Portal:Current events/2022 July 20

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Kurdish–Turkish conflict
  • Operation Claw-Lock
    • Zakho resort attack
      • Iraqi government and regional authorities claim that Turkish Armed Forces fired four missiles at a resort in the Zakho District of Kurdistan Region in Iraq, killing eight Iraqi tourists and injuring 23 others. (AP)
• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Zaporizhzhia region and a number of other territories". (Al Jazeera)
• Somali Civil War
  • Al-Shabaab raids Yeed and Aato in Bakool, Somalia, near the Ethiopian border. Fourteen Ethiopian police officers and three civilians are killed. (Reuters) (VOA)

Business and economy

• 2021–2022 inflation surge
  • Inflation in the United Kingdom increased to 9.4% last month, breaking a 40-year record, as food and fuel prices continue to increase. (The Guardian)
• Russia in the European energy sector
  • The European Commission tells EU member states to reduce gas usage by 15% until March 2023 as part of an emergency plan after President Vladimir Putin warns that Russian supplies of natural gas could be reduced further. (Reuters)
• International sanctions during the Russo-Ukrainian War
  • The European Union bans imports of gold from Russia and freezes Sberbank's assets. (Euronews)
• Economy of Ukraine
  • Ukraine's government, facing an estimated 35% to 45% decrease in GDP, asks its international creditors to freeze its debt payments for two years, including a $1.2 billion debt payment due at the beginning of September. The proposal is backed by major Western governments and other major lenders. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• 2022 European heat wave
  • Six federal states of Germany (Baden-Württemberg, Hamburg, Lower Saxony, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Saxony-Anhalt and Schleswig-Holstein) see their all-time high records beaten, with the highest temperature, 40.3 °C (104.5 °F), set at Bad Mergentheim. (Tagesschau)
  • Abed, a hamlet on the Danish island of Lolland, sets the highest July temperature recorded in the country, reaching 35.9 °C (96.6 °F). (Danish Broadcasting Corporation)
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  Fort Gordon in Georgia. (USA Today)
• One person is killed and 23 others are injured after a tornado hits Jiangsu, China. (AP)

International relations

• Foreign relations of Syria, Foreign relations of Ukraine
  • The Foreign Ministry of Syria announces that the country is formally suspending diplomatic relations with Ukraine. (AP)

Politics and elections

• 2022 Sri Lankan presidential election
  • Acting President Ranil Wickremesinghe is declared the winner of the election, defeating his closest rival, Dullas Alahapperuma, by 134 votes to 82. (BBC News)
• 2022 United Kingdom government crisis
  • 2022 Conservative Party leadership election
    • Penny Mordaunt is eliminated from the leadership election in the fifth round of voting. (The Guardian)