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Webb's First Deep Field
- NASA releases the first operational image (shown) taken by the James Webb Space Telescope.
- Protesters storm the President's House in Colombo, Sri Lanka, forcing President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to flee and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe to agree to resign.
- Angola's former president José Eduardo dos Santos dies at the age of 79.
- Former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe is assassinated while giving a speech in Nara.
July 19, 2022 (Tuesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- The European Commission for the first time proposes a joint procurement procedure for buying weapons for the member states. The proposed sum of purchase is €500 million. (AP)
Business and economy
- Gazprom signs a memorandum of understanding for the development of Iranian oil and gas fields and related infrastructure worth $40 billion. (Reuters)
Disasters and accidents
- 2022 European heat waves
- 2022 United Kingdom heat wave
- A record high temperature of 40.2 °C (104.4 °F) is recorded at Heathrow Airport in Greater London. It is the first time in history that a temperature has been recorded over 40°C in the United Kingdom. (BBC News)
- Emley Moor, a station in West Yorkshire, sets the highest overnight minimum temperature in UK's history, not falling below 25.9 °C (78.6 °F). (BBC News)
- A station at La Hague on the coast of Normandy sets an all-time high record, 32.8 °C (91.0 °F), at night. (AFP via L'Express)
- 2022 United Kingdom heat wave
- At least 22 people are killed and 33 others injured in a truck and bus crash in Minya, Egypt. (ABC News)
Health and environment
- COVID-19 pandemic
- COVID-19 pandemic in Kiribati
- The United States donates nearly 20,000 doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to Kiribati through the COVAX initiative. (US embassy Fiji)
- COVID-19 pandemic in the Pitcairn Islands
- The Pitcairn Islands reports the territory's first case of COVID-19 during the pandemic. The patient is a Pitcairn Islander who returned from medical treatment abroad. (Radio New Zealand)
- COVID-19 pandemic in Kiribati
International relations
- Enlargement of the European Union
- Accession of Albania and North Macedonia to the European Union
- Negotiations on the accession of North Macedonia and Albania to the European Union begin in Brussels. (Euronews)
- Accession of Albania and North Macedonia to the European Union
- Iran–Russia relations
- Russian president Vladimir Putin makes a state visit to Iran for talks with his Iranian counterpart Ebrahim Raisi and Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. He will also meet with Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. (BBC News)
July 18, 2022 (Monday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russo-Ukrainian War
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Battle of Donbas
- Russian shelling kills six civilians in Toretsk, Donetsk Oblast, as Ukraine says that Russia appears to be preparing for a new ground offensive near Sloviansk. (BBC News)
- Battle of Donbas
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
Business and economy
- Russia in the European energy sector
- Russia's Gazprom says that it "cannot guarantee" gas supplies to Europe due to "extraordinary circumstances" as it declares force majeure on gas supplies dating from June 14. (Reuters)
Disasters and accidents
- 2022 European heat waves
- 2022 United Kingdom heat wave
- The United Kingdom issues a "red extreme heat warning" as temperatures are predicted to reach a record 41 °C (106 °F) in parts of England. Wales reports a record temperature of 37.1 °C (98.8 °F) near the town of Hawarden, Flintshire, and the island of Jersey reports a record temperature of 37.9 °C (100.2 °F). (BBC News) (BBC News 2) (ITV Channel Islands)
- The Royal Air Force suspends all flights to and from RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire after the runway suffers damage due to the extreme heat. (The Independent)
- Dublin, Ireland, reports a record temperature of 33.1 °C (91.6 °F). Parts of France also report record temperatures. (Met Éireann) (Le Progrès)
- 2022 United Kingdom heat wave
- Twenty people are killed and 30 others are missing after a boat capsizes in Sadiqabad, Punjab, Pakistan. (Al Jazeera)
- June 2022 Afghanistan earthquake
- Thirty-one people are injured and several homes are destroyed after a magnitude 5.1 aftershock hits Paktika Province, Afghanistan. (AP)
Health and environment
- COVID-19 pandemic
- COVID-19 pandemic in mainland China
- COVID-19 pandemic in Shanghai
- Residents in nine of Shanghai's districts will be required to undergo COVID-19 testing until July 21 as part of an effort to reduce the community spread of COVID-19. (CNA)
- COVID-19 pandemic in Shanghai
