Portal:Current events/July 2022

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Serhiivka missile strike
      • At least 21 civilians are killed and 38 others injured when two Russian missiles strike a multi-story building and a recreation centre in Serhiivka, Odesa Oblast. (The Guardian)
• The Bulgarian Navy destroys a naval mine that had drifted close to the country's Black Sea coast in a controlled explosion. A team of divers stated that the mine was of Soviet origin. (Reuters)

Arts and culture

• Ukrainian cultural heritage during the 2022 Russian invasion
  • UNESCO inscribes Ukraine's borscht culture into its list of endangered intangible cultural heritage. (Bangkok Post)

Business and economy

• 2019–present Sri Lankan economic crisis
  • Sri Lanka's inflation rate reaches a record 54.6% amid a steep economic crisis and a default of the country's debt. (CNA)

Disasters and accidents

• 2022 Hormozgan earthquakes
  • Five people are killed and 49 are injured after a magnitude 6.1 earthquake hits Hormozgan province, Iran. (Mirror)
• Argentina issues a notice of polar wave temperatures. The meteorological authorities also report that the country experienced one of the coldest autumns in more than 60 years. (Infobae)

Health and environment

• 2022 monkeypox outbreak
  • 2022 monkeypox outbreak in Asia
    • Turkey reports its first case of monkeypox. (Reuters)
  • 2022 monkeypox outbreak in Germany
    • Germany surpasses 1,000 cases of monkeypox. (RKI Deutsche)
  • 2022 monkeypox outbreak in the United States
    • Wisconsin reports its first case of monkeypox. (WISN-TV)
  • Puerto Rico, Saint Lucia and the Bahamas report their first cases of monkeypox. (QuePasa Media) (MagneticMediaTV) (Caribbean Loop News)

Law and crime

• Capital punishment in Ukraine
  • Authorities in the Donetsk People's Republic announce that they will begin carrying out capital punishment in 2025, after three foreign fighters, two of them British and the third Moroccan, who were arrested in the republic after joining the Ukrainian Army amidst the ongoing Russian invasion, are sentenced to death by the court. (Reuters)
• 2022 shooting of Kentucky police officers
  • A third police officer dies from injuries sustained in yesterday's shootout in Floyd County, Kentucky, United States. (ABC News)
• The trial of American basketball player Brittney Griner begins in Moscow, Russia. Griner was detained at a Moscow airport in February and could face up to ten years in prison if she is convicted on drug charges. (Reuters)
• Philadelphia Flyers prospect and former CSKA Moscow goaltender Ivan Fedotov is arrested in Saint Petersburg for allegedly evading military service. (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Politics and elections

• 2022 Hong Kong Chief Executive election
  • John Lee is sworn in as the fifth Chief Executive of Hong Kong. (RTHK)
• Protests occur in the autonomous Uzbekistani region of Karakalpakstan against a proposed constitutional change that would strip the region of its autonomy. (Eurasianet)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • The Mariupol City Council claims that over 10,000 of the city's residents are being held prisoner by the separatist Donetsk People's Republic. (UkInterfax)
    • Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko claims that his country intercepted Ukrainian missiles directed at Belarus three days ago and says that Belarus "does not want war with Ukraine". (CNBC)
• Nigerian bandit conflict
  • At least 30 people are killed in an ambush in Shiroro, Niger State, Nigeria. (Reuters)
• The Israeli Navy intercepts three Hezbollah drones from Lebanon in Israeli airspace. (The Jerusalem Post)

Disasters and accidents

• 2022 Atlantic hurricane season
  • Tropical Storm Bonnie
    • Tropical Storm Bonnie makes landfall near the Costa Rica–Nicaragua border. The storm subsequently crosses over from the Atlantic basin to the Pacific basin, becoming the first storm to do so since Hurricane Otto in 2016. One person is reported missing in Trinidad and Tobago. (National Hurricane Center) (Newsday)
  • Tropical Storm Colin makes landfall in South Carolina, United States. (AP)
• 2022 Pacific typhoon season
  • Typhoon Chaba
    • Typhoon Chaba, also known as Typhoon Caloy, makes landfall in Guangdong, China, as a category one typhoon. (CGTN)
    • More than two dozen people are missing after an engineering vessel sinks off the coast of Hong Kong during the storm. (Reuters)

Health and environment

• 2022 monkeypox outbreak
  • 2022 monkeypox outbreak in Europe
    • The World Health Organization announces that European cases of monkeypox have tripled in the past two weeks. (CNBC)
    • Andorra reports its first case of monkeypox. (Diari d'Andorra)

Law and crime

• Two people are killed and four others injured in a mass shooting in Haltom City, Texas, United States. (AP)

Politics and elections

• 2022 Karakalpak protests
  • The government of Uzbekistan drops plans to strip Karakalpakstan of its autonomy amid widespread protests in the region. (Reuters)
  • Internet access is restricted in Uzbekistan as regional protests continue for a second day, with the government accusing a "criminal gang" of trying to seize government buildings in Karakalpakstan. (Eurasianet)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • 2022 Western Russia attacks
      • Three people are killed by explosions at residential buildings in Belgorod, Russia, near the border with Ukraine. Fifty buildings are partially destroyed by the explosions. (BBC News)
    • Armed forces of Russia and the separatist Luhansk People's Republic capture the entire Luhansk Oblast after seizing Lysychansk. Ukrainian forces confirm that they were forced to retreat. (CNN)
    • Six people are killed and many others are injured as heavy shelling from rocket launchers hit the city of Sloviansk, in Donetsk Oblast, according to a report from the city's mayor. (Yahoo! News)
• 2022 Karakalpak protests
  • Five people are killed and thousands are injured after mass protests in Nukus, Karakalpakstan, Uzbekistan. President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev accuses "rioters" of violence. (Reuters) (Al Jazeera)

Disasters and accidents

• 2022 Marmolada serac collapse
  • Seven people are killed, eight are injured, and 13 others are reported missing after a serac collapses in Marmolada, Italy. (BBC News)
• Twenty people are killed and 13 others are injured when a bus plunges into a deep ravine in Sherani District, Balochistan, Pakistan. (Reuters)
• Two people are killed in a shark attack off the coast of Sahl Hasheesh, Egypt, on the Red Sea. (GMA News Online)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Nauru
    • Nauru reports its first death from COVID-19. (RNZ)

Law and crime

• 2022 Copenhagen mall shooting
  • Three people are killed and four more are injured during a mass shooting at the Field's shopping centre in Amager, Copenhagen, Denmark. A suspect has been arrested. (BBC News)
• Fifty-one people are arrested by the Sri Lankan Navy while trying to emigrate to Australia by sea. Police said that undocumented immigration has increased because of Sri Lanka's economic crisis. (Outlook)

Sports

• 2022 Formula One World Championship
  • 2022 British Grand Prix
    • Spanish racing driver Carlos Sainz Jr. of Scuderia Ferrari wins the first Formula One race of his career. (Miami Herald)
• Candidates Tournament 2022
  • Ian Nepomniachtchi wins the tournament with only one round remaining and qualifies for the World Chess Championship 2023 against current World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen. (chess.com)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Ethiopian civil conflict
  • Oromo conflict
    • Prime Minister of Ethiopia Abiy Ahmed says that "citizens in the Oromia region’s Qellen Wellega area have come under a massacre" by the Oromo Liberation Army. Lobbyists say that 150–160 Amhara civilians have been killed. (AP)
• Jihadist insurgency in Burkina Faso
  • Twenty-two people are killed and many others injured during a raid by insurgents in Kossi Province, Burkina Faso. (Reuters)
• 2022 Karakalpak protests
  • The government of Uzbekistan says 18 people have been killed and 243 others injured as protests appear to stabilise in Karakalpakstan, though concerns over the possibility of ethnic conflict remain. (Reuters)

Business and economy

• 2019–present Sri Lankan economic crisis
  • Sri Lanka announces a week-long holiday amid fuel and food shortages caused by a worsening economic crisis. (Business Standard)
• 2018–2022 Turkish currency and debt crisis
  • Turkey records its highest inflation in 24 years, which is currently near 80%. (The Guardian)

Disasters and accidents

• 2022 Atlantic hurricane season
  • Hurricane Bonnie
    • El Salvador suspends classes as Hurricane Bonnie passes through Central America. Deaths have been reported in Nicaragua and El Salvador. (Infobae)
• Sixteen people are killed when a bus plunges into a deep gorge in Kullu, Himachal Pradesh, India. (AP)
• At least 300 people are injured by a chlorine gas leak in Qalat Sukkar, Iraq. (AP)
• Italian prime minister Mario Draghi declares a state of emergency in five regions of Northern Italy due to a severe drought in the Po Valley. (Deccan Herald)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Nauru
    • Weightlifter Reanna Solomon dies from COVID-19, becoming Nauru's first recorded fatality of the pandemic. (Inside The Games)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Singapore
    • President of Singapore Halimah Yacob tests positive for COVID-19. (CNA)

Law and crime

• Mass shootings in the United States
  • Highland Park parade shooting
    • Six people are killed and more than two dozen others injured in a mass shooting in Highland Park, Illinois, United States, during an Independence Day parade. The suspected gunman is later taken into custody in nearby Lake Forest. (CNN)
  • One person is killed and four others injured in a mass shooting outside a nightclub in Sacramento, California, United States. (AP)

Politics and elections

• 2022 Papua New Guinean general election
  • Papua New Guineans go to the polls to elect their new government in a heavily guarded election. (Barron's)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Battle of Donbas
      • According to Ukraine, two civilians are killed in a Russian missile attack on Sloviansk in Donetsk Oblast. (Reuters)
      • The Governor of Donetsk Oblast urges civilians to evacuate as Russia advances. Around 350,000 civilians have already evacuated. (Al Jazeera)
• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • An Israeli man is seriously injured in a stabbing and suspected terror attack on the road between Bnei Brak and Giv'at Shmuel. (Times of Israel)
• Yemeni Civil War
  • Six people are killed and 32 others injured in an explosion at an arms depot in Abyan Governorate. (AP)
• Communist rebellion in the Philippines
  • Seven soldiers are injured when suspected communist guerrillas detonate a land mine in Mapanas, Northern Samar, Philippines. (AP)
• Mali War
  • Two Egyptian UN peacekeepers are killed and five others are injured when their vehicle hits a mine in northern Mali. (The Defense Post)
• Five rockets are fired into Uzbekistan from Afghanistan, landing in the city of Termez. Government officials report that none of the missiles exploded and that minor damage occurred to four homes. (The Statesman)

Business and economy

• 2019–present Sri Lankan economic crisis
  • Sri Lanka's inflation continues to increase and reaches nearly 60% as the country's economic crisis worsens. (Bloomberg)
• South Korea's inflation reaches a 24-year record, as the country struggles with increasing energy and food prices. (Nikkei)
• Chinese company BYD Auto becomes the world’s largest electric vehicle producer by number of vehicles sold after overtaking Tesla, Inc. in the first half of 2022. (South China Morning Post)

Disasters and accidents

• At least nine people are killed by flash floods caused by the monsoon in Balochistan, Pakistan. (AP)
• Three people are killed by flooding in Kuala Pegang, Malaysia. (FloodList)
• Twenty-two Malian migrants are found dead on an inflatable boat on the Mediterranean Sea off the Libyan coast, after they left Zuwarah nine days ago. The International Organization for Migration reports that the migrants died from dehydration and drowning. (Philippine Daily Inquirer)

