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During his 8–9 June 2026 visit—his first foreign travel this year—China’s Xi Jinping publicly proposed deeper military exchanges with Kim Jong Un yet, for the first time, scrapped any call for North Korean denuclearization, signalling Beijing’s pivot to tacitly accept a nuclear DPRK while vying with Moscow for influence.
On 9 June 2026, Chancellor Friedrich Merz and President Emmanuel Macron jointly pulled the plug on the €100 billion Franco-German-Spanish FCAS fighter jet project after Airbus and Dassault failed to break their year-long stalemate.
On 8-9 June 2026, Xi Jinping spent two days in Pyongyang—his first foreign trip of the year and first visit to North Korea in seven years—signalling Beijing’s push to reclaim influence after Kim Jong Un’s recent tilt toward Moscow.
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.
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