Portal:Current events/2023 June 5
June 5, 2023 (Monday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- 2023 Belgorod Oblast incursions
- The Russian Volunteer Corps claims to have captured the village of Novaya Tavolzhanka in the Belgorod region of Russia. The governor of Belgorod, Vyacheslav Gladkov, said that around 100 civilians were still trapped in the village and could not be evacuated due to regular shelling. (Novaya Gazeta Europe)
- 2023 Belgorod Oblast incursions
- Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
- Two soldiers and two Pakistani Taliban members are killed in a shootout in the North Waziristan district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (AP)
Business and economy
- Apple Inc. announces and demonstrates the Vision Pro, a mixed-reality headset, at its Worldwide Developers Conference for availability in early 2024. (The Washington Post)
Disasters and accidents
- 2023 Haiti floods
- One person is reported missing after a suspension bridge over the Ganges river collapses for a second time within months of collapsing previously (30 April 2022) in Bhagalpur district, Bihar, India. (Reuters)
Law and crime
- Capital punishment in South Korea
- The Ministry of Justice says it will submit a bill to parliament to lift the ban on carrying out death sentences after 30 years, although South Korea has not carried out an execution since 1997. (Yonhap)
- New South Wales Governor Margaret Beazley unconditionally pardons Kathleen Folbigg, releasing her 20 years into a 25-year sentence for killing all four of her children, after scientific and medical research suggested the deaths were caused by genetic mutations. (The Guardian)
Politics and elections
- Mike Pence 2024 presidential campaign
- Former Vice President Mike Pence officially files to run for President of the United States in 2024. (BBC News)
- Delfina Gómez of the MORENA party defeats Alejandra del Moral Vela in the gubernatorial election in Mexico State, Mexico, ending 94 years of PRI governorship. (ABC)