Portal:Current events/2014 July 7
Armed conflicts and attacks
- 2014 pro-Russian conflict in Ukraine
- Minister of Defense of Ukraine Donetsk from armed insurgents. (Presidential administration)
- Ukrainian forces retake Artemivsk and Druzhkivka from pro-Russian armed separatists. (BBC News)
- Minister of Defense of Ukraine
- Operation Protective Edge
- Palestinian militants. In response to escalating rocket fire, the Israel Defense Forces calls up 1,500 reservists as southern towns declare a state of emergency. (Haaretz)(Jerusalem Post)
- Iraqi insurgency (post-U.S. withdrawal)
- Sittings of the
Disasters and accidents
- A Thạch Thất District of the Vietnamese capital Hanoi with 16 people dead. (AFP via GlobalPost), (BBC News)
- 2014 Pacific typhoon season
- Okinawa and then Kyushu on Tuesday. (Market Watch)
- A 6.9 magnitude earthquake hits southern Mexico and Guatemala, causing at least three deaths. (Wall Street Journal)
International relations
- German intelligence officer was working for the United States are true, it would be a "clear contradiction" of trust between allies. (AP via US News and World Report)
Law and crime
- An antitrust trial begins pitting the U.S. Justice Department against American Express over tactics the latter has employed in the credit card market. (Reuters)
- Judge Anita B. Brody of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania approves a preliminary settlement between the National Football League and lawyers for 4,500 former players over damages caused by concussion. (New York Times)
Politics and elections
- Afghan presidential election, 2014
- A preliminary count indicates that former finance minister Ashraf Ghani is favourite to win the election. (Euronews)
- Senegal's president Macky Sall appoints his close aid Mahammed Dionne as the third prime minister in Sall's time in office, following the resignation of Aminata Touré. (Al Jazeera)
- The alliance between the Israel's right-wing parties Likud and Yisrael Beiteinu is dissolved, reducing the ruling party's share of seats in the Knesset to just 20 out of 120. (Times of Israel)
- Thousands rally in Nairobi against the President of Kenya Uhuru Kenyatta's rule.(AP)
- Europeans elect German neo-Nazi leader Udo Voigt to the European Parliament's Civil Liberties, Justice, and Home Affairs Committee. (Jerusalem Post)
Science and technology
- The prehistoric bird Pelagornis sandersi is identified as the largest flying bird yet discovered. (BBC News)