Health and environment

• 2022 monkeypox outbreak
  • Panama confirms its first case of monkeypox. (TVN 2)
• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Spain
    • Queen Consort Letizia of Spain tests positive for COVID-19. (El Periódico)

International relations

• Enlargement of NATO
  • Finland–NATO relations, Sweden–NATO relations
    • All 30 members of NATO have signed off on the accession protocols for the membership bids of Finland and Sweden, which is subject to unanimous approval by the current members' legislative bodies. (AP)

Law and crime

• Highland Park parade shooting
  • A seventh person dies from injuries sustained in yesterday's mass shooting at an Independence Day parade in Highland Park, Illinois, United States. The suspected gunman, identified as a 21-year-old man, has been charged with seven counts of first-degree murder, with additional charges pending. (USA Today) (CNN)
• Russia orders the Jewish Agency for Israel to stop any and all activities in the country, allegedly claiming that the organisation was illegally collecting information on Russian citizens. (The Jerusalem Post)

Politics and elections

• 2022 United Kingdom government crisis
  • Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Sajid Javid, and Solicitor General for England and Wales Alex Chalk all resign from the government, saying they no longer have faith in Prime Minister Boris Johnson following his appointment of Chris Pincher as Government Deputy Chief Whip despite allegations of sexual misconduct. (BBC News)
  • Johnson appoints Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi as the new Chancellor and Downing Street Chief of Staff Steve Barclay as the new Health Secretary following Sunak and Javid's resignations. (BBC News)
• Time in Mexico
  • President Andrés Manuel López Obrador says that he will present a bill to eliminate daylight saving time in Mexico, with the exception of northern bordering cities, due to it being unpopular and having little benefit. (Reuters)

Science and technology

• The International Mathematical Union awards the Fields Medal to mathematicians Hugo Duminil-Copin of France, June Huh of the United States, James Maynard of the United Kingdom, and Maryna Viazovska of Ukraine, at the quadrennial International Congress of Mathematicians in Helsinki, Finland. (The New York Times)

Sports

• 2022–23 NHL season
  • In ice hockey, the San Jose Sharks hire Mike Grier as general manager, becoming the first black general manager in the history of the National Hockey League. (CBC)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Battle of Donbas
      • At least twelve civilians are killed and 25 others are injured by heavy Russian shelling in Donetsk Oblast, according to a report by Governor Pavlo Kyrylenko. (AP) (VOA)
  • Government and intergovernmental reactions to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Latvia plans to reintroduce conscription, which had been abolished in 2006, as a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The final decision will be determined by the country's parliament, the Saeima. (Baltic News Network) (AFP via The Guardian)
• Boko Haram insurgency
  • Islamist militants attack a prison near Abuja, Nigeria, freeing 879 of the medium-security prison's 994 inmates. One prison guard is killed and three others are injured in the attack. (The Guardian)

Business and economy

• Chinese authorities give a tentative green light to Ant Group to revive its initial public offering plans in both Shanghai and Hong Kong. (RTHK)

Disasters and accidents

• 2022 Marmolada serac collapse
  • Two more people are found dead after the Marmolada serac, in Italy, collapsed three days ago, bringing the death toll to nine. Three other people are still missing. (La Repubblica)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in China
    • Xi'an is placed under lockdown and mass testing is conducted in half of the city's districts after a cluster of cases in the city were traced back to six karaoke bars. (Economic Times)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Niue
    • The New Zealand Defence Force says that, upon request by the government of Niue, it is sending a team of civilian doctors, nurses, and defense personnel to help the territory deal with an outbreak of COVID-19. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• Georgia Guidestones bombing
  • The Georgia Guidestones in Elbert County, Georgia, United States, are partially destroyed in an explosion in what is a suspected bombing. A construction crew later pulls down the remaining parts of the structure for safety reasons. (The New York Times) (The Guardian) (Reuters)
• 2022 Sri Lankan political crisis
  • Several opposition politicians are arrested in Colombo, Sri Lanka, after demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, who said yesterday that the country is "bankrupt". (Economy Next)
• The government of Honduras releases a report stating that the deportation of Honduran migrants from Mexico and the United States increased by 84.4% during the first half of the year. (Infobae)
• A federal court in Buenos Aires, Argentina, sentences an ex-military officer to life in prison for homicides, kidnappings, tortures, and rape during the military dictatorship that ruled the country between 1976 and 1983. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• 2022 United Kingdom government crisis
  • Multiple senior ministers of the United Kingdom's Cabinet, including newly appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer Nadhim Zahawi, Home Secretary Priti Patel, Secretary of State for Transport Grant Shapps, and Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Michael Gove tell Prime Minister Boris Johnson to resign. Five additional ministers resign after dozens of others leave throughout the day, bringing the total of government departures to 38. (The Guardian) (The Independent) (BBC News)
  • Boris Johnson fires Michael Gove after Gove called on Johnson to resign earlier in the day. A 10 Downing Street official says that "you can’t have a snake who is not with you on any of the big arguments who then gleefully tells the press the leader has to go". (The Independent)
  • Simon Hart resigns as Secretary of State for Wales following Boris Johnson's refusal to leave office. (Sky News)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Battle of Donbas
      • Russian forces launch airstrikes on the city of Kramatorsk, in Donetsk Oblast, with casualties reported, according to the city's mayor. (Reuters)
    • Russia says that it fired missiles at Snake Island, killing an unspecified number of Ukrainian troops. However, Ukraine denies that any casualties have occurred. (Evening Standard)
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • One person is killed and four others injured in a hand grenade attack at a police post in Mardan District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (AP)
• Allied Democratic Forces insurgency
  • Suspected Allied Democratic Forces fighters kill at least thirteen people after they burn a clinic to the ground in North Kivu, DRC. Three of the attackers are killed by the army. (Reuters) (AP)

Business and economy

• 2019–present Sri Lankan economic crisis
  • According to the UN's World Food Programme, nearly six million people in Sri Lanka are currently suffering from food insecurity caused by the worst economic crisis that the country has experienced since 1948. (WION)
• The government of Laos discusses the purchase of oil from sanctions-hit Russia as the country faces oil shortages and is nearing a debt default. (Business Insider)
• The Central Bank of Ireland announces that inflation will exceed 10% for the first time since the early 1980s. (The Irish Times)

Disasters and accidents

• Nine people are killed and 43 others injured when a bus from Sudan crashes while travelling to Aswan, Egypt. (Reuters)

Health and environment

• 2022 monkeypox outbreak
  • 2022 monkeypox outbreak in Europe
    • Slovakia reports its first case of monkeypox. (Reuters)
  • Ecuador, the Dominican Republic and Jamaica report their first cases of monkeypox. (Xinhua News Agency) (Yahoo!) (Caribbean National Weekly)
  • Two new deaths from monkeypox are reported in endemic countries in Africa. (Al Jazeera)
• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Hong Kong
    • The Government of Hong Kong announce that they will put on hold a flight suspension mechanism, allowing airlines to continue to fly into Hong Kong even if positive cases have been detected on their flights when entering Hong Kong previously. (RTHK)
• Authorities in Cuba say that dengue fever cases have increased 21.7% from last year and describe the epidemiological situation as "complex". (Infobae)

Law and crime

• Mexico–United States border crisis
  • Governor of Texas Greg Abbott authorizes the United States National Guard to return migrants along the Mexico–United States border in Texas to Mexico. (AP)
• American basketball player Brittney Griner pleads guilty to drug charges in a Russian courtroom and faces up to 10 years in prison. (CNN)

Politics and elections

• 2022 United Kingdom government crisis
  • Education Secretary Michelle Donelan resigns 36 hours after being appointed to the post. A total of 61 ministers and aides have now resigned. (Sky News)
  • Boris Johnson resigns as the leader of the Conservative Party but plans to remain Prime Minister until a new leader is elected. (BBC News)
• The Cypriot House of Representatives approves the seventeenth amendment to the Constitution of Cyprus, which involves a reform of the judiciary, the recovery of the Supreme Constitutional Court of Cyprus and the creation of the Court of Appeal of Cyprus. (Cyprus Mail)

Sports

• 2022 Wimbledon Championships
  • Tunisian tennis player Ons Jabeur becomes both the first African and first Arab player to reach the final of a Grand Slam tournament after defeating Tatjana Maria in the semifinals of the 2022 Wimbledon women's singles. (The Guardian)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Serhiy Haidai, Governor of Luhansk Oblast, says that Russian shelling continues across the oblast and that the 8,000 residents of Sievierodonetsk are on the verge of a "humanitarian catastrophe". (ABC News)
• Assassination of Shinzo Abe
  • Former Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe is shot in the back while giving a speech in Nara, Kansai region, Japan, and later dies from his wounds. Tetsuya Yamagami, a 41-year-old navy veteran, is arrested for the assassination. (BBC News)

Business and economy

• Proposed acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk
  • The legal team representing entrepreneur Elon Musk files a claim to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to officially terminate his deal to purchase Twitter, saying that the company made "false and misleading" statements during negotiations. (The Verge)
• 2022 Rogers Communications outage
  • Rogers Communications reports massive outages across Canada, impacting its wireless, cable and internet services, and causing disruptions to banking, government, and emergency services. (CBC News)
• The Central Bank of Peru increases its interest rate from 5.5% to 6.0% in an effort to reduce the rate of inflation, which yesterday reached a 25-year record high. (Infobae)

Disasters and accidents

• July 2022 European heat wave
  • 2022 United Kingdom heat wave
    • British authorities issue a level 2 warning as a heat wave continues. (The Independent via MSN)
  • Portugal issues warnings of temperatures as high as 43 °C (109 °F) amid a drought and wildfires in parts of the country. (The Washington Post)
• 2022 India–Bangladesh floods
  • At least 16 people are killed and 40 others missing during flash floods during an annual Hindu pilgrimage to the Amarnath cave shrine in India-administered Jammu and Kashmir. (Al Jazeera)
• Seventeen people are dead after a boat carried into a barge by the tide and capsize in Lagos, Nigeria. (Al Jazeera)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in North America
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Canada
      • COVID-19 pandemic in British Columbia
        • It is announced that British Columbia will offer a fourth COVID-19 vaccine booster shot for the general population beginning in autumn. (The Globe and Mail)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
      • COVID-19 vaccination in the United States
        • The U.S. FDA grants approval for the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for people aged between 12 and 17. (Reuters)
• 2022 monkeypox outbreak
  • 2022 monkeypox outbreak in the United States
    • The U.S. CDC announces that doses of the Jynneos vaccine will be sent to Washington. (KXLY-TV)

International relations

• Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chaves Robles says that his country will apply to join the Pacific Alliance. (Today)

Law and crime

• LGBT rights in Slovenia
  • Constitutional Court of Slovenia rules in a 6–3 decision that bans on same-sex couples marrying and adopting children are unconstitutional and gives the Parliament six months to amend necessary laws. (AP)
• A court in Switzerland acquits Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini of illegally arranging payments while they served as presidents of FIFA and UEFA respectively. (BBC Sport)
• Killnet, a Russian hacker group, launches the largest cyberattack in the history of Latvia, targeting the country's public broadcaster. The broadcaster says that the attack was repelled. (The Times)

