Portal:Current events/2023 June 4

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Armed conflicts and attacks

• 2023 Sudan conflict
• The Sudanese Armed Forces bombs the International University of Africa in Khartoum, killing ten Congolese nationals. DRC Foreign Minister Christophe Lutundula says his country has demanded an explanation from the Sudanese government. [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-65821597 (BBC News)]
• Seventy-seven primary school girls are hospitalised after a poison attack on two schools in Sancharak, Sar-e Pol, Afghanistan. [https://www.channelnewsasia.com/world/afghanistan-schoolgirls-poisoned-primary-taliban-3538031 (CNA)]

Business and economy

• 2021–2023 global energy crisis
• Saudi Arabia's energy ministry announces a cut in oil production from around ten million barrels per day this month to nine million barrels per day from July. Oil prices on Brent and West Texas Intermediate futures initially rise by more than two per cent, but later fall slightly. [https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/05/opec-oil-prices-pop-after-saudi-arabia-pledges-production-cuts.html (CNBC)]

Disasters and accidents

• 2023 Virginia plane crash
• A Cessna Citation plane crashes over mountainous terrain after being intercepted by an F-16 jet over Washington, D.C., killing the four people on board. The plane was flying from Elizabethton Municipal Airport, Tennessee, United States, to Long Island MacArthur Airport, New York. [https://apnews.com/article/washington-virginia-maryland-loud-boom-crash-military-jet-biden-joint-base-andrews-d618f42933fbc595cc5836dede94524c (AP)]
• Fourteen people are killed and five others are missing after a landslide in a mountainous area near Leshan, Sichuan, China. [https://www.reuters.com/world/china/landslide-chinas-sichuan-province-kills-14-leaves-5-missing-2023-06-04/ (Reuters)]
• One person is killed and 14 others are injured when a bus travelling from Lecce in Puglia to Rome crashes on a motorway in Vallesaccarda, Campania, Italy. [https://www.ansa.it/puglia/notizie/2023/06/04/bus-in-scarpata-in-irpinia-partito-da-lecce-era-diretto-a-roma_f9c075db-1b2e-4cf9-b4f5-cf9a0ad49342.html (Ansa)]
• One person is killed and ten others are injured in a fire at a refugee centre in Apolda, Thuringia, Germany. [https://apnews.com/article/refugee-center-fire-eastern-germany-60d336e18ee7781407ea87bb71e64aca (AP)]

Politics and elections

• 2023 Guinea-Bissau legislative election
• The citizens of Guinea-Bissau go to the polls to elect 102 members of the National People's Assembly. [https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/guinea-bissau-holds-legislative-elections-amid-political-deadlock-2023-06-04/ (Reuters)]
• 2023 Polish protests
• Anti-government protests erupt across Poland, with an estimated 500,000 demonstrators gathering in the capital of Warsaw, according to Mayor Rafał Trzaskowski. [https://apnews.com/article/poland-democracy-march-tusk-kaczynski-duda-4ab13141a16b88d63b060c1f977bb75e (AP)]

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