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English artist David Hockney dies at the age of 88.
- David Hockney (9 July 1937 – 11 June 2026) was an English painter, stage designer and photographer. As an important contributor to the pop art movement of the 1960s, he is considered one of the most influential British artists of the 20th and 21st centuries.
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The Civil Contract party of incumbent prime minister Nikol Pashinyan wins the Armenian parliamentary election.
- Parliamentary elections were held in Armenia on 7 June 2026 to elect members of the 9th convocation of the National Assembly. According to exit polls, the incumbent Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan's party Civil Contract will win with 56.7% of the vote, followed by the pro-Russian Strong Armenia of Samvel Karapetyan with 17.5%.
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A magnitude 7.8 earthquake strikes the southern coast of Mindanao in the Philippines, leaving at least 47 people dead.
- On June 8, 2026, at 07:37:40 PhST (UTC+08:00), a Mw 7.8 earthquake struck the southern coast of Mindanao in the Philippines. Its epicenter was off the coast of Sarangani province in the region of Soccsksargen, 26 km (16 mi) west-southwest of Kablalan. The earthquake was caused by subduction along the Cotabato Trench, a major earthquake-generating structure. Tsunami warnings were issued across the southern Philippines as well as in Indonesia, Malaysia, Palau, Japan, Taiwan and Papua New Guinea.
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Protests take place against a proposed tourism development on the environmentally protected island of Sazan, Albania.
- On 23 May 2026, protests began in the Albanian village of Zvërnec, Vlorë, on the Narta Lagoon, opposing groundwork on a proposed luxury resort. After a protester was assaulted by private security on 30 May, demonstrations spread to other parts of Albania and among the diaspora, expressing broader grievances against the the political system, and the Rama IV Government and demanding their resignation. Thousands have marched in the capital city of Tirana. Generation Z has played a prominent role in the protests.
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Bolivian protests (ongoing)
- Since May 2026, mass protests have occurred in Bolivia. Miners comprised a large part of the protesters, but they were also accompanied by teachers, farmers, and other workers. The protests were caused imminently by a law allowing land mortgage, but they occurred during a wider period of economic downturn in Bolivia. Despite President Rodrigo Paz annulling the law on 13 May, protests continued to spread. The scope of the protests also expanded, as other workers demanded higher wages, labour reform, and for Paz to resign as president.
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Ebola epidemic (ongoing)
- In May 2026, an epidemic of Ebola was reported in the Ituri Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). It is the 17th Ebola outbreak in DRC and began only five months after the end of the previous outbreak. Early infections have been theorized to have occurred in February 2026 in the town of Mongbwalu, with imported cases from Ituri reported in North Kivu Province, and in Uganda's capital city of Kampala. A case in South Kivu was reported to have been imported from Tshopo province on 21 May.
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FIFA World Cup (ongoing)
- The 2026 FIFA World Cup is the current and 23rd edition of the FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international men's soccer championship contested by the national teams of the member associations of FIFA. The tournament is currently taking place from June 11 to July 19, 2026. It is jointly hosted by sixteen cities—eleven in the United States, three in Mexico, and two in Canada. The tournament is the first FIFA World Cup to be hosted by three nations, and the first to include 48 teams, an expansion from the previous 32.
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Iran war (ongoing)
- Since 28 February 2026, the United States and Israel have been at war with Iran and its regional allies. Active hostilities broke out after surprise US–Israeli airstrikes targeting military and government sites in Iran resulted in the assassinations of Iranian officials, most notably including Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. These attacks were launched amidst ongoing Iran–US negotiations, which were being held to address Iran's nuclear program. Iran retaliated by conducting strikes on Israel, on US-aligned Arab countries, and on US bases across the region; and by effectively blocking the Strait of Hormuz, which has disrupted the global economy by causing a fuel crisis. Iran's response broadened the scale of the war by prompting retaliatory strikes from the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait.
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Lebanon war (ongoing)
- Since 2 March 2026, there has been an ongoing war in Lebanon between Israel and the Lebanese Shia militant group Hezbollah, with Israel invading parts of Lebanon. It is a resumption of major fighting in the Hezbollah–Israel conflict that began in late 2023, and is part of the wider conflict in the Middle East. The war has precipitated a still-developing humanitarian crisis, resulted in deaths of more than 3,700 people (both militants and civilians) from Israeli strikes in Lebanon, seen the forced displacement of over 1 million (>20% of the country's population), and entailed the deployment of matériel and tactics that potentially constitute war crimes or crimes against humanity.
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Russo-Ukrainian war (ongoing)
- On 24 February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine, starting the largest and deadliest war in Europe since World War II, in a major escalation of the existing war between the two countries that began when Russia attacked Ukraine in 2014. The fighting has caused hundreds of thousands of military casualties and tens of thousands of Ukrainian civilian casualties. As of June 2026, Russian troops occupy roughly 20% of Ukraine. From a population of 41 million, about 8 million Ukrainians have been internally displaced and 6–7 million have fled the country, creating Europe's largest refugee crisis since World War II.
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Sudanese civil war (ongoing)
- Since April 2023, there has been a civil war in Sudan between the two main factions of the country's military government. The conflict involves the internationally recognized government of Sudan controlled by the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), under General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan; against the rival Government of Peace and Unity led by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group, commanded by General Hemedti (Muhammad Hamdan Dagalo Musa). Smaller armed groups have also taken part on both sides, most notably Sudan Liberation Movement splinter groups, the Tamazuj militia, and the Darfur Joint Protection Force.
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