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)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Battle of Donbas
      • Missile strike on Chasiv Yar
        • A Russian airstrike on an apartment complex in Chasiv Yar, Donetsk Oblast, kills at least 47 people and leaves nine others injured. (Sky News)
• Mexican drug war
  • Six people are killed and eight others are wounded in a mass shooting at a party in León, Guanajuato, Mexico. (Infobae)

Business and economy

• Uber Files
  • Over 124,000 confidential documents are leaked from Uber, showing efforts by Uber to lobby governments for preferential treatment. (BBC News)
  • Leaked documents reveal that French President Emmanuel Macron went to "extraordinary lengths" to help Uber disrupt the French taxi industry, telling Uber's executives that he had brokered a "secret" deal with his socialist opponents in his cabinet. (The Guardian)

Disasters and accidents

• Most of Argentina is placed on "yellow alert" by the National Meteorological Service due to high winds, hail and snowfall. (M1)

Health and environment

• 2022 monkeypox outbreak
  • 2022 monkeypox outbreak in the United States
    • Kansas reports its first case of monkeypox. (Kansas City Star)
  • New Zealand reports its first cases of monkeypox. (Health GOV New Zealand)

International relations

• Kiribati announces its withdrawal from the Pacific Islands Forum, effective immediately, after President Taneti Maamau publishes a letter where he expresses four reasons for doing so, mainly due to the Secretary-General of the Forum never having been from the Micronesian region of the Pacific islands. (1news)

Law and crime

• 2022 Soweto shooting; 2022 Pietermaritzburg shooting
  • In South Africa, 15 people are killed in a mass shooting at a bar in Soweto, Gauteng. Four more are killed at a tavern in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal. Many others are wounded in both attacks. (BBC News)

Politics and elections

• 2022 Japanese House of Councillors election
  • Japanese citizens go to the polls to elect members of the upper house of the National Diet. (Nikkei)
  • An exit poll by NHK projects that the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)-led coalition will retain its majority in the upper house, winning 76 of the chamber's 125 contested seats. The LDP is the party of former prime minister Shinzo Abe, who was assassinated two days prior while campaigning for the party's candidate for Nara, Kei Satō. (Al Jazeera)
• 2022 Israeli legislative election
  • Israeli politicians Benny Gantz and Gideon Saar form a political alliance to compete against Yair Lapid and Benjamin Netanyahu. (Haaretz)

Sports

• 2022 Wimbledon Championships
  • Novak Djokovic of Serbia wins his seventh Wimbledon and overall 21st Grand Slam title after defeating Nick Kyrgios of Australia in the men's singles final, 4–6, 6–3, 6–4, 7–6 (7–3). (BBC Sport)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • • Three civilians are killed and 31 others are injured in a Russian shelling of Kharkiv. The city's mayor says that the latest shelling has targeted civilian infrastructure. (SwissInfo)
    • Russian occupation of Kharkiv Oblast
      • The Russian-appointed military-civilian administration leader of Velykyi Burluk in Kharkiv Oblast, Yevgeny Yunakov, is assassinated in a car bombing. (Reuters)
    • 2022 Ukrainian summer counteroffensive
      • Ukrainian Ground Forces recapture the town of Ivanivka in Kherson Oblast after launching a counter-offensive against Russian forces. (Reuters)
• Colombian conflict
  • The Colombian Army launches an airstrike on a FARC dissidents' camp in the Caquetá Department, killing ten people. Iván Mordisco, one of the group's leaders, was at the scene during the strike; his fate is unknown. (BBC News)

Arts and culture

• New South Wales premier Dominic Perrottet announces that the Australian Aboriginal Flag will be flown permanently above the Sydney Harbour Bridge, which is widely regarded as an iconic Australian landmark. The flag will be flown on top of the bridge's arches alongside the national flag, replacing the flag of New South Wales, after the state government decided against accommodating all three flags. (CNN)

Business and economy

• A Russian court lifts the suspension for the CPC pipeline and instead fines its operators 200,000 rubles ($3,300) for oil spills. The oil pipeline, one of the world's largest, is the route for nearly all of Kazakhstan's oil exports, which represents about 1% of global oil supply. (Reuters)
• The Nord Stream 1 natural gas pipeline from Russia to Germany is suspended for the first of ten days of scheduled annual maintenance. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• July 2022 European heat wave
  • French authorities issue a warning as temperatures reach as high as 40 °C (104 °F) amid ongoing wildfires. (RFI)
• Two people are killed and four others are injured after a three car pileup caused by a pack of boars north of Thessaloniki, Greece. (AP)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
    • COVID-19 vaccination in the United States
      • The Biden administration announces that the United States will purchase 3.2 million doses of the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine once the vaccine is approved. (The New York Times)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Macau
    • Macau closes all of its casinos in order to contain an outbreak of COVID-19 in the city. (Straits Times)
• 2022 monkeypox outbreak
  • 2022 monkeypox outbreak in the United States
    • New Mexico reports its first case of monkeypox. (KRQE-TV)

International relations

• Government and intergovernmental reactions to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Lithuania–Russia relations
    • Lithuania expands sanctions on the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad to include cement, concrete, wood, alcohol and alcohol-based industrial chemicals. (Reuters)
• The 51st Pacific Islands Forum begins in Suva, Fiji, amid escalating geopolitical competition between China and the United States. (Al Jazeera)

Law and crime

• LGBT rights in Russia
  • Lawmakers in Russia propose to extend the anti-"gay propaganda" bill to all people regardless of their age. (Al Jazeera)

Politics and elections

• 2022 vote of no confidence in the government of Élisabeth Borne
  • The French government survives a no confidence vote tabled by the left-wing NUPES coalition. The no confidence vote received only 146 yes votes out of the 289 needed. (Le Monde)
• Russian president Vladimir Putin signs a decree extending a fast-track process to obtain Russian citizenship to all Ukrainians, which previously only applied to those living in the Donetsk People's Republic and the Luhansk People's Republic. (Reuters)

Science and technology

• NASA releases the first full-color image taken by the James Webb Space Telescope, showing a segment of a galaxy cluster 4.6 billion light-years away from Earth. (The Verge)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • 2022 Ukrainian summer counteroffensive
      • Nova Kakhovka airstrike
        • A massive explosion occurs in the city of Nova Kakhovka after Ukrainian forces destroy a Russian arms depot. Russian state news agency TASS claims that a market, hospital, and civilian housing were also damaged, and that multiple civilians were killed. Russian 22nd Army Corps general Artem Nasbulin is allegedly among the dead. (Ukrayinska Pravda) (Reuters) (UPI)
    • U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan claims that Iran will provide Russia with hundreds of drones along with the necessary training for their use. (The Washington Post)
• War in Afghanistan
  • War crimes in Afghanistan
    • Leaked military reports indicate that a United Kingdom Special Air Service (SAS) unit unlawfully killed at least 54 people during a six-month tour. (BBC News) (Al Jazeera)
• War against the Islamic State
  • The United States confirms that it has killed the leader of the Islamic State's Syrian branch, Maher al-Agal, in a drone strike in northwestern Syria. (Reuters)
• 2021–2022 Democratic Republic of the Congo attacks
  • Seven people are killed when suspected Islamists attack the city of Beni, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Reuters)

Business and economy

• Enlargement of the eurozone
  • The European Union formally accepts Croatia as the 20th member of the Eurozone. Croatia will adopt the bloc's currency on January 1, 2023. (CNBC)
• Proposed acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk
  • Twitter sues Elon Musk in the Delaware Court of Chancery, requesting the court to order Musk to proceed with the purchase of Twitter under the previously agreed upon terms. (BBC News)
• Ukraine says that despite the Russian blockade of many of its Black Sea ports, in the last four days, 16 ships carrying grain have passed through the Bystre rivermouth, an important mouth of the Danube river. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• Twenty-three bodies are found near hot springs in Michoacán, Mexico. (AP)
• A chartered boat capsizes in the Hudson River in New York City, killing two people and injuring three others. Twelve others are rescued alive from the water. (CNN)

Health and environment

• 2022 monkeypox outbreak
  • 2022 monkeypox outbreak in Europe
    • Russia reports its first case of monkeypox in a man who travelled from Europe. (Reuters)
• Vanuatu declares a malaria outbreak in four of its provinces. (RNZ)

Law and crime

• Telford child sexual exploitation scandal
  • A three-year-long independent inquiry into child sexual exploitation finds that over 1,000 children in Telford, Shropshire, England, were sexually exploited beginning in the 1980s. Teachers and youth workers were discouraged from reporting child sexual abuse and police were nervous that investigating the abusers would inflame racial tensions. (Reuters) (The Guardian)
• Protesters in Panama continue blocking streets and railways, mainly in Chiriquí and Veraguas Provinces, rejecting the concession by president Laurentino Cortizo of freezing fuel prices. (TeleMetro)

Politics and elections

• 2022 Sri Lankan political crisis
  • President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and his wife are prevented from fleeing the country to Dubai by airport staff at Bandaranaike International Airport amid nationwide protests. G. Rajapaksa has not given his official resignation yet. (CNN)
  • Rajapaksa subsequently flees the country on a military aircraft to the Maldives, formally ending his rule of Sri Lanka. His brother, former finance minister Basil Rajapaksa, also flees the country. (BBC News)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Battle of Donbas
      • Heavy Russian shelling is reported in Bakhmut, Donetsk Oblast, with at least one person killed and five others injured in the largely evacuated town. (The Guardian)

Business and economy

• 2021–2022 inflation surge
  • The Bank of Canada raises its benchmark interest rate from 1.5 to 2.5 percent, the single largest increase since 1998, amid surging inflation. (CBC)
  • In the United States, the annual rate of inflation rises to 9.1 percent, the highest rate in 40 years, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. (Fox Business)
• The euro's value against the U.S. dollar falls below parity for the first time in 20 years. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• Two firefighters are killed and two others survive after a helicopter crashes on the Greek island of Samos, Greece. (AP)

Health and environment

• 2022 monkeypox outbreak
  • 2022 monkeypox outbreak in Europe
    • Bosnia and Herzegovina reports its first confirmed case of monkeypox. (Dnevni Avaz)
• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom
    • The number of deaths from COVID-19 in the United Kingdom surpasses 200,000, with 294 deaths reported in the last week. (The Guardian)

International relations

• International sanctions during the Russo-Ukrainian War
  • Lithuania–Russia relations, Russia–European Union relations
    • The European Commission allows Russia to resume shipping embargoed goods by rail to its exclave of Kaliningrad, following Russian threats against Lithuania. However, the transit of military equipment through Lithuanian territory remains prohibited. (Newsweek)
• International recognition of the Donetsk People's Republic and the Luhansk People's Republic
  • North Korea recognizes the independence of the Donetsk People's Republic and the Luhansk People's Republic, becoming the third nation to do so after Russia and Syria. Ukraine suspends relations with North Korea in response. (Reuters) (Business Insider)

