Current events: 2024-07-30

Wikipedia Current Events · Jul 30, 2024

Armed conflicts and attacks

Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- 2024 Haret Hreik airstrike
  - Israel launches a missile attack on southern Beirut, Lebanon, killing at least three civilians and injuring 74 others. (Al Jazeera)
- An Israeli civilian is killed in the HaGoshrim kibbutz by a rocket fired from Lebanon. (Reuters)
Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Eastern Ukraine campaign
  - Russia's defense ministry says that its forces have taken control of the settlement of Pivdenne in Donetsk region, Ukraine. (Reuters)
Kurdistan Workers' Party insurgency
- The Turkish defense ministry says that it targeted Kurdish militants in northern Iraq with air strikes, killing 13 people. (Reuters)
Unidentified gunmen open fire on a bulletproof vehicle carrying local staff working for a United Nations development agency in Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan. No casualties have been reported. (Times of India)

Business and economy

Tesla recalls more than 1.8 million vehicles due to a hood issue that could increase the risk of a crash. An over-the-air software update for the issue was made available in June. (Quartz)
Rex Airlines, Australia's third-largest airline, suspends all domestic Boeing 737 flights and enters voluntary administration. (Financial Review)
Spain's competition watchdog fines online travel agency Booking.com with a record €413 million fine for "abusing its dominant position" in the past five years. (France 24)

Disasters and accidents

2024 Pacific typhoon season
- Typhoon Gaemi
  - The death toll from torrential rains and floods caused by remnants of Typhoon Gaemi in Hunan, China, increases to 22. (Yahoo! Canada)
2024 Gaza Strip polio epidemic
- The World Health Organization reports that it is now "very likely" that poliovirus has infected Gazan citizens and is spreading among the population. The statement was released shortly after the Gaza Health Ministry declared a polio epidemic in the territory. (Reuters) (Barron's)
2024 Wayanad landslides
- At least 133 people are killed, 191 others are injured, and more than 98 others are missing in landslides in Wayanad district, Kerala, India. (The Times of India) (Al Jazeera)
Killucan helicopter crash
- A helicopter crashes near Killucan, County Westmeath, Ireland, killing two people. (RTÉ)
Five people are killed and nine others are injured when a boat capsizes on the Nile River in Cairo, Egypt. (Al Ahram)

International relations

Algeria–France relations, Politics of Western Sahara
- Algeria withdraws its ambassador from France after France recognizes the Western Sahara Autonomy Proposal, which was proposed by Morocco in 2007. (RFI)
Armenia–Turkey relations
- Turkey and Armenia resume talks aimed at normalizing diplomatic relations and agree to simplify visa rules for some passport holders. (Al Arabiya)
Foreign relations of Afghanistan
- The Taliban suspends relations with 14 Afghan overseas diplomatic missions and announces that they will no longer accept consular documents issued by these missions. (Radio Free Europe)
Kyrgyzstan–Tajikistan relations
- Kyrgyz government spokesman Nazirbek Borubaev says that 94% of the Kyrgyzstan–Tajikistan border has been agreed upon by officials from both countries. (Radio Free Europe)
Philippines–United States relations
- United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken announces the allocation of $500 million to fund the Philippine military. (DW)

Law and crime

2024 Venezuelan protests
- Freddy Superlano, a leading figure in Venezuela's opposition coalition, is arrested as the death toll from ongoing anti-Maduro protests increases to four. (Al Arabiya)
American Indian boarding school gravesites
- A federal investigation commissioned by United States Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland discovers that sixty-five federal American Indian boarding school sites have unmarked or marked gravesites, and confirms that "at least" 973 Native American children died at boarding schools, primarily from abuse and illness. (AP)
British Islamic preacher Anjem Choudary is sentenced to life in prison with a minimum sentence of 28 years for directing the al-Muhajiroun militant network. (ABC News)
Interpol announces that more than 200 people have been arrested and more than $1.6 billion of illegal drugs and precursor chemicals seized as part of a two-month operation against narcotics trafficking conducted across Europe, North America, and Africa. (ABC News)
President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko pardons a German citizen who was facing the death penalty. (Barron's)

Sports