On 8 July 2022, Shinzo Abe, a former prime minister of Japan and a serving member of the House of Representatives, was assassinated while speaking at a political event outside Yamato-Saidaiji Station in the city of Nara, Nara Prefecture, Japan. At approximately 11:30 a.m. JST (UTC+9), while delivering a campaign speech for a Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) candidate, Abe was shot from behind at close range by a homemade firearm. Abe was transported by medical helicopter to Nara Medical University Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 5:03 p.m., five and a half hours after the shooting.
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In early July 2022, 63 of Britain's 179 government ministers, parliamentary private secretaries, and trade envoys resigned from their positions in Prime Minister Boris Johnson's second administration, culminating in Johnson's own resignation on 7 July.
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Hugo Duminil-Copin (born 26 August 1985) is a French mathematician specializing in probability theory. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 2022.
June Huh (Korean: 허준이; born 1983) is an American mathematician who is currently a professor at Princeton University. Previously, he was a professor at Stanford University and the Institute for Advanced Studies. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 2022, and has been noted for the linkages that he has found between algebraic geometry and combinatorics.
James Maynard (born 10 June 1987) is a British mathematician working in analytic number theory and in particular the theory of prime numbers. In 2017, he was appointed Research Professor at Oxford. Maynard is a fellow of St John's College, Oxford. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 2022.
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Maryna Sergiivna Viazovska (Ukrainian: Марина Сергіївна Вязовська, pronounced [mɐˈrɪnɐ wʲɐˈzɔu̯sʲkɐ]; born 2 December 1984) is a Ukrainian mathematician known for her work in sphere packing. She is full professor and Chair of Number Theory at the Institute of Mathematics of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland. She was awarded the Fields Medal in 2022.
Protests broke out in the autonomous region of Karakalpakstan in Uzbekistan on 1 July 2022 over proposed amendments by Shavkat Mirziyoyev, the Uzbek President, to the Constitution of Uzbekistan, which would have ended Karakalpakstan's status as an autonomous region of Uzbekistan and right to secede from Uzbekistan via referendum. A day after protests had begun in the Karakalpak capital of Nukus, President Mirziyoyev withdrew the constitutional amendments. The Karakalpak government said that protesters had attempted to storm government buildings.
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The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is a global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The novel virus was first identified from an outbreak in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. Attempts to contain it there failed, allowing the virus to spread to other areas of China and later worldwide. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern on 30 January 2020 and a pandemic on 11 March 2020. As of 8 July 2022, the pandemic had caused more than 553 million cases and 6.34 million confirmed deaths, making it one of the deadliest in history.
On 24 February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War that began in 2014. The invasion caused Europe's largest refugee crisis since World War II, with more than 8.8 million Ukrainians fleeing the country and a third of the population displaced. The invasion also caused global food shortages.
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