Portal:Current events/2019 June 7

June 7, 2019 (Friday)

Armed conflict and attacks

Art and culture

France returns three archaeological pieces to Peru that were seized by French customs in 2007. The artifacts, which date from between 1100 and 1450, are two clay statuettes and a wooden spear that belong to the Chancay and Chimú pre-Columbian cultures respectively. (Perú.21) (El Comercio)

Business and economy

Boeing 737 MAX groundings
- U.S. Representatives Peter DeFazio and Rick Larsen of the House Transportation committee report Boeing discovered the 737 Max AOA Disagree alert problem in 2017 but decided to defer fixing it until 2020, and sped up the process only after the Lion Air Flight 610 crash. (Reuters) (The Seattle Times)
Concerns over Chinese involvement in 5G wireless networks, Brazil-China relations
- Brazilian Vice President Hamilton Mourão says the government will not exclude Chinese telecom company Huawei Technologies Co. from operating a fifth-generation (5G) mobile telecom network. (Reuters)
Hydraulic fracturing
- Colombia’s top administrative court begins hearings on proposals to drill for oil using the technique known as fracking. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

An Oman-registered bus carrying 31 passengers crashes into an overhead traffic sign in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, killing at least 17 people. (BBC News)
2018–19 European windstorm season
- Three people on a rescue mission are killed when Storm Miguel, with max winds of 129 km/h (80 mph), overturned their National Society of Sea Rescue boat off the west coast of France in the Atlantic Ocean. The storm, unusual at the start of the summer tourist season, hit Spain, the Netherlands and southern England and Wales yesterday and is heading north toward England, Wales and Scotland. (BBC News) (AccuWeather)

Health and environment

In the United Kingdom, three hospital patients die from listeria linked to prepacked sandwiches from North Country Cooked Meats distributed via The Good Food Chain, which supplies 43 National Health Service trusts across the country. Three other patients are seriously ill. North Country Cooked Meats, and its distributor, North Country Quality Foods, voluntarily cease production while the investigation is ongoing. (BBC News) (CNN)

International relations

The U.S. cruiser USS Chancellorsville and the Russian destroyer Admiral Vinogradov almost collide in the western Pacific Ocean. Each side blames the other, and their reports disagree as to the location of the incident: Russia claims it happened in the East China Sea, while the U.S. says it was in the nearby Philippine Sea. (BBC News)
2019 Gulf of Oman incident
- The United Arab Emirates tells the UN Security Council that a "state actor" was most likely behind the May 12 attacks on four tankers off its coast, including ones from Saudi Arabia and Norway. UAE did not say who it suspected; the United States blamed Iran which denied the accusation. (BBC News)
Turkey–United States relations
- The United States notifies Turkey that it will cancel Turkey's purchase of F-35 fighter jets if the government goes ahead with purchasing Russia's S-400 missile defense system. (Al Jazeera)
Mexico–United States relations
- Mexico and the United States reach a deal on migration, suspending tariffs on Mexican imports into the U.S. which were to take effect on June 10. Mexico agreed to increase its enforcement efforts along their southern border with Guatemala, including deploying troops from their upcoming National Guard [es]. (CBS News) (CNBC)

Politics and elections

2019 Conservative Party leadership election
- UK Prime Minister Theresa May resigns as Leader of the Conservative Party, paving the way for a new Prime Minister to be elected. (BBC News)
Crisis in Venezuela
- The United Nations reports more than four million Venezuelans have fled their country during the economic and humanitarian crisis. (BBC News)

Science and technology

NASA announces that the International Space Station will be opened for commercial business in 2020 for $58 million. (Los Angeles Times) (Space.com)

Sports