Georgia booked a place in the last 16 of Euro 2024 in their debut appearance at a major tournament with an early goal by Khvicha Kvaratskhelia and Georges Mikautadze's penalty for a 2-0 win over Portugal on June 26.
Ukraine was knocked out of the European Championship on June 26 following a 0-0 draw with Belgium in its Group E match.
Ukraine has accused Russia of stepping up front-line attacks using prohibited hazardous chemicals, including tear gas, the latest in a series of allegations of battlefield abuses.
Restrictions on women's rights continue to prevent Afghanistan's "reintegration" into the international community, a senior UN official said on June 21, noting the Taliban's participation in upcoming talks in Doha is not legitimization of the isolated government.
The Swedish Foreign Ministry said on June 18 that it had summoned Russia's ambassador after a Russian SU-24 bomber allegedly violated its airspace near the Baltic Sea island of Gotland.
A Russian nuclear-powered submarine and other naval vessels on June 17 left the port of Havana.
Seven fans of Serbia’s national team were taken into custody on June 16 after scuffles broke out in the German city of Gelsenkirchen ahead of the team's Euro 2024 match against England, police said.
Taliban authorities will attend the third round of United Nations-hosted talks on Afghanistan in Doha, Qatar, a government spokesman said on June 16.
Delegates from some 100 states and organizations arrived in Switzerland on June 15 for a two-day peace summit for Ukraine. Ahead of the summit, Russian President Vladimir Putin said there would be no peace unless Ukraine made major territorial concessions and remained outside NATO.
Iranian authorities have released a French citizen held since September 2022, French President Emmanuel Macron announced on June 12, urging Tehran to free three other French nationals "without delay."
The White House on June 11 said new measures will be announced to punish Russia for its aggression against Ukraine when the G7 meets this week, including action on the use of frozen Russian assets to aid Kyiv.
India and Pakistan cricket fans gathered in New York in their thousands on June 9 for the T20 World Cup clash between the two rival countries, bringing a flavor of the subcontinent to unfamiliar terrain for the sport.
French police are holding three young Moldovans suspected of being behind graffiti in Paris that show coffins with the slogan "French soldiers in Ukraine," prosecutors said on June 8.
The main coalition of reformists in Iran June 8 said it would only participate in this month's presidential election if at least one of its candidates is approved to run, according to the reformist newspaper Etemad.
A Russian nuclear-powered submarine will visit Havana next week, Cuba's communist authorities said on June 6.
A Polish soldier stabbed by a migrant at the border with Belarus has died, the army command said on June 6.
France's domestic intelligence agency has detained a 26-year-old Russian-Ukrainian man on suspicion of planning a violent act after he injured himself in an explosion, the National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor's Office said on June 5.
Iran's acting foreign minister, Ali Bagheri, on June 3 said his government was engaged in negotiations with archfoe the United States hosted by the Gulf sultanate of Oman.
A 29-year-old police officer died on June 2 after being repeatedly stabbed during an attack at an anti-Islam rally in Germany.
A German former soldier was sentenced to 3 1/2 years in jail on May 27 for sharing secret military information with Russia in the wake of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
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