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Friday,  July 15th, 2022 

NASA and Roscosmos sign an agreement to integrate future flights to the International Space Station. The agreement will allow Russian cosmonauts to fly on U.S. spacecraft in return for allowing American astronauts to use Russia’s Soyuz spacecraft. (Reuters) 

U.S. President Joe Biden meets with Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Jeddah. (Bloomberg) 

At least three civilians are killed and 15 others are injured in Russian cruise missile strikes on Dnipro. (Reuters) 

Spain introduces free tickets for suburban and medium-distance services for Renfe, the state-owned railway operator, starting from September 1 and until the end of the year. Other modes of public transport already have a 30% discount. (The Guardian) 

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 break temperature records in the British Isles. (BBC News) 

Portugal reports 238 deaths related to the ongoing heat wave as it battles more than 30 active wildfires. In France, more than 10,000 people have fled wildfires in Gironde and in Spain, firefighters continue to battle forest fires near the town of Monsagro. (BBC News) 

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) 

The controversial Disciplinary Chamber of the Supreme Court is abolished. However, Didier Reynders, the European Commissioner for Justice, says that the European Court of Justice’s ruling ordering the abolishment has not been fully respected and therefore Poland will continue to pay a fine of €1 million per day for contempt of court. (Rzeczpospolita) 

Thursday, July 14th, 2022 

At least 23 civilians are killed and more than 100 others are injured during three Russian missile strikes in Vinnytsia. (BBC News) 

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) 

Over 40 people are left missing after a series of floods in Virginia, United States. (Express) 

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) 

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) 

Suella Braverman is eliminated from the leadership race in the second round of voting. (The Guardian) 

Gotabaya Rajapaksa resigns as President of Sri Lanka after fleeing to Singapore. (BBC News) 

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) 

2022 Wednesday, June 13th, 2022 

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) 

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) 

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) 

Nadhim Zahawi and Jeremy Hunt are eliminated from the leadership race in the first round of voting. (BBC News) 

The End

Ozark S4E7 starting about 10 minutes in to at least 12min.