Portal:Current events/2010 July 25

Armed conflicts and incidents

• 1 person is killed and at least 10 are injured after a bombing at a bus stop in Bangkok following a parliamentary by-election. (Aljazeera) (Channel 4) (Bangkok Post)
• The Al-Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb announces it has killed a French hostage in Mali after a failed rescue attempt by French and Mauritanian troops. (BBC) (Aljazeera)
• There are reports that an airstrike on a village in Helmand Province has killed 45 civilians, including children, who were sheltering from violence. (BBC)

Disasters

• Love Parade stampede:
  • Survivors blame officials for yesterday's death stampede at the Love Parade in Duisburg. (BBC) (Deutsche Welle) (Der Spiegel)
  • The death toll rises to 19. (Reuters)
  • The event's founder axes the annual festival. (The Daily Telegraph) (Sky News)
• It is revealed that BP chief executive Tony Hayward is negotiating his terms of exit after being negatively criticised by politicians in the United States over his handling of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. (BBC) (The Guardian)

Economics

• United States Secretary of the Treasury Tim Geithner pushes for Congress to allow the tax cuts for high-income taxpayers in the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003 to expire at the end of 2010, while extending the act's tax cuts for middle- and lower-income taxpayers. (CNN)

Politics

• Iraq Inquiry witness Carne Ross alleges the British government is covering up "embarrassing testimony" about its decision to invade Iraq in 2003. (The Observer) (Channel 4)
• Burmese military ruler General Than Shwe begins a five-day visit to India. (BBC) (The Times of India)
• African Union summit:
  • At the African Union summit in Kampala, attended by 53 countries, its president, the President of Malawi Bingu wa Mutharika, states International Criminal Court indictments against the Sudanese president undermine African peace and security and calls for the issue to be solved in a different way. (Aljazeera)
  • Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni says the fight against Somali militant group al-Shabaab must be stepped up. (BBC) (Daily Nation)
• Former President of Cuba Fidel Castro visits a mausoleum in Artemisa, his first reported appearance outside Havana since leaving office in 2006. (BBC)

Sport

• Alberto Contador wins the 2010 Tour de France, his third, as seven-times winner Lance Armstrong makes his final appearance. (BBC Sport)
• Fernando Alonso wins the German Grand Prix ahead of Ferrari team-mate Felipe Massa at Hockenheim. (BBC Sport)
• The FIVB World League 2010 ends with Brazil becoming the first country to win the competition nine times.