Petro Andryushchenko, advisor to Mayor Vadym Boychenko, warns that Mariupol may have suffered a cholera outbreak.
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June 6, 2022 (Monday)
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Armed conflicts and attacks
Suspected CODECO militants kill 12 people and injure two others in Ituri Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The United Kingdom announces that it will send several M270 long-range rocket artillery systems to Ukraine.
Health and environment
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services says that the United States has obtained 36,000 doses of the Jynneos vaccine in order to combat the monkeypox outbreak.
The United Kingdom reports 77 new cases of monkeypox, thereby bringing the total number of cases in the country to more than 300.
Kosovo reports its first suspected case of monkeypox.
International relations
The Biden administration bans the presidents of Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua from attending this year's Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles, United States. Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announces that he will personally boycott the meeting in response to the ban, sending Foreign Secretary Marcelo Ebrard to represent him at the summit.
Chilean President Gabriel Boric visits Ottawa to hold a wide-ranging bilateral meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Law and crime
Five members of the far-right group Proud Boys, including leader Enrique Tarrio, are charged with seditious conspiracy for their involvement in the 2021 United States Capitol attack, becoming the second group to be charged with seditious conspiracy in connection to the attack.
The South African Justice Department confirms that Rajesh Gupta and Atul Gupta of the influential Gupta family have been arrested in the United Arab Emirates for engaging in corrupt practices during the Zuma presidency.
Latvia bans all Russia-based TV media outlets that threaten "the territorial integrity and independence of another country", referring to the Russo-Ukrainian War. The measure will last until Russia de-occupies Crimea and ends its warfare against Ukraine.
Orlando Jorge Mera, the Environmental Minister for the Dominican Republic and son of former President Salvador Jorge Blanco, is shot dead in his office. The perpetrator was identified by a presidential spokesman as Miguel Cruz, a childhood friend of the minister. He was later taken into custody.
A federal judge in the U.S. state of New York orders the seizure of two private jets, a Boeing 787 Dreamliner and a Gulfstream G650ER, owned by sanctioned Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich.
Politics and elections
Sir Graham Brady, chairman of the Conservative Party's 1922 Committee, announces that he has received the 54 letters necessary to trigger a motion of no confidence against Prime Minister Boris Johnson's leadership.
Boris Johnson survives the confidence vote by a margin of 211–148 and will remain as Prime Minister with 58.8% of Conservative MPs voting in favour of Johnson.
Malian junta leader Assimi Goïta declares that Mali will return to civilian rule in March 2024. It was supposed to occur this February until being delayed, prompting sanctions from its neighbors.
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