Portal:Current events/2023 June 9

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Mali War
  • A United Nations peacekeeper is killed and four others are injured in an improvised explosive device attack in Ber, Tombouctou Region, Mali. (Reuters)
• Somali Civil War
  • At least 27 people are killed and 53 others are injured after a mortar attack in Qoryoley, Lower Shabelle, Somalia. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• 2023 Canadian wildfires
  • 2023 Alberta wildfires
    • Residents of Edson, west of Edmonton, and Yellowhead County, Alberta, have been ordered to evacuate due to wildfires in the area. (CBC)
  • 2023 Nova Scotia wildfires
    • Evacuation orders are lifted in Nova Scotia, two weeks after wildfires swept through the area. (The Star)
• 2023 Colombia Cessna 206 crash
  • 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. (AFP via ABS-CBN News)
• At least seven people are killed and 59 others are injured in floods and storms across Iran. (Mehr)

International relations

• Iceland–Russia relations
  • 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". (The Kyiv Post)

Politics and elections

• Commons Privileges Committee investigation into Boris Johnson
  • 2023 Uxbridge and South Ruislip by-election
    • 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. (BBC News)