Portal:Current events/2022 July 27

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Russia captures the Vuhlehirska Power Station, Ukraine's second largest power plant, near the city of Svitlodarsk, Donetsk Oblast. (Reuters)
    • Russia says that it has destroyed more than 100 M142 HIMARS missiles in an airstrike on Dnipro. (Reuters)
• Kivu conflict
  • Anti-MONUSCO protests
    • Four protesters are killed when a soldier shoots an electric cable that falls on them in Uvira, Democratic Republic of the Congo. They were protesting the ineffectiveness of the MONUSCO. (Reuters)
  • The Burundi Human Rights Initiative (BHRI) accuses Burundi of sending troops into the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to fight the RED-Tabara, a Burundian armed opposition group. The BHRI also accuses Burundi of supporting armed groups that oppose the DRC. (Al Jazeera)
• Somali Civil War
  • Eleven people, including a government official, are killed by an al-Shabaab suicide bombing at the entrance to a government building in Merca, Lower Shabelle, Somalia. (AP)

Business and economy

• 2021–2022 inflation surge
  • The Federal Reserve consecutively increases its benchmark interest rate by 0.75%. (CNBC)
• Russia in the European energy sector
  • 2022 Russia–European Union gas dispute
    • Russian energy company Gazprom reduces the amount of natural gas flowing through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline from Russia to Europe to 20% of the pipeline's capacity. (AP)
• Economic impact of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • McDonald's profits fall by 46% and its revenue falls by 3% in Q2 2022 following the company's exit from Russia. (The Washington Post)

Disasters and accidents

• 2022 Luzon earthquake
  • A magnitude 7.1 earthquake hits Luzon, Philippines, killing four people and injuring over 100 others. (Reuters)
• 2022 California wildfires
  • Evacuation orders are lifted in Mariposa County and highways reopen as the Oak Fire slows and becomes the largest this season. (The Mercury News)

Health and environment

• 2022 monkeypox outbreak
  • 2022 monkeypox outbreak in the United States
    • The U.S. reports 1,049 new cases of monkeypox, thereby bringing the total number of cases in the country to 4,639. (CDC)
    • The U.S. government orders the release of 800,000 doses of Bavarian Nordic's Jynneos vaccine from the Strategic National Stockpile. (AP)
• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Samoa
    • Prime Minister Fiamē Naomi Mataʻafa ends Samoa's state of emergency after two years. (RNZ)

International relations

• Russia–Ukraine relations
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • The Joint Coordination Center opens in Istanbul, Turkey, to coordinate the export of millions of tonnes of grain from blockaded Black Sea ports. (Al Jazeera)
• Russia–United States relations
  • The United States offers to exchange imprisoned Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout for detained Americans Brittney Griner and Paul Whelan, who are accused of drug offenses and spying, respectively. (CNN)

Law and crime

• Media freedom in the European Union
  • The European General Court upholds a broadcast ban imposed on Russian television network RT in the European Union over accusations of spreading misinformation, rejecting an appeal against the ban. (Al Jazeera) (Reuters)
• Highland Park parade shooting
  • The suspect in the mass shooting at an Independence Day parade in Highland Park, Illinois, U.S., is formally indicted on 21 counts of first-degree murder, 48 counts of attempted murder, and 48 counts of aggravated battery. There are three counts per slain victim and two counts per injured victim. (NBC News)
• 2016 South Korean political scandal
  • Prime Minister of South Korea Han Duck-soo says that he will ask president Yoon Suk-yeol to pardon former Samsung executive Lee Jae-yong, who is currently on parole for bribery and embezzlement. (Reuters) (Yonhap)

Politics and elections

• 2022 Tunisian constitutional referendum
  • A majority of Tunisian voters approve a new constitution, proposed by President Kais Saied as a solution to the country's ongoing political crisis. However, voter turnout was only 30.5%, due to a boycott of the referendum by opposition parties. (AP)
• 2021–2022 Iraqi political crisis
  • Hundreds of protestors storm the parliament building in the Green Zone in Baghdad to oppose the nomination of Mohammed Shia' Al Sudani for prime minister by pro-Iranian parties. (Al Jazeera)

Science and technology

• The Lulo Rose, a pink diamond, the largest in 300 years, is discovered at the Lulo mine in Lunda Norte Province, Angola. (AP)
• The Google Street View service is launched in India 11 years after the service was banned in the country over security concerns. (Reuters)