June 24, 2022 (Friday)

A Russian-appointed senior official for the Kherson youth department is killed by a car bombing in Kherson in an apparent assassination.

Ukrainian authorities say that Russian forces have captured the city of Hirske, south of Lysychansk, in Luhansk Oblast. Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov says that his forces also captured the town of Zolote.

Governor of Luhansk Oblast Serhiy Haidai announces that Ukrainian forces will withdraw from Sievierodonetsk amid the advance of Russian and pro-Russian forces.

Two Tunisian police officers are injured in a stabbing and suspected terrorist attack in the Grand Synagogue of Tunis.

An Ilyushin Il-76 military cargo plane carrying nine people crashes near Ryazan, Russia, killing five passengers.

Five people are killed and eleven others are injured in Gayan District, Paktika Province, Afghanistan, by an aftershock from the recent earthquake that killed at least 1,100 people in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Eighteen migrants are killed and hundreds of people injured, mostly Spanish and Moroccan security forces, as around 2,000 migrants attempt to illegally enter Melilla, Spain, from Morocco.

Taiwan, Lebanon, Singapore and South Korea report their first cases of monkeypox.

Zambia, Libya and Fiji report their first suspected cases of monkeypox.

President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud tests positive for COVID-19.

The Sanofi–GSK COVID-19 vaccine is found to be effective against the Omicron variant.

Kentucky, North Carolina and Texas report their first cases of monkeypox.

New York City opens the first monkeypox clinic in the United States.

British Columbia reports its second case of monkeypox.

Bulgaria and Croatia report their first cases of monkeypox.

South Africa and Colombia report their first cases of monkeypox.

Bulgaria lifts its veto against North Macedonia's bid to join the European Union.

A court in Norway finds the attacker not criminally responsible due to paranoid schizophrenia and sentences him to compulsory mental treatment.

A court in Cuba sentences two protesters to between five and nine years in prison for desecrating the Cuban flag and resisting authority during last year's protests.

The United States Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, ending protection of the right to abortion on the federal level and returning regulation to the states. Twenty-two states enact trigger laws or reinstitute existing laws banning abortion.

The oppositional National Democratic Congress wins the majority of seats in Grenada's latest general election. NDC's party leader Dickon Mitchell is expected to become Grenada's next Prime Minister.

The Conservative Party is defeated in both the Tiverton and Honiton by-election and the Wakefield by-election by the Liberal Democrats and the Labour Party, respectively. Conservative chairman Oliver Dowden resigns in the aftermath of the defeats.

The Canada men's national water polo team withdraws from the remainder of the 2022 World Aquatics Championships in Budapest, Hungary, due to COVID-19 cases within the team.