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Portal:Current events/2021 July 2

July 2, 2021 (2021-07-02) (Friday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

  • War in Afghanistan
  • Tigray War
    • Operation Alula
      • Thousands of captured Ethiopian prisoners of war are paraded through the streets of the Tigrayan capital of Mekelle flanked by Tigrayan fighters. Many of the soldiers appear to be wounded. Huge crowds form to taunt the captured soldiers. (FR24 News)

Disasters and accidents

  • Transair Flight 810
    • Transair Flight 810, a cargo flight from Honolulu to Kahului, ditches off the coast of Oahu. The two pilots are injured. (BBC News)
  • A massive fire breaks out at an undersea gas pipeline which connects to the Ku-Maloob-Zaap oil field, off the coast of the Yucatán Peninsula. The fire took five hours to contain. Mexican state-run oil company Pemex, who is in charge of the oil field's operations, orders an investigation into the cause of the fire. (Reuters)

Health and environment

International relations

Law and crime

Politics and elections

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