June 28, 2018 (Thursday)
Disasters and accidents
- 2018 UY Aviation King Air C90 crash
- 2018 Gikomba fire
- A landslide killed 14 people in northern Myanmar. (BNI Multimedia Group)
International relations
- Russia–United States relations
- A summit meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin is set for July 16 in Helsinki. The leaders are expected to discuss national security issues as well as Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. elections. (CBS News)
Law and crime
- Capital Gazette shooting
- A shooting at the office of The Capital and the Maryland Gazette newspapers in Annapolis, Maryland, United States, kills five people. The suspected shooter is detained by local police. (CBC) (BBC)
- Protests against Trump administration family separation policy
- About 575 women are arrested during a sit-in at the Hart Senate Office Building protesting the Trump administration family separation policy. (NPR)
- Police arrest at least nine protesters at an Occupy ICE demonstration in Portland, Oregon. (The Oregonian)
- 2017-18 Spanish constitutional crisis
- The National Court confirms the prosecution against Major of the Mossos d'Esquadra, Josep Lluís Trapero and the former leaders of the regional Police for sedition and criminal organitzation. (El Mundo)
Politics and elections
- Aftermath of first impeachment process against Pedro Pablo Kuczynski
- The Prosecutor's Office of Peru opens a preliminary investigation to determine if there were alleged political benefits – among them the humanitarian pardon granted to former President Alberto Fujimori – offered by former President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski to avoid being removed from his office during the first impeachment process against him in December 2017. Three months later, in the middle of a similar scenario, Kuczynski resigned, seeing that Congress would no longer favor him. (Perú 21)
Sports
- 2018 FIFA World Cup
- Japan is the only Asian team to advance to the knockout stage, via fair play after exhausting other tiebreakers. (BBC)
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