Portal:Current events/2022 July 7

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Battle of Donbas
      • Russian forces launch airstrikes on the city of Kramatorsk, in Donetsk Oblast, with casualties reported, according to the city's mayor. (Reuters)
    • Russia says that it fired missiles at Snake Island, killing an unspecified number of Ukrainian troops. However, Ukraine denies that any casualties have occurred. (Evening Standard)
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • One person is killed and four others injured in a hand grenade attack at a police post in Mardan District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (AP)
• Allied Democratic Forces insurgency
  • Suspected Allied Democratic Forces fighters kill at least thirteen people after they burn a clinic to the ground in North Kivu, DRC. Three of the attackers are killed by the army. (Reuters) (AP)

Business and economy

• 2019–present Sri Lankan economic crisis
  • According to the UN's World Food Programme, nearly six million people in Sri Lanka are currently suffering from food insecurity caused by the worst economic crisis that the country has experienced since 1948. (WION)
• The government of Laos discusses the purchase of oil from sanctions-hit Russia as the country faces oil shortages and is nearing a debt default. (Business Insider)
• The Central Bank of Ireland announces that inflation will exceed 10% for the first time since the early 1980s. (The Irish Times)

Disasters and accidents

• Nine people are killed and 43 others injured when a bus from Sudan crashes while travelling to Aswan, Egypt. (Reuters)

Health and environment

• 2022 monkeypox outbreak
  • 2022 monkeypox outbreak in Europe
    • Slovakia reports its first case of monkeypox. (Reuters)
  • Ecuador, the Dominican Republic and Jamaica report their first cases of monkeypox. (Xinhua News Agency) (Yahoo!) (Caribbean National Weekly)
  • Two new deaths from monkeypox are reported in endemic countries in Africa. (Al Jazeera)
• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Hong Kong
    • The Government of Hong Kong announce that they will put on hold a flight suspension mechanism, allowing airlines to continue to fly into Hong Kong even if positive cases have been detected on their flights when entering Hong Kong previously. (RTHK)
• Authorities in Cuba say that dengue fever cases have increased 21.7% from last year and describe the epidemiological situation as "complex". (Infobae)

Law and crime

• Mexico–United States border crisis
  • Governor of Texas Greg Abbott authorizes the United States National Guard to return migrants along the Mexico–United States border in Texas to Mexico. (AP)
• American basketball player Brittney Griner pleads guilty to drug charges in a Russian courtroom and faces up to 10 years in prison. (CNN)

Politics and elections

• 2022 United Kingdom government crisis
  • Education Secretary Michelle Donelan resigns 36 hours after being appointed to the post. A total of 61 ministers and aides have now resigned. (Sky News)
  • Boris Johnson resigns as the leader of the Conservative Party but plans to remain Prime Minister until a new leader is elected. (BBC News)
• The Cypriot House of Representatives approves the seventeenth amendment to the Constitution of Cyprus, which involves a reform of the judiciary, the recovery of the Supreme Constitutional Court of Cyprus and the creation of the Court of Appeal of Cyprus. (Cyprus Mail)

Sports

• 2022 Wimbledon Championships
  • Tunisian tennis player Ons Jabeur becomes both the first African and first Arab player to reach the final of a Grand Slam tournament after defeating Tatjana Maria in the semifinals of the 2022 Wimbledon women's singles. (The Guardian)