Battle of Honey Springs

Law and crime

• AMIA bombing
  • Argentina issues an arrest warrant via Interpol for Iranian interior minister Ahmad Vahidi in connection with the 1994 bombing of a Jewish Community Center in Buenos Aires. Vahidi is currently believed to be in Sri Lanka. (BBC News)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israel–Hamas war
  • Israel–Hezbollah conflict
    • An Israeli Air Force airstrike kills two people and injures six others in Hanine, Lebanon. (Reuters)
  • Nasser Hospital mass graves, Nasser Hospital siege
    • United Nations human rights chief Volker Türk calls for an international investigation after hundreds of bodies are discovered in mass graves near the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip. (The New York Times)

Business and economy

• The United States Federal Trade Commission votes to ban nearly all employment agreements that prevent workers from joining competing businesses. (NPR)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Lumut mid-air collision
  • Two Royal Malaysian Navy helicopters collide in mid-air during a rehearsal parade in Lumut, Malaysia, killing all ten people on board. (CNA)
• English Channel migrant crossings
  • Five migrants drown while attempting to cross the English Channel and 49 others are rescued. (Reuters)
• At least 21 migrants die after their boat capsizes off the coast of Djibouti. (Reuters)
• A Douglas DC-4 crashes into the Tanana River in Alaska, United States, shortly after takeoff from Fairbanks, killing two people on board. (Anchorage Daily News)

International relations

• International recognition of the State of Palestine, International reactions to the Israel–Hamas war
  • Jamaica becomes the 140th UN member state to recognize the State of Palestine. (Jamaica Observer)
• North Korea and weapons of mass destruction
  • North Korea claims that it tested a new command-and-control system in a simulated nuclear counterstrike. (CNN)

Politics and elections

• Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Rishi Sunak announces that he plans to increase the United Kingdom's defence budget to 2.5% of its GDP by 2030, totaling around £85 billion. (The Guardian) (Reuters)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Eastern Ukraine campaign
    • The Russian Ministry of Defence claims control over the village of Novomykhailivka in Donetsk Oblast. (Reuters)
  • Military aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War
    • The United Kingdom announces its largest ever military support package for the Ukrainian military, pledging 400 vehicles, including 162 MXT-MVs, 60 boats, 1,600 air defence missiles, 4 million rounds of firearm ammunition, and an additional £500 million in funding. (The Guardian)
  • Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure
    • Russia strikes the Kharkiv TV Tower with a Kh-59 cruise missile, causing the upper half of the tower to collapse and disrupting the broadcasting signal in Kharkiv, Ukraine. (Reuters)
• Israel–Hamas war
  • Siege of Khan Yunis
    • Israeli troops and tanks attack Khan Yunis in Gaza after abruptly withdrawing from the city earlier this month. (Reuters)
• Insurgency in the North Caucasus
  • Two police officers are killed and another is injured during a mass shooting of a police squad in Karachay-Cherkessia, Russia. (Tass)
• Moro conflict
  • Twelve Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters militants are killed and seven soldiers are wounded during a shootout in Datu Saudi Ampatuan, Maguindanao del Sur, Philippines. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Guangdong floods
  • Four people are killed and ten are missing during floods caused by heavy rain in Guangdong Province, China. Around 110,000 people are evacuated. (BBC News)

International relations

• China–Japan relations
  • Controversies surrounding Yasukuni Shrine
    • China objects to an offering that Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida made at Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine on Sunday. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• Israel–Hamas war
  • 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel
    • The head of the Military Intelligence Directorate of Israel Aharon Haliva resigns for failing to prevent the Hamas offensive on Israel on October 7, 2023. (AP)
• 2024 Maldivian parliamentary election
  • President Mohamed Muizzu's party, the People's National Congress, is declared the winner of the election. (Reuters)

Science and technology

• NASA announces that it has received decipherable data from the Voyager 1 space probe for the first time in five months. (CNN)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • Israel–Hamas war
    • Bombing of the Gaza Strip
      • Twenty-two people are killed, including 18 children, in overnight Israeli strikes in Rafah in the Gaza Strip, according to local health officials. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Fox Hill Supercross race crash
  • A car veers off the track during the international Fox Hill Supercross motor race in Diyatalawa, Sri Lanka, and crashes into a group of spectators, killing seven people and injuring 21 others. (BBC News)

