Portal:Current events/2024 July 4

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Islamic terrorism
  • Eighteen leaders of Jemaah Islamiyah announce the disbanding of the group, after 31 years of operation. The group committed several massacres in Indonesia, including the 2002 and 2005 Bali bombings. (Al Jazeera)
• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • Hezbollah launches at least 200 rockets and a swarm of drones at Israeli territory and threatens to expand its targeting range, in retaliation for the killing of Mohammed Nasser, a top Hezbollah commander. (Reuters)
• Israeli occupation of the West Bank
  • Israel approves the construction of 5,295 settler homes in dozens of settlements in the West Bank, which are internationally recognized as violating international law. (AP)
• Ituri conflict
  • Six Chinese gold miners and two Congolese soldiers are killed during an attack against a gold mine in Ituri Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Two other workers are kidnapped. CODECO claims responsibility for the attack. (AP)
• Syrian civil war
  • The Islamic State kills eight people, including two civilians, in an ambush on pro-government militiamen in Syria's Badiya desert. (Al Arabiya)

Business and economy

• Hudson's Bay Company, the parent company of Saks Fifth Avenue, completes a merger and purchases luxury department stores Neiman Marcus and Bergdorf Goodman for $2.65 billion. (NPR)

Disasters and accidents

• Hurricane Beryl
  • Hurricane Beryl causes a six- to nine-feet high storm surge and fierce winds along Jamaica's southern coast, killing at least one person before tracking towards the Cayman Islands. (CNN)
• Twenty-five people drown in southeast Sudan while trying to flee fighting between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces. (Khaleej Times)
• Three people are killed and seven others are injured when a pickup truck is driven into a crowd celebrating Independence Day in the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City, United States. (Reuters)

Health and environment

• Eleven people die and another 153 people are diagnosed with West Nile fever in an ongoing outbreak in Israel. (Anadolu Agency)

International relations

• Germany–Turkey relations
  • Germany summons Turkey's ambassador to Germany in a tit-for-tat move over footballer Merih Demiral's wolf salute gesture while celebrating a goal at a UEFA Euro 2024 match in Leipzig, Germany, on Tuesday. (CNN)
• The Shanghai Cooperation Organization officially grants membership to Belarus. (Yahoo! News)

Law and crime

• Violent incidents in reaction to the Israel–Hamas war
  • Antisemitism during the Israel–Hamas war
    • Greek anti-terrorism police arrest seven people over arson attacks against an Israeli-owned hotel and a synagogue in central Athens. (Reuters)
• Mass shootings in the United States
  • Thirty-three people are killed in mass shootings at Fourth of July celebrations, with 11 people killed and 55 others injured in Chicago, Illinois, two people killed and three others injured in Huntington Beach, California, one person killed and six others injured in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and one person killed and five others injured in Boston, Massachusetts. (AP)
• 2022 Oslo shooting
  • Oslo District Court finds Iranian-born Norwegian Zaniar Matapour guilty of a shooting during pride celebrations in the Norwegian capital in 2022 and sentences Matapour to 30 years in prison. (CBC News)
• M23 movement
  • The Butembo military court in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, sentences 25 FARDC soldiers to death for allegedly fleeing fighting against M23 rebels. (Al Jazeera)
• Belarus frees ten political prisoners including former opposition leader Ryhor Kastusioŭ. (Reuters)
• The Peruvian Congress votes 15–12 to pass a law introducing a statute of limitations on prosecuting crimes against humanity committed before July 2002. (ABC News)
• French film director Benoît Jacquot is charged with the rapes of actresses Julia Roy and Isild Le Besco between 1998 and 2000, and "rape, sexual assault and violence" committed between 2013 and 2018. (AP) (Le Monde)
• Tunisian opposition leader and founder of the Republican People's Union party Lotfi Mraïhi is arrested on suspicion of money laundering. (Al Jazeera)

Politics and elections

• 2024 United Kingdom general election
  • Voters elect all 650 members of the United Kingdom House of Commons. Keir Starmer's Labour Party is projected to win a landslide victory according to exit polls. (NPR) (The Washington Post)
  • Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is re-elected to the House of Commons as an independent MP. (The Guardian)
  • Nigel Farage, leader of the anti-immigration and Eurosceptic Reform UK party, is elected for the first time to a parliamentary seat representing Clacton. (Reuters)
  • Former Prime Minister Liz Truss loses her seat of South West Norfolk, becoming the first former prime minister to lose their seat in over a century since Arthur Balfour in the 1906 general election. (The Independent)