Law and crime

• Global surveillance disclosures
  • Vault 7
    • A jury in New York convicts ex-Central Intelligence Agency engineer Joshua Schulte on all nine charges relating to the Vault 7 leak detailing the activities and capabilities of the CIA to perform electronic surveillance and cyber warfare. The leak is the largest leak in Central Intelligence Agency history. (The Verge)
• 2022 Sri Lankan protests
  • Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe confirms that former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has fled the country to the Maldives and declares a state of emergency and a curfew as the military fires tear gas at the protesters. (Al Jazeera) (ANINews)
  • Protesters storm the Prime Minister's office in Colombo, demanding Wickremesinghe's immediate resignation. (Reuters)
• Capital punishment in Sudan
  • A 20-year-old woman who is a campaigner for women's rights in Sudan appeals to the High Court to overturn her death sentence by stoning for adultery, the first time that such an appeal has been filed in nearly a decade. (The Guardian)

Politics and elections

• 2022 United Kingdom government crisis
  • 2022 Conservative Party leadership election
    • Nadhim Zahawi and Jeremy Hunt are eliminated from the leadership race in the first round of voting. (BBC News)

Science and technology

• Archeologists announce the discovery of a previously unknown Roman Empire city dubbed "El Forau de la Tuta", located near modern-day Artieda in the Province of Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain. (El País)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • 2022 Vinnytsia attacks
      • July 2022 Vinnytsia missile strike
        • At least 23 civilians are killed and more than 100 others are injured by three Russian missile strikes in Vinnytsia. (BBC News)
• Spillover of the insurgency in the Sahel
  • At least 12 civilians are killed by Islamic extremist gunmen during an attack against two villages in northern Togo. (Reuters)
• Mali War
  • Three civilians and three security forces are killed in an attack by militants at a checkpoint near Bamako, Mali. (Reuters)

Business and economy

• Social media site Twitter experiences a global outage lasting for 45 minutes, making it the site's longest outage since 2016. (The Guardian)
• Russia enacts a law that requires all companies to comply with the armed forces' orders to provide goods or services and provide overtime or additional work days if necessary. The requirement for a public procurement procedure for this type of request is abolished. (Rzeczpospolita)

Disasters and accidents

• Over 40 people are missing after a series of floods in Virginia, United States. All are later accounted for. (Daily Express) (BBC News)
• One person is killed by a magnitude 5.7 earthquake in Ecuador. (ABC)
• Three people are killed and two are injured by a mudslide that hit a school in Antioquia, Colombia. (AP)
• Pinhão, district of Vila Real, sets the highest July temperature ever in Portugal, reaching 47.0 °C (116.6 °F). (The Age) (IPMA)

Health and environment

• At least 30 green sea turtles are found dead off a beach in Kumejima, Japan, with many having been stabbed in the neck. The green sea turtle is an endangered species. (BBC)

Law and crime

• Capital punishment in South Korea
  • In South Korea, the Constitutional Court begins deliberations on abolishing the death penalty upon an appeal by the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Korea. South Korea currently has a moratorium on the issue, having not hanged a death row inmate in the past 25 years. (South China Morning Post)
• Media freedom in Russia
  • Russian president Vladimir Putin signs a law expanding the definition of "foreign agents" to all organisations deemed by the government to have fallen under "foreign influence", beginning on December 1. The law permits Roskomnadzor to block any websites related to a designated entity without a court order, and restricts these entities from receiving state funds and working with children or at state universities. (The Moscow Times)
• At least 89 people, including 42 civilians, are killed after gang warfare over the control of the Cité Soleil neighbourhood began a week ago between the G9 and G-Pèp gangs in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. (BBC News)
• Bolivian justice minister Iván Lima announces that the government will seek more charges against former president Jeanine Áñez for her alleged role in massacres perpetrated in Senkata and Sacaba in 2019. Añez is already serving a 10-year sentence on other charges. (Página/12)
• Ripudaman Singh Malik, one of the men acquitted in the Air India Flight 182 terrorist bombing, is shot to death in Surrey, British Columbia. (BBC News)

Politics and elections

• 2022 United Kingdom government crisis
  • 2022 Conservative Party leadership election
    • Suella Braverman is eliminated from the leadership race in the second round of voting. (The Guardian)
• 2022 Sri Lankan protests
  • Gotabaya Rajapaksa resigns as President of Sri Lanka after fleeing to Singapore. (BBC News)
• 2022 Italian government crisis
  • Mario Draghi offers his resignation as Prime Minister of Italy after coalition partner Five Star withdraws its support. However, President Sergio Mattarella refuses to accept the resignation. (BBC News)
• Prime Minister of Estonia Kaja Kallas resigns to form a new coalition government. (Euronews)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • At least three civilians are killed and 15 others are injured in Russian cruise missile strikes on the city of Dnipro. (Reuters)
• Insurgency in the Sahel
  • Mali War
    • Three civilians, two gendarmes and one policeman are killed as gunmen attack a checkpoint in Koulikoro, Mali. (Al Jazeera)
• Insurgency in Balochistan
  • Nine Balochistan Liberation Army separatist insurgents are killed during a gunfight with the Pakistan Army in Balochistan, after the group kidnapped and killed a colonel. (AP)
• Sudanese nomadic conflicts
  • 65 people are killed and 150 are wounded in tribal clashes in Blue Nile, Sudan. (Al Jazeera)

Business and economy

• Transport in Spain
  • Spain introduces free tickets for suburban and medium-distance services for Renfe, the state-owned railway operator, starting from September 1 and until the end of the year. Other modes of public transport already have a 30% discount. (The Guardian)

Disasters and accidents

• July 2022 European heat wave; 2022 European wildfires
  • A national emergency is declared in the United Kingdom, with the first ever red alert for extreme heat being issued by the Met Office, ahead of a heat wave which is now expected to break temperature records in the British Isles. (BBC News)
  • Portugal reports 238 deaths related to the ongoing heat wave as it battles more than 30 active wildfires. In France, more than 10,000 people have fled wildfires in Gironde and in Spain, firefighters continue to battle forest fires near the town of Monsagro. (BBC News)
• Mexican drug war
  • Fourteen people are killed and another is injured when a helicopter involved in the search and arrest of drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero crashes in Los Mochis, Mexico. (Al Jazeera)
• Six people are killed in a multiple vehicle collision in Montana, United States, during a major dust storm. (AP)

International relations

• Saudi Arabia–United States relations
  • U.S. President Joe Biden meets with Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Jeddah despite previously vowing to make him a "pariah". (Bloomberg)
• EU adopts 7th package of Russia sanctions. (EU Sanctions)

Law and crime

• Judiciary of Poland
  • Polish Supreme Court Disciplinary Chamber law
    • The controversial Disciplinary Chamber of the Supreme Court is abolished. However, Didier Reynders, the European Commissioner for Justice, says that the European Court of Justice's ruling ordering the abolishment has not been fully respected and therefore Poland will continue to pay a fine of €1 million per day for contempt of court. (Rzeczpospolita)
• Mexican drug war
  • Ex-leader of the Guadalajara Cartel Rafael Caro Quintero is captured by the Mexican Navy in Choix, Sinaloa, Mexico. (AP) (BBC News)
• Terrorism in Germany
  • A 33-year-old former German Army officer is sentenced to five-and-a-half years in prison for plotting a terrorist attack on senior politicians while posing as a Syrian refugee. (CNN)

Science and technology

• International Space Station programme
  • NASA and Roscosmos sign an agreement to integrate future flights to the International Space Station. The agreement will allow Russian cosmonauts to fly on U.S. spacecraft in return for allowing American astronauts to use Russia's Soyuz spacecraft. (Reuters)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Russian missiles strike the city of Chuhuiv in Kharkiv Oblast, killing three civilians and injuring three others, while more than 50 Grad rockets hit the city of Nikopol in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, killing two people. The missile strikes come after Russian defence minister Sergei Shoigu ordered the military to expand operations in Ukraine in order to "protect the Donbas". (Reuters)
    • The president of Energoatom, the Ukrainian nuclear energy authority, accuses Russian forces of using the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant to store weapons and shell the surrounding area. (The Journal.ie)
• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • Gaza–Israel conflict
    • Israel launches more than a dozen missiles against two Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip, following a number of rockets fired overnight from Gaza into Israel, causing severe damage. No casualties were reported and no civilian structures were targeted or hit. (Voice of America) (Al Jazeera)
• Papua conflict
  • Nogolait shooting
    • Ten people are killed and two others are injured when gunmen attack civilians in Nduga Regency, Highland Papua, Indonesia. The separatist West Papua National Liberation Army is blamed for the attack. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• July 2022 European heat wave
  • 2022 European and MENA wildfires
    • Wildfires break out in southwestern France and Spain amidst a heat wave in Europe. (Reuters)
    • In Portugal, a waterbombing plane crashes in Vila Nova de Foz Côa while fighting wildfires in the region, killing the pilot, and in Spain, around 2,300 people are evacuated from the Costa del Sol due to wildfires in the Mijas hills. (BBC News)
  • A report shows that at least 360 people have died in a week during the heat wave in Spain. (El País)
• Meridian Flight 3032
  • An Antonov An-12 cargo plane, operated by a Ukrainian airline, crashes near the city of Kavala, Greece, killing all eight people on board. The aircraft was carrying weapons from Serbia to Bangladesh, and crashed before a planned stop in Jordan. (BBC News)

International relations

• Accession of North Macedonia to the European Union
  • Bulgaria–North Macedonia relations
    • The Assembly of North Macedonia passes a motion to amend North Macedonia’s Constitution to recognise its Bulgarian minority, while pledging to discuss remaining issues with the Bulgarian government. In exchange, Bulgaria will allow membership talks with the European Union to begin. (Al Jazeera)
• Iran–United States relations
  • Economic sanctions against the United States
    • The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iran imposes sanctions on 61 Americans for their association with exiled Iranian dissident group People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran. (Reuters)
• G20 finance leaders end a meeting in Bali without a joint communique, as consensus could not be reached on multiple issues due to tensions caused by ongoing conflicts between the countries. (CNBC)

Law and crime

• Four people are killed and two injured in a mass shooting in the Gauteng province of South Africa. (Reuters)
• Protests continue in Panama with road and railways blockades, after protesters rejected president Laurentino Cortizo's concessions. (La Prensa)
• Crime in Haiti
  • The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights documents 934 killings, 684 injuries and 680 kidnappings in Port-au-Prince since the start of 2022, in a sharp increase of violence in the city. (Al Jazeera)
  • The UN Security Council passes a resolution extending the mandate of the UN Integrated Office in Haiti for a further year. (UN News)

Disasters and accidents

• Seven people are killed by flooding in Darfur, Sudan. (AP)
• Flooding in China's Sichuan and Gansu provinces kills 12 people and leaves thousands homeless. (AP)
• Four people are killed when a Bernalillo County Sheriff's Office helicopter crashes near Las Vegas, New Mexico, United States. (U.S. News & World Report)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Asia
    • COVID-19 pandemic in India
      • Health officials in India report that the country surpassed the two billion mark in cumulative administered doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. (WION)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Israel
      • The Israeli Health Ministry confirms three cases of the Omicron BA.2.75 variant in travelers abroad. (Times of Israel)
• 2022 monkeypox outbreak
  • 2022 monkeypox outbreak in the United States
    • Three more monkeypox vaccination sites open in New York City in an effort to combat the spread of monkeypox. (Patch.com)

