Armed conflicts and attacks

• Middle Eastern crisis
  • 2026 Iran war
    • 2025–2026 Iran–United States negotiations
      • Iranian military advisor to the Supreme Leader, Mohsen Rezaee, says that negotiations are in a "deadlock" and that it is up to the United States to end it. (Al Jazeera)
    • 2026 Strait of Hormuz campaign
      • Naval blockade of Iran
        • United States Indo-Pacific Command forces intercept the stateless vessel M/T Davina in the Indian Ocean for allegedly supporting Iran. (Al Jazeera)
    • CNN reports that Israel has deployed commandos, military, and intelligence personnel, to Azerbaijan near its border with Iran during the war and carried out a covert intel mission in doing so. (Ynetnews) (Haaretz) (Times of Israel)
  • 2026 Lebanon war
    • 2026 Israel–Lebanon ceasefire
      • Lebanese parliament speaker Nabih Berri rejects the ceasefire deal with Israel, saying it is not a complete ceasefire and does not require an Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon at the same time as Hezbollah. (Al Jazeera)
      • Lebanese president Joseph Aoun and prime minister Nawaf Salam criticize Iran for the rejection of the ceasefire deal with Israel, stating that Lebanon should not be used as a bargaining chip in negotiations between the United States and Iran. (AP)
    • At least five people, including a paramedic, are killed by Israeli airstrikes in the Nabatieh District, Lebanon. (Al Jazeera)
  • Gaza war
    • Israel's Southern Command says that it killed a Palestinian fighter in Gaza who was "planning imminent attacks" on the Israeli military and directing attacks inside Israel. (Al Jazeera)
• Russo-Ukrainian war
  • Attacks in Russia during the Russo-Ukrainian war
    • Five Azerbaijani crew members are killed and three others are injured in an Ukrainian drone attack on two commercial vessels in Taganrog Bay, Rostov Oblast, Russia. (The Moscow Times)
  • Peace negotiations in the Russo-Ukrainian war
    • Russian president Vladimir Putin rejects Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy's proposal for a face-to-face meeting, stating that he sees "no point" in it. (AP)

Business and economy

• 2026 Cuban crisis
  • Hotel operator Archipelago International ends management agreements for six hotels in Cuba, citing compliance with United States sanctions. (AFP via The Manila Times)
• Hungary suspends the issuance of work visas for nationals of Armenia, Georgia, and the Philippines, citing plans to regulate non-European Union guest workers and concerns about the impact of foreign labor on domestic employment and wages. (Reuters)

International relations

• Reactions to the 2026 Iran war
  • Azerbaijan–Israel relations, Azerbaijan–Iran relations
    • The Azerbaijani foreign ministry denies a CNN report claiming that the country allowed Israeli military and Mossad personnel to use southern Azerbaijan to launch attacks on Iran, one of which allegedly killed an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps senior officer. (Al Jazeera) (CNN)
• Deportation in the second Trump administration
  • Rights groups file a case against Equatorial Guinea, demanding that the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights order the Equatoguinean government to immediately stop sending people deported from the United States back to their home countries, saying it violates the deportees' rights. (AP)
• Foreign relations of Israel, Foreign relations of Slovenia
  • Israeli foreign minister Gideon Sa'ar says that Israel will open its first embassy in Ljubljana, Slovenia, after its new prime minister Janez Janša ordered the Palestine flag at the main government building to be removed within an hour after taking office. (Al Jazeera)
• France–Mali relations
  • A Malian court sentences a French embassy official to 20 years' imprisonment for undermining state security, and imposes a F.CFA 3.5 million (US$6,225) fine and entry ban. France states that the official was engaged in security cooperation. (AFP via France 24)

Law and crime

• 2025 Drents Museum heist
  • A Dutch court sentences three men to 47 months' imprisonment for stealing Dacian golden artifacts, including the Helmet of Coțofenești, from the Drents Museum in Assen, Drenthe, in 2025. (AFP via RFI) (AP)

June 5: World Environment Day; Feast day of Saint Boniface (Christianity)

• 663 – The Daming Palace in Chang'an became the seat of government and the royal residence of the Tang dynasty during the reign of Emperor Gaozong.
• 1610 – The masque Tethys' Festival was performed at the Palace of Whitehall to celebrate the investiture of Henry Frederick as Prince of Wales.
• 1963 – British politician John Profumo admitted that he had lied to the House of Commons about his involvement in a sex scandal with Christine Keeler, and resigned from government.
• 1976 – The Teton Dam in eastern Idaho, U.S., collapsed (failure pictured) as its reservoir was being filled for the first time, resulting in the deaths of eleven people and 13,000 cattle, and causing up to $2 billion in damage.
• 2001 – Tropical Storm Allison, the costliest Atlantic tropical cyclone that was never a hurricane, made landfall in Texas, causing approximately $8.5 billion in damage.