June 13, 2016 (2016-06-13) (Monday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Orlando nightclub shooting
- City officials in Orlando, Florida, continue to identify the bodies of the victims in yesterday's attack. So far, 33 of the reported 49 victims have been identified and their families notified. (City of Orlando)
- Moro Conflict
- Kurdish–Turkish conflict
- A car bomb injures at least nine people, three in serious condition, in the mainly-Kurdish southeast region in Turkey's Tunceli Province. The explosion occurred close to housing for courthouse employees in the town of Ovacik. There is no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack. (Al Jazeera) (AP)
- June 2016 Magnanville stabbing
- A senior French police commander is killed by a knife-wielding 25-year-old man outside his home in Magnanville near Paris, France. The attacker, who retreated inside the house, is also killed when elite police commandos storm the residence after negotiations failed. The commander's partner, a female administrative police official, is found dead inside the home, while a young boy is rescued physically unharmed. The Islamic State, via its Amaq News Agency, claims responsibility for the attack. (BNO News) (Le Parisien) (HuffPost) (Reuters)
Arts and culture
Business and economics
International relations
International relations
Law and crime
- A 22-year-old Dutch woman held in Qatar for nearly three months after telling police she had been raped is released following the court ruling of a one-year suspended prison sentence. The Associated Press reports it isn't clear "[...] what sentence was given to the man she accused of rape." (AP)
- Trial of Oscar Pistorius
Politics and elections
Science and technology