International relations

• Croatia–Serbia relations
  • Croatia refuses to allow a private visit from the President of Serbia Aleksandar Vučić to the site of the Jasenovac concentration camp due to the Government of Croatia not being formally notified of the visit. (The Washington Post)
• Nuclear program of Iran
  • Former Minister of Foreign Affairs and senior adviser to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, Kamal Kharazi, confirms that Iran now has the capabilities to develop and build a nuclear weapon but says that "there has been no decision by Iran to build one". Kharazi also warns that Iran will "directly respond" to Israel if it is attacked. (Straits Times) (The Jerusalem Post)

Law and crime

• Greenwood Park Mall shooting
  • Three people and the gunman are killed and two others injured in a mass shooting at the food court of Greenwood Park Mall in Greenwood, Indiana, United States. (The Indianapolis Star)

Politics and elections

• 2022 Nigerian elections
  • 2022 Nigerian gubernatorial elections
    • 2022 Osun State gubernatorial election
      • Former senator Ademola Adeleke of the Peoples Democratic Party defeats incumbent Governor Gboyega Oyetola of the All Progressives Congress. The election has been labeled as a potential bellwether as it is the final major election before the national presidential election in early 2023. (Premium Times)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Battle of Donbas
      • Russian shelling kills six civilians in Toretsk, Donetsk Oblast, as Ukraine says that Russia appears to be preparing for a new ground offensive near Sloviansk. (BBC News)
  • Russian occupation of Zaporizhzhia Oblast
    • Russia announces Anton Koltsov, former Prime Minister of Vologda Oblast, as the new Prime Minister in Zaporizhzhia Military-Civilian Administration. His appointment probably took place some days earlier.^[1]

Business and economy

• Russia in the European energy sector
  • Russia's Gazprom says that it "cannot guarantee" gas supplies to Europe due to "extraordinary circumstances" as it declares force majeure on gas supplies dating from June 14. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• 2022 European heat waves
  • 2022 United Kingdom heat wave
    • The United Kingdom issues a "red extreme heat warning" as temperatures are predicted to reach a record 41 °C (106 °F) in parts of England. Wales reports a record temperature of 37.1 °C (98.8 °F) near the town of Hawarden, Flintshire, and the island of Jersey reports a record temperature of 37.9 °C (100.2 °F). (BBC News) (BBC News 2) (ITV Channel Islands)
    • The Royal Air Force suspends all flights to and from RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire after the runway suffers damage due to the extreme heat. (The Independent)
  • Dublin, Ireland, reports a record temperature of 33.1 °C (91.6 °F). Parts of France also report record temperatures. (Met Éireann) (Le Progrès)
• Sadiqabad boat sinking
  • Twenty people are killed and 30 others are missing after a boat capsizes in Sadiqabad, Punjab, Pakistan. (Al Jazeera)
• Thirty-one people are injured and several homes are destroyed after a magnitude 5.1 earthquake hits Paktika Province, Afghanistan. It is an aftershock of the June 22 quake. (AP)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in mainland China
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Shanghai
      • Residents in nine of Shanghai's districts will be required to undergo COVID-19 testing until July 21 as part of an effort to reduce the community spread of COVID-19. (CNA)
• 2022 monkeypox outbreak
  • 2022 monkeypox outbreak in the United States
    • The Rhode Island Department of Health announces that the state has administered monkeypox vaccines to people who have had close contact with monkeypox patients. (WLNE-TV)
• Wild European bison are reintroduced to the United Kingdom for the first time in over a thousand years after three are released into a pine forest in Kent, England. (BBC News

Law and crime

• 2022 Ecuador prison riots
  • Thirteen inmates are killed and two more injured during a prison riot in Santo Domingo, Ecuador. (AP)
• Four people are injured during a mass shooting at a nightclub in Marbella, Andalusia, Spain. The perpetrator is stabbed and hospitalized. (AP)

Politics and elections

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy dismisses Ukraine's prosecutor general Iryna Venediktova and the top security official of the Security Service of Ukraine, Ivan Bakanov. More than 60 officials from the agencies are alleged to be working with Russia. Additionally, 651 cases of alleged treason and collaboration are initiated against prosecutorial and law enforcement officials. (The Guardian)
• 2022 United Kingdom government crisis
  • 2022 Conservative Party leadership election
    • Tom Tugendhat is eliminated from the leadership race in the third round of voting. (The Guardian)
  • 2022 vote of confidence in the Johnson ministry
    • A motion of confidence in the Johnson government is passed by 347 votes to 238. (The Guardian)
• 2022 Indian presidential election
  • The Indian parliament votes to elect the new President of India. (Al Jazeera)

Business and economy

• Gazprom signs a memorandum of understanding for the development of Iranian oil and gas fields and related infrastructure worth $40 billion. (Reuters)
• The European Commission proposes a new, joint defense procurement system for EU member states. It would be operational by the end of this year, with initial funding of €500 million. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• 2022 European heat waves
  • 2022 United Kingdom heat wave
    • A record high temperature of 40.3 °C (104.5 °F) is reported at Coningsby, Lincolnshire, and a record overnight minimum temperature of 25.9 °C (78.6 °F) is reported at Emley Moor transmitting station in West Yorkshire. (BBC News) (BBC News 2)
    • Scotland reports a record temperature of 35.1 °C (95.2 °F) at Floors Castle. Initially, the highest temperature was thought to have been set at RAF Charterhall, reaching 34.8 °C (94.6 °F). (BBC News) (BBC News 2)
    • A major incident is declared in London following a "huge surge" in fires, according to the London Fire Brigade. Several homes are destroyed in Wennington on the outskirts of East London. No casualties have been reported. Hertfordshire and Leicestershire fire services also declare major incidents due to the high volume of emergency calls. (Sky News)
  • 2022 European and Mediterranean wildfires
    • The death toll from the wildfires and heat wave in Spain and Portugal increases to more than 1,700 people, with more than 1,063 deaths in Portugal. (ABC News) (Axios)
• At least 23 people are killed and 30 others are injured in a truck and bus crash in Minya, Egypt. (ABC News)
• Flooding has killed eight people and affected more than 8,500 others in Maradi and Zinder, Niger, since June, according to Civil Protection. (FloodList)
• Four people are killed and 13 are injured after a gas explosion in Tianjin, China. (AP)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Oceania
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Kiribati
      • The United States donates nearly 20,000 doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to Kiribati through the COVAX initiative. (US embassy Fiji)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in the Pitcairn Islands
      • The Pitcairn Islands reports the territory's first case of COVID-19 in a Pitcairn Islander who returned from medical treatment abroad. (RNZ)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
    • COVID-19 vaccination in the United States
      • The U.S. CDC votes unanimously to recommend the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine for people over the age of 18 years. (CNBC)
• The Nigerian government announces that Nigeria will develop a vaccine for lassa fever, a viral hemorrhagic fever caused by the lassa virus. (Premium Times)

International relations

• Enlargement of the European Union
  • Accession of Albania to the European Union, Accession of North Macedonia to the European Union
    • Negotiations on the accession of North Macedonia and Albania to the European Union begin in Brussels. (Euronews)
• Iran–Russia relations
  • Russian president Vladimir Putin makes a state visit to Iran for talks with his Iranian counterpart Ebrahim Raisi and Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Putin will also meet with Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. (BBC News)

Politics and elections

• 2022 United Kingdom government crisis
  • 2022 Conservative Party leadership election
    • Kemi Badenoch is eliminated from the leadership race in the fourth round of voting. (The Guardian)

Law and crime

• 2022 abortion protests
  • Multiple Democratic members of Congress are arrested during pro-abortion demonstrations outside the U.S. Supreme Court. (Detroit Free Press)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Kurdish–Turkish conflict
  • Operation Claw-Lock
    • Zakho resort attack
      • Iraqi government and regional authorities claim that Turkish Armed Forces fired four missiles at a resort in the Zakho District of Kurdistan Region in Iraq, killing eight Iraqi tourists and injuring 23 others. (AP)
• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says that his country's military goals are no longer limited to the Donbas region and have expanded to also include "the Kherson region, the Zaporizhzhia region and a number of other territories". (Al Jazeera)
• Somali Civil War
  • Al-Shabaab raids Yeed and Aato in Bakool, Somalia, near the Ethiopian border. Fourteen Ethiopian police officers and three civilians are killed. (Reuters) (VOA)

Business and economy

• 2021–2022 inflation surge
  • Inflation in the United Kingdom increased to 9.4% last month, breaking a 40-year record, as food and fuel prices continue to increase. (The Guardian)
• Russia in the European energy sector
  • The European Commission tells EU member states to reduce gas usage by 15% until March 2023 as part of an emergency plan after President Vladimir Putin warns that Russian supplies of natural gas could be reduced further. (Reuters)
• International sanctions during the Russo-Ukrainian War
  • The European Union bans imports of gold from Russia and freezes Sberbank's assets. (Euronews)
• Economy of Ukraine
  • Ukraine's government, facing an estimated 35% to 45% decrease in GDP, asks its international creditors to freeze its debt payments for two years, including a $1.2 billion debt payment due at the beginning of September. The proposal is backed by major Western governments and other major lenders. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• 2022 European heat wave
  • Six federal states of Germany (Baden-Württemberg, Hamburg, Lower Saxony, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Saxony-Anhalt and Schleswig-Holstein) see their all-time high records beaten, with the highest temperature, 40.3 °C (104.5 °F), set at Bad Mergentheim. (Tagesschau)
  • Abed, a hamlet on the Danish island of Lolland, sets the highest July temperature recorded in the country, reaching 35.9 °C (96.6 °F). (Danish Broadcasting Corporation)
• A United States Army soldier is killed and nine others are injured after a lightning strike at a training area at Fort Gordon in Georgia. (USA Today)
• One person is killed and 23 others are injured after a tornado hits Jiangsu, China. (AP)

International relations

• Foreign relations of Syria, Foreign relations of Ukraine
  • The Foreign Ministry of Syria announces that the country is formally suspending diplomatic relations with Ukraine. (AP)

Politics and elections

• 2022 Sri Lankan presidential election
  • Acting President Ranil Wickremesinghe is declared the winner of the election, defeating his closest rival, Dullas Alahapperuma, by 134 votes to 82. (BBC News)
• 2022 United Kingdom government crisis
  • 2022 Conservative Party leadership election
    • Penny Mordaunt is eliminated from the leadership election in the fifth round of voting. (The Guardian)

Business and economy

• 2021–2022 inflation surge
  • The central bank of Japan raises its inflation forecast and reduces fiscal year expectations while maintaining ultra-low interest rates, saying that the economy was primarily impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan. (CNBC)
  • The European Central Bank raises interest rates by 0.5 percentage points for the first time since 2011 in order to combat inflation in the EU which increased to 8.6% last month. (The Guardian)

Disasters and accidents

• 2022 Pakistan floods
  • At least 304 people are killed after five weeks of monsoon rains and flash floods in Pakistan. (AP)
• Taiwan reports a record temperature of 40.7 °C (105.3 °F) in Yuli. However, this measurement is not officially recognized by Taiwanese authorities because it was reported by an automated station. (Taiwan News) (CNA Taiwan)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Washington, D.C.
      • President Joe Biden tests positive for COVID-19. (NBC News)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Japan
    • Tokyo reports a record 31,878 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours. (Nikkei Asia)
• Holocene extinction
  • Conservation-reliant species
    • An An, the world's longest-living male giant panda under human care, dies at Ocean Park Hong Kong aged 35. An An was a key part of the conservation activities for giant pandas. (RTHK)
  • The monarch butterfly is added by the International Union for Conservation of Nature to its endangered species list because of rapidly decreasing population numbers. (AP)
• The United States reports its first case of polio since 2013 in an unvaccinated person from Rockland County, New York. (NBC News)

