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• Russian invasion of Ukraine
□ Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
☆ Russian forces strike a residential area in Orikhiv, Zaporizhzhia
Oblast, killing four civilians and injuring 11 others, according to
governor Yuriy Malashko. (Reuters)
• Two people are killed and six others are missing after heavy rains trigger
landslides in Kyushu and Chūgoku, Japan. (AP)
• Effects of climate change
□ The World Meteorological Organization reports that Earth experienced
its hottest week on record at the start of July, attributing the
unprecedented temperatures to climate change and early stages of El
Niño. (AFP via RFI)
• School attacks in China
□ Six people, including three children, are killed and another is injured
during a mass stabbing at a kindergarten in Lianjiang, Guangdong, China
. The suspect is detained by the police. (India Today)
• 2023 Uzbek presidential election
□ Uzbek authorities say that the incumbent Shavkat Mirziyoyev is
reelected with 87.1% of the votes. (Reuters)
• Syrian civil war
□ War against the Islamic State
☆ The United States Central Command announces that a MQ-9 Reaper
drone strike killed a senior Islamic State leader, Usamah
al-Muhajir, in eastern Syria two days ago. (Reuters)
□ At least eight people are killed by two separate car bombings in
northern Syria. (AFP via Al Arabiya)
• Somali Civil War
□ The United States Defense Department announces that ten Al-Shabaab
members were killed today by airstrikes near Afmadow, Jubaland, Somalia
. (CNN)
• Fifteen people are killed by landslides and flooding across northern India.
(Al Jazeera)
• Ten people are killed and 30 others are injured when a bus falls off a
bridge into a river in North Central Province, Sri Lanka. (Xinhua)
• A small Cessna plane crashes in Eastern Region, Iceland, killing all three
people aboard. (Iceland Monitor)
• Seven people are killed and twelve others are injured when a gas cylinder
explosion causes a three-story building to collapse in Jhelum, Punjab,
Pakistan. (Dunya News)
• One person is killed and an unknown number of others are missing as
torrential rains caused flooding in Hudson Valley, New York, United States.
(The New York Times)
• A jet bridge collapses at the Dublin Airport in Ireland, damaging an
American Airlines Boeing 787 aircraft. (Irish Times)
• New Zealand–European Union relations
□ New Zealand signs a free trade agreement with the European Union, which
is expected to increase EU exports to the South Pacific nation by €4.5
billion a year. (AFP via RTÉ)
• 15th BRICS summit
□ South African President Cyril Ramaphosa confirms that the upcoming
BRICS summit in Johannesburg will be conducted in-person for the first
time since 2019, despite an International Criminal Court arrest warrant
against Russian President Vladimir Putin. However, Ramaphosa does not
state whether Putin will attend the summit. (AFP via The Moscow Times)
• Poland–Ukraine relations
□ President of Poland Andrzej Duda and President of Ukraine Volodymyr
Zelenskyy commemorate the victims of the 1943 massacres in Volhynia and
Eastern Galicia, at a ceremony held at the Saint Peter and Paul
Cathedral in Lutsk, Ukraine. (DW)
• British public broadcaster BBC suspends a male presenter over allegations
of sexual misconduct involving a minor, which the BBC first became aware of
in May. (CNN)
• 2023 Gabonese general election
□ President Ali Bongo Ondimba announces his bid for a third term in
office. (AFP via The Guardian)
• 2024 Salvadoran general election
□ President Nayib Bukele formalizes his presidential re-election campaign
with the Nuevas Ideas political party. (AP)
• 2023 Uzbek presidential election
□ Uzbeks vote for a president following the approval of the
constitutional referendum which reset term limits, allowing incumbent
president Shavkat Mirziyoyev to serve two more seven-year terms. (AFP
via France 24)
• 2023 LPGA Tour
□ 2023 U.S. Women's Open
☆ In golf, American Allisen Corpuz wins the 78th U.S. Women's Open at
the Pebble Beach Golf Links in Pebble Beach, California, United
States, after firing a three-under 69 to finish on nine under,
three shots ahead of England's Charley Hull and South Korea's Jiyai
Shin. (BBC Sport)
• 2023 Sudan conflict
□ Battle of Omdurman
☆ At least 22 people are killed by an airstrike in Omdurman, Sudan.
(Reuters)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
□ Battle of Donbas
☆ Russian forces shell Lyman in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, killing
eight people and injuring 13 others, according to governor Pavlo
Kyrylenko. (BBC News)
• Sistan and Baluchestan insurgency
□ Four insurgents and two officers are killed at a police station in
Zahedan, Sistan and Baluchestan province, Iran. (Iran International)
• 2023 Murrieta plane crash
□ A plane crashes in Murrieta, California, United States, killing all six
people aboard. (Forbes)
• One person is killed and seven others are missing due to a landslide that
buried a highway in Yichang, Hubei, China. (Reuters)
• Pemex, the Mexican oil company, estimates that Friday's fire on an offshore
drilling platform has led to the loss of 700,000 barrels of oil production
thus far. (Reuters)
• Deforestation of the Amazon rainforest
□ The heads of government of the Amazon basin countries convene in
Leticia, Amazonas, Colombia, to strategize conserving the Amazon
rainforest. (AFP via The Business Standard)
• Shah Cheragh attack
□ Iran executes two men for their involvement in a mass shooting at Shah
Cheragh in Shiraz, Fars province. (CNN)
• LGBT rights in Georgia
□ Organizers cancel a pride festival in Tbilisi, Georgia, due to violent
interventions by far-right groups which led to clashes with law
enforcement. (CNN)
• Four people are killed and five are injured in a series of shootings in
Chicago, Illinois, United States. (WLS-TV)
• A correspondent for the Mexican newspaper La Jornada is found dead in Tepic
, Nayarit, a day after being reported missing. (AFP via Philippine Daily
Inquirer)
• June 2023 Greek legislative election
□ The New Democracy party, led by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis,
secures a vote of confidence in Parliament to begin its second
four-year term. (AP)