Portal:Current events/2022 July 9

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Islamist insurgency in the Sahel
  • Seven teenagers are killed and two others injured after government forces airstrike a village in Savanes Region, Togo. Togolese authorities say that they mistook the teenagers for jihadists. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• 2022 Pakistan floods; 2022 Quetta floods
  • At least 57 people are killed by floods in Balochistan (mostly in Quetta) and two others are killed in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (Al Jazeera)
• At least 13 people are killed and eight others injured when a minivan crashes into a tree in Polotitlán de la Ilustración, State of Mexico, Mexico. (Infobae)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Guatemala
    • Guatemala puts 66 of its municipalities on alert due to a sharp increase in the number of COVID-19 cases. (Infobae)

Law and crime

• Four people are wounded in a mass stabbing at a hospital in Shanghai, China. Police open fire and subdue the assailant. (NDTV)

Politics and elections

• 2019–present Sri Lankan economic crisis, 2022 Sri Lankan protests
  • President Gotabaya Rajapaksa flees his residence in Colombo after protesters storm the residence and clash with police. At least 33 people are injured. Rajapaksa's resignation is demanded amid the worst economic crisis in Sri Lanka since 1948. (BBC News)
  • The office of the Prime Minister announces that Ranil Wickremesinghe has agreed to resign after party leaders in Parliament call for his resignation. (The Irish Times)
  • Wickremesinghe's private residence is set on fire. (Hindustan Times)
  • Speaker of the Parliament Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena says that Rajapaksa has agreed to resign on July 13. (Hindustan Times)
• Government of Ukraine
  • President Volodymyr Zelenskyy dismisses Ukraine's ambassadors to Germany, India, the Czech Republic, Norway and Hungary. (Independent)

Sports

• 2022 Wimbledon Championships
  • In tennis, Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan wins her first Grand Slam title after defeating Ons Jabeur of Tunisia in the women's singles final, 3–6, 6–2, 6–2. Rybakina becomes the first Kazakh player to win a Grand Slam singles title. (The Washington Post)