Law and crime

• 2022 New York gubernatorial election
  • A man attempts to stab Lee Zeldin, a U.S. Representative and the Republican Party nominee in the upcoming New York gubernatorial election, during a campaign event in Perinton, New York, United States. Zeldin is not hurt during the incident, and the man is taken into custody. (WIVB-TV)
• A police officer, a civilian, and 16 suspected gang members are killed during an operation against organized crime in a favela in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Infobae)
• The Ministry of Justice of Russia opens a court case to close the Jewish Agency for Israel, the main agency allowing the aliyah of Jews to Israel. Israel condemns the court case, claiming it is a response to Israel's stance on the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. (BBC News)

Politics and elections

• 2022 Italian government crisis
  • Mario Draghi resigns as Prime Minister of Italy. President Sergio Mattarella accepts Draghi's resignation. (BBC News)
  • Mattarella dissolves the Parliament of Italy, calling for a snap parliamentary election. (la Stampa)
• 2022 Sri Lankan presidential election
  • Ranil Wickremesinghe is sworn in as president of Sri Lanka. (AP)
• 2022 Indian presidential election
  • Droupadi Murmu is elected as the new president of India, making her the first female from a scheduled tribe to be elected to the post. (NDTV)
• 2022 Brazilian general election
  • Former President Lula da Silva is nominated by the Workers' Party to run in the upcoming presidential election. (Al Jazeera)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Iran–Israel conflict during the Syrian civil war
  • July 2022 Israeli Damascus Governorate airstrikes
    • An Israeli airstrike kills three Syrian soldiers, injures seven others and destroys an Iranian weapons depot near Damascus. (AFP via France 24)
• Russian military intervention in the Syrian civil war
  • Russia launches five airstrikes on Jisr ash-Shughur, killing seven people, including four children. (The Guardian)
• Aftermath of the Second Libyan Civil War
  • Thirteen people are killed as fighting occurs in Tripoli, Libya. (Reuters)
• Mali War
  • The Macina Liberation Front launches an attack on Mali's largest military base in Bamako. One soldier and six of the attackers are killed. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• The main border crossing between Argentina and Chile reopens after several days of closure due to heavy snowfall. (Yahoo! News)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Asia
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Singapore
      • Singapore reports its first six local cases of the BA.2.75 Centaurus variant as part of the Ministry of Health’s surveillance of the COVID-19 situation in the country. However, the MOH says that the variant isn’t considered a variant of concern by the World Health Organization. (CNA)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Taiwan
      • Taiwan reports its first case of the Omicron BA.2.75 Centaurus variant, in a Taiwanese individual arriving from India. (Taiwan News)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in France
    • France reports their first three cases of the BA.2.75 Centaurus variant, including one in the Occitania region. (Technical Ripon)
• 2022 monkeypox outbreak
  • 2022 monkeypox outbreak in the United States
    • The first cases of monkeypox in children in the United States are reported, with one being in California. (CNN)
    • Maine reports its first case of monkeypox. (WABI-TV)
  • Monaco and Bermuda report their first cases of monkeypox. (News Monaco) (Royal Gazette)
• The Nuclear Regulation Authority of Japan formally approves the release of a million tons of treated water from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant into the Pacific Ocean. The plan had already been endorsed by the Japanese government and other agencies. (Radio France International)

International relations

• United Kingdom–European Union relations
  • Brexit
    • The European Commission launches four new legal procedures against the United Kingdom for alleged infringements of the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement relating to the passage of the Northern Ireland Protocol Bill. (Al Jazeera)
• Russia–Ukraine relations
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Russia and Ukraine sign a UN-backed agreement to allow the export of millions of tonnes of grain from blockaded Black Sea ports. (The Guardian)
• North Korea–South Korea relations
  • South Korea announces that it will lift a decades-long ban on public access to North Korean television, newspapers and other media. (AP)
• Russia–Transnistria relations
  • Transnistrian Foreign Minister Vitaly Ignatyev reaffirms that Transnistria is committed to becoming an independent state and is open to the possibility of uniting with Russia in the future. (AP)

Law and crime

• Aftermath of the January 6 United States Capitol attack
  • Criminal proceedings in the January 6 United States Capitol attack
    • Former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon is found guilty of contempt of Congress after defying the January 6 committee that investigates the riot at the United States Capitol. (Reuters)
• 2022 Sri Lankan protests
  • The military and police raid an anti-government protest camp in Colombo, and arrest nine people. (The Sydney Morning Herald)
• Rohingya genocide case
  • The International Court of Justice rejects the Myanmar military junta’s challenge of the case against the country for its role in the Rohingya genocide. (AP)
• Maquoketa Caves State Park familicide
  • Three family members are killed at a campground in Maquoketa Caves State Park, Iowa, United States, with a fourth remaining unharmed. The park is subsequently closed, and the gunman is later found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. (The Des Moines Register)

Politics and elections'

• 2022 Papua New Guinean general election
  • Prime Minister James Marape's Pangu Pati wins the general election. (One Papua New Guinea)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • 2022 bombing of Odesa
      • Two Russian Kalibr cruise missiles hit Odesa's port less than a day after a deal to export grain from Ukraine was signed between Russia and Ukraine. Initial reports indicate no related infrastructure damage. (AP)
    • A Russian cruise missile attack destroys a railway station in Kirovohrad Oblast, killing three people and injuring several others. (France 24)

Business and economy

• Economy of Ukraine
  • Fitch Ratings downgrades the Ukrainian debt outlook to "C", one grade above default, due to requests from Ukrainian authorities to postpone payments on bonds. (Bloomberg)
• Hong Kong-based airline Greater Bay Airlines completes its maiden flight from Hong Kong to Bangkok. The airline has been granted licenses to operate 104 routes across the Greater China and Asia Pacific regions. (The Standard)

Disasters and accidents

• Wildfires in 2022
  • 2022 European heat waves
    • 2022 European and Mediterranean wildfires
      • In Greece, nine people are rescued after wildfires burn on the island of Lesbos and threaten the resort town of Vatera amid a heat wave in the country. (Reuters) (The New York Post)
  • 2022 California wildfires
    • The Oak Fire in Mariposa County, California, U.S., grows to over 6,555 acres near the Yosemite National Park, with 10 homes destroyed. (Axios)
• Flash floods kill at least 21 people after the Roudbal River overflowed in Estahban, Fars Province, Iran. Fifty-five others are rescued and six others remain missing. (AP)
• Ten people are killed and seven are injured after a mountainside slope collapses in Jingtai County, Gansu, China. (AP)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Japan
    • COVID-19 vaccination in Japan
      • Japan begins administering fourth doses of the COVID-19 vaccine for medical staff and care workers for the elderly. (Japan Today)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in the Republic of Ireland
    • COVID-19 vaccination in the Republic of Ireland
      • The Irish Ministry of Health announces changes to Ireland's vaccination program including a second booster dose for people between the ages of 50 and 64 years and a first dose of an mRNA vaccine for children between the ages of 5 and 11 years who are immunocompromised. (TheJournal.ie) (gov.ie)
• 2022 monkeypox outbreak
  • The monkeypox outbreak is declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern by the World Health Organization. (The Guardian)

Law and crime

• An Aerolíneas Argentinas flight makes an emergency landing in Comodoro Rivadavia, Chubut Province, after a bomb threat. The flight with 169 passengers and six crew members was flying from Buenos Aires to Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego Province. (Infobae)

Politics and elections

• 2022 Vanuatuan presidential election
  • Nikenike Vurobaravu is elected President of Vanuatu by the country's Electoral College in the eighth round of voting and will succeed outgoing President Tallis Obed Moses. (RNZ)
• Prime Minister of Thailand Prayut Chan-o-cha survives a no-confidence vote with 256 confidence votes, 206 votes against and nine abstentions. (AP)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • Two Palestinian men are killed and 12 others are injured during a raid by Israeli soldiers in Nablus, West Bank. (Al Jazeera)
• Iran–Israel proxy conflict
  • Iran's Supreme National Security Council announces that their intelligence ministry has arrested an Israeli cell hours before they were to conduct attacks on several sites in Isfahan, including a major nuclear facility. (Al Jazeera)

Disasters and accidents

• Thirty-four people are killed when a bus traveling from Meru plunges into a river in Nairobi, Kenya. (Al Jazeera)
• Flash floods kill at least nine people in Sanaa and the Dhamar Governorate in Yemen. (AP)
• The Sakurajima volcano in Kyushu, Japan, erupts. Around 120 residents in two nearby towns are ordered to evacuate even though minimal damages are reported. (Al Jazeera)
• At least 17 Haitian migrants are killed and 25 others are rescued when their boat capsizes off New Providence, Bahamas. (Forbes)
• Italian vessels recover five bodies and rescue 674 people packed on a fishing boat adrift in the Mediterranean off the Libyan coast, while European charities rescue 500 people. (AP)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Texas
      • Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick announces that he has tested positive for COVID-19 for a second time. (U.S. News & World Report)

International relations

• Foreign relations of Russia
  • Foreign Affairs Minister Sergey Lavrov visits Egypt for diplomatic talks, and will also visit Ethiopia, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (AP)

Law and crime

• Ateneo de Manila University shooting
  • A former mayor of Lamitan, Basilan, Philippines, and two others are killed in a mass shooting at the Ateneo de Manila University in Quezon City, Metro Manila. The perpetrator is arrested. (Reuters)
• Police in Honduras intensify their crackdown on gangs in response to last week's murder of the son of former president Porfirio Lobo Sosa. (Diario El Salvador)

Politics and elections

• 2022 Brazilian general election
  • President Jair Bolsonaro formally announces that he will run for re-election. (Reuters)
• The Chamber of Deputies of the Congress of Paraguay is summoned in an emergency session to debate the impeachment of Attorney General Sandra Quiñónez, in response to accusations that Quiñónez covered up former president Horacio Cartes's alleged corruption, following Cartes's designation as "significantly corrupt" by the United States. (ABC Color Paraguay)

Science and technology

• Chinese space program
  • Tiangong space station
    • China launches the Wentian module, one of two laboratory modules needed to complete the Tiangong space station, from the Wenchang Space Launch Site in Hainan on a Long March 5 rocket.The module is fully integrated with the space station thirteen hours after launch. (China Daily) (AP) (RTHK)

Sports

• Armand Duplantis breaks his own pole vault world record at the 2022 World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon, clearing 6.21 metres (20 ft 4+1⁄2 in). (The Oregonian)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • War crimes in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
      • Head of the Investigative Committee of Russia, Alexander Bastrykin, says that Russia has charged 92 members of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with "crimes against the peace and security of humanity", with a further 96 people being wanted. There are also 1,300 ongoing criminal investigations. (BBC News)
• Mexican drug war
  • At least six people are killed in a mass shooting at a rehab center in Tlaquepaque, Jalisco, Mexico. (Infobae)

