Current events: 2024-07-21

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Red Sea crisis
  • 2024 Israeli strikes on Yemen
    • The death toll from yesterday's Israeli airstrikes on Al Hudaydah, Yemen, increases to six. (Al Jazeera)
  • The Houthis target the Israeli city of Eilat with multiple ballistic missiles, in response to yesterday's airstrikes in Yemen. (Sky News)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Eastern Ukraine campaign
    • Russian forces capture the villages of Andriivka in Luhansk Oblast and Pishchane in Kharkiv Oblast. (Anatolia Agency) (RTL)

Diasters and accidents

• 2024 Canadian wildfires
  • Wildfires continue to spread in northern Alberta, Canada, prompting emergency evacuations in John D'Or Prairie 215, Fox Lake and Garden River. At least 55 of the 158 active wildfires are reported as "out of control". (Reuters)
• Six people including two children, are killed in a multiple-vehicle collision in West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom. (Sky News)

International relations

• Iran–Sudan relations
  • Iran and Sudan receive each other's ambassadors for the first time in eight years, after resuming diplomatic relations in October 2023. (Al Jazeera)

Law and crime

• Conscription of yeshiva students
  • Israel begins issuing call-up notices for military conscription to Haredi Jews amid mass protests in Jerusalem. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• 2024 United States presidential election
  • Withdrawal of Joe Biden from the 2024 United States presidential election, Kamala Harris 2024 presidential campaign
    • Incumbent President of the United States Joe Biden announces that he will not seek a second term in office and suspends his presidential campaign, while endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee. (NBC News)
• 2024 Anti-tourism protests in Spain
  • Thousands of people protest in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, against mass tourism and private jets in the country. (Reuters)

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