Portal:Current events/2022 June 6

June 6, 2022 (Monday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

Russo-Ukrainian War
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
  - Foreign aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War
    - The United Kingdom announces that it will send several M270 long-range rocket artillery systems to Ukraine. (The Guardian)
2021–2022 Democratic Republic of the Congo attacks, Ituri conflict
- Suspected CODECO militants kill 12 people and injure two others in Ituri Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Reuters)

Health and environment

2022 monkeypox outbreak
- Timeline of the 2022 monkeypox outbreak
  - 2022 monkeypox outbreak in the United States
    - The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services says that the United States has obtained 36,000 doses of the Jynneos vaccine in order to combat the monkeypox outbreak. (CNBC)
    - Washington, D.C. reports a case of orthopoxvirus. (The Hill)
  - 2022 monkeypox outbreak in the United Kingdom
    - The United Kingdom reports 77 new cases of monkeypox, thereby bringing the total number of cases in the country to more than 300. (The Guardian)
  - Kosovo reports its first suspected case of monkeypox. (Euronews Albania)
  - Singapore reports its first case of monkeypox in a man who travelled from Australia. (CNA)
COVID-19 pandemic
- COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
  - COVID-19 pandemic in Washington, D.C.
    - Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg tests positive for COVID-19. (The Washington Post)
- COVID-19 pandemic in mainland China
  - COVID-19 pandemic in Beijing
    - Beijing's restaurants reopen following a decrease in new cases of COVID-19. (Reuters)
2022 Mariupol cholera outbreak
- Petro Andryushchenko, advisor to Mayor Vadym Boychenko, warns that Mariupol may have suffered a cholera outbreak. (The National News)

International relations

9th Summit of the Americas
- The Biden administration bans the presidents of Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua from attending this year's Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles, United States. Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announces that he will personally boycott the meeting in response to the ban, sending Foreign Secretary Marcelo Ebrard to represent him at the summit. (Reuters)
Canada–Chile relations
- Chilean President Gabriel Boric visits Ottawa to hold a wide-ranging bilateral meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. (CTV News)

Law and crime

Aftermath of the 2021 United States Capitol attack
- Criminal charges in the 2021 United States Capitol attack
  - Five members of the far-right group Proud Boys, including leader Enrique Tarrio, are charged with seditious conspiracy for their involvement in the January 6 attack at the United States Capitol, becoming the second group to be charged with seditious conspiracy in connection to the attack. (NPR)
Mass media in Latvia, Latvia–Russia relations
- Latvia bans all Russia-based TV media outlets that threaten "the territorial integrity and independence of another country", referring to the Russo-Ukrainian War. The measure will last until Russia de-occupies Crimea and ends its warfare against Ukraine. (LRT)
International sanctions during the Russo-Ukrainian War
- A federal judge in the U.S. state of New York orders the seizure of two private jets, a Boeing 787 Dreamliner and a Gulfstream G650ER, owned by sanctioned Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich. (The Guardian)
Orlando Jorge Mera, the Environmental Minister for the Dominican Republic and son of former President Salvador Jorge Blanco, is shot dead in his office. The perpetrator was identified by a presidential spokesman as Miguel Cruz, a childhood friend of the minister. He was later taken into custody. (Reuters) (BBC News)
The South African Justice Department confirms that Rajesh Gupta and Atul Gupta of the influential Gupta family have been arrested in the United Arab Emirates for engaging in corrupt practices during the Zuma presidency. (Al Jazeera)
The trial of Aydin Coban, a Dutch man accused of harassing and extorting Port Coquitlam teenager Amanda Todd online prior to her suicide in 2012, begins at the British Columbia Supreme Court in British Columbia, Canada. (CBC)

Politics and elections

Partygate
- Sir Graham Brady, chairman of the Conservative Party's 1922 Committee, announces that he has received the 54 letters necessary to trigger a party confidence vote in Boris Johnson's leadership of the party. (The Guardian)
- Boris Johnson survives the confidence vote by a margin of 211–148 and the party will not conduct a leadership election with 58.8% of Conservative MPs voting in favour of Johnson. (The Times)
Malian junta leader Assimi Goïta declares that Mali will return to civilian rule in March 2024. It was supposed to occur this February until being delayed, prompting sanctions from its neighbors. (France 24)