Arts and culture

• Eurovision Song Contest 2023
  • The United Kingdom is announced as the host of next year's Eurovision Song Contest in place of this year's winners, Ukraine, due to the ongoing war in Ukraine. The United Kingdom, represented by Sam Ryder, finished in second place, behind Ukraine's Kalush Orchestra, at this year's competition. Ukraine will still automatically qualify for the grand final. (BBC News)

Business and economy

• Economy of Ukraine
  • Creditors of Ukraine's state-owned energy company Naftogaz reject its two-year debt freeze plan. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• Meteorological authorities in South Korea issue a heat wave warning for most of the country, with temperatures expected to exceed 34 °C (93 °F). (Yonhap)
• A major incident is declared by Greater Manchester Police after the remains of four people, believed to be Vietnamese migrants, are found at a factory in Oldham, which was destroyed by a fire in May. (The Daily Express)

Health and environment

• 2022 monkeypox outbreak
  • 2022 monkeypox outbreak in Europe
    • 2022 monkeypox outbreak in Germany
      • Germany reports 82 new cases of monkeypox, thereby bringing the total number of cases in the country to 2,352. (RKI Deutsch)
    • 2022 monkeypox outbreak in the Netherlands
      • The Netherlands reports 106 new confirmed cases of monkeypox. (RIVM Netherlands)
    • The European Commission extends the marketing authorization of Bavarian Nordic's smallpox vaccine Imvanex to also cover monkeypox. (Al Jazeera)
  • 2022 monkeypox outbreak in the United States
    • Mississippi reports its first case of monkeypox. (MSDH)
    • A "public health emergency" is declared in Harris County, Texas after the number of monkeypox cases rapidly increase in the state. (KPRC-TV)
    • It is announced that Texas will receive over 14,000 doses of the Jynneos vaccine. (KPRC-TV)
  • 2022 monkeypox outbreak in Asia
    • Japan reports its first case of monkeypox. (Japan Times)
  • 2022 monkeypox outbreak in Brazil
    • Brazil reports 117 new confirmed cases of monkeypox. (GOV Brasil)
  • Guadeloupe reports its first case of monkeypox in a man in his 20s who travelled from Metropolitan France. (OI Canada)
• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in South Korea
    • South Korea reports its first local case of the Omicron BA.2.75 Centaurus variant in a person from North Chungcheong Province. (Korea JoongAng Daily)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Belarus
    • It is reported that more than 6.5 million people in Belarus have received their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. (BelTA)
• 2020–2022 H5N8 outbreak
  • The UK's National Trust says that an outbreak of bird flu on the Farne Islands in the North Sea has killed over 3,000 wild birds. However, the actual death toll is estimated to be around ten times higher because birds may have fallen into the sea. (BBC News)

Law and crime

• Canada–Holy See relations
  • 2022 visit by Pope Francis to Canada
    • Thousands of Indigenous people gather in Maskwacis, Alberta, to hear an apology from Pope Francis for the past abuse and cultural suppression at Catholic residential schools across Canada. (AP)
• Capital punishment in Myanmar
  • Myanmar announces that it has executed four prisoners on charges of terrorism, including Zayar Thaw, a former lawmaker under ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi, and Kyaw Min Yu. (The Guardian) (Reuters)
• Central Park jogger case
  • A sixth man in the Central Park Five case in Manhattan, NYC, U.S., is exonerated of the crime. (Reuters)
• 2022 Langley shootings
  • Three people, including the shooter, are killed, and two others are seriously injured in a mass shooting in Langley, British Columbia, Canada. (CBC)

Politics and elections

• 2022 Tunisian constitutional referendum
  • Tunisian citizens head to the polls to vote in a constitutional referendum, which was proposed by President Kais Saied as a solution to the country's ongoing political crisis. (DW)
• 2022 Indian presidential election
  • Droupadi Murmu is sworn in as President of India. (Al Jazeera)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • 2022 Ukrainian summer counteroffensive
      • Ukrainian forces strike the strategic Antonivka Road Bridge in Kherson Oblast using its M142 HIMARS missile system, causing severe damage to the bridge and preventing vehicles from crossing. Ukraine also claims to have destroyed a Russian ammunition depot, artillery and other military equipment in the region, killing 51 Russian troops. (AP)
    • Ukraine says that Russia has launched cruise missile strikes at targets along its Black Sea coast, including at Odesa and Mykolaiv port infrastructure. (Voice of America)
• Kivu conflict
  • Anti-MONUSCO protests
    • Fifteen people are killed and 50 others are injured as UN peacekeepers open fire at an anti-United Nations protest in Goma, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Al Jazeera)
    • Three UN peacekeepers and seven civilians are killed during an attack on a MONUSCO base by protesters in Butembo, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Al Jazeera)

Business and economy

• Economy of Afghanistan, Sanctions against Afghanistan
  • Afghanistan and United States officials exchange proposals for the release of billions of dollars from the Afghan central bank reserves held abroad into a trust fund. (Al Jazeera)
• Economy of Bangladesh
  • Bangladesh announces that it will request a $4.5 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund for balance of payment and budgetary requirements, as well as climate change management activities. (Al Jazeera)
• Russia in the European energy sector
  • European Union energy ministers approve legislation to lower demand for gas by some member countries by 15% from August until March 2023. (AP)
• Transport in Croatia
  • Croatia opens the 2,404 metres (7,887 ft) long Pelješac Bridge that spans the sea channel between Komarna and Pelješac and connects the country's southeastern semi-exclave to the rest of the country, bypassing Bosnia and Herzegovina's short coastal strip in the municipality of Neum. (Al Jazeera)

Disasters and accidents

• July 2022 United States floods
  • Flooding occurs in parts of St. Louis, Missouri, United States, killing at least one person, as the city reports a daily rainfall record of more than 7 in (180 mm). (CNN)
• 2022 Gujarat toxic liquor deaths
  • At least 40 people have died and 50 others have become ill after consuming illegally brewed alcohol in Gujarat, India. Several suspected bootleggers have been detained in connection with the deaths, according to Gujarat Police. (NDTV) (AP)
• The Met Office confirms that England is experiencing its worst drought since 1976, particularly in South East England. (BBC News)

Health and environment

• 2022 monkeypox outbreak
  • 2022 monkeypox outbreak in the United States
    • The first case of monkeypox in a pregnant woman in the United States is reported. (CBS News)
• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in the Federated States of Micronesia
    • The Federated States of Micronesia surpasses 1,000 cases of COVID-19 due a recent increase in the number of new cases. (CNA)

International relations

• Foreign relations of Indonesia
  • President Joko Widodo visits China for diplomatic talks, formally inviting President Xi Jinping to the G20 summit in Bali. Widodo will also visit Japan and South Korea on the trip. (AP News)
• Foreign relations of France
  • President Emmanuel Macron visits Cameroon for diplomatic talks to discuss the ongoing food crisis and strategies to increase agricultural production. Macron will also visit Benin and Guinea Bissau on the trip. (AP News)
• Syrian civil war
  • Algerian Foreign Minister Ramtane Lamamra indicates support for Syria to return to the Arab League after a decade-long suspension. (AP)
• Philippines–Russia relations
  • The Philippine government announces the termination of a US$227-million deal to procure 16 Mil Mi-17 military helicopters from Russia, citing the risk of a potential imposition of sanctions by the United States under the Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act. (ABC News)
• Mexico says that it has reached an agreement with the United States to give a record 356,000 working visas to Mexican citizens. (Pulso)

Law and crime

• Colombian conflict
  • The Special Jurisdiction for Peace charges 19 Colombian soldiers with war crimes and crimes against humanity for the death of 303 people, mostly civilians, between 2005 and 2008. (Al Jazeera)
• Capital punishment in Japan
  • Japan executes Tomohiro Katō, perpetrator of the 2008 Akihabara massacre. (BBC News) (Al Jazeera)

Science and technology

• International Space Station programme, Politics of the International Space Station
  • CEO of Roscosmos Yury Borisov announces that Russia will withdraw from the International Space Station after 2024 to focus on building another space station of its own. (AP)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Russia captures the Vuhlehirska Power Station, Ukraine's second largest power plant, near the city of Svitlodarsk, Donetsk Oblast. (Reuters)
    • Russia says that it has destroyed more than 100 M142 HIMARS missiles in an airstrike on Dnipro. (Reuters)
• Kivu conflict
  • Anti-MONUSCO protests
    • Four protesters are killed when a soldier shoots an electric cable that falls on them in Uvira, Democratic Republic of the Congo. They were protesting the ineffectiveness of the MONUSCO. (Reuters)
  • The Burundi Human Rights Initiative (BHRI) accuses Burundi of sending troops into the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to fight the RED-Tabara, a Burundian armed opposition group. The BHRI also accuses Burundi of supporting armed groups that oppose the DRC. (Al Jazeera)
• Somali Civil War
  • Eleven people, including a government official, are killed by an al-Shabaab suicide bombing at the entrance to a government building in Merca, Lower Shabelle, Somalia. (AP)

Business and economy

• 2021–2022 inflation surge
  • The Federal Reserve consecutively increases its benchmark interest rate by 0.75%. (CNBC)
• Russia in the European energy sector
  • 2022 Russia–European Union gas dispute
    • Russian energy company Gazprom reduces the amount of natural gas flowing through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline from Russia to Europe to 20% of the pipeline's capacity. (AP)
• Economic impact of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • McDonald's profits fall by 46% and its revenue falls by 3% in Q2 2022 following the company's exit from Russia. (The Washington Post)

Disasters and accidents

• 2022 Luzon earthquake
  • A magnitude 7.1 earthquake hits Luzon, Philippines, killing four people and injuring over 100 others. (Reuters)
• 2022 California wildfires
  • Evacuation orders are lifted in Mariposa County and highways reopen as the Oak Fire slows and becomes the largest this season. (The Mercury News)

Health and environment

• 2022 monkeypox outbreak
  • 2022 monkeypox outbreak in the United States
    • The U.S. reports 1,049 new cases of monkeypox, thereby bringing the total number of cases in the country to 4,639. (CDC)
    • The U.S. government orders the release of 800,000 doses of Bavarian Nordic's Jynneos vaccine from the Strategic National Stockpile. (AP)
• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Samoa
    • Prime Minister Fiamē Naomi Mataʻafa ends Samoa's state of emergency after two years. (RNZ)

International relations

• Russia–Ukraine relations
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • The Joint Coordination Center opens in Istanbul, Turkey, to coordinate the export of millions of tonnes of grain from blockaded Black Sea ports. (Al Jazeera)
• Russia–United States relations
  • The United States offers to exchange imprisoned Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout for detained Americans Brittney Griner and Paul Whelan, who are accused of drug offenses and spying, respectively. (CNN)

Law and crime

• Media freedom in the European Union
  • The European General Court upholds a broadcast ban imposed on Russian television network RT in the European Union over accusations of spreading misinformation, rejecting an appeal against the ban. (Al Jazeera) (Reuters)
• Highland Park parade shooting
  • The suspect in the mass shooting at an Independence Day parade in Highland Park, Illinois, U.S., is formally indicted on 21 counts of first-degree murder, 48 counts of attempted murder, and 48 counts of aggravated battery. There are three counts per slain victim and two counts per injured victim. (NBC News)
• 2016 South Korean political scandal
  • Prime Minister of South Korea Han Duck-soo says that he will ask president Yoon Suk-yeol to pardon former Samsung executive Lee Jae-yong, who is currently on parole for bribery and embezzlement. (Reuters) (Yonhap)

