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, says that around 100 civilians are still trapped in the village and cannot be evacuated due to ongoing 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 North Waziristan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (AP)
Business and economy
- Apple announces and demonstrates the Vision Pro, a mixed-reality headset, at its Worldwide Developers Conference. It is the company's first major new product in nearly 10 years and is expected to be commercially available 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 in Bhagalpur district, Bihar, India, collapses for the second time in less than two months. (Reuters)
Law and crime
- Capital punishment in South Korea
- The Ministry of Justice says that 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 that 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 in the state. (ABC)