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In association football, the UEFA Champions League concludes with Liverpool (captain Jordan Henderson pictured) defeating Tottenham Hotspur in the final.
Brigitte Bierlein is named interim chancellor of Austria, after a parliamentary motion of no confidence dismisses the government of Sebastian Kurz.
James Marape is elected Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea, following the resignation of Peter O'Neill.
A river cruiser collides with another vessel and sinks in Budapest, Hungary, killing at least eleven people.

June 5, 2019 (Wednesday)

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Armed attacks and conflicts

Sudanese protests
- An opposition doctors' group says the number of people killed this week in Sudan is now 60. Members of the Rapid Support Forces have reportedly been roaming the streets attacking civilians as it pushes deeper into Khartoum. (BBC)

Law and crime

Australian federal police raid the headquarters of the country's public broadcaster, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, in connection with 2017 leaked documents alleging Australian special forces engaged in unlawful killings and gross misconduct in Afghanistan. Yesterday, police raided Herald Sun journalist Annika Smethurst's home regarding other alleged leaks of national security information. (BBC) (Business Insider)

Politics and elections

2019 Danish general election
- Citizens in Denmark, including those in the Faroe Islands and Greenland, go to the polls to vote for the next members of the Folketing. (The Local)

June 4, 2019 (Tuesday)

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Arts and culture

After 17 years of flying the "First Navy Jack", the United States Navy's warships return to flying the pre-2002 naval jack. (Navy Times)

Business and economics

British-American cruise operator Carnival Corporation & PLC is fined $20 million for environmental violations. (NPR)

International relations

Cuba–United States relations, Cuban thaw
- The United States announces new restrictions on American travel to Cuba. Effective Wednesday, travel via cruise ships or other conveyances, including private yachts or airplanes, is prohibited. Group travel under the previous ‘people-to-people educational’ provision is also not allowed. (BBC) (AP via WKYT-TV)
China–United States relations, China–United States trade war
- China expands its warnings about travel to the U.S. issued for students and academics yesterday, to now cover tourists and businesses because, "In recent days, there have been incidents of gun violence, robberies and thefts in the United States." (BBC) (Reuters)

Law and crime

2019 Darwin shooting
- A mass shooting in Darwin, the capital of Australia's Northern Territory, leaves four people dead and another injured at five different locations. The 45-year-old suspect, who had been on parole since January, is arrested. Authorities say the shooting was not terrorism-related. (ABC News) (BBC)
Criminal charges brought in the Special Counsel investigation (2017–2019), Trials of Paul Manafort
- Paul Manafort, former chief of President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign, is set to be sent from federal prison to the New York City jail on Rikers Island. (CNBC)
Aftermath of the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting
- Former Broward Sheriff Office deputy Scot Peterson is arrested for failing to act during the incident at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. (The Hill)
Jersey authorities seize over $267 million (£210m) from a Doraville Properties Corporation bank account of former Nigerian president and army chief of staff dictator Sani Abacha (d. 1998) after courts ruled billions of dollars were stolen and laundered through the United States into the Channel Islands. (BBC) (Metro)

Politics and elections

Gun laws in Virginia
- Virginia Governor Ralph Northam is expected to call a special session on gun control following the deadly shooting Friday afternoon in Virginia Beach that killed 12 people plus the shooter. (NBC News)
30th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests
- Tens of thousands of people gather in Hong Kong to mark the 30th anniversary of the crackdown on protests in Beijing's Tiananmen Square. Hong Kong is one of the two places in China where people can commemorate the event, the other being Macau, to a lesser extent; elsewhere in China, the authorities have banned and blocked any reference to the crackdown. (BBC)
Six Change UK MPs quit the party, with several said to be defecting to the Liberal Democrats, including its interim leader Heidi Allen and spokesperson Chuka Umunna after the party failed to win a single seat in the 2019 European Parliament election. Anna Soubry, one of its remaining four MPs, becomes the party's new leader. (The Guardian)
Immigration to the United States
- The United States House of Representatives passes the American Dream and Promise Act (HR 6), which offers a path to citizenship for millions of immigrants. (Newsweek)

