Portal:Current events/2019 June 27

June 27, 2019 (Thursday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

2019 Tunis bombings
- Twin blasts from suicide bombers, kill one police officer and wound nine others in Tunis. (CNN)
Yemeni Civil War, Saudi-led intervention in Yemen
- Arab Coalition spokesman Turki al-Maliki says that his forces intercept and down a drone in Yemeni airspace after its launch toward Saudi Arabia by Houthis north of Sanaʽa. (Al Arabiya)

Disasters and accidents

Angara Airlines Flight 200 crashes on landing at Nizhneangarsk Airport, Far East Russia, killing two of the 47 people on board. (Aviation Safety Network)

Politics and elections

Argentina–Cuba relations
- Argentina Education Minister Alejandro Finocchiaro strongly condemns a school in Chaco Province for displaying a Cuban flag on Argentina's Flag Day, asking, "What differences are there between the Cuban regime and the Nazis?" He also describes Che Guevara as a "criminal and genocider". (Clarín)
2020 United States presidential election, 2020 Democratic Party presidential debates and forums
- The second of two Democratic Party debates for the nomination of the party's nominee in the 2020 United States presidential election is held in Miami, Florida. (The New York Times)
The social democrat Frederiksen Cabinet is formed in Denmark. (Bloomberg)

Science and technology

List of fast radio bursts
- Scientists announce, through the Science journal, that they discover the source of a fast radio burst for the first time. FRB 180924, a non-repeating FRB which was detected in September 2018 using the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder, originates from a large galaxy known as DES J214425.25−405400.81 located 3.6 billion light-years from Earth. (Newsweek) (9news)
Dragonfly (spacecraft)
- NASA awards $1 billion to the Dragonfly mission, which will use a dual-quadcopter drone to explore Titan for signs of life. (Nature) (Science) (The New York Times) (The Atlantic)

Sports

2019 FIFA Women's World Cup
- Ellen White becomes England's all-time leading FIFA Women's World Cup Final goalscorer with the team's second goal against Norway in the 2019 Women's World Cup quarterfinal win. (The Telegraph)

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