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- Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- Four Israelis are killed and four others are injured in a mass shooting at a restaurant and a petrol station near the settlement of Eli in the West Bank. The two gunmen are killed. (BBC News)
Law and crime
- War crimes in Afghanistan
- Tasmanian Senator Jacqui Lambie announces that she has referred several members of the Australian Defence Force to the International Criminal Court for alleged war crimes during the war in Afghanistan. (Canberra Times)
- Tegucigalpa prison riot
- At least 41 inmates are killed and seven others are injured during a riot at a women's prison in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. (AP)
- French police raid the Saint-Denis offices of the 2024 Parisian Summer Olympics organization committee and the headquarters of contracted construction company Solideo, over allegations of corruption. (BBC News)
- Hunter Biden is provided a plea deal of misdemeanor offenses for failing to pay approximately $1 million in federal taxes in 2017 and 2018, with a pre-trial diversion agreement for a firearm offense of owning a firearm while lying about being an illegal drug user. The potential felony firearm charge will be dismissed with a successful two year probation. (The Guardian)
- Influencer Andrew Tate is charged by Romanian authorities with rape, human trafficking, and forming an organized crime group as part of an ongoing investigation. (BBC News)
Politics and elections
- 2023 Finnish parliamentary election
- Petteri Orpo is officially appointed as the 47th Prime Minister of Finland and forms his cabinet. (Reuters)
- LGBT rights in Estonia
- Estonia passes a bill legalising same-sex marriage and same-sex adoption by 2024, becoming the first Baltic and post-Soviet state to do so. (CNN)
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