Politics and elections

• 2022 Tunisian constitutional referendum
  • A majority of Tunisian voters approve a new constitution, proposed by President Kais Saied as a solution to the country's ongoing political crisis. However, voter turnout was only 30.5%, due to a boycott of the referendum by opposition parties. (AP)
• 2021–2022 Iraqi political crisis
  • Hundreds of protestors storm the parliament building in the Green Zone in Baghdad to oppose the nomination of Mohammed Shia' Al Sudani for prime minister by pro-Iranian parties. (Al Jazeera)

Science and technology

• The Lulo Rose, a pink diamond, the largest in 300 years, is discovered at the Lulo mine in Lunda Norte Province, Angola. (AP)
• The Google Street View service is launched in India 11 years after the service was banned in the country over security concerns. (Reuters)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • 2022 Ukrainian summer counteroffensive
      • Ukrainian presidential advisor Oleksiy Arestovych says that an operation to recapture the Kherson Oblast has started. (The Guardian)
    • Battle of Donbas
      • Russian forces shell Bakhmut in Donetsk Oblast with the BM-27 Uragan MLRS, killing three civilians and injuring three others. Six apartment blocks and six detached houses are also destroyed or damaged. (Ukrinform)
  • Belarusian involvement in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Russian forces in Belarus launch 25 ballistic missiles into northern Ukraine. (The Guardian)
  • Russia launches cruise missile strikes from the Black Sea on the Kyiv Oblast for the first time in weeks, with missiles striking Bucha, Lyutizh, and Vyshhorod. At least fifteen people, including five civilians, are injured, according to Kyiv governor Oleksiy Kuleba. (AP) (Axios)
  • Russian missiles strike Kropyvnytskyi, damaging facilities owned by Kropyvnytskyi Flight Academy and Air Urga. Five people are killed and 25 others are injured. (Yahoo! News)
• Syrian civil war
  • 2022 As-Suwayda clashes
    • At least 17 people are killed and 40 others are injured in skirmishes between groups of pro-Assad and anti-government residents in As Suwayda, Syria. (Al Jazeera)

Business and economy

• 2022 Russia–European Union gas dispute
  • Authorities in Hanover, Germany, turn off heating and switch to cold showers in all public buildings, and also shut off public water fountains amid an energy crisis after Gazprom reduced gas supplies to Germany through its Nord Stream pipeline. (BBC News)
  • Authorities in Berlin turn off lights at historic monuments and municipal buildings in the city in order to save electricity. (The Guardian)
• 2021–2022 inflation surge
  • The United States enters a technical recession after its economy shrank for the 2nd consecutive quarter. (The Guardian) (The Times)
• 2020–present global chip shortage
  • The United States Congress passes the Chips and Science Act of 2022 in order to boost semiconductor production in the United States and also boost competition with China. The bill will head to President Joe Biden for his signature. (CNBC)

Disasters and accidents

• July 2022 United States floods
  • Governor of Kentucky Andy Beshear declares a state of emergency for several counties in southeastern Kentucky due to historic floods, which have killed eight people. (WLEX-TV)
• Flash flooding occurs on the Las Vegas Strip in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
• Four people are killed and nine others are injured by a landslide triggered by heavy rain in Tehran, Iran. (AP)
• Fifteen people are killed and 47 others are injured after a bus crash in Esteli, Nicaragua. (Reuters)
• Eight people are killed and four others are injured after a fire broke out in a hostel in Moscow, Russia. (AP)

Health and environment

• 2022 monkeypox outbreak
  • 2022 monkeypox outbreak in the United States
    • U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer says that New York has received 110,000 doses of the monkeypox vaccine. (New York Post)
  • Ahmed Ogwell, head of the Africa CDC, reports that there are currently no monkeypox or smallpox vaccines available in Africa to combat the ongoing monkeypox outbreak. (Time)

International relations

• Iran–Israel relations
  • Iranian police arrest the alleged leader and four other members of a spy network suspected to be affiliated with Mossad. (Al Jazeera)
• Lithuania–Russia relations, Restriction of transit with the Kaliningrad Oblast
  • Russia hands over a protest note to the Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs as Šiaulių bankas, the only bank authorised to process payments for Kaliningrad rail transit, announced that it would phase out all payments in Russian rubles in mid-August and ban all payments from Russia and Belarus, unless for humanitarian purposes or in order to fulfil international obligations, on 1 September. (LRT)

Law and crime

• Sentencing of Ben Oliver
  • Cameras are allowed to film a criminal court case in England and Wales for the first time in history as a man, Ben Oliver, is sentenced to prison at London's Old Bailey for manslaughter on live television. (Reuters)

Science

• Researchers using AlphaFold have predicted the structures of 200 million proteins from 1 million species, covering nearly every known protein on the planet. (Nature)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Olenivka prison explosion
      • Russia and the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) say that 53 people were killed and 75 others injured after shelling hit a prison holding Ukrainian prisoners of war in the DPR-controlled city of Olenivka, Donetsk Oblast. Russia and Ukraine accuse each other of carrying out the strike. (AP)
    • War crimes in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
      • A video emerges on social media of a Russian soldier castrating a Ukrainian prisoner of war in the town of Sievierodonetsk, Donetsk Oblast. The video has not been independently verified. The Ukrainian government voices outrage over the incident and vows retaliation against the perpetrators. (BBC News) (The Telegraph) (The Guardian) (Sky News)
    • A Russian strike kills five civilians and injures seven others at a bus stop in Mykolaiv, according to regional governor Vitaliy Kim. (AFP News via Barron's)
• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • A 16-year-old Palestinian affiliated with Fatah is killed during clashes with Israeli soldiers in Al-Mughayyir, near Ramallah. (Al Bawaba) (Times of Israel)
• Two people are killed and 11 are injured during a hand grenade attack at a cricket game in Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• July 2022 United States floods
  • The death toll from the ongoing flash floods in Kentucky, United States, increases to 25. (CNN)
• 2022 United Arab Emirates floods
  • The UAE records its heaviest rainfall in 27 years, with seven people killed by flooding in the Emirates of Sharjah and Fujairah. (Khaleej Times)
• The death toll of the recent floods in Iran has risen to at least 53. (The New York Times) (Yahoo! News)
• One person is killed and one is missing after a fire at an oil refinery in Tamaulipas, Mexico. (AP)

Health and environment

• 2022 monkeypox outbreak
  • 2022 monkeypox outbreak in the United States
    • 2022 monkeypox outbreak in New York
      • New York state declares an emergency due to the ongoing monkeypox outbreak. (MSN)
  • 2022 monkeypox outbreak in Brazil
    • Brazil reports its first death from monkeypox in a 41-year-old man from Belo Horizonte who had lymphoma and a weakened immune system. (Reuters)
  • 2022 monkeypox outbreak in Canada
    • The monkeypox vaccine will be made available to high-risk people in British Columbia, Canada. (Vancouver Sun)
  • 2022 monkeypox outbreak in the Philippines
    • The Philippines reports its first case of monkeypox. (Straits Times)
  • 2022 monkeypox outbreak in Spain
    • Spain reports Europe's first death from monkeypox. (The Guardian)
• West Nile virus in the United States
  • Colorado reports a case of West Nile virus in a person from Delta County. (KXRM-TV)
• It is reported that the first United States case of polio since 2013, which was reported last week in Rockland County, New York, was connected to traces of vaccine-derived viruses found in the United Kingdom and Israel. (ProPublica) (Stat)

International relations

• Visit by Pope Francis to Canada
  • Pope Francis visits Iqaluit in Nunavut to apologize for the past abuse and cultural suppression at Catholic residential schools in Canada. The visit is his final stop on his Canada trip. (CBC)

Law and crime

• War crimes in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Trial of Vadim Shishimarin
  • A court in Kyiv reduces the sentence of Vadim Shishimarin, the first Russian soldier tried for war crimes, from life in prison to 15 years detention. Shishimarin's defense attorney says that it is "highly likely" that he will be returned to Russia in a prisoner exchange. (ABC News)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Insurgency in Balochistan
  • Six Balochistan Liberation Army separatists and a Pakistani soldier are killed during clashes in Kech District, Balochistan, Pakistan. (AP)
• At least 125 people are injured when supporters of Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr storm the parliament in Baghdad's Green Zone. (Metro)
• One person is wounded in an assassination attempt on President of Guatemala Alejandro Giammattei. The president is unharmed. (ABC)

Business and economy

• 2022 Russia–European Union gas dispute
  • Russia's Gazprom suspends gas supplies to Latvia after accusing it of "violating conditions of purchase". The Latvian government says the suspension of gas from Russia is not expected to have a major impact on the economy. (BBC News)

Disasters and accidents

• July 2022 United States floods
  • Urban Search and Rescue Missouri Task Force 1 is deployed in Eastern Kentucky, United States. (KMBC)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Washington, D.C.
      • President Joe Biden tests positive for COVID-19 for a second time and will be in isolation. (CNBC)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Niue
    • Niue records its first community case of COVID-19, prompting Minister of Health Sauni Tongatule to move the country to its highest alert level. (RNZ)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in North Korea
    • North Korea announces zero "fever cases" for the first time since mid-May when the country first announced an outbreak of COVID-19. Authorities stated that 4.8 million people were infected and that 74 people died from the virus. (Al Jazeera)
• 2022 monkeypox outbreak
  • 2022 monkeypox outbreak in Spain
    • Spain reports its second confirmed death from monkeypox, a day after reporting the first confirmed death outside of Africa. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• Indonesia restricts access to eight websites, including PayPal, Yahoo! and Steam, for failing to register with the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology. Online services registered with the ministry are required to comply with disclosure and content removal requests. (Reuters)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Southern Ukraine offensive
      • A Russian missile strike on Mykolaiv in Kherson Oblast, kills Nibulon owner Oleksiy Vadaturskyi and his wife. (BBC News)
    • A drone strikes Russia's Black Sea Fleet headquarters, injuring five people, according to the mayor of Sevastopol. (The Guardian)
• Kosovo–Serbia relations
  • Kosovo Police close two border crossings in North Kosovo after local Serbs blocked roads and fired shots at police to protest an order to switch Serbian car license plates to Kosovan ones within two months. (Reuters)
• Afghanistan conflict
  • A member of the Taliban is killed during clashes with Iranian border guards on the Afghanistan–Iran border. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• July 2022 United States floods
  • The death toll from the ongoing flash floods in Kentucky, United States, increases to 28. (CNN)
  • Heavy rainfall warnings are issued for the affected areas of Kentucky as Governor Andy Beshear says that at least 37 people remain unaccounted for. (The Washington Times)

Law and crime

• Malagasy President Andry Rajoelina mobilizes and deploys the army after 32 people were killed in Ankazobe on July 29 by cattle thieves. (BBC News)

Politics and elections

• 2022 Republic of the Congo parliamentary election
  • The second round of the parliamenentary election takes place. (Africa News)

Sports

• UEFA Women's Euro 2022 final
  • England defeats Germany 2–1 in the final of the UEFA Women's Euro 2022 to give the England women's team its first major football championship. (BBC Sport)