Portal:Current events/2024 June 19
June 19, 2024 (Wednesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Syrian civil war
- Israel's role in the Syrian civil war
- An Israeli airstrike kills a Syrian army officer in southern Syria. (Arab News)
- Israel's role in the Syrian civil war
- Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- Hezbollah announces that an Israeli strike in southern Lebanon killed three of its fighters. (AP)
- Hezbollah secretary general Hassan Nasrallah threatens Cyprus if it allows Israel to use its airports and bases for military exercises which Cypriot president Nikos Christodoulides denies as well as announcing the possibility of a ground invasion of Galilee. (Reuters)
Business and economy
- The European Commission reprimands Belgium, France, Hungary, Italy, Malta, Poland, and Slovakia for breaking budget rules. (Le Monde)
Disasters and accidents
- 2024 Atlantic hurricane season
- Tropical Storm Alberto forms in the Gulf of Mexico, the first storm of the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season. (USA Today)
- 2024 Hajj disaster
- At least 922 pilgrims are now confirmed to have died from heat-related causes during the Hajj in Saudi Arabia. (France 24)
- N'Djamena ammunition depot explosions
- Landslides caused by heavy monsoon rains in Bangladesh and India kill at least 15 people, injure several others, and displace millions of people. (Al Jazeera)
- At least four people are killed and more than a dozen others are missing after record rains impact parts of southern China. (Al Jazeera)
International relations
- Canada–Iran relations
- Canada adds Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to its list of terrorist entities. (Bloomberg)
- North Korea–Russia relations
- Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un sign an agreement to grant mutual aid and support in case either nation faces aggression. (AP)
- Sudanese civil war
- Sudan accuses the United Arab Emirates of arming the Rapid Support Forces. (Al Jazeera)
Law and crime
- 2024 New Caledonia unrest
- New Caledonia police arrest independence leader Christian Tein and seven others on suspicion of being involved in the deadly violence in the territory. (DW)
- Antisemitism during the Israel–Hamas war, Antisemitism in 21st-century France
- Two teenagers are charged with the gang rape of a 12-year-old Jewish girl in Courbevoie, France, in an attack suspected to have been motivated by antisemitism. (Al Arabiya)
- Vandalism of Stonehenge
- Two Just Stop Oil environmental protesters are arrested after damaging three standing stones of the Stonehenge prehistoric megalithic structure with orange powder paint. (BBC News)
- The National Assembly of Tajikistan approves a bill banning "alien garments" and children's celebrations for Eid al-Fitr and Eid Al-Adha. (RFE/RL)
Politics and elections
- Aging of South Korea
- South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol declares a 'demographic national emergency', citing an ultralow birth rate and a declining population. (Yonhap)
- Human Rights Watch reports that China has changed the names of hundreds of villages inhabited by Uyghurs in order to reflect the ruling Communist Party's ideology. (DW)
- The Italian Parliament passes a law granting more autonomy to the country's regions following a night of debate. The opposition Democratic Party and former Prime Minister Matteo Renzi express opposition to the bill, with the latter launching a campaign to force a referendum. (Reuters)
Sports
- 2024–25 UEFA Nations League A
- The city of Brussels, Belgium, announces that it will not host a UEFA Nations League match between Belgium and Israel on September 6 due to security concerns. (Euronews)