Current events: 2024-07-07

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israel–Hamas war
  • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
    • Israeli strikes across Gaza kill at least 27 Palestinians. In Gaza City, four are killed in a strike on a UNRWA school sheltering displaced people and six others are killed in a strike on a house. Two people are killed in the Sabra neighbourhood, with six others in a strike on a residential building in Az-Zawayda. (Al Jazeera)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Atlantic hurricane season
  • Hurricane Beryl
    • 120 counties in Texas, United States are under disaster declaration as Tropical Storm Beryl approaches the Gulf Coast. (The Guardian)
• The Iranian naval frigate IRIS Sahand capsizes during repairs in the port of Bandar Abbas. (Reuters)
• Thirteen people are injured after a panicked elephant chases a crowd attending a Hindu religious festival in Sri Lanka. (Al Arabiya)
• At least 11 people are killed and eight others are missing due to heavy rainfall causing flash floods and landslides in Nepal. (Reuters)

International relations

• Syrian-Turkish normalization
  • President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan states his intention to invite President of Syria Bashar al-Assad for talks in Turkey with the intention of restoring relations between Turkey and Syria. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• 2024 French legislative election
  • French citizens vote in the second round of legislative elections for the 17th National Assembly of the Fifth French Republic. (Le Monde)
  • Exit polls predict a hung parliament, with the left-wing New Popular Front alliance winning the most seats, followed by President Emmanuel Macron's centrist Ensemble coalition in second place, and the far-right National Rally in third. (BBC News)
• Israel–Hamas war protests in Israel
  • Israeli protesters march and block highways across Israel, calling for a ceasefire, the return of all hostages, and for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to step down. (AP)

Science and technology

• Four volunteer NASA crew members finish the first 378-day Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog mission to simulate living on Mars at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, United States. (AP)

Sports

• Yaroslava Mahuchikh beats the world record in high jump with a jump of 2.10 metres. (The Guardian)

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