Portal:Current events/2022 July 14

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • 2022 Vinnytsia attacks
      • July 2022 Vinnytsia missile strike
        • At least 23 civilians are killed and more than 100 others are injured by three Russian missile strikes in Vinnytsia. (BBC News)
• Spillover of the insurgency in the Sahel
  • At least 12 civilians are killed by Islamic extremist gunmen during an attack against two villages in northern Togo. (Reuters)
• Mali War
  • Three civilians and three security forces are killed in an attack by militants at a checkpoint near Bamako, Mali. (Reuters)

Business and economy

• 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)

Disasters and accidents

• Over 40 people are missing after a series of floods in Virginia, United States. All are later accounted for. (Daily Express) (BBC News)
• One person is killed by a magnitude 5.7 earthquake in Ecuador. (ABC)
• Three people are killed and two are injured by a mudslide that hit a school in Antioquia, Colombia. (AP)
• Pinhão, district of Vila Real, sets the highest July temperature ever in Portugal, reaching 47.0 °C (116.6 °F). (The Age) (IPMA)

Health and environment

• At least 30 green sea turtles are found dead off a beach in Kumejima, Japan, with many having been stabbed in the neck. The green sea turtle is an endangered species. (BBC)

Law and crime

• Capital punishment in South Korea
  • 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)
• Media freedom in Russia
  • 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)
• Ripudaman Singh Malik, one of the men acquitted in the Air India Flight 182 terrorist bombing, is shot to death in Surrey, British Columbia. (BBC News)

Politics and elections

• 2022 United Kingdom government crisis
  • 2022 Conservative Party leadership election
    • Suella Braverman is eliminated from the leadership race in the second round of voting. (The Guardian)
• 2022 Sri Lankan protests
  • Gotabaya Rajapaksa resigns as President of Sri Lanka after fleeing to Singapore. (BBC News)
• 2022 Italian government crisis
  • 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)
• Prime Minister of Estonia Kaja Kallas resigns to form a new coalition government. (Euronews)