Portal:Current events/2024 June 27

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Pakistan heat wave
  • At least 568 people have died from heat-related illnesses due to extreme temperatures and humidity in southern Pakistan. (The Independent) (BBC News)
• 2024 Sudan famine
  • An Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) report states that over 755,000 people in Sudan face the most severe IPC level of extreme hunger as well as the worst levels of acute food insecurity ever recorded in the country. (Al Jazeera)
• Seven people are killed and five others are injured when a train collides with a bus near Nové Zámky, Slovakia. (AP)
• Three people are killed and 40 others are injured in a train derailment amid heavy rains in Komi, Russia. (AP)
• The Russian satellite Resurs-P No.1 breaks up into over 100 pieces of debris near the International Space Station. (Reuters)

International relations

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Foreign involvement in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • According to an anonymous South Korean government official, North Korea is preparing to send engineering forces to the Russian-occupied Donetsk region of Ukraine in July. (NK News)

Law and crime

• Abortion in the United States
  • The US Supreme Court issues a ruling in Moyle v. United States, dismissing the case and reinstating the ability to perform exceptional emergency abortion care in Idaho, where a formal ban on abortion is in place. (The New York Times) (Idaho Capital Sun)
• Opioid epidemic in the United States
  • In Harrington v. Purdue Pharma L.P., the United States Supreme Court blocks a proposed Purdue Pharma bankruptcy settlement that would have shielded members of the Sackler family from civil lawsuits relating to the opioid epidemic, citing issues regarding the protection of third parties from lawsuits. (CNN)
• The Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party expels former defense ministers Li Shangfu and Wei Fenghe from the party following charges of corruption against them. (CNA)
• Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy signs a law establishing English as an official language of international communication in Ukraine. (The Kyiv Independent)
• The U.S. Justice Department charges 193 people, including 76 medical professionals, with participating in healthcare fraud schemes totalling $2.75 billion, which include unlawful distribution of Adderall and fraudulent drug addiction treatment. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• 2024 United States presidential debates
  • The first U.S. presidential debate for the upcoming presidential election is held between incumbent President Joe Biden and former president Donald Trump on CNN. (CBS News)
• Kenya Finance Bill protests
  • Thousands of people protest in cities across Kenya, calling for the removal of President William Ruto. (Al Jazeera)
• The leaders of the European Union member states agree to nominate Ursula von der Leyen as President of the European Commission and Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas as the next High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, and elect former Portuguese Prime Minister António Costa as the next President of the European Council. (Euronews)