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Joe Biden
- Incumbent U.S. president Joe Biden (pictured) withdraws from the 2024 presidential election.
- In golf, Xander Schauffele wins the Open Championship.
- General secretary and former president of Vietnam Nguyễn Phú Trọng dies at the age of 80.
- The International Court of Justice finds the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories to be a violation of international law.
July 24, 2024 (Wednesday)
Disasters and accidents
- 2024 Pacific typhoon season
- Metro Manila, Philippines, is placed under a state of calamity due to flash floods caused by Typhoon Gaemi. (Bloomberg)
July 23, 2024 (Tuesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Yemeni civil war, Yemeni peace process
- The Yemeni government and the Houthis sign an agreement to de-escalate tensions, which will include relaxing banking restrictions on both sides and allowing flag carrier Yemenia to resume flights to Jordan. (Middle East Eye)
Disasters and accidents
- 2024 Gofa landslides
- At least 229 people are killed after landslides bury two villages in Gofa Zuria, Ethiopia. (Al Arabiya)
- Eight people are killed and five others are missing after their fishing vessel encountered severe weather near the Falkland Islands. (Daily Tribune)
- Two people are killed and 13 others are injured when a balcony collapses in Naples, Italy. (Rai News) (ANSA)
Health and environment
- 2024 in climate change
- The Copernicus Climate Change Service reports that July 21 was the hottest day in recorded history, and also estimates it to be the hottest day in the past 100,000 years with a global average surface air temperature of 17.09 °C (62.76 °F). (Reuters) (The Washington Post)
- A study by the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation finds thirteen Brazilian sharpnose sharks off the coast of Brazil with high levels of cocaine in their muscles and livers. Experts believe that the cocaine is making its way into the waters via illegal labs where the drug is manufactured or through the excrement of drug users. (BBC News)
International relations
- 2024 visits by Viktor Orbán to Russia and China, 2024 Hungarian Presidency of the Council of the European Union
- The European Union deprives Hungary of its ability to host the next set of foreign and defense ministry meetings as a "symbolic signal" against Viktor Orbán's uncoordinated meetings in Russia and China, moving the ministry meetings from Budapest, Hungary, to Brussels, Belgium. (BBC News) (The Independent)
- Chad–Libya relations
- Sudanese peace process, Sudan–United States relations
- The United States invites Sudan's military and the Rapid Support Forces to ceasefire talks in Switzerland from August 14. (TRT Afrika)
Law and crime
- 2023 French pension reform law
- The leftist France Unbowed party introduces legislation to reverse pension changes and revert the legal retirement age to 62 years, with the far-right National Rally party offering support for the advancement of the legislation. (Reuters)
- The Woolwich Crown Court finds British Pakistani Islamist preacher Anjem Choudary guilty of directing the proscribed terrorist network Al-Muhajiroun. (The Guardian)
Politics and elections
- 2024 Palestinian reconciliation agreement, Fatah–Hamas reconciliation process
- Attempted assassination of Donald Trump
- United States Secret Service director Kimberly Cheatle resigns, citing security lapses that led to former president Donald Trump's attempted assassination. (Al Jazeera) (The New York Times)
- Israel–Hamas war protests in the United States
- Thousands of anti-war protestors led by Jewish Voice for Peace stage a sit-in at a congressional office building in Washington D.C. ahead of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's visit, with over 400 people, including rabbis, being arrested by Capitol Police. (AP)
- Martial law in Ukraine, Mobilization in Ukraine
- The Ukrainian parliament agrees to extend martial law and nationwide military mobilization for an additional 90 days beginning on August 12. (RFE/RL)
- At least 45 Ugandans are detained and some are charged while participating in anti-corruption protests in the capital city Kampala. (Al Jazeera)
July 22, 2024 (Monday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Israel–Hamas war
- Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
- Siege of Khan Yunis
- At least 70 Palestinians are killed and more than 200 others are injured by Israeli tank shelling and airstrikes in Khan Younis Governorate in the Gaza Strip. (Al Jazeera) (Reuters)
- Israel orders mandatory evacuations across the Gaza Strip, including in sections of the heavily populated Al-Mawasi humanitarian zone. (AP)
- Siege of Khan Yunis
- The Israeli parliament votes in favor of classifying UNRWA as a terrorist organization, allowing the motion to undergo supplementary deliberation regarding Israel severing relations with the agency. (Reuters)
- Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
- Somali civil war
- More than 35 Somali soldiers and more than 80 al-Shabaab militants are killed after al-Shabaab attempts to overrun three army bases near Kismayo, Jubaland. (Reuters)
