Sunday, June 12th, 2022 

Demonstrators participate in more than 450 rallies nationwide to push for gun law changes after mass shootings in United States. (NBC News) 

At least 30 members of the American neo–fascist group Patriot Front are arrested for conspiring to riot at a pride event in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, United States. (AP) 

Authorities in Argentina seize an Iranian Boeing 747 which was transferred to Venezuela last year. It is unclear if the impound is related to sanctions that have been imposed on both countries. (Reuters) 

Three months after McDonald’s suspended its operations in Russia and sold its 850 restaurants to Alexander Govor, the rebranded restaurants are reopened as Vkusno & tochka. (AP) 

The Celsius Network cryptocurrency lending platform announced it was “pausing all withdrawals, swap, and transfers between accounts” amidst a large pullback in the cryptocurrency market. (CNBC) 

Voters in France go to the polls to elect the first round of the 577 members of the 16th National Assembly. (AP) 

Exit polls show the coalition of left-wing parties headed by far-left deputy Jean-Luc Mélenchon barely edging out President Emmanuel Macron’s coalition Ensemble Citoyens for the most votes in the first round, winning 25.6% and 25.2% of the votes respectively. Overall turnout is projected to be 47%, the lowest recorded for a French election. (The Guardian) 

The referendum for the reform of the judicial system is invalidated as it did not reach the required 50% threshold. (Reuters) 

At this year’s Tony Awards, A Strange Loop wins Best Musical while The Lehman Trilogy wins Best Play. (New York Times) 

Saturday, June 11th, 2022 

Russian forces shell the Azot chemical plant in Sievierodonetsk, Luhansk Oblast. Governor Serhiy Haidai says that the attack has caused a massive fire at the plant. (Reuters) 

Top oil and petrochemicals producers Iran and Venezuela sign a 20-year economic cooperation agreement. (Reuters) 

The former president of Bolivia Jeanine Áñez is sentenced to ten years in prison for the crimes of breach of duty and resolutions contrary to the Constitution and laws of Bolivia during the 2019 Bolivian political crisis. (elDiarioAR.com) 

North Korea appoints Choe Son-hui as its next foreign minister. (Reuters) 

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Thursday, June 9th, 2022 

NASA announces that the James Webb Space Telescope collided with a micrometeoroid last month, but continues to function normally. (Phys.org) 

The Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) sentences to death two Britons and a Moroccan who had joined Ukrainian forces on charges of terrorism, mercenary activities, and attempting to overthrow the DPR’s government. (AP) 

The European Parliament adopts a resolution urging to amend the treaties of the European Union in order to abolish the unanimity principle in decision-making with respect to sanctions and foreign policy and to grant the Parliament the right to legislative initiative. (Politico) 

Thailand removes cannabis and hemp plants from its list of illegal narcotics, and will allow people to grow an unlimited number of these plants in farms and gardens for medicinal purposes as long as they inform the authorities. However, public consumption of these plants is discouraged by official authorities. (The Guardian) 

A 2-seater Beechcraft plane violates the airspace of seven countries in Eastern Europe, and is intercepted by two Hungarian Air Force Gripen jets, two USAF F-16s and two Romanian Air Force F-16s before being abandoned at an airfield near Targovishte, Bulgaria. (The Straits Times) 

Poland decides to lift its state of emergency over attempts by migrants to cross the Belarus–Poland border, saying that the border barrier it has been building is mostly complete. (AP) 

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) claims that 500 disguised members of the Rwandan special forces have intruded into the DRC. (Reuters) 

A People’s Liberation Army Air Force Chengdu J-7 aircraft crashes in a residential area in Laohekou, Hubei, China, killing at least one person on the ground as the pilot ejects out of the aircraft. (CNN) 

Governor Larry Hogan outlines a long-term preparedness plan on how Maryland will deal with COVID-19 including a focus on treatments that would keep people out of hospitals as well as on how the state would respond to future variants. (The Washington Post) 

Seven people are killed and 46 others are injured by a fire, suspected to be an arson attack, that spread through an office building in Daegu, South Korea. The suspect is killed in the fire. (AP) 

Three people are killed and another is injured in a mass shooting in Smithsburg, Maryland, United States. (AP) 

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