Portal:Current events/2022 July 13

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Battle of Donbas
      • 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)

Business and economy

• 2021–2022 inflation surge
  • The Bank of Canada raises its benchmark interest rate from 1.5 to 2.5 percent, the single largest increase since 1998, amid surging inflation. (CBC)
  • In the United States, the annual rate of inflation rises to 9.1 percent, the highest rate in 40 years, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. (Fox Business)
• The euro's value against the U.S. dollar falls below parity for the first time in 20 years. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• Two firefighters are killed and two others survive after a helicopter crashes on the Greek island of Samos, Greece. (AP)

Health and environment

• 2022 monkeypox outbreak
  • 2022 monkeypox outbreak in Europe
    • Bosnia and Herzegovina reports its first confirmed case of monkeypox. (Dnevni Avaz)
• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom
    • The number of deaths from COVID-19 in the United Kingdom surpasses 200,000, with 294 deaths reported in the last week. (The Guardian)

International relations

• International sanctions during the Russo-Ukrainian War
  • Lithuania–Russia relations, Russia–European Union relations
    • The European Commission allows Russia to resume shipping embargoed goods by rail to its exclave of Kaliningrad, following Russian threats against Lithuania. However, the transit of military equipment through Lithuanian territory remains prohibited. (Newsweek)
• International recognition of the Donetsk People's Republic and the Luhansk People's Republic
  • North Korea recognizes the independence of the Donetsk People's Republic and the Luhansk People's Republic, becoming the third nation to do so after Russia and Syria. Ukraine suspends relations with North Korea in response. (Reuters) (Business Insider)

Law and crime

• Global surveillance disclosures
  • Vault 7
    • 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)
• 2022 Sri Lankan protests
  • 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) (ANINews)
  • Protesters storm the Prime Minister's office in Colombo, demanding Wickremesinghe's immediate resignation. (Reuters)
• Capital punishment in Sudan
  • A 20-year-old woman who is a campaigner for women's rights in Sudan appeals to the High Court to overturn her death sentence by stoning for adultery, the first time that such an appeal has been filed in nearly a decade. (The Guardian)

Politics and elections

• 2022 United Kingdom government crisis
  • 2022 Conservative Party leadership election
    • Nadhim Zahawi and Jeremy Hunt are eliminated from the leadership race in the first round of voting. (BBC News)

Science and technology

• Archeologists announce the discovery of a previously unknown Roman Empire city dubbed "El Forau de la Tuta", located near modern-day Artieda in the Province of Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain. (El País)