Portal:Current events/2011 July 31
Armed conflict and attacks
- At least 9 people including a suspect are killed and 28 others are injured in a knife attack in
- Ramadan Massacre:
- At least 121 people are killed in a Syrian Army tank raid on the town of Hama and over 150 people are reportedly killed across the country. (Al Jazeera), (Al-Jazeera), (Al-Arabiya)
Disasters and accidents
- At least seven people drown after a collision between a pleasure boat and a barge in central Moscow, Russia. (The Moscow News) (The Jerusalem Post)
- No-one was killed when a Caribbean Airlines Boeing 737 plane crashed and split in two at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Guyana (The Trinidad Guardian)
Law and crime
Politics
- 2011 U.S. debt ceiling crisis
- The Senate of the United States fails to pass legislation lifting the debt ceiling with compromise talks continuing. (CNN), (New York Times)
- Barack Obama, the President of the United States, and Congressional leaders reach a deal on extending the debt ceiling. (Economic Times), (Washington Post)
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