Portal:Current events/2023 June 26

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Military aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War
    • Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announces a AU$110 million military aid package to Ukraine. (The Guardian)
  • Ukrainian forces recapture the uninhabited village of Rivnopil in Donetsk Oblast, according to Deputy Defence Minister Hanna Maliar, the ninth in the past month. (Reuters)
• 2023 Sudan conflict
  • Battle of Khartoum
    • The Rapid Support Forces take control of the main police base in Khartoum, seizing a large amount of military equipment and ammunition, including 160 pickup trucks, 75 armoured personnel carriers, and 27 tanks. (The Guardian)
  • The Sudan People's Liberation Movement–North attacks the town of Kurmuk in Blue Nile, Sudan, prompting hundreds of civilians to flee across the border to Ethiopia. (Reuters)

Business and economy

• Turkish economic crisis
  • The Turkish lira falls to a record low against the United States dollar, while the central bank stops using its reserves to support the lira. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• 2023 Pakistan ration distribution stampedes
  • Twenty-one people are injured in a stampede during the disbursement of funds for the Benazir Income Support Programme in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. (Pakistan Today)
• Ten people are killed by lightning strikes in Punjab, Pakistan. (AP)
• Seven people die from drinking bootleg alcohol in Tehran, Iran. (Iranwire)
• Ten people are killed, four others are injured, and an unknown number of people are trapped when a 14-story apartment building collapses in Alexandria, Egypt. (Al-Ahram)
• One person is killed and six others are injured after a fire breaks out in a nickel smelting factory in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia. (Reuters)

Health and environment

• The Sri Lankan Department of Wildlife Conservation cancels plans to export about 100,000 endangered toque macaque Old World monkeys to China after several environmentalists initiated legal action in the Court of Appeal against the export. (AFP via ABS-CBN News)

International relations

• Germany–Lithuania relations
  • German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius announces that Germany will permanently station 4,000 troops in Lithuania in order to help secure NATO's eastern flank. (DW)

Politics and elections

• 2023 Toronto mayoral by-election
  • Former New Democratic Party Member of Parliament Olivia Chow is elected Mayor of Toronto, defeating former city councillor Ana Bailão, becoming the city's first non-White mayor. She replaces John Tory, who resigned in February after revealing he had an extra-marital affair with a staffer. (BBC News)