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July 9-15, 2023

In the Netherlands, the governing coalition collapses and Prime Minister Mark Rutte announces his upcoming resignation.

The fourth Rutte cabinet is the current cabinet of the Netherlands. It was inaugurated on 10 January 2022. The cabinet is a continuation of the third Rutte cabinet and is formed by the conservative liberal People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD), the social liberal Democrats 66 and the Christian democratic Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) and Christian Union (CU) after the election of 2021.

In the United States, actors in the SAG-AFTRA trade union go on strike, joining writers in the Writers Guild of America strike.

On July 14, 2023, the Hollywood actors' union, SAG-AFTRA, went on strike over an ongoing labor dispute with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP). It has coincided with a Writers Guild of America (WGA) strike as part of broader Hollywood labor disputes.

Flooding and landslides in northern India leave at least 100 people dead.

Heavy rainfall during the 2023 monsoon season resulted in severe flooding and landslides across Northern India, primarily affecting residents in Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Haryana, Punjab, Rajasthan and Delhi.

Russian invasion of Ukraine (ongoing)

On 24 February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine in an escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War which began in 2014. The invasion has killed tens of thousands on both sides, with Russian troops causing mass civilian casualties and captured Ukrainian soldiers reporting frequent torture. By June 2022, about 8 million Ukrainians were internally displaced. More than 8.2 million fled the country by May 2023, Europe's largest refugee crisis since World War II. Extensive environmental damage, widely described as ecocide, contributed to the 2022 food crises.

Sudan conflict (ongoing)

An armed conflict between rival factions of the military government of Sudan began on 15 April 2023, when clashes broke out in cities, with the fighting concentrated around the capital city of Khartoum and the Darfur region. They were later joined by a faction of the militant Sudan People's Liberation Movement–North (SPLM-N) led by Abdelaziz al-Hilu, which fought the SAF in regions bordering South Sudan and Ethiopia. As of 20 June 2023, between 3,000 and 5,000 people had been killed and 6,000 to 8,000 others injured, while as of 12 July 2023, 2.4 million were internally displaced and 724,000 others had fled the country as refugees.