- COVID-19 pandemic in mainland China
- 2022 monkeypox outbreak
- 2022 monkeypox outbreak in the United States
- The Rhode Island Department of Health announces that the state has administered monkeypox vaccines to people who have had close contact with monkeypox patients. (WLNE-TV)
- 2022 monkeypox outbreak in the United States
- Wild European bison are reintroduced to the United Kingdom for the first time in over a thousand years after three are released into a pine forest in Kent, England. (The Guardian)
Law and crime
- 2022 Ecuador prison riots
- Fourteen inmates are killed during a prison riot in Santo Domingo, Ecuador. (AP)
- Four people are injured during a mass shooting at a nightclub in Marbella, Andalusia, Spain. The perpetrator is stabbed and hospitalized. (AP)
Politics and elections
- Russo-Ukrainian War
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy dismisses Ukraine's prosecutor general Iryna Venediktova and the top security official of the Security Service of Ukraine, Ivan Bakanov. More than 60 officials from the agencies are alleged to be working with Russia. Additionally, 651 cases of alleged treason and collaboration are initiated against prosecutorial and law enforcement officials. (The Guardian)
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- 2022 United Kingdom government crisis
- 2022 Conservative Party leadership election
- Tom Tugendhat is eliminated from the leadership race in the third round of voting. (The Guardian)
- 2022 vote of confidence in the Johnson ministry
- A motion of confidence in the Johnson government is passed by 347 votes to 238. (The Guardian)
- 2022 Conservative Party leadership election
- 2022 Indian presidential election
- The Indian parliament votes to elect the new President of India. (Al Jazeera)
July 17, 2022 (Sunday)
Disasters and accidents
- Seven people are killed by flooding in Darfur, Sudan. (AP)
- Flooding in China's Sichuan and Gansu provinces kills 12 people and leaves thousands homeless. (AP)
- Four people are killed when a Bernalillo County Sheriff's Office helicopter crashes near Las Vegas, New Mexico, United States. (U.S. News & World Report)
Health and environment
- COVID-19 pandemic
- COVID-19 pandemic in Asia
- COVID-19 pandemic in India
- Health officials in India report that the country surpassed the two billion mark in cumulative administered doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. (WION)
- COVID-19 pandemic in Israel
- The Israeli Health Ministry confirms three cases of the Omicron BA.2.75 variant in travelers abroad. (Times of Israel)
- COVID-19 pandemic in India
- COVID-19 pandemic in Asia
- 2022 monkeypox outbreak
- 2022 monkeypox outbreak in the United States
- Three more monkeypox vaccination sites open in New York City in an effort to combat the spread of monkeypox. (Patch.com)
- 2022 monkeypox outbreak in the United States
International relations
- Croatia–Serbia relations
- Croatia refuses to allow a private visit from the President of Serbia Aleksandar Vučić to the site of the Jasenovac concentration camp due to the Government of Croatia not being formally notified of the visit. (The Washington Post)
- Nuclear program of Iran
- Former Minister of Foreign Affairs and senior adviser to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, Kamal Kharazi, confirms that Iran now has the capabilities to develop and build a nuclear weapon but says that "there has been no decision by Iran to build one". Kharazi also warns that Iran will "directly respond" to Israel if it is attacked. (Straits Times) (The Jerusalem Post)
Law and crime
- Mass shootings in the United States
- Greenwood Park Mall shooting
- Three people and the gunman are killed and two others injured in a mass shooting at the food court of Greenwood Park Mall in Greenwood, Indiana, United States. (The Indianapolis Star)
- Greenwood Park Mall shooting
Politics and elections
- 2022 Nigerian elections
- 2022 Nigerian gubernatorial elections
- 2022 Osun State gubernatorial election
- Former senator Ademola Adeleke of the Peoples Democratic Party defeats incumbent Governor Gboyega Oyetola of the All Progressives Congress. The election has been labeled as a potential bellwether as it is the final major election before the national presidential election in early 2023. (Premium Times)
- 2022 Osun State gubernatorial election
- 2022 Nigerian gubernatorial elections
July 16, 2022 (Saturday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russo-Ukrainian War
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Russian missiles strike the city of Chuhuiv in Kharkiv Oblast, killing three civilians and injuring three others, while more than 50 Grad rockets hit the city of Nikopol in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, killing two people. The missile strikes come after Russian defence minister Sergei Shoigu ordered the military to expand operations in Ukraine in order to "protect the Donbas". (Reuters)
