Portal:Current events/2018 July 29
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July 29, 2018 (Sunday)
Disasters and accidents
- 2018 Pacific typhoon season
- Typhoon Jongdari hits central and western Japan, injuring at least 21 people and cutting power to tens of thousands of homes. The typhoon is the latest in the series of weather events to affect the country, following devastating floods and a fatal heat wave earlier in the month. (BBC)
- 2018 Attica wildfires
- List of people who disappeared mysteriously
- TeNiya Elnora Jones, a University of Kentucky student studying abroad in the Middle East, is reported missing after a swimming accident over the weekend in Tel Aviv, Israel. (USA Today)
International relations
- Israeli–Palestinian conflict, 2018 Gaza border protests
- Palestinian teenager Ahed Tamimi is released from an Israeli prison. (NBC News)
Law and crime
- Four cyclists, two Americans, one Dutch national and one Swiss national, are killed in the Khatlon Region, Tajikistan by a hit-and-run driver while three others are injured. A 21 year old male suspect has been arrested. (RFE/RL) (NU.nl)
Politics and elections
- Malian presidential election, 2018
- Malians go to the polls to elect a president. (The Globe and Mail)
Sports
- 2018 Tour de France
- Geraint Thomas of the United Kingdom wins the Tour de France. (BBC)