Armed conflicts and attacks
- June 2019 attacks against Dogon villagers
- An attack on a village near the town of Sangha in central Mali kills over 100 Dogon villagers. Fulani herdsmen are suspected of being behind the massacre. (BBC)
Arts and culture
- The Vatican issues a teaching instruction, Male and Female He Created Them, which criticizes the theory of gender as being more complex than the binary division of sexes. The document draws criticism from LGBT groups. (BBC)
Business and economy
- Defense contractors United Technologies and Raytheon agree to merge into a combined company that would generate $74 billion in annual sales, making it the second-largest aerospace and defense company in the U.S. (CNBC) (Bloomberg)
Disasters and accidents
- Sixteen people are injured after an accidental explosion at the building of the Comune in Rocca di Papa, Italy. The mayor of the city is critically injured. (Il Messaggero)
- Earthquakes in 2019
- A magnitude 4.0 earthquake is reported in Northeast Ohio. No damage has been reported. (News 5 Cleveland) (NBC News)
- A helicopter crashes into the roof of the AXA Equitable Center in New York City. The pilot, the helicopter's only occupant, is killed in the crash. (The New York Times)
Health and environment
- Phase-out of lightweight plastic bags
- Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announces that Canada will ban all single-use plastics by 2021 in a bid to significantly reduce plastic pollution. (BBC)
Law and crime
- McStay family murder
- In San Bernardino, California, Charles "Chase" Merritt is found guilty of four counts of murder in the 2013 deaths of the McStay family. (The Los Angeles Times)
- Rape in India
- An Indian court convicts six men in the 2018 rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl near Kathua in the state of Jammu and Kashmir. Three of the men are given life sentences while the other three, found guilty of destroying evidence, receive five-year prison terms. (NPR)
- Former Boston Red Sox star David Ortiz returns to Boston to recover from a shooting in the Dominican Republic. (CBS News)
Politics and elections
- Nechirvan Barzani is sworn in as the new President of Iraqi Kurdistan. In his first speech as President, Barzani says he will seek to improve ties with Baghdad, and create a joint-security plan to prevent ISIL from re-emerging in the region. (Rudaw)
- Congressman Justin Amash announces that he will leave the Freedom Caucus, weeks after calling for the impeachment of Donald Trump. (Politico)