Militants kill at least one soldier and one civilian in the Karma gold mine in Yatenga Province, Burkina Faso.
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June 9, 2022 (Thursday)
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Armed conflicts and attacks
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) claims that 500 disguised members of the Rwandan special forces have intruded into the DRC.
Eleven gendarmes are killed during an attack by unidentified militants in Seytenga Department, SĂ©no Province.
Disasters and accidents
A People's Liberation Army Air Force Chengdu J-7 aircraft crashes in a residential area in Laohekou, Hubei, China, killing at least one person on the ground as the pilot ejects out of the aircraft.
The bodies of two disabled people are found in Roadford Lake, near Okehampton, Devon, England, a day after their boat capsized on the lake. Four others are in hospital, with one in critical condition.
Health and environment
Governor Larry Hogan outlines a long-term preparedness plan on how Maryland will deal with COVID-19 including a focus on treatments that would keep people out of hospitals as well as on how the state would respond to future variants.
Spain will begin vaccinations of close contacts of monkeypox using the Imvanex vaccine after 242 cases were reported in the country.
International relations
Poland decides to lift its state of emergency over attempts by migrants to cross the Belarus–Poland border, saying that the border barrier it has been building is mostly complete.
A 2-seater Beechcraft plane violates the airspace of seven countries in Eastern Europe, and is intercepted by two Hungarian Air Force Gripen jets, two USAF F-16s and two Romanian Air Force F-16s before being abandoned at an airfield near Targovishte, Bulgaria.
Law and crime
Seven people are killed and 46 others are injured by a fire, suspected to be an arson attack, that spread through an office building in Daegu, South Korea. The suspect is killed in the fire.
Thailand removes cannabis and hemp plants from its list of illegal narcotics, and will allow people to grow an unlimited number of these plants in farms and gardens for medicinal purposes as long as they inform the authorities. However, public consumption of these plants is discouraged by official authorities.
Three people are killed and another is injured in a mass shooting in Smithsburg, Maryland, United States.
The Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) sentences to death two Britons and a Moroccan who had joined Ukrainian forces on charges of terrorism, mercenary activities, and attempting to overthrow the DPR's government.
Politics and elections
The European Parliament adopts a resolution urging to amend the treaties of the European Union in order to abolish the unanimity principle in decisionmaking with respect to sanctions and foreign policy and to grant the Parliament the right to legislative initiative.
Science and technology
NASA announces that the James Webb Space Telescope collided with a micrometeoroid last month, but continues to function normally.
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