Friday, July 22nd, 2022
Russia and Ukraine sign a UN-backed agreement to allow the export of millions of tonnes of grain from blockaded Black Sea ports. (The Guardian)
Russia launches five airstrikes on Jisr ash-Shughur, killing seven people, including four children. (The Guardian)
Transnistrian Foreign Minister Vitaly Ignatyev reaffirms that Transnistria is committed to becoming an independent state and to possibly unite with Russia. (AP)
The Nuclear Regulation Authority of Japan formally approves the release of a million tons of treated water from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant into the Pacific Ocean. The plan had already been endorsed by the Japanese government and other agencies. (Radio France International)
The European Commission launches four new legal procedures against the United Kingdom for alleged infringements of the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement relating to the passage of the Northern Ireland Protocol Bill. (Al Jazeera)
Former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon is found guilty of contempt of Congress after defying the January 6 committee that investigates the riot at the United States Capitol. (Reuters)
South Korea announces that it will lift a decades-long ban on public access to North Korean television, newspapers and other media. (AP)
An Israeli airstrike kills three Syrian soldiers, injures seven others and destroys an Iranian weapons depot near Damascus. (AFP via France 24)
Thirteen people are killed as fighting occurs in Tripoli, Libya. (Reuters)
The main border crossing between Argentina and Chile reopens after several days of closure due to heavy snowfall. (Yahoo! News)
Singapore reports its first six local cases of the BA.2.75 Centaurus variant as part of the Ministry of Health’s surveillance of the COVID-19 situation in the country. However, the MOH says that the variant isn’t considered a variant of concern by the World Health Organization. (CNA)
Taiwan reports its first case of the Omicron BA.2.75 Centaurus variant, in a Taiwanese individual arriving from India. (Taiwan News)
France reports their first three cases of the BA.2.75 Centaurus variant, including one in the Occitania region. (Technical Ripon)
The first cases of monkeypox in children in the United States are reported, with one being in California. (CNN)
The military and police raid an anti-government protest camp in Colombo, and arrest nine people. (The Sydney Morning Herald)
The International Court of Justice rejects the Myanmar military junta’s challenge of the case against the country for its role in the Rohingya genocide. (AP)
Thursday, July 21st, 2022
President Joe Biden tests positive for COVID-19. (NBC News)
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says that his country’s military goals are no longer limited to the Donbas region and have expanded to also include “the Kherson region, the Zaporizhzhia region and a number of other territories”. (Al Jazeera)
The European Commission tells EU member states to reduce gas usage by 15% until March 2023 as part of an emergency plan after President Vladimir Putin warns that Russian supplies of natural gas could be reduced further. (Reuters)
Ukraine‘s government, facing an estimated 35% to 45% decrease in GDP, asks its international creditors to freeze its debt payments for two years, including a $1.2 billion debt payment due at the beginning of September. The proposal is backed by major Western governments and other major lenders. (Reuters)
The European Central Bank raises interest rates by 0.5 percentage points for the first time since 2011 in order to combat inflation in the EU which increased to 8.6% last month. (The Guardian)
At least 304 people are killed after five weeks of monsoon rains and flash floods in Pakistan. (AP)
Taiwan reports a record temperature of 40.7 °C (105.3 °F) in Yuli. However, this measurement is not officially recognized by Taiwanese authorities because it was reported by an automated station. (Taiwan News) (CNA Taiwan)
Tokyo reports a record 31,878 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours. (Nikkei Asia)
An An, the world’s longest-living male giant panda under human care, dies at Ocean Park Hong Kong aged 35. An An was a key part of the conservation activities for giant pandas. (RTHK)
The monarch butterfly is added by the International Union for Conservation of Nature to its endangered species list because of rapidly decreasing population numbers. (AP)
The United States reports its first case of polio since 2013 in an unvaccinated person from Rockland County, New York. (NBC News)
A man attempts to stab Lee Zeldin, a U.S. Representative and the Republican Party nominee in the upcoming New York gubernatorial election, during a campaign event in Perinton, New York, United States. Zeldin is not hurt during the incident, and the man is taken into custody. (WIVB-TV)
A police officer, a civilian, and 16 suspected gang members are killed during an operation against organized crime in a favela in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Infobae)
The Ministry of Justice of Russia opens a court case to close the Jewish Agency for Israel, the main agency allowing the aliyah of Jews to Israel. Israel condemns the court case, claiming it is a response to Israel’s stance on the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. (BBC News)
Mario Draghi resigns as Prime Minister of Italy. President Sergio Mattarella accepts Draghi’s resignation. (BBC News)
Mattarella dissolves the Parliament of Italy, calling for a snap parliamentary election. (la Stampa)
Ranil Wickremesinghe is sworn in as president of Sri Lanka. (AP)
Droupadi Murmu is elected as the new president of India, making her the first female from a scheduled tribe to be elected to the post. (NDTV)
Former President Lula da Silva is nominated by the Workers’ Party to run in the upcoming presidential election. (Al Jazeera)
Iraqi government and regional authorities claim that Turkish Armed Forces fired four missiles at a resort in the Zakho District of Kurdistan Region in Iraq, killing eight Iraqi tourists and injuring 23 others. (AP)
Al-Shabaab raids Yeed and Aato in Bakool, Somalia, near the Ethiopian border. Fourteen Ethiopian police officers and three civilians are killed. (Reuters)
Inflation in the United Kingdom increased to 9.4% last month, breaking a 40-year record, as food and fuel prices continue to increase. (The Guardian)
The European Union bans imports of gold from Russia and freezes Sberbank‘s assets. (Euronews)
Six federal states of Germany (Baden-Württemberg, Hamburg, Lower Saxony, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Saxony-Anhalt and Schleswig-Holstein) see their all-time high records beaten, with the highest temperature, 40.3 °C (104.5 °F), set at Bad Mergentheim. (Tagesschau)
Abed, a hamlet on the Danish island of Lolland, sets the highest July temperature recorded in the country, reaching 35.9 °C (96.6 °F). (Danish Broadcasting Corporation)
A United States Army soldier is killed and nine others are injured after a lightning strike at a training area at Fort Gordon in Georgia. (USA Today)
Penny Mordaunt is eliminated from the leadership election in the fifth round of voting. (The Guardian)
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