Current events: 2024-07-08

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Russian strikes against infrastructure
    • 8 July 2024 Ukraine missile strikes
      • At least 36 people are killed after Russia launches a massive missile attack that hit residential buildings and civilian infrastructure in Kyiv, Dnipro, Kryvyi Rih, Sloviansk and Kramatorsk, Ukraine, including Ukraine's largest children's hospital Okhmatdyt. (BBC News)
  • Poland–Ukraine relations
    • Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk sign a security agreement in Warsaw, allowing Poland to shoot down Russian missiles inside Ukrainian airspace. (Ukrinform)
• M23 offensive
  • A United Nations report formally accuses the Uganda People's Defence Force of providing military support to the M23 rebel group in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. Uganda denies the claims. (Reuters)
  • A United Nations report reveals that between 3,000 to 4,000 Rwandan soldiers are fighting alongside the M23 rebels. (France 24)

Business and economy

• Thousands of Samsung Electronics workers begin a three-day strike in South Korea over demands for better pay and more annual leave. (Reuters)
• Paramount Global agrees to merge with Skydance Media in a $28 billion deal. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Atlantic hurricane season
  • At least three people are killed in Houston as Hurricane Beryl makes landfall in Texas, United States, as a Category 1 hurricane. (NBC News) (Reuters)

International relations

• Peace negotiations in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • 2024 peace missions by Viktor Orbán, China–Hungary relations
    • Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán makes an unannounced "peace mission" to Beijing, China, to meet with China's leader Xi Jinping following a similarly unannounced meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, Russia. (The Hill)
• India–Russia relations
  • Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi visits Moscow, Russia, for the first time since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Al Jazeera)
• Japan–Philippines relations
  • Japan and the Philippines sign a defense pact which allows the deployment of Japanese forces to the Philippines for military exercises. (AP)

Law and crime

• Boeing agree to plead guilty to a criminal fraud conspiracy charge to avoid going on trial in the United States on charges stemming from two fatal crashes involving its 737 MAX. (BBC News)

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