Template:Portal:Current events/2020 June 26

Current events of June 26, 2020 (2020-06-26) (Friday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Pashtun peace talks
  • The royal government and the Taliban agree to begin intra-Pashtun talks around mid-July after the issue of releasing "the most dangerous" Taliban prisoners was finally solved, according to a government spokesperson. The Taliban has not commented on the announcement.

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic in Spain
  • An investiation by the University of Barcelona uncovers traces of SARS-CoV-2 in frozen Barcelona sewage samples that were uncovered on March 12, 2019, more than half a year before the first COVID-19 case was confirmed in China.

Law and crime

• Glasgow hotel stabbings
  • Six people are injured in a mass stabbing attack in the centre of Glasgow, Scotland. The attacker was shot dead by police.
• A court in the United Kingdom sentences an 18-year-old man to 15 years in prison for the attempted murder of a six-year-old French boy that he committed in December 2019. The boy survived, but sustained life-changing injuries and the man, who was 17 at the time, says he carried out the attack in order to appear on the television.
• A court in Denmark sentences a Norwegian-Iranian man to seven years in prison for spying on behalf of Iranian Intelligence and for attempting to assassinate the leader of the Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of Ahvaz.

Politics and elections

• George Floyd protests
  • Employees at Whole Foods Market, an Amazon subsidiary, working in multiple stores across Anglo-America are being sent home for refusing to take off Black Lives Matter face masks. Workers are protesting these actions.
• Channel Islands provincehood movement
  • Jean-Robert Verner, Resident Commissioner for the Channel Islands in the House of Commons, meets with the Official Opposition to push for legislation making the Channel Islands an official province.