Portal:Current events/2023 June 21
June 21, 2023 (Wednesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- A Palestinian man is killed and several others are injured by Israeli settlers in Turmus Ayya. (BBC News)
- An Israeli drone conducts the first airstrike on the West Bank since 2005, targeting a car, and killing two PIJ members and an Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades member. (Middle East Eye)
Business and economy
- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approves Upside Foods and Good Meat's applications to commercially sell lab-grown meat, making the United States the second country in the world to allow its sale after Singapore. (Al Jazeera)
Disasters and accidents
- 2023 Paris explosion
- Around 50 people are injured and one is missing after an explosion and fire on Rue Saint-Jacques in Paris, France. (CNN)
- 2023 Canary Islands migrant boat disaster
- At least 35 people are missing after a dinghy carrying migrants sinks off the coast of the Canary Islands, Spain. (Reuters)
- 2023 Yinchuan gas explosion
- Thirty-one people are killed and seven others are injured by a gas explosion at a restaurant in Yinchuan, China. (CNN)
- Two people are killed and 31 others are injured by a train crash near M'saken, Sousse Governorate, Tunisia. (Africanews)
- Four people are killed and several others are injured after a tornado rips through the town of Matador, Texas, United States. (Reuters)
International relations
- Israel–Morocco relations
- Morocco cancels this year's Negev Summit meeting in response to Israel approving the construction of over 4,500 settlements in the occupied West Bank on Sunday. (Middle East Eye)
Law and crime
- Two people are injured in a stabbing at the Central Middlesex Hospital in Park Royal, London, United Kingdom. (Reuters)
- A court in Belarus sentences 18 participants who took part in the 2020 election protests against President Alexander Lukashenko to between 2 and 25 years imprisonment. (AP)
- Russian prosecutor-general Igor Krasnov designates international non-governmental organization World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) as an "undesirable organization", effectively prohibiting the organization from operating in the country. Krasnov claims that WWF's campaigns threaten Russian economic development, particularly in the energy sector. (Reuters)