- The president of Energoatom, the Ukrainian nuclear energy authority, accuses Russian forces of using the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant to store weapons and shell the surrounding area. (The Journal.ie)
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- Gaza–Israel conflict
- Israel launches more than a dozen missiles against two Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip, following a number of rockets fired overnight from Gaza into Israel, causing severe damage. No casualties were reported and no civilian structures were targeted or hit. (Voice of America) (Al Jazeera)
- Gaza–Israel conflict
- Papua conflict
- Nogolait shooting
- Ten people are killed and two others are injured when gunmen attack civilians in Nduga Regency, Highland Papua, Indonesia. The separatist West Papua National Liberation Army is blamed for the attack. (AP)
- Nogolait shooting
Disasters and accidents
- July 2022 European heat wave
- In Portugal, a waterbombing plane crashes in Vila Nova de Foz Côa while fighting wildfires in the region, killing the pilot, and in Spain, around 2,300 people are evacuated from the Costa del Sol due to wildfires in the Mijas hills. (BBC News)
- A report shows that at least 360 people have died in a week during the heat wave in Spain. (El País)
- Meridian Flight 3032
- An Antonov An-12 cargo plane, operated by a Ukrainian airline, crashes near the city of Kavala, Greece, killing all eight people on board. The aircraft was carrying weapons from Serbia to Bangladesh, and crashed before a planned stop in Jordan. (BBC News)
International relations
- Accession of North Macedonia to the European Union
- Bulgaria–North Macedonia relations
- The Assembly of North Macedonia passes a motion to amend North Macedonia’s Constitution to recognise its Bulgarian minority, while pledging to discuss remaining issues with the Bulgarian government. In exchange, Bulgaria will allow membership talks with the European Union to begin. (Al Jazeera)
- Bulgaria–North Macedonia relations
- Iran–United States relations
- Economic sanctions against the United States
- The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iran imposes sanctions on 61 Americans for their association with exiled Iranian dissident group People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran. (Reuters)
- Economic sanctions against the United States
- G20 finance leaders end a meeting in Bali without a joint communique, as consensus could not be reached on multiple issues due to tensions caused by ongoing conflicts between the countries. (CNBC)
Law and crime
- Four people are killed and two injured in a mass shooting in the Gauteng province of South Africa. (Reuters)
- Protests continue in Panama with road and railways blockades, after protesters rejected president Laurentino Cortizo's concessions. (La Prensa)
- Crime in Haiti
- The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights documents 934 killings, 684 injuries and 680 kidnappings in Port-au-Prince since the start of 2022, in a sharp increase of violence in the city. (Al Jazeera)
- The UN Security Council passes a resolution extending the mandate of the UN Integrated Office in Haiti for a further year. (UN News)
July 15, 2022 (Friday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russo-Ukrainian War
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- At least three civilians are killed and 15 others are injured in Russian cruise missile strikes on the city of Dnipro. (Reuters)
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Insurgency in the Sahel
- Mali War
- Three civilians, two gendarmes and one policeman are killed as gunmen attack a checkpoint in Koulikoro, Mali. (Al Jazeera)
- Mali War
- Insurgency in Balochistan
- Nine Balochistan Liberation Army separatist insurgents are killed during a gunfight with the Pakistan Army in Balochistan, after the group kidnapped and killed a colonel. (AP)
- Sudanese nomadic conflicts
- 65 people are killed and 150 are wounded in tribal clashes in Blue Nile, Sudan. (Al Jazeera)
Business and economy
- Transport in Spain
- Spain introduces free tickets for suburban and medium-distance services for Renfe, the state-owned railway operator, starting from September 1 and until the end of the year. Other modes of public transport already have a 30% discount. (The Guardian)
Disasters and accidents
- July 2022 European heat wave; 2022 European wildfires
- A national emergency is declared in the United Kingdom, with the first ever red alert for extreme heat being issued by the Met Office, ahead of a heat wave which is now expected to break temperature records in the British Isles. (BBC News)
