Current events: 2024-07-23

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Gofa landslides
  • At least 229 people are killed after landslides bury two villages in Gofa Zuria, Ethiopia. (Al Arabiya)
• Two people are killed and 13 more are injured after a balcony collapses in Naples, Italy. (Rai News) (ANSA)

Health and environment

• 2024 in climate change
  • The Copernicus Climate Change Service records that 21 July 2024 was the hottest day in recorded history, and estimates it to be the hottest day in the past 100,000 years with a global average surface air temperature of 17.09°C (62.76°F). (Reuters) (Washington Post)
• A study by the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation finds thirteen Brazilian sharpnose sharks off the coast of Brazil with high levels of cocaine in their muscles and livers. Experts believe the cocaine is making its way into the waters via illegal labs where the drug is manufactured or through excrement of drug users. (BBC)

International relations

• 2024 visits by Viktor Orbán to Russia and China, 2024 Hungarian Presidency of the Council of the European Union
  • The European Union deprives Hungary of its ability to host the next set of foreign and defense ministry meetings as a "symbolic signal" against Viktor Orbán's uncoordinated meeting in Russia with Vladimir Putin and in China, moving the meetings from Budapest to Brussels. (BBC News) (The Independent)

Law and crime

• 2023 French pension reform law
  • The leftist France Unbowed party introduces legislation to reverse pension changes and the legal retirement age increase from 62 to 64 signed by French President Emmanuel Macron in 2023. The far-right National Rally party offers support for the legislation's advancement. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• 2024 Palestinian reconciliation agreement, Fatah–Hamas reconciliation process
  • Various factions in the Palestinian government, including rivals Fatah and Hamas, sign a declaration in Beijing, China, to end their divisions and form a unity government. (Reuters)
• Attempted assassination of Donald Trump
  • United States Secret Service director Kimberly Cheatle resigns, citing security lapses that led to former president Donald Trump's attempted assassination. (Al Jazeera)
• Martial law in Ukraine, Mobilization in Ukraine
  • The Ukrainian parliament agrees to extend martial law and nationwide military mobilization for an additional 90 days starting on 12 August 2024, following their initial extensions in May 2024. (RFE/RL)

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