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On 9 June 2026 the 21-member Bureau of the Assembly of States Parties voted to suspend ICC Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan for alleged sexual misconduct and referred his fate to a forthcoming special session of the full 125 member states.
On 8 June 2026 Iran broke the 8 April ceasefire by firing missiles at Israel after an Israeli strike on Beirut, and Israel retaliated hours later with air-launched ballistic strikes deep inside Iran.
On 8 June 2026, a French Rafale on NATO’s Baltic Air Policing alert fired on and destroyed a stray unmanned aircraft at 10:05 a.m. over Berzgale, eastern Latvia, after air-raid sirens sent residents indoors.
On 8 June 2026 a 7.8 offshore earthquake just southwest of Maasim, Sarangani rattled Mindanao at 07:37 LT, killing over thirty people, injuring hundreds, and forcing tsunami evacuations from Indonesia to Japan before warnings were lifted five hours later.
Around 02:00 on 7 June 2026, a Russian-launched Shahed drone slammed into the reception building of Ukraine’s Centralised Spent Fuel Storage Facility 15 km from the Chernobyl reactor, blowing out windows and igniting a 40 m² fire that was put out within an hour.
In May 2026, President Zelensky used sanctioned oligarch Roman Abramovich as an unofficial envoy to offer Vladimir Putin a face-to-face ceasefire summit, but on 5 June Putin publicly said the meeting would be pointless.
On 7 June 2026, U.S. forces destroyed two Iranian one-way drones menacing commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz, one day after intercepting a coordinated Iranian missile-drone salvo and bombing two Iranian radar sites.
On 30-31 May 2026 Rosatom claimed a Ukrainian FPV drone deliberately punched through the turbine-hall wall of Zaporizhzhia’s Unit 6; Kyiv called the charge propaganda and the IAEA demanded on-site inspection, confirming no radiation leak.
On 30–31 May 2026 Israeli forces crossed Lebanon’s Litani River and seized Beaufort Castle—Israel’s deepest penetration since its 2000 withdrawal—shattering the April-17 ceasefire and provoking heavier Hezbollah rocket fire and Lebanese condemnation.
Between 28–29 May 2026 the IDF broke the April ceasefire by crossing the Litani River and conducting only its second post-ceasefire airstrike in Beirut, killing at least 14 civilians, hours before Israeli-Lebanese military negotiations open at the Pentagon.
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