Armed conflicts and attacks
- Israel–Hamas war
- Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
- An IED kills five Pakistan Army personnel in Kurram District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. (Arab News)
Business and economy
- France–Niger relations
- Niger's military junta revokes the operating license of French nuclear fuel producer Orano at the Imouraren uranium mine amid tensions between the two countries. (BBC News)
Disasters and accidents
- 2024 Hajj heatstroke pandemic
- At least 1,119 pilgrims, more than half of whom are from Egypt, are now confirmed to have died from heat-related causes during the Hajj in Saudi Arabia. (Barron's)
- President of Tunisia Kais Saied dismisses the Minister of Religious Affairs after 49 Tunisians are reported to have died in this year's Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia. (Al Arabiya)
- 2024 North America heat waves
- At least six people die due to heat-related illness in the Phoenix metropolitan area in Arizona, United States, as temperatures reach 115 °F (46 °C). (AP)
- 2024 West African floods
- At least 21 people are killed by floods in Niger's Maradi region and the suburbs of Niamey after unusually heavy rainfall in the region. (AP)
- The death toll from the floods and landslides in Meizhou, Guangdong, China, increases to 47 people. (Al Jazeera)
- At least 11 people are killed in wildfires in southeast Turkey. (ABC News)
- Eight workers are critically injured in an explosion at an aluminium processing plant in Bolzano, South Tyrol, Italy. (Corriere del Trentino)
- France reports nearly 200 cases of cholera in Mayotte. (Le Monde)
- Most of Montenegro and parts of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Croatia experience blackouts as a result of a heavy load on the electrical grid caused by an unexpected increase in power consumption due to high temperatures. (DW)
- The death toll from torrential rains in El Salvador increases to 19 people, including at least two children. (AP)
International relations
- International recognition of the State of Palestine
- Armenia–Palestine relations
- Armenia officially recognises the State of Palestine. (Reuters)
- Armenia–Palestine relations
- Israel–Ukraine relations
- Israel and Ukraine mutually impose travel restrictions to each others' citizens, preventing reciprocal visa-free travel without an authorization permit. (The Kyiv Independent)
- Accession of Moldova to the European Union
- Moldovan president Maia Sandu signs the decree that starts the negotiations on Moldova's accession to the European Union. Sandu also announces that the first Moldova-EU intergovernmental conference will take place on 25 June. (Anadolu Agency)
Law and crime
- Cross-Strait relations
- China officially defines Taiwanese separatist behavior as a criminal act. (Financial Times)
- LGBT rights in Namibia
- The High court in Namibia rules that two colonial-era laws criminalizing sex between men are unconstitutional. (DW)
- 2024 Fordyce shooting
- Three people are killed and ten others are wounded in a shooting at a grocery store in Fordyce, Arkansas, United States. The suspect is shot and arrested by Arkansas State Police. (AP)
- A court in Geneva, Switzerland, sentences Indian-born billionaire Prakash Hinduja and three of his family members to four years in prison for exploiting domestic workers at their villa in Cologny. (AP)