June 9, 2023 (Friday)

A United Nations peacekeeper is killed and four others are injured in an improvised explosive device attack in Ber, Tombouctou Region, Mali.

At least 27 people are killed and 53 others are injured after a mortar attack in Qoryoley, Lower Shabelle, Somalia.

At least seven people are killed and 59 others are injured in floods and storms across Iran.

Residents of Edson, west of Edmonton, and Yellowhead County, Alberta, have been ordered to evacuate due to wildfires in the area.

Evacuation orders are lifted in Nova Scotia, two weeks after wildfires swept through the area.

President Gustavo Petro confirms the successful rescue of the four Witoto children who had been missing in the Amazon rainforest since the Cessna 206 they were traveling in crashed on May 1. The children were found alive but weak, while the bodies of the three adults accompanying them, including their mother, were found at the crash site.

Iceland announces that it will suspend operations at its embassy in Moscow, Russia, beginning on August 1, saying that "commercial, cultural and political relations" with Russia are "at an all-time low" and that maintaining the embassy is "no longer justifiable".

Former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson resigns from Parliament after being told by the Privileges Committee that he will be sanctioned for misleading Parliament over his involvement in Partygate. His resignation triggers a by-election for his constituency of Uxbridge and South Ruislip.