Business and economy
- Chinese gambling workers in the Philippines
- Philippine president Bongbong Marcos announces a ban on offshore gaming operations in his State of the Nation Address. (Reuters)
Disasters and accidents
- Nine people are killed and 12 others are injured when a bus plunges into a ravine near Tarma, Junín, Peru, after the driver swerves to avoid a collision. (The Mirror)
International relations
- Slovakia–United States relations
- The U.S. Air Force delivers the first of 14 F-16 Fighting Falcons to the Slovak Air Force as part of a $1.6 billion deal signed in 2018. (Reuters)
- Belarusian foreign minister Maxim Ryzhenkov is invited to and will make Belarus's first foreign ministry visit to North Korea regarding cooperation with Russia against conflicts with Western nations. (AP)
Law and crime
- 2023 Sierra Leone coup attempt
- A high court in Sierra Leone sentences eleven people, including soldiers and police officers, to 40 to 70 years in prison for their roles in the failed military coup last year. (Reuters)
- 2024 Bangladesh quota reform movement
- A court in the United Arab Emirates sentences 57 Bangladeshis to prison, including three to life sentences, for holding protests against the Bangladesh government in the United Arab Emirates, where protesting is illegal. (BBC News)
- Animal rights in Colombia
- Colombian president Gustavo Petro signs a bill into law outlawing bullfighting in the country. The bill also orders all bullrings to be converted into cultural and alternative sporting venues by 2027. (AP)
- Daruvar shooting
- Six people are killed and six others are injured in a mass shooting at a nursing home in Daruvar, Croatia. The perpetrator is arrested. (Reuters)
- A Canadian citizen is shot and killed by Israeli police after he tried to stab Israeli soldiers and security personnel at the entrance to the Netiv HaAsara moshav, near the border with the Gaza Strip. (AA)
- A court in Russia sentences Russian-American journalist Alsu Kurmasheva to six and a half years in prison in a secret trial. (DW)
Politics and elections
- Burmese military commander-in-chief Min Aung Hlaing is named acting president of Myanmar after current acting president Myint Swe goes on medical leave. (Al Jazeera)
Sports
July 21, 2024 (Sunday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Red Sea crisis
- 2024 Israeli strikes on Yemen
- The death toll from yesterday's Israeli airstrikes on Al Hudaydah, Yemen, increases to six. (Al Jazeera)
- The Houthis target Eilat, Israel, with multiple ballistic missiles, in response to yesterday's airstrikes in Yemen. (Sky News)
- 2024 Israeli strikes on Yemen
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Eastern Ukraine campaign
- Russian forces capture the villages of Andriivka in Luhansk Oblast and Pishchane in Kharkiv Oblast. (Anadolu Agency) (RTL)
- Eastern Ukraine campaign
- 2024 Bangladesh quota reform movement
- The Supreme Court of Bangladesh reduces the government job quota reserved for families of veterans who fought in the Bangladesh Liberation War from 30% to 5%, leaving 93% of jobs to be allocated on merit and 2% set aside for ethnic minorities, transgender, and disabled people. (AP)
Disasters and catastrophic accidents
- 2024 Canadian wildfires
- Wildfires continue to spread in northern Alberta, Canada, prompting emergency evacuations in John D'Or Prairie 215, Fox Lake and Garden River. At least 55 of the 158 active wildfires are reported as "out of control". (Reuters)
- Six people, including two children, are killed in a multiple-vehicle collision in West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom. (Sky News)
International relations
- China–Philippines relations, Territorial disputes in the South China Sea
- The Philippines announces an agreement with China on resupply missions to the beached naval ship Sierra Madre on Second Thomas Shoal in the South China Sea following an incident in June. (The Guardian)
- Iran–Sudan relations
- Iran and Sudan receive each other's ambassadors for the first time in eight years, after resuming diplomatic relations in October 2023. (Al Jazeera)
Law and crime
- Conscription of yeshiva students
- Israel begins issuing call-up notices for military conscription to Haredi Jews amid mass protests in Jerusalem. (Reuters)
Politics and elections
- 2024 United States presidential election
- Withdrawal of Joe Biden from the 2024 United States presidential election
- Kamala Harris 2024 presidential campaign
- Incumbent U.S. President Joe Biden announces that he will not seek a second term in office and ends his presidential campaign, while endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee. (NBC News)
- Several prominent Democrats endorse Kamala Harris for president. (New York Times)
- Kamala Harris 2024 presidential campaign
- Withdrawal of Joe Biden from the 2024 United States presidential election
- 2024 anti-tourism protests in Spain
- Thousands of people protest in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, against overtourism in the country. (Reuters)
- Tanzanian president Samia Suluhu Hassan dismisses foreign minister January Makamba and information minister Nape Nnauye, replacing the latter with current housing minister Jerry Silaa. (Reuters)
