs. The ceremony is boycotted by the opposition for not asking President Droupadi Murmu to inaugurate it and for selecting the birthday of Hindutva founder Vinayak Damodar Savarkar as the inauguration date, while Delhi Police detain wrestlers Bajrang Punia and Sakshi Malik for protesting the sexual abuse of female athletes at the ceremony. (BBC News) 

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Sunday, May 28th, 2023 

Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes is sentenced to 18 years in prison for his role in the 2021 attacks on the Capitol. (CNN) 

A potent new antibiotic, abaucin, capable of killing Acinetobacter baumannii (one of three superbugs the World Health Organization has identified as a “critical threat” to humanity), is created using artificial intelligence. (BBC News) 

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approves Neuralink‘s first-in-human clinical study of brain implants to treat conditions such as paralysis and blindness. (Reuters) 

Police in the Netherlands announce the arrest of 1,500 Extinction Rebellion protesters, including actress Carice van Houten, after protesters blocked a section of the A12 motorway near The Hague. (BBC News) 

Two people are killed and three others are injured in a “record drone attack” on Kyiv. Ukrainian authorities claim to have shot down 52 of 54 drones. (Euronews) 

Thirty three people are killed by ethnic clashes in Manipur, India. (Reuters) 

Citizens in Turkey head to the polls to vote in the second round of the presidential election. (AP) 

Somalia announces that starting next year, Somalis will change to a presidential system and elect their officials via direct vote, ending more than three decades of indirect voting where lawmakers elected the country’s leaders with approval of clan and elderly leaders. (Reuters) 

Saturday, May 27th, 2023 

Russian authorities claim that shelling killed a person in Shebekino, Belgorod Oblast and Kursk, Kursk Oblast, respectively. Russia accuses Ukraine of the attacks, although Ukraine denies any involvement. (AFP via The Moscow Times) 

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian says that Iran does not recognize the Taliban government in Afghanistan due to the lack of an inclusive government as well as recent tensions between Iran and the Taliban over border incidents and a dispute over the Helmand River. (Xinhua) 

The Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs swaps Asadollah Asadi for Belgian prisoner Olivier Vandecasteele. (CNN) 

Two Iranians and one Afghan are killed when Taliban troops engage Iranians along the border. (Reuters) 

The Afghanistan health department reports two deaths from Crimean–Congo hemorrhagic fever. (Tolo News) 

Eleven people are killed and 25 more injured when a nomadic tribe is hit by an avalanche in the Astore District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. (AP) 

The Texas House of Representatives votes 121–23 to impeach Attorney General Ken Paxton on 20 counts. (AP) 

Friday,  May 26th, 2023 

A Russian missile strike on Dnipro damages a medical facility, killing two people and injuring 23 others. (Ukrainska Pravda) (The Guardian) 

Germany‘s Bundestag votes 375–263, with one abstention, to approve the Bundeswehr‘s deployment in Mali as part of the UN‘s MINUSMA peacekeeping mission until May 31, 2024. (DW) 

The Constitutional Court of Guatemala blocks the candidacy of frontrunner Carlos Pineda in the 2023 Guatemalan general election due to alleged violations of electoral law. (AP) 

Thursday, May 25th, 2023 

Wagner Group forces begin withdrawing from Bakhmut, Donetsk Oblast, transferring control over to the Russian Ground Forces. (BBC News) 

Russia and Belarus sign an agreement in Minsk allowing the stationing of Russian tactical nuclear weapons on Belarusian territory. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko says that the weapons are already being transferred to Belarus. (Reuters) 

The Supreme Court of Russia orders the liquidation of the People’s Freedom Party, the oldest opposition party in the country. (The Moscow Times) 

Net migration to the United Kingdom reaches a record of 606,000, mostly due to non-EU arrivals, according to the Office for National Statistics. In response, Minister of State for Immigration Robert Jenrick reaffirmed the governments commitment “to reducing overall net migration to sustainable levels”. (Sky News) 

The German economy enters a recession for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic amid high levels of inflation. (BBC News) 

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