Current events: 2023-06-09

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Mali War
  • A United Nations peacekeeper is killed and four others are injured in an improvised explosive device attack in Ber, Tombouctou region, Mali. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• At least seven people are killed and 59 others are injured in floods and storms across Iran. (Mehr)

International relations

• Iceland–Russia relations
  • Iceland announces that it will suspend operations at its embassy in Moscow, Russia, beginning on August 1, saying that "commercial, cultural and political relations" with Russia are "at an all-time low" and that maintaining the embassy is "no longer justifiable". (The Kyiv Post)

Politics and elections

• Former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson resigns from Parliament after being told by the Privileges Committee that he will be sanctioned for misleading Parliament over his involvement in Partygate. (BBC)

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