- Portugal reports 238 deaths related to the ongoing heat wave as it battles more than 30 active wildfires. In France, more than 10,000 people have fled wildfires in Gironde and in Spain, firefighters continue to battle forest fires near the town of Monsagro. (BBC News)
- Mexican drug war
- Fourteen people are killed and another is injured when a helicopter involved in the search and arrest of drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero crashes in Los Mochis, Mexico. (Al Jazeera)
- Six people are killed in a multiple vehicle collision in Montana, United States, during a major dust storm. (AP)
International relations
- Saudi Arabia–United States relations
- U.S. President Joe Biden meets with Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Jeddah despite previously vowing to make him a "pariah". (Bloomberg)
Law and crime
- Judiciary of Poland
- Polish Supreme Court Disciplinary Chamber law
- The controversial Disciplinary Chamber of the Supreme Court is abolished. However, Didier Reynders, the European Commissioner for Justice, says that the European Court of Justice's ruling ordering the abolishment has not been fully respected and therefore Poland will continue to pay a fine of €1 million per day for contempt of court. (Rzeczpospolita)
- Polish Supreme Court Disciplinary Chamber law
- Mexican drug war
- Ex-leader of the Guadalajara Cartel Rafael Caro Quintero is captured by the Mexican Navy in Choix, Sinaloa, Mexico. (AP) (BBC News)
- Terrorism in Germany
- A 33-year-old former German Army officer is sentenced to five-and-a-half years in prison for plotting a terrorist attack on senior politicians while posing as a Syrian refugee. (CNN)
Science and technology
- International Space Station programme
- NASA and Roscosmos sign an agreement to integrate future flights to the International Space Station. The agreement will allow Russian cosmonauts to fly on U.S. spacecraft in return for allowing American astronauts to use Russia's Soyuz spacecraft. (Reuters)
July 14, 2022 (Thursday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russo-Ukrainian War
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- 2022 Vinnytsia attacks
- July 2022 Vinnytsia missile strike
- At least 23 civilians are killed and more than 100 others are injured by three Russian missile strikes in Vinnytsia. (BBC News)
- July 2022 Vinnytsia missile strike
- 2022 Vinnytsia attacks
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Spillover of the insurgency in the Sahel
- At least 12 civilians are killed by Islamic extremist gunmen during an attack against two villages in northern Togo. (Reuters)
- Mali War
Business and economy
- Social media site Twitter experiences a global outage lasting for 45 minutes, making it the site's longest outage since 2016. (The Guardian)
- Russia enacts a law that requires all companies to comply with the armed forces' orders to provide goods or services and provide overtime or additional work days if necessary. The requirement for a public procurement procedure for this type of request is abolished. (Rzeczpospolita)
Disasters and accidents
- Over 40 people are missing after a series of floods in Virginia, United States. All are later accounted for. (Daily Express) (BBC News)
- One person is killed by a magnitude 5.7 earthquake in Ecuador. (ABC)
- Three people are killed and two are injured by a mudslide that hit a school in Antioquia, Colombia. (AP)
- Pinhão, district of Vila Real, sets the highest July temperature ever in Portugal, reaching 47.0 °C (116.6 °F). (The Age) (IPMA)
Health and environment
- At least 30 green sea turtles are found dead off a beach in Kumejima, Japan, with many having been stabbed in the neck. The green sea turtle is an endangered species. (BBC)
Law and crime
- Capital punishment in South Korea
- In South Korea, the Constitutional Court begins deliberations on abolishing the death penalty upon an appeal by the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Korea. South Korea currently has a moratorium on the issue, having not hanged a death row inmate in the past 25 years. (South China Morning Post)
- Media freedom in Russia
- Russian president Vladimir Putin signs a law expanding the definition of "foreign agents" to all organisations deemed by the government to have fallen under "foreign influence", beginning on December 1. The law permits Roskomnadzor to block any websites related to a designated entity without a court order, and restricts these entities from receiving state funds and working with children or at state universities. (The Moscow Times)
- At least 89 people, including 42 civilians, are killed after gang warfare over the control of the Cité Soleil neighbourhood began a week ago between the G9 and G-Pèp gangs in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. (BBC News)
