Current events: 2023-07-11

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • 2023 Ukrainian counteroffensive
    • Russian Lieutenant General Oleg Tsokov is reportedly killed in a missile strike near Berdiansk, Zaporizhzhia Oblast. (CNN)
  • Russian military commissariats attacks
    • Stanislav Rzhitsky, deputy chief in charge of military mobilization in the Russian city of Krasnodar and commander of the Russian Navy submarine B-265 Krasnodar, is shot dead by unknown assailants near the city's sports complex. (Reuters via The Jerusalem Post)

Business and economy

• Proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard by Microsoft
  • United States judge Jacqueline Scott Corley approves technology company Microsoft's $69 billion acquisition of video game publisher Activision Blizzard, the largest video game acquisition in history, dismissing the Federal Trade Commission's antitrust injunction request. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• Six people are killed when a Manang Air tourist helicopter crashes near Solukhumbu, Koshi Province, Nepal. (Reuters)
• Two people are killed and eleven others are injured when an elevated road collapses in Bangkok, Thailand. (AP)

International relations

• Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
  • Armenia–Azerbaijan border crisis
    • Azerbaijan's State Border Service temporarily shuts down the Lachin corridor, the only road between Armenia and the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region, alleging smuggling by the Armenian Red Cross Society. (AFP via Al Arabiya)
• Australia–Vietnam relations
  • The Vietnamese government releases Australian democracy activist Chau Van Kham from a 12-year prison sentence on terrorism charges following an appeal by Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese. (AP)

Politics and elections

• Thai prime minister Prayut Chan-o-cha announces his retirement from political office. (CNA)

Sports

• Testosterone regulations in women's athletics
  • The European Court of Human Rights rules in favour of South African runner Caster Semenya, stating her previous appeals against World Athletics' testosterone regulations were inadequately reviewed, potentially enabling her to recontest these rules due to her hyperandrogenism. (Reuters)

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