Current events: 2024-06-02

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Sudanese civil war
  • Darfur campaign
    • Battle of El Fasher
      • Kutum Hospital airstrike
        • The Sudanese Armed Forces bomb a hospital in Kutum, Sudan, injuring dozens of people. (Al Mayadeen)
      • Around eleven civilians are killed and 42 others are injured in large clashes between the Rapid Support Forces, the Sudanese Armed Forces, and various rebel militia groups in El Fasher, Sudan. (Sudan Tribune)
      • UNICEF reports that more than 270,000 people, including more than 130,000 children, are at risk following fighting at the Golo Reservoir in El Fasher. (The Print)
  • Battle of Khartoum
    • Seven soldiers are killed and 28 others are injured in an offensive by the Rapid Support Forces near Khartoum. (Sudan Tribune)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Russia–NATO relations, Russia–United States relations
    • Russia accuses NATO and the United States of "provoking a new level of tension" after some allies agreed to let Ukraine's military use Western-supplied weapons to strike targets inside Russia. (BBC News)
• Syrian civil war
  • Israel's role in the Syrian civil war
    • Syrian state media reports that a number of people have been killed in Israeli airstrikes near Aleppo. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• A firefighter is killed and thousands of people are evacuated after heavy rains cause flooding in southern Germany, particularly in the states of Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria. (Reuters) (DW)

Law and crime

• One person is killed and 24 others are injured in an overnight mass shooting in Akron, Ohio, United States. (NPR)

Politics and elections

• 2024 Iranian presidential election
  • Former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces that he intends to run for President of Iran again following the death of Ebrahim Raisi. (ABC News Australia)
• 2024 Mexican general election
  • Voters in Mexico elect a new president and legislature, eight governors, the mayor of Mexico City, and around 20,000 other positions in federal and local elections. (CNN)

Science and technology

• Chinese space program
  • China's Chang'e 6 lunar exploration mission to collect moon rock successfully lands on the far side of the Moon. (Reuters)

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