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• LGBT rights in Malaysia
□ The Ministry of Communications and Digital cancels a music festival in
Sepang, Selangor, after Matty Healy, the lead vocalist of English band
the 1975, openly criticized the country's anti-LGBT laws and kissed his
male bandmate on stage. (AFP via ABS-CBN News)
• COVID-19 pandemic
□ COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines
☆ President Bongbong Marcos formally ends COVID-19 as a public health
emergency in the country. (Khaleej Times)
• 2023 European heat waves
□ The National Observatory of Athens reports that Greece faces its
longest-ever heat wave, with temperatures expected to exceed 40 °C
(104 °F), marking a possible 16-17 day wave. The country remains on an
alert state. (AFP via Herald Sun)
• Eleven people are killed in an arson attack on a bar in San Luis Río
Colorado, Sonora, Mexico. (Reuters)
• Ju Wenjun wins her fourth Women’s World Chess Champion title after a
victory in the 12th game of the match against challenger Lei Tingjie (FIDE)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
□ Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure
☆ Bombing of Odesa
○ Russian Armed Forces strike grain warehouses in Odesa with
Kalibr missiles, destroying 120 tons of crops and injuring two
civilians, according to Governor Oleh Kiper. (CNN)
☆ Bombing of Mykolaiv
○ Russian Armed Forces strike a building in Mykolaiv, killing two
civilians. (Yeni Şafak)
• 2023 Sudan conflict
□ Battle of Khartoum
☆ Fifteen civilians and 19 army officers are killed in a drone attack
in Khartoum, Sudan. (Globe Echo)
• Yemeni civil war
□ A World Food Programme employee is killed by unknown assailants in Taiz
, Yemen, with security forces launching a pursuit of the individuals
responsible. (AFP via Manila Bulletin)
• Six people are killed after a boat carrying migrants sinks off the coast of
Morocco. (Reuters)
• Nigeria's northwestern Kaduna State reports an outbreak of diphtheria,
which has killed 10 children since early July. (Xinhua)
• Opposition to Vladimir Putin in Russia
□ Police detain former intelligence officer, separatist commander and
Angry Patriots Club leader Igor Girkin for alleged extremism. (AFP via
The Guardian)
• One person is killed and three others are injured in a mass stabbing near a
subway station in Seoul, South Korea. The attacker is apprehended. (AFP via
The Hindustan Times)
• Aftermath of the 2023 Guatemalan general election
□ Police raid the headquarters of the opposition party Movimiento Semilla
and presidential candidate Bernardo Arévalo in Guatemala City,
Guatemala. (Reuters)
• Iran–United States relations
□ The US military deploys Marines and other assets to the Persian Gulf in
response to seizures and attempted seizures of shipping by naval forces
of Iran. (Politico)
• 2023 Diamond League
□ In athletics, Faith Kipyegon of Kenya sets a new women's mile record,
finishing the Herculis at Stade Louis-II in Fontvieille, Monaco, in
4:07.64 and surpassing the previous 2019 record held by Sifan Hassan of
the Netherlands. (CNN)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
□ Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
☆ Odesa attacks
○ At least three people are killed and eight civilians are
injured in a Russian strike on Odesa, Ukraine. (Reuters)
(Reuters 2)
○ The consulate general of China in Odesa suffers minor damage
during the Russian strike. (Reuters)
☆ Mykolaiv attacks
○ Russian forces strike Mykolaiv, Ukraine, injuring at least 19
civilians. (Reuters) (The Kyiv Independent)
□ Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant crisis
☆ The International Atomic Energy Agency reports that it is still
awaiting access to the rooftops of Ukraine's Russian-occupied
Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Enerhodar, despite being
permitted to view the fuel cooling pools amid allegations of the
plant's usage as an atomic bargaining chip. (AFP via The Manila
Times)
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
□ Two policemen are killed and two more injured during a shooting by
Pakistani Taliban gunmen at a checkpoint in Peshawar, Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (Geo Tv)
□ Two Pakistani Taliban members blow themselves up at a police station
and government station in Bara, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, killing
four police officers and wounding eleven more. (ABC News)
• 2021–2023 inflation surge
□ The Turkish central bank raises its main interest rate from 15% to
17.5% in order to control rising inflation, after the key rate nearly
doubled last month. (CNBC)
• 2023 Raigad landslide
□ Sixteen people are killed and 100 others are believed to be missing
during a landslide in Raigad, Maharashtra, India. (The Hindu)
• Fifty-six people, mostly children, are hospitalized after they suffocated
due to inhalation of chlorine gas that leaked from a swimming pool in
Alexandria, Egypt. (Al-Ahram)
• Around 270 people are airlifted from a Glacier 3000 aerial tramway on the
Tsanfleuron Glacier in the Diablerets massif in Switzerland following an
electrical failure. (AFP via The Manila Times)
• 2023 European heat waves
□ At least 110 people are injured during extreme hailstorms in Veneto,
Italy. (The Guardian)
□ A state of emergency is declared on the island of Rhodes, Greece, with
evacuation orders issued for several mountain areas. (The Guardian)
• Iraq–Sweden relations
□ Protests against Quran desecration in Sweden
☆ Followers of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr set fire to the Swedish
embassy in Baghdad, Iraq, in response to a planned Quran
desecration demonstration in Stockholm, Sweden. The Swedish foreign
ministry confirms the safety of its embassy staff while the Iraqi
foreign ministry condemns the incident, initiating an investigation
to identify those responsible. (AFP via Today)
☆ Iraqi prime minister Mohammed Shia' Al Sudani directs the foreign
ministry to expel the Swedish ambassador to Iraq. (DW)
• North Korea–United States relations
□ North Korea and weapons of mass destruction
☆ North Korean defence minister Kang Sun-nam warns that the
deployment of the USS Kentucky ballistic missile submarine to South
Korea on July 18 could provoke his country to use its nuclear
weapons under its law. (AFP via CNA)
• Bolivia–Iran relations
□ Bolivia and Iran sign a memorandum of understanding in Tehran, Iran,
with both countries vowing to strengthen defence and security
cooperation. (Xinhua)
• Russia–European Union relations
□ The European Union imposes sanctions on the director of the Russian
prison incarcerating opposition leader Alexei Navalny. (AFP via
Barron's)
• 2023 Auckland shooting
□ Three people are killed, including the shooter, and six others are
injured in a mass shooting at a construction site in the central
business district of Auckland, New Zealand. (Reuters)
• Opposition to Vladimir Putin in Russia
□ Prosecutors recommend an additional 20-year prison sentence for Alexei
Navalny, who is currently serving a nine-year sentence for embezzlement
and contempt of court, on extremism charges. (AFP via The Guardian)
• 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup
□ The ninth edition of the FIFA Women's World Cup opens in New Zealand,
with the co-hosts defeating Norway 1–0 in the opening match at Eden
Park in Auckland. A minute's silence was observed prior to the match
for the victims of the shooting that occurred several hours earlier.
(AP)