Portal:Current events/2022 July 7

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Battle of Donbas
      • Russian forces launch airstrikes on the city of Kramatorsk, in Donetsk Oblast, with casualties reported, according to the city's mayor. (Reuters)
    • Russia says that it fired missiles at
      Ukrainian troops. However, Ukraine denies that any casualties have occurred. (Evening Standard)
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • One person is killed and four others injured in a
    hand grenade attack at a police post in Mardan District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (AP)
• Allied Democratic Forces insurgency
  • Suspected
    DRC. Three of the attackers are killed by the army. (Reuters) (AP)

• 2019–present Sri Lankan economic crisis
  • According to the
    food insecurity caused by the worst economic crisis that the country has experienced since 1948. (WION)
• The government of Laos discusses the purchase of oil from sanctions-hit Russia as the country faces oil shortages and is nearing a debt default. (Business Insider)
• The Central Bank of Ireland announces that inflation will exceed 10% for the first time since the early 1980s. (The Irish Times)

Disasters and accidents

• Nine people are killed and 43 others injured when a bus from Sudan crashes while travelling to Aswan, Egypt. (Reuters)

Health and environment

• 2022 monkeypox outbreak
  • 2022 monkeypox outbreak in Europe
    • Slovakia reports its first case of monkeypox. (Reuters)
  • monkeypox. (Xinhua News Agency) (Yahoo!) (Caribbean National Weekly)
  • Two new deaths from monkeypox are reported in endemic countries in Africa. (Al Jazeera)
• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Hong Kong
    • The Government of Hong Kong announce that they will put on hold a flight suspension mechanism, allowing airlines to continue to fly into Hong Kong even if positive cases have been detected on their flights when entering Hong Kong previously. (RTHK)
• Authorities in Cuba say that dengue fever cases have increased 21.7% from last year and describe the epidemiological situation as "complex". (Infobae)

Law and crime

• Mexico–United States border crisis
  • United States National Guard to return migrants along the Mexico–United States border in Texas to Mexico. (AP)
• American basketball player Brittney Griner pleads guilty to drug charges in a Russian courtroom and faces up to 10 years in prison. (CNN)

Politics and elections

• 2022 United Kingdom government crisis
  • Education Secretary Michelle Donelan resigns 36 hours after being appointed to the post. A total of 61 ministers and aides have now resigned. (Sky News)
  • a new leader is elected. (BBC News)
• The Cypriot House of Representatives approves the seventeenth amendment to the Constitution of Cyprus, which involves a reform of the judiciary, the recovery of the Supreme Constitutional Court of Cyprus and the creation of the Court of Appeal of Cyprus. (Cyprus Mail)

Sports

• 2022 Wimbledon Championships
  • Wimbledon women's singles. (The Guardian)