Portal:Current events/2022 June 4

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Aftermath of the 2021 Kyrgyzstan–Tajikistan clashes
  • Tajikistan says that a border clash happened yesterday after Kyrgyz soldiers crossed the border close to Vorukh. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• Hapur chemical plant explosion
  • Nine people are killed and 19 others injured after a boiler explodes at a chemical plant in Hapur, Uttar Pradesh, India. (AP)
• One person is killed and eight others injured when a train derails in Guizhou, China. (AP)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Russia
    • Dmitry Kovtun, a former KGB agent accused of the fatal 2006 poisoning of Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko in London, dies from COVID-19 in Moscow. (RFE/RL)
• 2022 monkeypox outbreak
  • Timeline of the 2022 monkeypox outbreak
    • India reports its first suspected monkeypox case in a girl from Ghaziabad. (Hindustan Times)

Law and crime

• 2022 Philadelphia shooting
  • Three people are killed and eleven others wounded in a mass shooting in the South Street neighbourhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. (Reuters)
• A man is publicly lynched by a mob of 200 people in the Nigerian capital city Abuja after he gets into a "heated argument" with a local Islamic cleric. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• 2022 Albanian presidential election
  • After three sessions in which the proposed candidates failed to obtain the necessary votes, the Parliament of Albania elects Chief of the General Staff Bajram Begaj as the new Albanian President. (Reuters)
• 2021–2022 Tunisian political crisis
  • The Tunisian judiciary announces that it will suspend work in all of the courts and go on strike for a week in response to President Kais Saied dismissing 57 judges earlier this week. (Reuters)
• The Judicial Council for Iraq's Kurdistan Region rejects a ruling from the federal Supreme Judicial Council demanding that the regional government hand over its oil supply, stating that the oil-sharing agreement enshrined in the national constitution did not apply to oil and gas discovered after 2005. (Reuters)

Sports

• Japanese yachtsman Kenichi Horie becomes the oldest person to sail solo across the Pacific Ocean at the age of 83. (The Japan Times)