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• Papua conflict
□ Nine people are killed and one other person is wounded after gunmen
attack civilians in Nduga Regency, Papua, Indonesia. The separatist
West Papua National Liberation Army is blamed for the attack. (Reuters)
• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
□ Israel launches more than a dozen missiles against two targets in the
Gaza Strip, causing severe damage. No casualties are reported. (Al
Jazeera)
• Russo-Ukrainian War
□ 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
☆ At least three civilians are killed and 15 others are injured in
Russian cruise missile strikes on the city of Dnipro. (Reuters)
• Insurgency in Balochistan
□ Nine Balochistan Liberation Army separatist insurgents are killed
during a gunfight with the Pakistan Army in Balochistan, after the
group kidnapped and killed a colonel. (AP)
• Thirty-one people are killed after tribal clashes in Blue Nile, Sudan. (AP)
• Public transport in Spain
□ Spain introduces free tickets for suburban and medium-distance services
for Renfe, the state-owned railway operator, starting from September 1
and until the end of the year. Other modes of public transport already
have a 30% discount. (The Guardian)
• Toyota announces its flagship model, the Toyota Crown, will be sold
globally for the first time this year. (Nikkei Asia)
• 2022 European heat waves
□ A national emergency is declared in the United Kingdom, with the first
ever red alert for extreme heat being issued by the Met Office, ahead
of a heat wave which is now expected to break temperature records in
the British Isles. (BBC News)
□ Portugal reports 238 deaths related to the ongoing heat wave as it
battles more than 30 active wildfires. In France, more than 10,000
people have fled wildfires in Gironde and in Spain, firefighters
continue to battle forest fires near the town of Monsagro. (BBC News)
• Fourteen people are killed and another is injured after a helicopter
involved in the search and arrest of druglord Rafael Caro Quintero crashes
in Los Mochis, Mexico. (Al Jazeera)
• Saudi Arabia–United States relations
□ U.S. President Joe Biden meets with Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed
bin Salman in Jeddah despite previously vowing to make him a "pariah".
(Bloomberg)
• Judiciary of Poland
□ Polish Supreme Court Disciplinary Chamber law
☆ The controversial Disciplinary Chamber of the Supreme Court is
abolished. However, Didier Reynders, the European Commissioner for
Justice, says that the European Court of Justice's ruling ordering
the abolishment has not been fully respected and therefore Poland
will continue to pay a fine of €1 million per day for contempt of
court. (Rzeczpospolita)
• Ex-leader of the Guadalajara Cartel Rafael Caro Quintero is captured by the
Mexican Navy in San Simon, Sinaloa, Mexico. (AP News)
• Terrorism in Germany
□ A 33-year-old former German Army officer is sentenced to
five-and-a-half years in prison for plotting a terrorist attack on
senior politicians while posing as a Syrian refugee. (CNN)
• International Space Station programme
□ NASA and Roscosmos sign an agreement to integrate future flights to the
International Space Station. The agreement will allow Russian
cosmonauts to fly on U.S. spacecraft in return for allowing American
astronauts to use Russia's Soyuz spacecraft. (Reuters)
• Russo-Ukrainian War
□ 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
☆ 2022 Vinnytsia attacks
○ July 2022 Vinnytsia missile strike
■ At least 23 civilians are killed and more than 100 others
are injured by three Russian missile strikes in Vinnytsia.
(BBC News)
• Insurgency in the Maghreb
□ At least 12 civilians are killed by Islamic extremist gunmen during an
attack against two villages in northern Togo. (Reuters)
• Social media site Twitter experiences a global outage lasting for 45
minutes, making it the site's longest outage since 2016. (The Guardian)
• Russia enacts a law that requires all companies to comply with the armed
forces' orders to provide goods or services and provide overtime or
additional work days if necessary. The requirement for a public procurement
procedure for this type of request is abolished. (Rzeczpospolita)
• Over 40 people are missing after a series of floods in Virginia, United
States. All are later accounted for. (Daily Express) (BBC News)
• One person is killed by a magnitude 5.7 earthquake in Ecuador. (ABC)
• Three people are killed and two are injured by a mudslide that hit a school
in Antioquia, Colombia. (AP)
• Pinhão, district of Vila Real, sets the highest July temperature ever in
Portugal, reaching 47.0 °C (116.6 °F). (The Age) (IPMA)
• Capital punishment in South Korea
□ In South Korea, the Constitutional Court begins deliberations on
abolishing the death penalty upon an appeal by the Catholic Bishops'
Conference of Korea. South Korea currently has a moratorium on the
issue, having not hanged a death row inmate in the past 25 years. (
South China Morning Post)
• Media freedom in Russia
□ Russian president Vladimir Putin signs a law expanding the definition
of "foreign agents" to all organisations deemed by the government to
have fallen under "foreign influence", beginning on December 1. The law
permits Roskomnadzor to block any websites related to a designated
entity without a court order, and restricts these entities from
receiving state funds and working with children or at state
universities. (The Moscow Times)
• At least 89 people, including 42 civilians, are killed after gang warfare
over the control of the Cité Soleil neighbourhood began a week ago between
the G9 and G-Pèp gangs in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. (BBC News)
• Bolivian justice minister Iván Lima announces that the government will seek
more charges against former president Jeanine Áñez for her alleged role in
massacres perpetrated in Senkata and Sacaba in 2019. Añez is already
serving a 10-year sentence on other charges. (Página/12)
• Ripudaman Singh Malik, one of the men acquitted in the Air India Flight 182
terrorist bombing, is shot to death in Surrey, British Columbia. (BBC News)
• 2022 United Kingdom government crisis
□ 2022 Conservative Party leadership election
☆ Suella Braverman is eliminated from the leadership race in the
second round of voting. (The Guardian)
• 2022 Sri Lankan protests
□ Gotabaya Rajapaksa resigns as President of Sri Lanka after fleeing to
Singapore. (BBC News)
• 2022 Italian government crisis
□ Mario Draghi offers his resignation as Prime Minister of Italy after
coalition partner Five Star withdraws its support. However, President
Sergio Mattarella refuses to accept the resignation. (BBC News)