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Current events of
July 7, 2014
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2014-07-07
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Armed conflicts and attacks
2014 pro-Russian conflict in Ukraine
Minister of Defense of Ukraine
Valeriy Heletey
says that special forces have retaken the city of
Kostiantynivka
,
Donetsk
from armed insurgents.
(Presidential administration)
Ukrainian forces retake
Artemivsk
and
Druzhkivka
from pro-Russian armed separatists.
(BBC)
Operation Protective Edge
Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades
, the military wing of Hamas claims responsibility for the over 80 rockets fired into
southern Israel
Monday evening; the
Israeli Air Force
carries out overnight airstrikes killing nine
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
Council of Representatives of Iraq
are postponed for five weeks as
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
forces kill an
Iraqi Army
general on the outskirts of
Baghdad
.
(Reuters)
Disasters and accidents
A
Russian
-made
Mil Mi-17
crashes in the
Thạch Thất District
of the
Vietnamese
capital
Hanoi
with 16 people dead.
(AFP via GlobalPost)
,
(BBC)
2014 Pacific typhoon season
Japan
braces for the impact of
Typhoon Neoguri
which is expected to hit
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
Angela Merkel
, the
Chancellor of Germany
, says that if allegations that a
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
Mohammed Ben Abdallah Dionne
as the third prime minister in Sall's time in office, following the resignation of
Aminata Touré
.
(AlJazeera)
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)
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