Portal:Current events/2022 June 24

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Battle of Sievierodonetsk
      • Governor of Luhansk Oblast Serhiy Haidai announces that Ukrainian forces will withdraw from Sievierodonetsk amid the advance of Russian and pro-Russian forces. (Axios)
    • A Russian-appointed senior official for the Kherson youth department is killed by a car bombing in Kherson in an apparent assassination. (Al Jazeera) (The Moscow Times)
    • Ukrainian authorities say that Russian forces have captured the city of Hirske, south of Lysychansk, in Luhansk Oblast. Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov says that his forces also captured the town of Zolote. (Reuters) (Newsweek)
• Two Tunisian police officers are injured in a stabbing and suspected terrorist attack in the Grand Synagogue of Tunis. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• 2022 Melilla incident
  • Eighteen migrants are killed and hundreds of people injured, mostly Spanish and Moroccan security forces, as around 2,000 migrants attempt to illegally enter Melilla, Spain, from Morocco. (AP)
• Five people are killed and eleven others are injured in Gayan District, Paktika Province, Afghanistan, by an aftershock from the recent earthquake that killed at least 1,100 people in Afghanistan and Pakistan. (Reuters)
• An Ilyushin Il-76 military cargo plane carrying nine people crashes near Ryazan, Russia, killing five passengers. (Reuters)

Health and environment

• 2022 monkeypox outbreak
  • 2022 monkeypox outbreak in Asia
    • Taiwan, Lebanon, Singapore and South Korea report their first cases of monkeypox. (Reuters) (Reuters 2) (Reuters 3) (Reuters 4)
  • 2022 monkeypox outbreak in Europe
    • Bulgaria and Croatia report their first cases of monkeypox. (Reuters) (Total Croatia News)
  • 2022 monkeypox outbreak in Canada
    • British Columbia reports its second case of monkeypox. (CTV News Vancouver)
  • 2022 monkeypox outbreak in the United States
    • Kentucky, North Carolina and Texas report their first cases of monkeypox. (WLEX-TV) (Citizen Times) (KXAN-TV)
    • New York City opens the first monkeypox clinic in the United States. (U.S. News and World Report)
  • South Africa and Colombia report their first cases of monkeypox. (Reuters 2) (Reuters 3)
  • Zambia, Libya and Fiji report their first suspected cases of monkeypox. (Diggers News) (Libyan Express) (Fiji Village)
• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Somalia
    • President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud tests positive for COVID-19. (Al Jazeera)
  • COVID-19 vaccine
    • The Sanofi–GSK COVID-19 vaccine is found to be effective against the Omicron variant. (Reuters)

International relations

• Accession of North Macedonia to the European Union, Bulgaria–North Macedonia relations
  • Bulgaria lifts its veto against North Macedonia's bid to join the European Union. (DW)

Law and crime

• Abortion in the United States
  • Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization
    • The United States Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, ending protection of the right to abortion on the federal level and returning regulation to the states. Twenty-two states enact trigger laws or reinstitute existing laws banning abortion. (Reuters) (CNBC)
• Kongsberg attack
  • A court in Norway finds the attacker not criminally responsible due to paranoid schizophrenia and sentences him to compulsory mental treatment. (Euronews)
• 2021 Cuban protests
  • A court in Cuba sentences two protesters to between five and nine years in prison for desecrating the Cuban flag and resisting authority during last year's protests. (CNN en Español)

Politics and elections

• 2022 Grenadian general election
  • The oppositional National Democratic Congress wins the majority of seats in Grenada's latest general election. NDC's party leader Dickon Mitchell is expected to become Grenada's next Prime Minister. (Loop Caribbean News)
• UK parliamentary by-elections
  • The Conservative Party is defeated in both the Tiverton and Honiton by-election and the Wakefield by-election by the Liberal Democrats and the Labour Party, respectively. Conservative chairman Oliver Dowden resigns in the aftermath of the defeats. (BBC News)

Sports

• Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sports
  • Canada at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships
    • The Canada men's national water polo team withdraws from the remainder of the 2022 World Aquatics Championships in Budapest, Hungary, due to COVID-19 cases within the team. (CBC Sports)