June 3, 2019 (Monday)

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War in Afghanistan
- Five people are killed and over 10 injured in an IED bomb explosion in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Dailytrust)
2018–19 Sudanese protests
- Over 13 people have been killed when Sudanese forces use live ammunition to break up a protester camp in Khartoum. (Al Jazeera)
Boko Haram insurgency
- Boko Haram storms multiple military bases in the Nigerian state of Borno. Casualties are unknown. (The Guardian Nigeria)
A gunman kills four security officers and injures two before blowing himself up in Tripoli, Lebanon (BBC)

Arts and culture

James Holzhauer is defeated on the American quiz show Jeopardy!, concluding a victory streak of 32 games with an earnings total of $2,464,216, but falls short of the winnings record set by Ken Jennings in 2004. (Washington Post)

Disasters and accidents

2019 Indian Air Force An-32 disappearance
- An Indian Air Force Antonov An-32 goes missing shortly after takeoff from an airbase in Assam. All 13 people aboard are presumed dead as search operations continue. (India Today)

Health and environment

Authorities say that a patient has died amid an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease in a recently opened hospital in Grove City, Ohio. (ABC News)

Sport

Brendon Bolton is sacked as the head coach of the Carlton Football Club, following a prolonged period of poor on-field performances. (The Age (Australia))

June 2, 2019 (Sunday)

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Syrian Civil War
- A suicide car bomber kills five soldiers of the Syrian Democratic Forces and five civilians at a checkpoint in central Raqqa, Syria. This and a nearby roadside bomb wound 20 people. (DW)
- Israel kills ten people in airstrikes conducted against Syrian military targets in the Golan Heights in response to two rockets fired at Mount Hermon late Saturday. (The Guardian)
- A car bomb in Azaz kills at least 21 people and leaves many wounded. (DW)
Two car bombs targeting a unit of the Libyan National Army injure 18 people in the city center of Derna, Libya. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

An EF1 tornado strikes the Orleans residential community of Ottawa, Canada, creating a track of damage but without serious injuries. (Ottawa Citizen)

International relations

Canada–Venezuela relations
- Canada temporarily closes its embassy in Venezuela after Canadian diplomats were no longer able to get diplomatic accreditation under Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro's government according to a statement released by the Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Chrystia Freeland. (Global Affairs Canada) (CBC News)

Politics and elections

Andrea Nahles announces her resignation as leader of Germany's Social Democratic Party, effective at the beginning of next week. (BBC)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dismisses Minister of Justice Ayelet Shaked and Minister of Education Naftali Bennett from the interim government. (AP via Fox News)
King Juan Carlos I of Spain retires from public life five years after his abdication. (People)
During his visit to Romania, Pope Francis apologizes to the Roma people on behalf of the Catholic Church and asks forgiveness for "all those times in history when we have discriminated, mistreated or looked askance at you." He also beatifies seven Eastern Catholic church bishops who were jailed for treason and tortured under Communist rule. All died in confinement and were buried in secret. (Reuters) (BBC)
U.S. President Donald Trump announces the resignation of Kevin Hassett as Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers. (The Washington Post)
2019 Sammarinese referendum
- Sanmmarinese voters vote to end discrimination based on sexual orientation and initiate a popular legislative initiative for the reform of the electoral system. (Euronews)

Science and technology

Google has a cloud services outage that affects Gmail, Snapchat, YouTube and other services in parts of the United States. (CNBC)

June 1, 2019 (Saturday)

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Armed conflict and attacks

A suicide bomber driving a Humvee detonated the vehicle loaded with explosives near a security building in Afghanistan, killing 8 officers. (ariananews)

