Portal:Current events/2024 June 3

Armed conflicts and attacks

• 2024 Iran–Israel conflict, Israel–Hezbollah conflict, Syrian civil war
  • Three Hezbollah members killed in Israeli airstrikes on Naqoura and Kauthariyet El Rez in southern Lebanon.[(L'Orient le Jour)
  • 16 Iranian-supported militia members killed in an IDF airstrike on a copper plant near Aleppo, Syria.(Al Arabiya)
  • Hezbollah fires drone attacks at IDF center station in the Galilee and in Metula.(Al Arabiya)
• 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)
• A Syrian man is arrested after throwing a Molotov cocktail at the Israeli embassy in Bucharest, Romania and attempting to self-immolate. (Jerusalem Post) (AP)

Business and economy

• GameStop short squeeze
  • The value of GameStop shares increases by 21% after Keith Gill posts a $116 million investment on Reddit. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Indian heat wave
  • More than 211 people are killed and nearly 25,000 others suffer from heatstroke amid a severe heat wave in India. (The Independent) (Reuters)
• The Kīlauea volcano in Hawaii, United States, erupts for the first time in nine months. (The New York Times)
• June 2024 South African storm complex
  • At least 11 people are killed by two tornadoes in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal. (Daily Maverick)

International relations

• Afghanistan–Kazakhstan relations, International relations with the Taliban
  • Kazakhstan removes the Taliban from its list of terrorist organizations. (RFE/RL)

Law and crime

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

Politics and elections

• 2023–2024 Georgian protests
  • Chairperson of the Parliament of Georgia Shalva Papuashvili signs the foreign agent bill into law amid mass protests and warnings from Western countries against signing the bill. (RFE/RL)
• 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 appoints himself leader of Reform UK and announces that he will run as a candidate for the party in the upcoming UK general election in Clacton. (The New York Times)
• 2024 Nigerian general strike
  • Major Nigerian unions Nigeria Labour Congress and Trade Union Congress begin an indefinite general strike, causing closures of schools, public offices, and airports, as well as a shutdown of the national power grid amid a cost-of-living crisis and record low minimum wages in Nigeria. (VOA) (Al Jazeera)