Portal:Current events/2024 June 16

June 16, 2024 (Sunday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

Russo-Ukrainian war
- Humanitarian aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War
  - Norway announces that it will give Ukraine 1.1 billion kroner (US$103 million) to help repair its energy infrastructure and secure the country's electricity supply before the winter. (Le Monde)
- Peace negotiations in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
  - The two-day Global Peace Summit, dedicated to the discussion of "Ukraine's Peace Formula", ends at the Bürgenstock Resort in Switzerland. (CNN)
- Russia claims that it captured the village of Zahirne in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Ukraine. (Barron's)
Islamic terrorism in Russia
- Rostov-on-Don pre-trial detention center hostage crisis
  - Previously-detained inmates with alleged links to the Islamic State take two employees hostage in a pre-trial detention center in Rostov-on-Don, Russia. Russian national guards storm the center, killing all six hostage takers. (The Washington Post) (AP)
Israel–Hamas war
- Gaza humanitarian crisis
  - Israel's military announces that it will begin "tactical pauses" in combat along roads in Southern Gaza during the daytime in order to allow humanitarian aid trucks to travel through the Kerem Shalom crossing into Gaza with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calling the pauses "unacceptable". (AP)

Disasters and accidents

2024 California wildfires
- Around 1,200 people are evacuated from the Hungry Valley area near Los Angeles, California, United States, as the Post Fire spreads through the dry mountains near Interstate 5. (AP)
Extreme heat during Hajj
- At least 19 Jordanian and Iranian pilgrims are killed during the hajj in Saudi Arabia, with at least 14 dying from heat stroke. (Barron's)
2024 Baños landslide
- At least six people are killed by a landslide caused by heavy rainfall that struck a highway in Baños in central Ecuador, with thirty people reported missing. (AP)

Politics and elections

LGBT rights in Ukraine
- Hundreds of LGBTQ+ Ukrainian Armed Forces troops and supporters march in central Kyiv to demand legal reforms for more same-sex partnership rights despite opposition from the Ukrainian Orthodox Church as well as from counter-protesters. (AP)

Sports