Portal:Current events
Topics in the news
- NASA releases the first operational image (shown) taken by the James Webb Space Telescope.
- Protesters storm the President's House in Colombo, Sri Lanka, forcing President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to flee and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe to agree to resign.
- Angola's former president José Eduardo dos Santos dies at the age of 79.
- Former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe is assassinated while giving a speech in Nara.
Armed conflicts and attacks
- 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)
Business and economy
- Public transport in Spain
- Spain introduces free tickets for suburban and medium-distance services for Renfe, the state-owned railway operator, starting from 1 September and until the end of the year. Other modes of public transport already have a 30% discount. (The Guardian)
Disasters and accidents
- 2022 European heat waves
- A national emergency is declared, and the first ever red alert for extreme heat is issued by the Met Office in the United Kingdom, ahead of a heat wave which is now expected to bring the hottest temperature ever recorded in the British Isles. (BBC News)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- 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)
- July 2022 Vinnytsia missile strike
- 2022 Vinnytsia attacks
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Jihadist militants kill 12 civilians in northern Togo. (Reuters)
Business and economy
- 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)
Disasters and accidents
- 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 hits a school in Antioquia, Colombia. (AP)
Law and crime
- 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)
Politics and elections
- 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 Conservative Party leadership election
- 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)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russo-Ukrainian War
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Battle of Donbas
- Heavy Russian shelling is reported in Bakhmut, Donetsk Oblast, with at least one person killed and five others injured in the largely evacuated town. (The Guardian)
- Battle of Donbas
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
Business and economy
- 2021–2022 inflation surge
- The Bank of Canada raises its benchmark interest rate from 1.5 to 2.5 percent, the single largest increase since 1998, amid surging inflation. (CBC)
- In the United States, the annual rate of inflation rises to 9.1 percent, the highest rate in 40 years, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. (Fox Business)
- The euro's value against the U.S. dollar falls below parity for the first time in 20 years. (Reuters)
Disasters and accidents
- Two firefighters are killed and two others survive after a helicopter crashes on the Greek island of Samos, Greece. (AP)
Health and environment
- 2022 monkeypox outbreak
- 2022 monkeypox outbreak in Europe
- Bosnia and Herzegovina reports its first confirmed case of monkeypox. (Dnevni Avaz)
- 2022 monkeypox outbreak in Europe
- COVID-19 pandemic
- COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom
- The number of deaths from COVID-19 in the United Kingdom surpasses 200,000, with 294 deaths reported in the last week. (The Guardian)
- COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom
International relations
- International sanctions during the Russo-Ukrainian War
- Lithuania–Russia relations, Russia–European Union relations
- The European Commission allows Russia to resume shipping embargoed goods by rail to its exclave of Kaliningrad, following Russian threats against Lithuania. However, the transit of military equipment through Lithuanian territory remains prohibited. (Newsweek)
- Lithuania–Russia relations, Russia–European Union relations
- International recognition of the Donetsk People's Republic and the Luhansk People's Republic
- North Korea recognizes the independence of the Donetsk People's Republic and the Luhansk People's Republic, becoming the third nation to do so after Russia and Syria. Ukraine suspends relations with North Korea in response. (Reuters) (Business Insider)
Law and crime
- Global surveillance disclosures
- Vault 7
- A jury in New York convicts ex-Central Intelligence Agency engineer Joshua Schulte on all nine charges relating to the Vault 7 leak detailing the activities and capabilities of the CIA to perform electronic surveillance and cyber warfare. The leak is the largest leak in Central Intelligence Agency history. (The Verge)
- Vault 7
- 2022 Sri Lankan protests
- Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe confirms that former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has fled the country to the Maldives and declares a state of emergency and a curfew as the military fires tear gas at the protesters. (Al Jazeera) (ANINews)
- Protesters storm the Prime Minister's office in Colombo, demanding Wickremesinghe's immediate resignation. (Reuters)
- Capital punishment in Sudan
- A 20-year-old woman who is a campaigner for women's rights in Sudan appeals to the High Court to overturn her death sentence by stoning for adultery, the first time that such an appeal has been filed in nearly a decade. (The Guardian)
Politics and elections
- 2022 United Kingdom government crisis
- 2022 Conservative Party leadership election
- Nadhim Zahawi and Jeremy Hunt are eliminated from the leadership race in the first round of voting. (BBC News)
- 2022 Conservative Party leadership election
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russo-Ukrainian War
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- 2022 Ukraine summer counteroffensive
- Nova Kakhovka airstrike
- A massive explosion occurs in the city of Nova Kakhovka after Ukrainian forces destroy a Russian arms depot. Russian state news agency TASS claims that a market, hospital, and civilian housing were also damaged, and that multiple civilians were killed. Russian 22nd Army Corps general Artem Nasbulin is allegedly among the dead. (Ukrayinska Pravda) (Reuters) (UPI)
- Nova Kakhovka airstrike
- U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan claims that Iran will provide Russia with hundreds of drones along with the necessary training for their use. (The Washington Post)
- 2022 Ukraine summer counteroffensive
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- War in Afghanistan
- War crimes in Afghanistan
- Leaked military reports indicate that a United Kingdom Special Air Service (SAS) unit unlawfully killed at least 54 people during a six-month tour. (BBC News) (Al Jazeera)
- War crimes in Afghanistan
- War against the Islamic State
- The United States confirms that it has killed the leader of the Islamic State's Syrian branch, Maher al-Agal, in a drone strike in northwestern Syria. (Reuters)
- 2021–2022 Democratic Republic of the Congo attacks
- Seven people are killed when suspected Islamists attack the city of Beni, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Reuters)
Business and economy
- Enlargement of the eurozone
- The European Union formally accepts Croatia as the 20th member of the Eurozone. Croatia will adopt the bloc's currency on January 1, 2023. (CNBC)
- Proposed acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk
- Twitter sues Elon Musk in the Delaware Court of Chancery, requesting the court to order Musk to proceed with the purchase of Twitter under the previously agreed upon terms. (BBC News)
- Ukraine says that despite the Russian blockade of many of its Black Sea ports, in the last four days, 16 ships carrying grain have passed through the Bystre rivermouth, an important mouth of the Danube river. (Reuters)
Disasters and accidents
- Twenty-three bodies are found near hot springs in Michoacán, Mexico. (AP)
- A chartered boat capsizes in the Hudson River in New York City, killing two people and injuring three others. Twelve others are rescued alive from the water. (CNN)
Health and environment
- 2022 monkeypox outbreak
- Vanuatu declares a malaria outbreak in four of its provinces. (RNZ)
Law and crime
- Telford child sexual exploitation scandal
- A three-year-long independent inquiry into child sexual exploitation finds that over 1,000 children in Telford, Shropshire, England, were sexually exploited beginning in the 1980s. Teachers and youth workers were discouraged from reporting child sexual abuse and police were nervous that investigating the abusers would inflame racial tensions. (Reuters) (The Guardian)
- Protesters in Panama continue blocking streets and railways, mainly in Chiriquí and Veraguas Provinces, rejecting the concession by president Laurentino Cortizo of freezing fuel prices. (TeleMetro)
Politics and elections
- 2022 Sri Lankan political crisis
- President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and his wife are prevented from fleeing the country to Dubai by airport staff at Bandaranaike International Airport amid nationwide protests. G. Rajapaksa has not given his official resignation yet. (CNN)
- Rajapaksa subsequently flees the country on a military aircraft to the Maldives, formally ending his rule of Sri Lanka. His brother, former finance minister Basil Rajapaksa, also flees the country. (BBC News)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russo-Ukrainian War
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- 11 July 2022 shelling of Kharkiv
