Portal:Current events/2022 July 24
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July 24, 2022 (Sunday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- Two Palestinian men are killed and 12 others are injured during a raid by Israeli soldiers in Nablus, West Bank. (Al Jazeera)
- Iran–Israel proxy conflict
- Iran's Supreme National Security Council announces that their intelligence ministry has arrested an Israeli cell hours before they were to conduct attacks on several sites in Isfahan, including a major nuclear facility. (Al Jazeera)
Disasters and accidents
- Thirty-four people are killed when a bus traveling from Meru plunges into a river in Nairobi, Kenya. (Al Jazeera)
- Flash floods kill at least nine people in Sanaa and the Dhamar Governorate in Yemen. (AP)
- The Sakurajima volcano in Kyushu, Japan, erupts. Around 120 residents in two nearby towns are ordered to evacuate even though minimal damages are reported. (Al Jazeera)
- At least 17 Haitian migrants are killed and 25 others are rescued when their boat capsizes off New Providence, Bahamas. (Forbes)
- Italian vessels recover five bodies and rescue 674 people packed on a fishing boat adrift in the Mediterranean off the Libyan coast, while European charities rescue 500 people. (AP)
Health and environment
- COVID-19 pandemic
- COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
- COVID-19 pandemic in Texas
- Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick announces that he has tested positive for COVID-19 for a second time. (U.S. News & World Report)
- COVID-19 pandemic in Texas
- COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
International relations
- Foreign relations of Russia
- Foreign Affairs Minister Sergey Lavrov visits Egypt for diplomatic talks, and will also visit Ethiopia, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (AP)
Law and crime
- Ateneo de Manila University shooting
- A former mayor of Lamitan, Basilan, Philippines, and two others are killed in a mass shooting at the Ateneo de Manila University in Quezon City, Metro Manila. The perpetrator is arrested. (Reuters)
- Police in Honduras intensify their crackdown on gangs in response to last week's murder of the son of former president Porfirio Lobo Sosa. (Diario El Salvador)
Politics and elections
- 2022 Brazilian general election
- President Jair Bolsonaro formally announces that he will run for re-election. (Reuters)
- The Chamber of Deputies of the Congress of Paraguay is summoned in an emergency session to debate the impeachment of Attorney General Sandra Quiñónez, in response to accusations that Quiñónez covered up former president Horacio Cartes's alleged corruption, following Cartes's designation as "significantly corrupt" by the United States. (ABC Color Paraguay)
Science and technology
- Chinese space program
- Tiangong space station
- China launches the Wentian module, one of two laboratory modules needed to complete the Tiangong space station, from the Wenchang Space Launch Site in Hainan on a Long March 5 rocket.The module is fully integrated with the space station thirteen hours after launch. (China Daily) (AP) (RTHK)
- Tiangong space station
Sports
- Armand Duplantis breaks his own pole vault world record at the 2022 World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon, clearing 6.21 metres (20 ft 4+1⁄2 in). (The Oregonian)