Sports
- 2024 Formula One World Championship
- 2024 Hungarian Grand Prix
- In auto racing, McLaren driver Oscar Piastri wins his first Formula One race at the Hungarian Grand Prix, becoming the first driver born in the 2000s to win a Formula One race. (AP)
- 2024 Hungarian Grand Prix
- 2024 Tour de France
- In cycle sport, Tadej Pogačar wins the Tour de France for the third time in his career. (TSN)
July 20, 2024 (Saturday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Israel–Hamas war
- Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
- At least 39 Palestinians are killed and 54 others are injured in Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip. (Reuters) (Anadolu Agency)
- Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
- Red Sea crisis
- 2024 Israeli strikes on Yemen
- In response to the prior day's Houthi drone attack on Tel Aviv, Israeli airstrikes hit oil refineries and power stations in the Yemeni port of Al Hudaydah, killing six people and injuring over eighty others. (Al Jazeera)
- 2024 Israeli strikes on Yemen
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Southern Ukraine campaign
- Five people, including a child, are killed in Russian missile strikes on Mykolaiv and Kherson, Ukraine. (Euronews) (The Moscow Times)
- Southern Ukraine campaign
- 2024 Bangladesh quota reform movement
- The death toll from the ongoing protests in Bangladesh increases to 110 people. (Al Jazeera)
Disasters and accidents
- 2024 China floods
- At least 12 people are killed and 31 others are missing when a bridge collapses due to flash flooding in Zhashui County, Shaanxi, China. (CNN)
- At least 16 people are killed and 14 others are injured in a head-on collision between a truck and a passenger bus on a highway between Patacamaya, Bolivia, and Tambo Quemado, Chile. (RTÉ)
Politics and elections
- The government of Equatorial Guinea suspends internet and telephone services on the separatist island of Annobón, with the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization condemning the suspension. (Agencia NOVA)
July 19, 2024 (Friday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Eastern Ukraine campaign
- Ukrainian forces retreat from Urozhaine in Donetsk Oblast. (The Independent)
- The Russian Ministry of Defence announces that its troops captured the village of Yuryivka in Donetsk Oblast. (Al Arabiya)
- Eastern Ukraine campaign
- 2024 Bangladesh quota reform movement
- Police in Dhaka, Bangladesh, ban all public rallies and protests in the city and impose a nationwide curfew, one day after protestors set fire to government buildings in the city. (Al Jazeera) (Reuters)
- The government of Bangladesh cut off internet, mobile phone, and TV broadcast services in the country, instituting a media blackout. (France 24)
- Red Sea crisis
- At least one person is killed and ten others are injured when a kamikaze drone strikes central Tel Aviv, Israel, near the United States embassy. The Houthis claim responsibility for the attack, and also issue an announcement that that they will be providing details on a planned military operation on Tel Aviv soon. (The Times of Israel) (Axios)
Business and economy
- Jadar mining project
- The European Union and Serbia sign a deal to develop a lithium mining project and production chains for batteries for electric vehicles. (DW)
Disasters and accidents
- Haitian crisis
- At least 40 Haitians are killed and several others are injured when a boat travelling to the Turks and Caicos Islands catches fire. (Al Arabiya)
- Thirty-six people are rescued after fires break out onboard the São Tomé and Príncipe-flagged tanker Ceres I and Singapore-flagged tanker Hafnia Nile following a collision near Pedra Branca, Singapore. The remaining 26 Ceres I crew members remain onboard to conduct fire-fighting operations. (The Straits Times) (CNA)
International relations
- Israeli allegations against UNRWA
- The United Kingdom announces the resumption of funding to the United Nations agency UNRWA. (Al Jazeera)
- Palestine–European Union relations
- The European Commission announces loans and grants totalling €400 million (US$435.5 million) to the Palestinian Authority to prevent the government's financial collapse. (Reuters)
Law and crime
- Capital punishment in Belarus
- Gaza humanitarian crisis, Societal breakdown in the Gaza Strip during the Israel–Hamas war
- The United Nations reports that "anarchy" and societal breakdown is expanding across the Gaza Strip due to Israeli military destabilization, citing an increase in looting and extrajudicial killings of police and humanitarian workers. (Reuters)
- ICJ case on Israel's occupation of the Palestinian territories, Israel and apartheid
- The International Court of Justice rules that Israel's land annexation and settlement construction in East Jerusalem and the West Bank is unlawful, and demands an end to these practices "as soon as possible". The Court also rules that Israel's occupation in the West Bank amounts to apartheid. (AP) (Middle East Eye)
- A court in Yekaterinburg, Russia, convicts American journalist Evan Gershkovich of spying and sentences him to 16 years in prison. (CNN)
