Portal:Current events/2024 June 3
June 3, 2024 (Monday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- 2024 Iran–Israel conflict, Israel–Hezbollah conflict, Syrian civil war
- Three Hezbollah members killed in Israeli airstrikes on Naqoura and Kauthariyet El Rez in southern Lebanon.[(L'Orient le Jour)
- 16 Iranian-supported militia members killed in an IDF airstrike on a copper plant near Aleppo, Syria.(Al Arabiya)
- Hezbollah fires drone attacks at IDF center station in the Galilee and in Metula.(Al Arabiya)
- Sudanese civil war
- The Rapid Support Forces announce the establishment of a civil administration in the state of South Darfur, which they fully control. (Al Taghyeer)
- A Syrian man is arrested after throwing a Molotov cocktail at the Israeli embassy in Bucharest, Romania and attempting to self-immolate. (Jerusalem Post) (AP)
Business and economy
- GameStop short squeeze
- The value of GameStop shares increases by 21% after Keith Gill posts a $116 million investment on Reddit. (Reuters)
Disasters and accidents
- 2024 Indian heat wave
- More than 211 people are killed and nearly 25,000 others suffer from heatstroke amid a severe heat wave in India. (The Independent) (Reuters)
- The Kīlauea volcano in Hawaii, United States, erupts for the first time in nine months. (The New York Times)
- June 2024 South African storm complex
- At least 11 people are killed by two tornadoes in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal. (Daily Maverick)
International relations
- Afghanistan–Kazakhstan relations, International relations with the Taliban
- Kazakhstan removes the Taliban from its list of terrorist organizations. (RFE/RL)
Law and crime
- Arrest of Imran Khan
- The Islamabad High Court overturns former Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan's charges of leaking national security secrets. (Reuters)
- The Chinese Ministry of State Security arrests and charges a couple for allegedly spying for Britain's MI6 agency. (Al Jazeera)
Politics and elections
- 2023–2024 Georgian protests
- Chairperson of the Parliament of Georgia Shalva Papuashvili signs the foreign agent bill into law amid mass protests and warnings from Western countries against signing the bill. (RFE/RL)
- 2024 European farmers' protests
- Spanish and French farmers block roads on highways through the Pyrenees mountains in protest against trade with non-European Union member states. (Reuters)
- 2024 United Kingdom general election
- Nigel Farage appoints himself leader of Reform UK and announces that he will run as a candidate for the party in the upcoming UK general election in Clacton. (The New York Times)
- 2024 Nigerian general strike
- Major Nigerian unions Nigeria Labour Congress and Trade Union Congress begin an indefinite general strike, causing closures of schools, public offices, and airports, as well as a shutdown of the national power grid amid a cost-of-living crisis and record low minimum wages in Nigeria. (VOA) (Al Jazeera)