- Three civilians are killed and 31 others are injured in a Russian shelling of Kharkiv. The city's mayor says that the latest shelling has targeted civilian infrastructure. (SwissInfo)
- Russian occupation of Kharkiv Oblast
- The Russian-appointed military-civilian administration leader of Velykyi Burluk in Kharkiv Oblast, Yevgeny Yunakov, is assassinated in a car bombing. (Reuters)
- 2022 Ukraine summer counteroffensive
- Ukrainian Ground Forces recapture the town of Ivanivka in Kherson Oblast after launching a counter-offensive against Russian forces. (Reuters)
- 11 July 2022 shelling of Kharkiv
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Colombian conflict
- The Colombian Army launches an airstrike on a FARC dissidents' camp in the Caquetá Department, killing ten people. Iván Mordisco, one of the group's leaders, was at the scene during the strike; his fate is unknown. (BBC News)
Arts and culture
- New South Wales premier Dominic Perrottet announces that the Australian Aboriginal Flag will be flown permanently above the Sydney Harbour Bridge, which is widely regarded as an iconic Australian landmark. The flag will be flown on top of the bridge's arches alongside the national flag, replacing the flag of New South Wales, after the state government decided against accommodating all three flags. (CNN)
Business and economy
- A Russian court lifts the suspension for the CPC pipeline and instead fines its operators 200,000 rubles ($3,300) for oil spills. The oil pipeline, one of the world's largest, is the route for nearly all of Kazakhstan's oil exports, which represents about 1% of global oil supply. (Reuters)
- The Nord Stream 1 natural gas pipeline from Russia to Germany is suspended for the first of 10 days of scheduled annual maintenance. (Reuters)
Disasters and accidents
- 2022 European heat wave
- Two people are killed and four others are injured after a three car pileup caused by a pack of boars north of Thessaloniki, Greece. (AP)
Health and environment
- COVID-19 pandemic
- COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
- COVID-19 vaccination in the United States
- The Biden administration announces that the United States will purchase 3.2 million doses of the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine once the vaccine is approved. (The New York Times)
- COVID-19 vaccination in the United States
- COVID-19 pandemic in Macau
- Macau closes all of its casinos in order to contain an outbreak of COVID-19 in the city. (Straits Times)
- COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
- 2022 monkeypox outbreak
- 2022 monkeypox outbreak in the United States
- New Mexico reports its first case of monkeypox. (KRQE-TV)
- 2022 monkeypox outbreak in the United States
International relations
- Government and intergovernmental reactions to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Lithuania–Russia relations
- Lithuania expands sanctions on the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad to include cement, concrete, wood, alcohol and alcohol-based industrial chemicals. (Reuters)
- Lithuania–Russia relations
- The 51st Pacific Islands Forum begins in Suva, Fiji, amid escalating geopolitical competition between China and the United States. (Al Jazeera)
Law and crime
- LGBT rights in Russia
- Lawmakers in Russia propose to extend the anti-"gay propaganda" bill to all people regardless of their age. (Al Jazeera)
Politics and elections
- 2022 vote of no confidence in the government of Élisabeth Borne
- The French government survives a no confidence vote tabled by the left-wing NUPES coalition. The no confidence vote received only 146 yes votes out of the 289 needed. (Le Monde)
- Russian president Vladimir Putin signs a decree extending a fast-track process to obtain Russian citizenship to all Ukrainians, which previously only applied to those living in the Donetsk People's Republic and the Luhansk People's Republic. (Reuters)
Science and technology
- NASA releases the first full-color image taken by the James Webb Space Telescope, showing a segment of a galaxy cluster 4.6 billion light-years away from Earth. (The Verge)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russo-Ukrainian War
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Battle of Donbas
- Missile strike on Chasiv Yar
- A Russian airstrike on an apartment complex in Chasiv Yar, Donetsk Oblast, kills at least 47 people and leaves nine others injured. (Sky News)
- Missile strike on Chasiv Yar
- Battle of Donbas
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Mexican drug war
- Six people are killed and eight others are wounded in a mass shooting at a party in León, Guanajuato, Mexico. (Infobae)