- Communist Party general secretary and paramount leader of Vietnam Nguyễn Phú Trọng dies at the age of 80, and is succeeded on an acting basis by President Tô Lâm. (BBC News)
- Pakistani counter-terrorism authorities arrest Amin al-Haq, a high-ranking member of Al-Qaeda and a close confidant of Osama bin Laden. (Times of India)
- A Tunisian court sentences opposition party leader Lotfi Mraïhi, a potential presidential candidate, to eight months in prison on a charge of vote buying, and also bans Mraïhi from running in presidential elections. (Reuters)
- Ukrainian linguist, nationalist politician, and former People's Deputy Iryna Farion is shot and killed in Lviv, Ukraine by an unknown assailant. (Reuters)
- WazirX, an Indian cryptocurrency exchange owned by Binance, announces a security breach in which $234 million USD in cryptocurrency was stolen, amounting to half of the platform's total assets. (Business Standard)
Politics and elections
- 2024 Tunisian presidential election
- Incumbent Tunisian president Kais Saied announces his candidacy for a second term. (Le Monde)
Science and technology
- 2024 CrowdStrike incident
- Numerous organizations worldwide experience service disruptions due to a faulty CrowdStrike update resulting in blue screens of death on Microsoft Windows computers. (The Verge)
- American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, and United Airlines order a temporary global ground stop of many of their flights in response to the widespread computer outages. (ABC News)
July 18, 2024 (Thursday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Southern Ukraine campaign
- Dnieper campaign
- Ukrainian forces withdraw from the village of Krynky in Kherson Oblast. (Bloomberg)
- Dnieper campaign
- Eastern Ukraine campaign
- Five people are killed and three others are injured in Russian attacks on villages in the Donetsk region, Ukraine. (Reuters)
- Southern Ukraine campaign
- Israel–Hamas war
- Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
- 2023 Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip
- Both the Gaza Health Ministry and the Israeli Health Ministry report traces of type 2 polio in Gaza's sewage system, caused by "severe overcrowding" and Israel's blockade of hygiene products from entering the enclave. (France 24)
- At least five Palestinians are killed and fifteen others are injured in Israeli airstrikes on the Nuseirat and al-Bureij refugee camps in the Gaza Strip. (Al Jazeera) (Anadolu Ajansi)
- 2023 Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip
- Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
- 2024 Bangladesh quota reform movement
- The death toll from the protests in Bangladesh increases to 32, with the government shutting down internet access across the entire country, and protesters setting fire to the headquarters of the main state broadcaster in Dhaka. (France 24)
- Naxalite–Maoist insurgency
- Two Indian soldiers are killed and four others are injured in an IED attack by Maoists in Chhattisgarh, India. (The Hindustan Times) ('India Blooms')
Arts and culture
- Stegosaurus skeleton Apex is auctioned for $44.6 million (£34 million) at a Sotheby's auction in New York City, United States, the most ever paid for a fossil. (BBC News)
Business and economy
- 2024 Nigerian general strike
- The Nigeria Labour Congress, the Trade Union Congress, and the Nigerian government agree on a new minimum wage of ₦70,000 (US$43) per month, ending prolonged negotiations amid high inflation and a weakening currency. (Reuters)
- Red Sea crisis
- Egypt's Suez Canal reports a 23.4% drop in revenues attributed to disruptions in Red Sea shipping over the past year, marked by attacks from Yemen's Houthi militia on Israeli-linked vessels. (Al Arabiya)
- The Saudia Airlines group signs a binding sales agreement with Lilium GmbH to purchase 50 electric Lilium Jets, with the option to purchase 50 more. (Flight Global)
International relations
- Sudan–United States relations, Sudanese civil war
- The United States announces it will give an additional $203 million to help civilians affected by the war in Sudan. (Al Arabiya)
Law and crime
- LGBT rights in South Korea
- The Supreme Court of South Korea rules that same-sex couples are eligible to receive the same health insurance benefits as heterosexual couples. (AP)
- Seven people from the same family, including three young children and a teenager, are killed, another is injured and thirty suffer smoke inhalation in an arson attack in Nice, France. (BBC News)
- The Southwark Crown Court sentences five Just Stop Oil activists, including co-founder Roger Hallam, to prison terms ranging from four to five years for organizing protests that blocked the M25 motorway in London, England, United Kingdom, in 2022. (CNN)
- Five people, a mother and four children, are killed in a mass shooting near West Blocton, Alabama, United States. (AP)
- A riot erupts in the suburb of Harehills, Leeds, United Kingdom. BBC News
Politics and elections
- Ursula von der Leyen is re-elected as president of the European Commission. (BBC News)
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