Current events: 2023-07-25

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Syrian civil war
  • Russia–United States relations
    • The United States Central Command says that a Russian military jet damaged an MQ-9 Reaper drone in Syrian airspace on July 23, by ejecting flares while flying "dangerously close" to the U.S. aircraft. (BBC News)
• 2023 Sudan conflict
  • Battle of Omdurman
    • The Sudanese Armed Forces shells three RSF-held neighbourhoods in Omdurman, Khartoum State, killing at least 18 people and injuring dozens more. (The Guardian)
• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • Three Hamas members are killed by Israeli soldiers in the Nablus neighborhood of al-Tur, in the occupied West Bank. (AP)
• Rohingya refugee crisis
  • A five-month-old girl dies when Indian forces fire tear gas at Rohingya refugees trying to escape a detention centre in Hiranagar, Jammu and Kashmir. (The Guardian)

Disasters and accidents

• 2023 Greece wildfires
  • Two crew members are killed when a Canadair CL-215 waterbomber crashes on Evia island, Greece. (Metro)
• Four people are killed and several others are injured by floods in Lombardy, Italy. Heavy rains also occur in Veneto. (Fanpage)
• 2023 Italy wildfires
  • Four people are killed by wildfires in southern Italy. A firefighter also dies in Sardinia while fighting fires in Baunei. (La Repubblica)

International relations

• Foreign relations of Denmark
  • Quran desecration
    • Far-right protesters set fire to copies of the Quran outside the Egyptian and Turkish embassies in Copenhagen, Denmark, prompting outrage from Muslim-majority countries (especially the two mentioned countries). (Politico)

Law and crime

• Islamic terrorism in Europe
  • Six men are found guilty of terrorist murder for their participation in the 2016 Brussels bombings, with two of them also being found guilty for their roles in the November 2015 Paris attacks. (BBC News)
• A 25-year-old man is charged with three counts of murder, including one as a domestic violence offense, four days after intentionally causing a fatal accident that killed three people on the Bruce Highway in Federal, Queensland, Australia. The suspected killer had been chasing one of the vehicles prior to the accident. (ABC News Australia)

Politics and elections

• Capital punishment in Ghana
  • The Parliament of Ghana votes to formally abolish the death penalty, becoming the latest African nation to end the punishment. The 176 prisoners currently on death row in Ghanian prisons will now have their sentences changed to life imprisonment. (BBC News)
• Chinese state media announces that Foreign Minister Qin Gang has been replaced by his predecessor Wang Yi. (Al Jazeera)

Sports

• 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup
  • Casey Phair, participating as part of the South Korean football team in a match against Colombia, becomes the youngest player to appear at a FIFA Women's World Cup game at 16 years old. (NPR)

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