- Bolivian justice minister Iván Lima announces that the government will seek more charges against former president Jeanine Áñez for her alleged role in massacres perpetrated in Senkata and Sacaba in 2019. Añez is already serving a 10-year sentence on other charges. (Página/12)
Politics and elections
- 2022 United Kingdom government crisis
- 2022 Conservative Party leadership election
- Suella Braverman is eliminated from the leadership race in the second round of voting. (The Guardian)
- 2022 Conservative Party leadership election
- 2022 Sri Lankan protests
- Gotabaya Rajapaksa resigns as President of Sri Lanka after fleeing to Singapore. (BBC News)
- 2022 Italian government crisis
- Mario Draghi offers his resignation as Prime Minister of Italy after coalition partner Five Star withdraws its support. However, President Sergio Mattarella refuses to accept the resignation. (BBC News)
- Prime Minister of Estonia Kaja Kallas resigns to form a new coalition government. (Euronews)
July 13, 2022 (Wednesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russo-Ukrainian War
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Battle of Donbas
- Heavy Russian shelling is reported in Bakhmut, Donetsk Oblast, with at least one person killed and five others injured in the largely evacuated town. (The Guardian)
- Battle of Donbas
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
Business and economy
- 2021–2022 inflation surge
- The Bank of Canada raises its benchmark interest rate from 1.5 to 2.5 percent, the single largest increase since 1998, amid surging inflation. (CBC)
- In the United States, the annual rate of inflation rises to 9.1 percent, the highest rate in 40 years, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. (Fox Business)
- The euro's value against the U.S. dollar falls below parity for the first time in 20 years. (Reuters)
Disasters and accidents
- Two firefighters are killed and two others survive after a helicopter crashes on the Greek island of Samos, Greece. (AP)
Health and environment
- 2022 monkeypox outbreak
- 2022 monkeypox outbreak in Europe
- Bosnia and Herzegovina reports its first confirmed case of monkeypox. (Dnevni Avaz)
- 2022 monkeypox outbreak in Europe
- COVID-19 pandemic
- COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom
- The number of deaths from COVID-19 in the United Kingdom surpasses 200,000, with 294 deaths reported in the last week. (The Guardian)
- COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom
International relations
- International sanctions during the Russo-Ukrainian War
- Lithuania–Russia relations, Russia–European Union relations
- The European Commission allows Russia to resume shipping embargoed goods by rail to its exclave of Kaliningrad, following Russian threats against Lithuania. However, the transit of military equipment through Lithuanian territory remains prohibited. (Newsweek)
- Lithuania–Russia relations, Russia–European Union relations
- International recognition of the Donetsk People's Republic and the Luhansk People's Republic
- North Korea recognizes the independence of the Donetsk People's Republic and the Luhansk People's Republic, becoming the third nation to do so after Russia and Syria. Ukraine suspends relations with North Korea in response. (Reuters) (Business Insider)
Law and crime
- Global surveillance disclosures
- Vault 7
- A jury in New York convicts ex-Central Intelligence Agency engineer Joshua Schulte on all nine charges relating to the Vault 7 leak detailing the activities and capabilities of the CIA to perform electronic surveillance and cyber warfare. The leak is the largest leak in Central Intelligence Agency history. (The Verge)
- Vault 7
- 2022 Sri Lankan protests
- Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe confirms that former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has fled the country to the Maldives and declares a state of emergency and a curfew as the military fires tear gas at the protesters. (Al Jazeera) (ANINews)
- Protesters storm the Prime Minister's office in Colombo, demanding Wickremesinghe's immediate resignation. (Reuters)
- Capital punishment in Sudan
- A 20-year-old woman who is a campaigner for women's rights in Sudan appeals to the High Court to overturn her death sentence by stoning for adultery, the first time that such an appeal has been filed in nearly a decade. (The Guardian)
Politics and elections
- 2022 United Kingdom government crisis
- 2022 Conservative Party leadership election
- Nadhim Zahawi and Jeremy Hunt are eliminated from the leadership race in the first round of voting. (BBC News)
- 2022 Conservative Party leadership election
Science and technology
- Archeologists announce the discovery of a previously unknown Roman Empire city dubbed "El Forau de la Tuta", located near modern-day Artieda in the Province of Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain. (El País)
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