Politics and elections

• 2024 Ecuadorian constitutional referendum
  • Ecuadorians vote in a referendum on proposed constitutional changes. (Al Jazeera)
• 2024 Maldivian parliamentary election
  • Maldivians elect the members of the parliament. (The Hindu)
• 2024 North Kosovo referendum
  • A referendum on whether to remove ethnic Albanian mayors from office in Serb-majority North Kosovo is boycotted by most Serbs, who demand that the mayors resign. (Reuters)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • Israel–Hamas war
    • Israeli attacks in the West Bank during the Israel–Gaza war
      • Fourteen Palestinians are killed in an Israeli attack in the West Bank. (Reuters) (Times of Israel)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • The Governor of Smolensk Oblast, Russia, says that a Ukrainian drone attack caused a fire at a fuel depot in Kardymovsky. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Bangui river disaster
  • A river boat en route to a funeral capsizes in the Mpoko River in Bangui, Central African Republic, killing at least 58 people. (DW)

International relations

• Military aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War, United States support for Israel in the Israel–Hamas war
  • The U.S. House of Representatives passes a series of bills that would provide $95 billion in military aid to countries including Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan. (ABC News)

Law and crime

• Israel–Hamas war protests
  • Israel–Hamas war protests in the United States
    • American college students plan demonstrations in solidarity with pro-Palestinian Columbia University protesters arrested in New York City earlier this week. (CNN)
• Mass shootings in the United States
  • Two people are killed and six more are injured in a shooting at a block party in Memphis, Tennessee. (ABC News)
• Protests occur in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, against mass tourism in the Canary Islands which is allegedly increasing house prices for locals. (Reuters)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• 2024 Iran–Israel conflict
  • 2024 Israeli strikes on Iran
    • Missiles are launched by the Israel Defense Forces towards Isfahan, Iran. Locations in Iraq and Syria are also attacked by Israel. (Al Jazeera) (Times of Israel) (The Washington Post)
  • The Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade tells its citizens to leave Israel, citing a high threat of military reprisals and terrorist attacks. (Times of Israel)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure
    • Russian missile strikes kill seven civilians in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, including five in Synelnykove and two in Dnipro, with several others critically injured. (BBC News)
  • A Russian Air Force Tupolev Tu-22M3 aircraft is shot down in Russian airspace over Stavropol Krai after launching missiles at targets in Ukraine. (BBC News)
• An Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces command post at the Kalsu military base was hit by an explosion resulting from an air strike, killing one fighter and wounding six others. Security sources say it is not known who was responsible, and Israel and the United States both deny involvement. (Reuters) (CNN)

Business and economy

• American car manufacturer Tesla, Inc. recalls thousands of Cybertrucks due to "safety concerns" involving the truck's accelerator pedals. (BBC News)

International relations

• Niger–United States relations
  • The United States agrees to withdraw American troops from Niger. (The Washington Post)

Law and crime

• Self-immolation of Maxwell Azzarello
  • A man fatally sets himself on fire near the New York City courthouse where former President Donald Trump is currently on trial. (The New York Times)

Politics and elections

• 2024 Indian general election
  • Indians begin voting to elect members to the 18th Lok Sabha. There are 969 million people eligible to vote, and voting will continue until June in seven phases. (AP)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Foreign involvement in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Germany arrests two German-Russian nationals for an alleged military sabotage plot on behalf of Russia to undermine military support for Ukraine. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• A Kenya Air Force Bell UH-1H Huey II crashes in Elgeyo-Marakwet County, Kenya, killing ten people, including Chief of Defence Forces Francis Omondi Ogolla. President William Ruto declares three days of national mourning. (BBC News)

International relations

• Palestine and the United Nations, Enlargement of the United Nations
  • The United States vetoes a UN Security Council resolution supporting the State of Palestine joining the United Nations. The vote was 12 in favor, the United States opposed, and two abstentions, from the United Kingdom and Switzerland. (AP)

Sports

• In ice hockey, the National Hockey League board approves the relocation of the hockey assets of the Arizona Coyotes to Salt Lake City, Utah. The currently unnamed expansion team will play their home games at the Delta Center, while the Coyotes franchise will be deactivated pending the construction of a new arena in the Phoenix metropolitan area. (Sportsnet) (AP)