June 11, 2024 (Tuesday)

United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken announces more than $400 million in new humanitarian aid for Palestinians in Gaza.

Russia and Belarus begin the second stage of their tactical nuclear weapons drills.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announces that the European Union will give Ukraine €3.4 billion (USD$3.6 billion) throughout the summer from Russian frozen assets revenue.

Iraqi security forces in cooperation with U.S.-led coalition forces kill Abu Zainab, a senior member of Islamic State in Raqqa, Syria.

South Korea says that its forces fired warning shots at North Korean soldiers who briefly crossed the demarcation line in the Korean Demilitarized Zone. South Korean authorities state that they believe the intrusion, which occurred in a densely forested area, was accidental.

The International Organization for Migration says that more than 10 million people have now been internally displaced by the war in Sudan, including around a third of the population of the capital Khartoum, making it the world's worst displacement crisis.

The United States approves a move to send a second Patriot missile system to Ukraine.

Russia says that it has captured the villages of Tymkivka in Kharkiv Oblast and Miasozharivka in Luhansk Oblast.

The World Bank approves $1 billion for the construction of the Dasu Dam in northwest Pakistan.

Production begins at Senegal's first offshore oil project at the Sangomar oil fields which aims to produce 100,000 barrels of oil per day.

The wreckage of an aircraft which went missing yesterday in Malawi amid bad weather is found. All ten people on board, including the country's Vice-President Saulos Chilima, are confirmed dead.

A Russian Aerospace Forces Sukhoi Su-34 aircraft crashes during a routine training exercise in North Ossetia–Alania, Russia, killing all onboard.

Floods hit the Spanish island of Majorca, affecting the third busiest airport in Europe. ()

Sri Lanka's foreign ministry says that the country has received assurances from Russia that it would stop recruiting Sri Lankan citizens to fight in Ukraine.

Hunter Biden, son of U.S. President Joe Biden, is convicted in a federal court in Delaware on three felony counts of possession of a firearm while under the influence of narcotics.

A man self-immolates at St. Mark's Square in Zagreb, Croatia, and later dies in hospital.

Riots occur in Tiaret, Algeria, in opposition to water rationing as a government response to prolonged droughts.

Eight individuals from Tajikistan with suspected ties to Islamic State are arrested across several United States cities for border immigration violations.

Austria announces that parliamentary elections will be held on September 29.

Former South African president Jacob Zuma and his party uMkhonto weSizwe appeal to the Constitutional Court to block the newly elected parliament from sitting, citing electoral fraud.

Hunger strikes occur in at least 16 prisons in Venezuela to protest against poor living conditions such as overcrowding as well as delays in the reviews of the prisoners' judicial processes.

France's left-wing political parties establish an electoral alliance, the New Popular Front, ahead of the French parliamentary elections.

John Moran becomes the first directly-elected mayor in the Republic of Ireland.