Current events: 2023-07-27

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • 2023 Ukrainian counteroffensive
    • Ukrainian forces have reportedly liberated the village of {{ill|Staromaiorske|uk|Старомайорське}}, Donetsk Oblast. (CNN)
• 2023 Nigerien coup d'état
  • Supporters of the military coup against President Mohamed Bazoum set fire to the headquarters of the ruling Nigerien Party for Democracy and Socialism in Niamey, Niger. (BBC News)

Disasters and accidents

• At least 25 people are killed when a boat capsizes off the coast of Binangonan, Rizal, Philippines. (Reuters)
• One person is killed and 84 are injured due to a chlorine gas leakage at a sewage plant in Qena, Egypt. (Egypt Independent)

International relations

• China–North Korea relations, North Korea–Russia relations
  • North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un, Russian defence minister Sergei Shoigu and a Chinese delegation meet to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the end of the Korean War. Kim and Shoigu attended an exhibition of North Korean ballistic missiles which have been prohibited by multiple United Nations resolutions supported by China and Russia. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• Capital punishment in Kuwait
  • Kuwait executes five men, including one involved in the suicide bombing of a mosque in 2015. (AP via ABC News)

Sports

• China–India relations
  • An Indian Wushu contingent is withheld from participating at the XXXI Summer World University Games in Chengdu, China, by the government of India in order to protest against the issuing of Chinese stapled visas to three Wushu athletes hailing from the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh, as the issuing of such visas are seen as an attempt to assert Chinese territorial claim over the state. (India Today)

Science and technology

• Climate change
  • United Nations Secretary General António Guterres declares that Earth has entered an "age of global boiling" as scientists confirm that the heat waves of 2023 have been some of the hottest in recorded history. (The Guardian)

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