Portal:Current events/2023 June 1
June 1, 2023 (Thursday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- 2022–2023 Western Russia attacks
- Russia says they have prevented three attacks by the Russian Volunteer Corps in Belgorod Oblast. (The New Voice of Ukraine via Yahoo! News) (Reuters)
- Belgorod Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov says that Ukrainian forces have shelled Shebekino with BM-21 Grad rockets, damaging a dormitory and an administrative building in the town. Hundreds of people are evacuated. (Reuters)
- Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Russia launches cruise missiles and ballistic missiles at Kyiv, killing three civilians and injuring 12 others. (AFP via Arab News)
- 2022–2023 Western Russia attacks
- 2023 Sudan conflict
- Twenty-seven people are killed and at least 106 others are injured when rockets are fired at a market in Khartoum, Sudan. (The Guardian) (BBC News)
Disasters and accidents
- Three people in Lakhsh District, eastern Tajikistan are killed by a landslide. (RFE/RL)
Law and crime
- 2018–2023 Haitian crisis
- At least 160 suspected gang members were killed in Haiti between April 24 and May 24 by armed citizens after an increase in violence across the country. (Al Jazeera)
- Bill Cosby sexual assault cases
- A new lawsuit is filed against American actor Bill Cosby by Playboy model Victoria Valentino, accusing him of drugging and raping her in 1969. (NBC News)
- Nine people are killed during protests in Dakar and Ziguinchor, Senegal, between the police and supporters of convicted opposition leader Ousmane Sonko. (France 24)
- Four people are injured by a knife attack at a school in Eskilstuna, Södermanland, Sweden. (Reuters)
- Mexican drug war
- Authorities find 45 bags containing human remains in Jalisco, Mexico, after seven people were reported missing in the state last week. (CBS News)
- A Swiss appeals court finds former Liberian rebel commander Alieu Kosiah guilty of crimes against humanity committed during the First Liberian Civil War, sentencing him to 20 years in prison at first instance. (Sinar Daily)
- Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele announces that the government will construct a prison to hold white-collar criminals. He also announces that the country's security forces had raided the properties of former president Alfredo Cristiani. (Reuters)
Politics and elections
- 2024 Salvadoran general election
- Nayib Bukele officially proposes two bills to the Legislative Assembly to reduce the number of municipalities from 262 to 44 and the number of seats in the Legislative Assembly from 84 to 60. (La Prensa Gráfica)
- Capital punishment in Zimbabwe
- The parliament of Zimbabwe votes in favour of a new clause of the penal code which will introduce the death penalty for "unpatriotic acts" such as supporting sanctions on the country or supporting calls to overthrow the government. (Africa Feeds)
- Wedding of Hussein, Crown Prince of Jordan, and Rajwa Al Saif
- Crown Prince of Jordan Hussein bin Abdullah marries Saudi architect and distant relative of the Saud family Rajwa Al Saif in the Jordanian capital of Amman. (CNN)
- 2023 United States debt-ceiling crisis
- The United States Senate passes the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023, sending the measure to President Joe Biden to sign in order to avoid a debt ceiling default. (CBS News)