Business and economy
- Uber Files
- Over 124,000 confidential documents are leaked from Uber, showing efforts by Uber to lobby governments for preferential treatment. (BBC News)
- Leaked documents reveal that French President Emmanuel Macron went to "extraordinary lengths" to help Uber disrupt the French taxi industry, telling Uber's executives that he had brokered a "secret" deal with his socialist opponents in his cabinet. (The Guardian)
Disasters and accidents
- Most of Argentina is placed on "yellow alert" by the National Meteorological Service due to high winds, hail and snowfall. (M1)
Health and environment
- 2022 monkeypox outbreak
- 2022 monkeypox outbreak in the United States
- Kansas reports its first case of monkeypox. (Kansas City Star)
- New Zealand reports its first cases of monkeypox. (Health GOV New Zealand)
- 2022 monkeypox outbreak in the United States
International relations
- Kiribati announces its withdrawal from the Pacific Islands Forum, effective immediately, after President Taneti Maamau publishes a letter where he expresses four reasons for doing so, mainly due to the Secretary-General of the Forum never having been from the Micronesian region of the Pacific islands. (1news)
Law and crime
- 2022 Soweto shooting; 2022 Pietermaritzburg shooting
- In South Africa, 15 people are killed in a mass shooting at a bar in Soweto, Gauteng. Four more are killed at a tavern in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal. Many others are wounded in both attacks. (BBC News)
Politics and elections
- 2022 Japanese House of Councillors election
- Japanese citizens go to the polls to elect members of the upper house of the National Diet. (Nikkei)
- An exit poll by NHK projects that the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)-led coalition will retain its majority in the upper house, winning 76 of the chamber's 125 contested seats. The LDP is the party of former prime minister Shinzo Abe, who was assassinated two days prior while campaigning for the party's candidate for Nara, Kei Satō. (Al Jazeera)
- 2022 Israeli legislative election
- Israeli politicians Benny Gantz and Gideon Saar form a political alliance to compete against Yair Lapid and Benjamin Netanyahu. (Haaretz)
Sports
- 2022 Wimbledon Championships
- Novak Djokovic of Serbia wins his seventh Wimbledon and overall 21st Grand Slam title after defeating Nick Kyrgios of Australia in the men's singles final, 4–6, 6–3, 6–4, 7–6 (7–3). (BBC Sport)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Insurgency in the Maghreb
- Seven teenagers are killed and two others injured after government forces airstrike a village in Savanes Region, Togo. Togolese authorities say that they mistook the teenagers for jihadists. (Reuters)
Disasters and accidents
- 2022 Pakistan floods; 2022 Quetta floods
- At least 57 people are killed by floods in Balochistan (mostly in Quetta) and two others are killed in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (Al Jazeera)
- At least 13 people are killed and eight others are injured when a minivan crashes into a tree in Polotitlán de la Ilustración, State of Mexico, Mexico. (Infobae)
Health and environment
- COVID-19 pandemic
- COVID-19 pandemic in Guatemala
- Guatemala puts 66 of its municipalities on alert due to a sharp increase in the number of COVID-19 cases. (Infobae)
- COVID-19 pandemic in Guatemala
Law and crime
- Four people are wounded in a mass stabbing at a hospital in Shanghai, China. Police open fire and subdue the assailant. (NDTV)
Politics and elections
- 2019–present Sri Lankan economic crisis, 2022 Sri Lankan protests
- President Gotabaya Rajapaksa flees his residence in Colombo after protesters storm the residence and clash with police. At least 33 people are injured. Rajapaksa's resignation is demanded amid the worst economic crisis in Sri Lanka since 1948. (BBC News)
- The office of the Prime Minister announces that Ranil Wickremesinghe has agreed to resign after party leaders in Parliament call for his resignation. (The Irish Times)
- Wickremesinghe's private residence is set on fire. (Hindustan Times)
- Speaker of the Parliament Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena says that Rajapaksa has agreed to resign on July 13. (Hindustan Times)
- Government of Ukraine
- President Volodymyr Zelenskyy dismisses Ukraine's ambassadors to Germany, India, the Czech Republic, Norway and Hungary. (Independent)
Sports
- 2022 Wimbledon Championships
- In tennis, Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan wins her first Grand Slam title after defeating Ons Jabeur of Tunisia in the women's singles final, 3–6, 6–2, 6–2. Rybakina becomes the first Kazakh player to win a Grand Slam singles title. (The Washington Post)