Portal:Current events/2014 July 28

July 28, 2014 (Monday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine:
- Ukrainian forces recapture control of the strategic height of Savur-Mohyla in Donetsk oblast from pro-Russian insurgents. (Interfax)
- Ukrainian forces recapture control of Debaltseve, Shakhtarsk, Torez, and Lutuhyne in Donetsk oblast from pro-Russian separatists. (Kyiv Post)
- The US and the EU increase sanctions against Russia. (The New York Times)
At least 16 people are killed and 13 injured in the Philippines in a terrorist attack by Islamic group Abu Sayyaf. (IANS via Biharprabha)
Post-civil war violence in Libya:
- A huge fire at the National Oil Corp. depot started by a stray rocket threatens the Libyan capital Tripoli. (AFP via The News)
2014 Israel–Gaza conflict:
- The United Nations Security Council calls for an immediate ceasefire but neither Israel nor Hamas agrees. (Washington Post)
- Israeli officials release a report documenting cases of journalists being threatened after reporting on potential war crimes by Hamas. (Times of Israel)
- The IDF releases data indicating that long range rockets fired by Islamic Jihad in Gaza struck a hospital in Shifa and a Palestinian refugee camp in Shati killing at least nine children and two adults. (Times of Israel)
- In Toulouse, France, a man is arrested for firebombing a Jewish center after a pro-Palestinian protest. (Jerusalem Post)
- A young Jewish man is assaulted and battered in Paris after his picture and identity is posted on a Facebook page calling for attacks on Jews. (Algemeiner)

Business and economy

American discount store chain Dollar Tree reaches an $8.5 billion deal to buy out rival Family Dollar. (AP)
The Hague's Permanent Court of Arbitration says Russian officials have manipulated the legal system to bankrupt Russia's largest Yukos oil company, and jail its boss (Mikhail Khodorkovsky and others). Yukos was the object of a series of politically motivated attacks by the Russian authorities that eventually led to its destruction. The company's assets were illegally expropriated for the benefit of State companies Rosneft and Gazprom. The Yuganskneftegaz auction was illegal. The $50 billion awarded by the Hague's arbitration court against Russia is the largest arbitration award ever. (Reuters) (The New York Times) (The Moscow Times) (BBC News)
Real estate firms Zillow and Trulia agree to merge, becoming the world's third-largest real estate firm. (Business Week)

Disasters and accidents

A rare EF2 tornado strikes Chelsea and Revere, Massachusetts marking the first such incident since at least 1950 that a tornado had hit the two communities north of Boston according to the NWS. (Boston Globe) (NWS)

Law and crime

Alleged child molester Charles Mozdir is shot and killed following a shootout in Manhattan that left two US Marshals and one police officer wounded after someone saw the recently aired segment involving Charles on The Hunt With John Walsh and gave a tip. (CNN) (Boston Herald)^{[permanent dead link‍]}