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- 2023 Canadian wildfires
- The city of Yellowknife begins total evacuation amid increasing threat by nearby wildfires. (CBC News)
- 2023 Pacific hurricane season
- Tropical Storm Hilary strengthens into a hurricane off the coast of Mexico, and could become the first tropical storm to make landfall in California since 1939. (The Guardian)
- Elmina plane crash
- A Beechcraft 390 departing from Langkawi for Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport crashes into the Guthrie Highway in Elmina, Selangor, Malaysia, killing all eight people on board and two people on the ground. (BBC)
Law and crime
- 2023 Quran burnings in Sweden
- The Swedish Security Service raises the country's terror alert level from "elevated" to "high", citing increased threats in response to the series of Quran burnings in the country. (AFP via The Times of India)
- Censorship in Belarus
- The government of Belarus bans two 19th-century poems by Vintsent Dunin-Martsinkyevich, both about the January Uprising, as extremist amidst a growing censorship campaign. (BBC)
Politics and elections
- Opposition parties in Vanuatu boycott the parliament after a failed attempt to oust prime minister Ishmael Kalsakau. (Reuters)
- Israel receives permission from the US to sell its Arrow 3 missile defense system to Germany, according to the Defence Ministry. (FAZ)
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