Arts and culture

Pope Francis visits Romania, meeting with Patriarch Daniel of the Romanian Orthodox Church and holding an open mass in front of 80,000 people. (The New York Times)
- Pope Francis urges ethnic Hungarians and Romanians to mend their differences toward a peaceful existence in one country. (Reuters)

Business and economics

Chinese authorities begin an investigation into American multinational courier delivery services company FedEx for allegedly undermining the rights of Chinese clients. The investigation stems from allegations by Chinese telecommunications company Huawei that FedEx attempted to divert the shipping route of its packages without the company's prior authorization which in turn has been denied by FedEx. (CNBC)

Disasters and accidents

Twenty-nine people are injured in a fire at a center used as temporary accommodation for about 500 migrants in the northwestern Bosnian town of Velika Kladusa. (Reuters)
An explosion at a Russian Military high-explosive production and storage facility in the city of Dzerzhinsk injures 79 people. (BBC)
Six earthquakes, the first 5.3 M_w, in a two-hour period near Korçë in southeastern Albania injure four people and damage around 100 houses. (Reuters)
Cruise ship MSC Opera collides with a riverboat and the quayside at Venice, Italy: four people are injured, none seriously. The incident leads to renewed demands to ban large cruise ships from the Lagoon of Venice. (BBC)

Health and environment

Hong Kong confirms its second case of African swine fever, indicating the virus continues to spread beyond mainland China. Sheung Shui slaughterhouse is temporarily closed while 4,100 animals are culled from the facility. (South China Morning Post)

International relations

Honduras–United States relations, 2017–2019 Honduran protests
- Dozens of masked protesters set fire to the U.S. Embassy in downtown Tegucigalpa, amid a second day of mass anti-government protests in Honduras. (Reuters)
At the close of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation summit in Mecca, the OIC says it will not accept any decision to change the legal and demographic status of Syria's Golan Heights, that it condemns any position adopted by an international body that supports prolonging occupation of Palestinian territories, and it condemns the inhumane situation of Rohingya Muslims. (Reuters) (Reuters²) (Reuters³)
China–United States trade war
- The United States begins collecting the higher, 25 percent tariffs on many Chinese goods arriving in U.S. seaports. (Reuters)

Law and crime

Indictment and arrest of Julian Assange
- The United Nations special rapporteur on torture, Nils Melzer, accuses the United States, the United Kingdom and Sweden of "ganging up" on Julian Assange and subjecting him to "psychological torture" and "collective persecution" after spending seven years living inside London's Ecuadorian Embassy. (The New York Times)

Politics and elections

2020 United States presidential election
- Maryland Governor Larry Hogan says he won't challenge U.S. President Donald Trump for the Republican Party's nomination for President in the 2020 presidential election, leaving Bill Weld as the only other major candidate for the nomination. (CNBC)
Sudanese protests
- Shots fired by "regular forces" near the site of a sit-in protest in Khartoum kill one person and wound 10 others, according to the Central Committee of Sudanese Doctors. The gunfire lasted about four hours. This week at least three protesters have been shot dead and eight others injured during protests calling for the generals who replaced deposed President Omar al-Bashir to hand power to a civilian-led administration. (Reuters) (Al Jazeera)
El Salvador's new President Nayib Bukele takes office. (Reuters)

Sports

Liverpool F.C. defeats Tottenham Hotspur F.C. by a score of 2–0 to win the 2019 UEFA Champions League Final. (CBS Sports)

May 31, 2019 (Friday)

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Armed conflict and attacks

Taliban suicide car bomber kills four Afghan civilians and wounds over 20 including four American soldiers. (VOA)

Disasters and accidents

2019 Alberta wildfires
- In northern Alberta, Canada, an estimated 10,000 people have been evacuated due to fast spreading wildfires. (Global News)
- Air quality warnings are issued for most of Alberta as a result of the thick smoke moving across the province. Places as far south as Calgary have reached 10+ on the Air Quality Health Index, and rated worse than some of the most polluted cities in the world. (Calgary Herald)

