Current events: 2024-06-03

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• A Syrian man is arrested in Bucharest after throwing a Molotov cocktail at the Israeli embassy in the Romanian capital before trying to self-immolate. (Jerusalem Post) (AP)

Business and economy

• GameStop short squeeze
  • GameStop shares jump 21% after Keith Gill posts a $116 million investment on Reddit. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Indian heat wave
  • Over 211 people are killed and nearly 25,000 others suffer from heatstroke after a severe heatwave strikes India. (The Independent) (Reuters)

• The Kīlauea volcano in Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park begins to erupt for the first time in nine months. (The New York Times)

Law and crime

• Arrest of Imran Khan
  • The Islamabad High Court overturns Imran Khan's charges of leaking national security secrets. (Reuters)
• 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)
• The Chinese Ministry of State Security arrests and charges a couple for allegedly spying for Britain's MI6 agency. (Al Jazeera)

International relations

• Afghanistan–Kazakhstan relations
  • Kazakhstan removes the Taliban from its list of terrorist organizations. (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)

Politics and elections

• 2023–2024 Georgian protests
  • Chairperson of the Parliament of Georgia Shalva Papuashvili signs the foreign agent bill into law amidst mass protests and warnings from Western countries against signing the bill. (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)
• 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 announces he will run in the UK general election. (New York Times)
• Major Nigerian unions Nigeria Labour Congress and Trade Union Congress begin an indefinite strike, causing closures to schools, public offices, airports, and shutting down the national power grid amid a cost-of-living crisis and record low minimum wage. (Voice of America) (Al Jazeera)

Science and technology

• A rare planetary alignment (of six) occurs. The next one will be in 2080. (livemint) (The Guardian)

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