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Revision as of 21:50, 16 July 2024 by Noble Attempt (talk | contribs) (Illinois dam failure)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff) 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
Disasters and accidents
- Six individuals are found dead at the Grand Hyatt Erawan Bangkok hotel in Bangkok, Thailand, in a suspected poisoning incident. (AP)
- 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)
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. (Radio Free Europe)
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)
- 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)
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)