Portal:Current events/2024 July 7: Difference between revisions

July 7, 2024 (2024-07-07) (Sunday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israel–Hamas war
  • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
    • Israeli strikes across Gaza kill at least 27 Palestinians. In Gaza City, four are killed in a strike on a UNRWA school sheltering displaced people and six others are killed in a strike on a house. Two people are killed in the Sabra neighbourhood, and six others are killed in a strike on a residential building in Az-Zawayda. (Al Jazeera)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Atlantic hurricane season
  • Hurricane Beryl
    • 120 counties in Texas, United States, are under a disaster declaration as Tropical Storm Beryl approaches the Gulf Coast. (The Guardian)
• At least 11 people are killed and eight others are missing in flash floods and landslides caused by heavy rain in Nepal. (Reuters)
• Thirteen people are injured after an elephant chases a crowd attending a Hindu religious festival in Kataragama, Sri Lanka. (Al Arabiya)
• The Iranian naval frigate IRIS Sahand capsizes during repairs in the port of Bandar Abbas, Iran. (Reuters)
• At least ten people are killed by a fire at a nursing home in Treinta y Tres, Uruguay. (Reuters)

International relations

• Syrian-Turkish normalization
  • President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan states his intention to invite President of Syria Bashar al-Assad for talks in Turkey with the intention of restoring relations between the two countries. (Reuters)
• Niger–United States relations
  • The U.S. military withdraws entirely from Niger's Air Base 101 in Niamey. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• 2024 French legislative election
  • French citizens vote in the second round of legislative elections for the 17th National Assembly of the Fifth French Republic. (Le Monde)
  • Exit polls predict a hung parliament, with the left-wing New Popular Front alliance winning the most seats, followed by President Emmanuel Macron's centrist Ensemble coalition in second place, and the far-right National Rally in third place. (BBC News)
  • French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal announces that he will resign on July 8th. (Reuters)
• Israel–Hamas war protests in Israel
  • Israeli protesters march and block highways across Israel, calling for a ceasefire, the return of all hostages, and for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to step down. (AP)
• Alliance of Sahel States, ECOWAS
  • ECOWAS states that it risks disintegrating from military and economic insecurity if Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso continue their exit to form their own confederation, following sanctions and severed diplomatic ties after each state's military coup. (Reuters)

Science and technology

• Four volunteer NASA crew members finish the first 378-day Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog mission to simulate living on Mars at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, United States. (AP)

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