Law and crime

North Korea–United States relations
- According to South Korean media, North Korea executed five officials back in March, including Kim Hyok-chol, its nuclear envoy to the United States, for their part in the failed second summit in Hanoi. In addition, three other officials involved in the summit have reportedly been sent to a camp for political prisoners. (Reuters) (Fox News)
Eddie Gallagher, a U.S. Navy Seal charged with the murder of an ISIL prisoner, attempted murder of civilians, and obstruction of justice, is temporarily released from custody amidst allegations of misconduct by Navy prosecutors. (CBS News)
Virginia Beach shooting
- Thirteen people are killed, including the shooter, and five are injured in a shooting at a municipal center in Virginia Beach, Virginia. (WAVY)

Sports

2018–19 CAF Champions League
- In African football, the 2019 CAF Champions League Final between Morocco's Wydad Casablanca, and Tunisia's Espérance Sportive de Tunis, is abandoned after Wydad Casablanca players refused to play following a row over a goal ruled out by the video assistant referee (VAR). The referee subsequently awarded the victory to Espérance Sportive de Tunis for their fourth CAF title. (BBC)

May 30, 2019 (Thursday)

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Armed conflicts and attacks

An explosive device is detonated in a commercial center in the Colombian city of Cúcuta, on the border with Venezuela, with at least 12 injured. (La Vanguardia) (El Universal)
Six explosive devices detonated in several locations in Kirkuk, Iraq killing 5 people and injuring 20 others. (Reuters)
A suicide bombing near a military training center in the Afghan capital city Kabul killed 6 people and left 6 others injured. The Islamic State has claimed responsibility (Press TV)

Health and environment

A study, published in the journal Science, finds a genetically enhanced fungus that produces spider toxin can rapidly kill huge numbers of the mosquitoes that spread malaria. Trials held in Burkina Faso showed mosquito populations collapsed by 99% within 45 days. The fungus did not affect other insects, such as bees. (BBC) (Science)
Measles resurgence in the United States
- Sixty new cases in the past week are reported, bringing this year's total to 971 cases in 26 U.S. states – the highest since 1994. The CDC warns, "If these outbreaks continue through summer and fall, the United States may lose its measles elimination status." (BBC)

International relations

Mexico–United States relations
- U.S. President Donald Trump announces a 5% import tariff on all products from Mexico, effective June 10 and rising in steps to 25% by October, "until the illegal immigration problem is remedied". (BBC News)
- Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador responds with a letter to the U.S. president stating he wants to avoid a confrontation, saying that ideals such as justice and universal brotherhood are more important than borders. He also ordered his foreign minister to travel to Washington on Friday. (Reuters)

Law and crime

American songwriter R. Kelly is charged by Cook County prosecutors with 11 counts of sexual assault and abuse. (USA Today)
Sinking of Hableány
- The captain of the M/V Viking Sigyn that was involved in the deadly sinking of the Hableány is questioned and arrested by the Hungarian police. (BBC)
Jussie Smollett alleged false police report
- New documents reveal that Jussie Smollett bought drugs from Abimbola 'Abel' and Olabinjo “Ola Osundairo, the two people who accused him of staging a attack on January 29. (USA Today)

Politics and elections

Politics of Papua New Guinea
- James Marape is elected Prime Minister by the National Parliament following the resignation of Peter O'Neill. (ABC)
Abortion in the United States by state
- Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards signs a heartbeat bill that bans abortion as early as six weeks into pregnancy. The law’s effective date is tied to a similar Mississippi law which has already been temporarily blocked by a federal court. (BBC)
Presidency of Jair Bolsonaro
- Fifteen days after the first wave of protests, millions of students, schoolteachers and university professors hold demonstrations in over a hundred Brazilian cities against massive cuts in the education budget. Brazilian Education Minister Abraham Weintraub accuses teachers of "coercing" students into participating in the protests. (The Guardian)