Portal:Current events/2024 July 4
Appearance
July 4, 2024
(Thursday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Israeli occupation of the West Bank
- Israel approves the construction of 5,295 settler homes in dozens of settlements in the West Bank, which are internationally recognized as violating international law. (AP)
- Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- Ituri conflict
- Six Chinese gold miners and two Congolese soldiers are killed during an attack against a gold mine in Ituri province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Two other workers are kidnapped. The CODECO claims responsibility for the attack. (AP)
- Eighteen leaders from Jemaah Islamiyah announce the disbanding of the group, after 31 years of operation. The group was responsible for several massacres in Indonesia, including the 2002 Bali bombings. (Al Jazeera)
- The Islamic State kills eight people, including two civilians, in an ambush on pro-government militiamen in Syria's Badiya desert. (Al Arabiya)
Business and economy
- Hudson's Bay Company, the parent company of Saks Fifth Avenue, completes a merger and purchases luxury department stores Neiman Marcus and Bergdorf Goodman for $2.65 billion. (NPR)
Disasters and accidents
- Hurricane Beryl
- Hurricane Beryl causes a six-to nine-feet high storm surge and fierce winds along Jamaica's southern coast, killing at least one person before tracking towards the Cayman Islands. (CNN)
- Twenty-five people drown in southeast Sudan while trying to flee fighting between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces. (Khaleej Times)
Health and environment
- Eleven people die and another 153 people are diagnosed with West Nile fever in an ongoing outbreak in Israel. (Anadolu Agency)
International relations
- Germany–Turkey relations
- Germany summons Turkey's ambassador to Germany in a tit-for-tat move over footballer Merih Demiral's wolf salute gesture while celebrating a goal at a UEFA Euro 2024 match in Leipzig, Germany, on Tuesday. (CNN)
- The Shanghai Cooperation Organization officially grants membership to Belarus. (Yahoo! News)
Law and crime
- 2022 Oslo shooting
- The Oslo District Court finds Iranian-born Norwegian Zaniar Matapour guilty of an attack during pride celebrations in the Norwegian capital in 2022 and sentences Matapour to 30 years in prison. (CBC News)
- LGBT rights in Cameroon
- Brenda Biya, daughter of Cameroonian President Paul Biya, publicly announces her same-sex relationship with an Instagram post of her kissing another woman. However, same-sex relationships are illegal in Cameroon and are punishable by fines and possible prison time. (Them) (BBC News) (NOS)
- M23 movement
- The Butembo military court in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, sentences 25 FARDC soldiers to death for allegedly fleeing fighting against M23 rebels. (Al Jazeera)
- Violent incidents in reaction to the Israel–Hamas war, Antisemitism during the Israel–Hamas war
- Greek anti-terrorism police arrest seven people over arson attacks against an Israeli-owned hotel and a synagogue in central Athens. (Reuters)
- Belarus frees ten political prisoners including former opposition leader Ryhor Kastusioŭ. (Reuters)
- The Peruvian Congress votes 15–12 to pass a law introducing a statute of limitations on prosecuting crimes against humanity committed before July 2002. (ABC)
- French film director Benoît Jacquot is charged with alleged rape of actors Julia Roy and Isild Le Besco between 1998 and 2000, and "rape, sexual assault and violence" committed between 2013 and 2018. (AP) (Le Monde)
- Tunisian opposition leader and founder of the Republican People's Union party Lotfi Mraïhi is arrested on suspicion of money laundering. (Al Jazeera)
Politics and elections
- 2024 United Kingdom general election
- Voters elect all 650 members of the United Kingdom House of Commons. Keir Starmer's Labour Party is projected to win a landslide victory according to exit polls. (NPR) (Washington Post)
- Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is re-elected to the House of Commons as an independent MP. (The Guardian)
- Nigel Farage, leader of the anti-immigration and Eurosceptic Reform UK party, is elected for the first time to a parliamentary seat representing Clacton. (Reuters)
- Former Prime Minister Liz Truss loses her seat of South West Norfolk. (The Independent)