June 10, 2017 (Saturday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Marawi crisis
- United States special forces join the battle in Marawi, Philippines, against the Maute. (CNBC)
- War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
- An Afghan soldier kills 3 U.S. troops and injures 1 other in Achin, Nangarhar Province. The Taliban claims responsibility, saying the Afghan soldier was one of several Taliban infiltrators in the Afghan Armed Forces. (The Guardian)
Disasters and accidents
- Road incidents in the Netherlands
- Eight people are injured, two seriously, when a car drives into several people in front of the Amsterdam Centraal station in the Netherlands. Police say the driver may have taken ill; they are not treating this as terrorism-related. (DutchNews.NL) (Reuters)
Law and crime
- Krotovo massacre
- Crime in Canada
- Quebec police shoot and kill a 19-year-old suspect following a stabbing spree in the village of Akulivik which left three people dead and two others critically injured. (CBC)
Politics and elections
- Aftermath of the United Kingdom general election, 2017
- Prime Minister Theresa May's closest advisers, Fiona Hill and Nick Timothy, resign as her Chiefs of Staff amid criticism over their role in the Conservative Party's election campaign. (The Independent)
- Following talks in Belfast, the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) agrees to a "confidence and supply" deal to support a Conservative Party minority-government. (BBC)
- March Against Sharia
- Protesters stage rallies, organized by ACT! for America, against sharia law in major and small cities across the United States. Counter protesters also assembled at these locations. (Reuters) (AP via Time)
- Politics of Zimbabwe
- Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe fires prosecutor Johannes Tomana. (BBC)
Sport
- 2017 Belmont Stakes
- In American horse racing, Tapwrit wins the 2017 Belmont Stakes. (AL.com)
- 2017 French Open
- In tennis, Jeļena Ostapenko of Latvia defeats Simona Halep of Romania 4–6, 6–4, 6–3 in the Women's Singles of the French Open. It is Ostapenko's first WTA Tour title, making her the first woman to earn her first tour victory at a Grand Slam event since Barbara Jordan at the 1979 Australian Open. She also becomes the first Latvian of either sex to win a Grand Slam event and the first unseeded woman to win the French Open since 1933. (The Washington Post) (ESPN)