Sunday, July 21st, 2024 

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) 

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) 

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) 

Israel begins issuing call-up notices for military conscription to Haredi Jews amid mass protests in Jerusalem. (Reuters) 

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) 

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) 

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) 

Thousands of people protest in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, against overtourism in the country. (Reuters) 

Russian forces capture the villages of Andriivka in Luhansk Oblast and Pishchane in Kharkiv Oblast. (Anatolia Agency) 

Six people, including two children, are killed in a multiple-vehicle collision in West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom. (Sky News) 

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 and Sudan receive each other’s ambassadors for the first time in eight years, after resuming diplomatic relations in October 2023. (Al Jazeera) 

The Minsk Regional Court in Belarus, in a secretive trial, sentences a German national Rico Krieger to death over alleged crimes including terrorism and mercenary activity. (DW) 

Saturday, July 20th, 2024 

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) 

At least 37 Palestinians are killed and 54 others are injured in Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip. (Reuters) 

Israeli airstrikes hit oil refineries and power stations in the Yemeni port of Hodeidah, killing three people and injuring 87 others. (Al Jazeera) 

Five people, including a child, are killed in Russian missile strikes on Mykolaiv and Kherson, Ukraine. (Euronews) 

The death toll from the ongoing protests in Bangladesh increases to 110 people. (Al Jazeera) 

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) 

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) 

Friday,  July 19th, 2024 

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) 

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) 

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) 

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.  (Reuters) 

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.  (Axios) 

The European Union and Serbia sign a deal to develop a lithium mining project and production chains for batteries for electric vehicles. (DW) 

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) 

The United Kingdom announces the resumption of funding to the United Nations UNRWA agency. (Al Jazeera) 

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) 

The Minsk Regional Court in Belarus, in a secretive trial, sentences a German national Rico Krieger to death over alleged crimes including terrorism and mercenary activity. (DW) 

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) 

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 [fr], 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 by an unknown assailant. (Reuters) 

Incumbent Tunisian president Kais Saied announces his candidacy for a second term. (Le Monde) 

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