Portal:Current events/2019 June 28

June 28, 2019 (Friday)

Armed conflict and attacks

Moro conflict
- Two suicide bombers detonate their devices in Sulu, Philippines, killing four soldiers and two civilians. ISIL claims responsibility. (CBC) (Reuters) (CNN Philippines)
Syrian Civil War, Northwestern Syria offensive (April 2019–present)
- Nearly 100 people are killed in clashes between the Syrian Army, rebels and jihadists in northwestern Syria. 51 government troops and allied militiamen, and 45 rebel fighters and jihadists are among the dead. (France 24)

Business and economy

Demolition experts implode the Ponte Morandi viaduct in Genoa, Italy, ten months after a partial collapse that killed 43 people. (BBC)

International relations

China–Holy See relations
- The Vatican asked China's communist government to stop intimidating Catholic clergy who want to remain unequivocally loyal to the pope and refuse to sign ambiguous official registration forms. (Reuters)
Bahrain–Iraq relations
- More than 200 demonstrators broke into the courtyard of Bahrain's embassy in Baghdad and took down the kingdom's flag to protest a U.S.-led meeting in Bahrain on the Israeli–Palestinian peace process. (Reuters)
Foreign relations of Argentina
- Argentine Foreign Minister Jorge Faurie announces that the European Union and Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay achieved a breakthrough in free-trade talks after 20 years. (Gulf News)
United States–Venezuela relations
- The United States announces sanctions on Nicolás Maduro Guerra, the son of disputed Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, accusing him of engaging in propaganda on behalf of the government. (BBC)
2019 Argentine general election, Argentina–Brazil relations, Argentina–United States relations
- U.S. President Donald Trump and Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro officially endorse the re-election campaign of Mauricio Macri. (La Nación)

Law and crime

Salt Lake City police arrest a man for murder in connection to the search for missing University of Utah student Mackenzie Lueck. (NBC News)
Aftermath of the Charlottesville car attack
- James A. Fields Jr. is sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty to 29 hate crimes for driving his car into a crowd of protestors, killing one and injuring 28, at the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. (CNN) (NBC News) (The Washington Post)

Politics and elections

Immigration to Japan
- A Nigerian man dies in a Japanese immigration detention center this week, an official says. It ends a hunger strike that an activist group said was intended to protest against him being held for more than three years. (Reuters)
Dutch climate accord
- The House of Representatives of the Netherlands passed the final bill of the climate agreement. The goal of the accord is to have the level of greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere in 2030 the same as the level of greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere in 1990.
- According to the first report presented by the Nicaraguan Foundation for Economic and Social Development, Nicaragua has become one of the world's least democratic countries and he qualified it as a "authoritarian regime". Among the reasons that this center of thought mentions to explain this situation are "the retrocess of civil liberties by the repression against the anti-government protests in progress since 2018" and "the loss of independence of the State institutions in favor of the Executive Power." Although other countries got worse places than Nicaragua, as Venezuela, Bolivia and Honduras.(La Prensa)

Science and technology

2019 European heat wave
- Amid a continental heat wave, France records its highest ever temperature of 45.9 °C (114.6 °F) in Gallargues-le-Montueux. (Sky News)
- In Spain, authorities report two deaths connected to the extreme heat. The worst wildfire in 20 years burns more than 5,000 hectares at the south of Province of Tarragona, in Catalonia. (Express) (CNN)