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Revision as of 00:35, 17 July 2024
July 16, 2024 (2024-07-16) (Tuesday)Armed conflicts and attacks
- Israel–Hamas war
- Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
- At least 57 Palestinians are killed by Israeli bombardments in Rafah, Khan Younis, and parts of Gaza City. (Reuters)
- Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
- 2024 Muscat mosque shooting
- The Islamic State claims responsibility for the shooting that killed four Shi'ite worshippers in Muscat, Oman. The attack is the first by the Islamic State in Oman.
Disasters and accidents
- At least 23 people are killed and 13 others are injured when a bus veers off a cliff and crashes on a highway in the Ayacucho region in the Andes mountains of Peru. (Al Jazeera)
- Heavy rainfall across the Midwestern United States causes a dam failure in Washington County, Illinois, prompting an immediate evacuation order in Nashville, Illinois. (USA Today)
- A malfunction causes an emergency shutdown of one of the four reactors at the Rostov Nuclear Power Plant in Rostov Oblast, Russia. Background radiation levels are reported as normal. (Reuters)
Health and environment
- State Ukrainian electrical grid operator Ukrenergo begins emergency power shutdowns in seven Eastern and Central Ukraine oblasts in the midst of a record heat wave due to equipment failures exacerbated by Russian attacks. (Reuters)
- Romania approves the culling of 481 bears in the country, after a 19-year-old woman was killed by a bear last week in the Carpathian Mountains. (Al Jazeera)
International relations
- Czech Republic–Ukraine relations
- The Czech Republic announces plans to facilitate Colt CZ Group assault rifle production and the construction of an ammunition factory in Ukraine. (RFE/RL)
- Estonia–Russia relations, Latvia–Russia relations, Lithuania-Russia relations
- The Baltic states announce their exit from Russia's and Belarus's electricity grid along with plans to synchronize their grid with continental Europe's system on 9 February 2025. (AP)
Law and crime
- Kosovo War
- The Kosovo Specialist Chambers criminal tribunal sentences former Kosovo Liberation Army member Pjetër Shala to 18 years in prison for war crimes committed during the war. (Al Jazeera) (Koha Ditore)
- Six people are found dead at the Grand Hyatt Erawan Bangkok hotel in Bangkok, Thailand, in a suspected poisoning incident. (AP)
- German authorities in four states search the properties of management and shareholders of the right-wing extremist magazine Compact, seizing assets and evidence following its outlawing by the interior ministry. (Reuters)
- American senator Bob Menendez is found guilty on all counts, including acting as a foreign agent, in a federal corruption trial. (ABC News)
- Police in Paraguay seizes over four tons of cocaine, worth $240 million, at a river port in the capital city Asunción, the largest cocaine seizure in the country's history. (AP)
- Former governor of Deir ez-Zor Governorate and director of the infamous Adra Prison Samir Ousman al-Sheikh is arrested by the FBI in Los Angeles, California. al-Sheikh has been accused of torturing and killing political dissidents at the prison and as governor. (New York Times)
Politics and elections
- 2024 French legislative election
- French President Emmanuel Macron approves the resignation requests of Prime Minister Gabriel Attal and other ministers, while maintaining Attal as head of the transitional caretaker government. (AP)
- 2024 Welsh government crisis
- Kenya Finance Bill protests
- Kenya Police fire tear gas and water cannons at antigovernment protestors as protests continue in cities across Kenya, calling for the removal of President William Ruto. (Al Jazeera)
- Roberta Metsola is re-elected President of the European Parliament with the highest number of votes registered for a candidate in the institution's history. (Times of Malta)