Portal:Current events/2023 July 25

Armed conflicts and attacks

• 2023 Sudan conflict
  • Battle of Khartoum
    • Large clashes with air raids and artillery in the Ombada district in northern Khartoum leave over 16 people dead, including 2 confirmed children. (Globe Echo)
  • Battle of Omdurman
    • The Sudanese Armed Forces shells three RSF-held neighbourhoods in Omdurman, Khartoum State, Sudan, killing at least 18 people and injuring dozens more. (The Guardian)
• Syrian civil war
  • Russia–United States relations
    • The United States Central Command says that a Russian military jet damaged an MQ-9 Reaper drone in Syrian airspace on July 23, by ejecting flares while flying "dangerously close" to the U.S. aircraft. (BBC News)
• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • Three Hamas members are killed by Israeli soldiers in the Nablus neighborhood of al-Tur, in the occupied West Bank. (AP)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • List of military aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War
    • The United States announces a $400 million military aid package to Ukraine. The package includes various anti-tank and air defense missiles, 32 Stryker armored fighting vehicles, Hydra 70 rockets, and Black Hornet Nano surveillance drones, among other equipment. (The Guardian)

Disasters and accidents

• Wildfires in 2023
  • 2023 Italy wildfires
    • Four people are killed by wildfires in southern Italy. A firefighter also dies in Sardinia while fighting fires in Baunei. (La Repubblica)
  • 2023 Greece wildfires
    • Two air force members are killed when a Canadair CL-215 waterbomber crashes on Evia island, Greece. (Metro)
• Four people are killed and several others are injured by floods in Lombardy, Italy. Heavy rains also occur in Veneto. (Fanpage)

Health and environment

• Fifty-one long-finned pilot whales are found dead after beaching themselves on a beach near Albany, Western Australia, as part of a larger pod of nearly 100. State authorities and volunteers are working to redirect the remaining 46 whales to deeper waters. (AFP via CNA)

International relations

• 2023 Quran desecration in Sweden
  • Denmark–Egypt relations, Denmark–Turkey relations
    • Far-right protesters set fire to copies of the Quran outside the Egyptian and Turkish embassies in Copenhagen, Denmark, prompting outrage from Muslim-majority countries. (Politico)
  • Foreign relations of Egypt, Foreign relations of Sweden
    • The Egyptian foreign ministry summons Sweden's envoy over protests in Stockholm that desecrated the Quran. (AFP via Al Arabiya)

Law and crime

• Islamic terrorism in Europe
  • Six men are found guilty of terrorist murder for their participation in the Brussels bombings in 2016, with two of them also being found guilty for their roles in the Paris attacks in 2015. (BBC News)
• Ecuadorian security crisis
  • Ecuador declares a state of emergency in all prisons after gang clashes that killed 18 prisoners. (The Guardian)
• A 25-year-old man is charged with three counts of murder, including one as a domestic violence offense, four days after intentionally causing a fatal accident that killed three people on the Bruce Highway in Federal, Queensland, Australia. The suspected killer had been chasing one of the vehicles prior to the accident. (ABC News Australia)
• A five-month-old girl dies when Indian forces fire tear gas at Rohingya refugees trying to escape a detention centre in Hiranagar, Jammu and Kashmir. (The Guardian)
• The United States Department of Education initiates a civil rights investigation into Harvard University's legacy admissions policy, in accordance with the Supreme Court ruling Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard. (AFP via The Manila Times)
• One man and two teenaged boys from Guayama, Puerto Rico are found dead in the northern city of Carolina. Hours earlier, two Guayama teenaged girls, aged 13 and 15, had also been found dead inside a Toyota Tacoma vehicle near Luis Munoz Marin International Airport, also in Carolina. Authorities confirmed their belief that the crimes are related. (Telemundo)

Politics and elections

• Capital punishment in Ghana
  • The Parliament of Ghana votes to formally abolish the death penalty, becoming the latest African nation to end the punishment. The 176 prisoners currently on death row in Ghanian prisons will now have their sentences changed to life imprisonment. (BBC News)
• 2024 United States presidential election
  • The presidential campaign of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis fires former National Review writer Nate Hochman for posting videos that include anti-LGBT and neo-Nazi content. (The Guardian)
• Chinese state media announces that Foreign Minister Qin Gang has been replaced by his predecessor Wang Yi. (Al Jazeera)

Sports

• 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup
  • Casey Phair, participating as part of the South Korean football team in a match against Colombia, becomes the youngest player to appear at a FIFA Women's World Cup game at 16 years old. (NPR)
  • The BBC apologises for asking Morocco captain Ghizlane Chebbak how many of the team are lesbians. (The Independent)