Portal:Current events/2021 July 11

July 11, 2021 (Sunday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

War in Afghanistan
- Australian Minister for Defence Peter Dutton says that the country has ended its military involvement in Afghanistan. (VOA)
Assassination of Jovenel Moïse
- Suspects in the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse say that their intent was to arrest, not kill, Moïse. The two Haitian-American suspects say that they were working as translators for the Colombian suspects and that they had an arrest warrant against Moïse, but found him dead when they arrived. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

Twelve people are killed and 26 others injured when a minibus carrying illegal immigrants from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh crashes and catches fire in Muradiye, Van Province, Turkey. (Al Jazeera)

Health and environment

COVID-19 pandemic
- COVID-19 pandemic in Asia
  - COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh
    - Bangladesh reports a record 11,874 new cases and 230 deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 1.02 million and the nationwide death toll to 16,419. (Bdnews24.com)
  - COVID-19 pandemic in Cambodia
    - Cambodia surpasses 60,000 cases of COVID-19. (Khmer Times)
  - COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia
    - COVID-19 vaccination in Indonesia
      - Indonesia receives three million doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine from the United States, facilitated through the COVAX initiative. (detikNews)
  - COVID-19 pandemic in Israel
    - COVID-19 vaccination in Israel
      - The Ministry of Health announces that Israel will resume administering first doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. (Times of Israel)
      - Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett announces that a deal has been reached with Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla, which would see a new shipment of vaccines delivered on August 1. (Jerusalem Post)
  - COVID-19 pandemic in Vietnam
    - Vietnam reports a record 1,953 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 29,816. (The Straits Times)
- COVID-19 pandemic in Africa
  - COVID-19 pandemic in Libya
    - Libya reports a record 2,854 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 204,090. (Al-Wasat)
  - COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa
    - President Cyril Ramaphosa extends South Africa's level four restrictions for 14 days until July 25 amid a third wave of COVID-19 caused by the Delta variant. (Business Tech)
- COVID-19 pandemic in Oceania
  - COVID-19 pandemic in Australia
    - New South Wales reports Australia's first death from COVID-19 in 10 months after a woman in her 90s died in Sydney after contracting the virus in a family setting. (BBC News)
  - COVID-19 pandemic in Fiji
    - Fiji surpasses 10,000 cases of COVID-19 after reporting 485 new cases and three deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours. The country has seen a significant increase in the number of infections since an outbreak in April. (RNZ)
- COVID-19 pandemic in Peru
  - Interim President Francisco Sagasti extends the COVID-19 state of emergency in Peru until the end of August. (Al Jazeera)
Authorities in Spain issue a heat wave warning for Madrid and the southern city of Seville for the second consecutive day as temperatures reach 44 °C (111 °F). (France 24)

International relations

Oman–Saudi Arabia relations
- In his first official overseas trip since assuming power last year, Omani Sultan Haitham bin Tariq meets with King Salman of Saudi Arabia in Neom for two days to discuss a peace initiative in Yemen, and strengthen economic and investment agreements between Saudi Arabia and Oman. Saudi media reports it is also Salman's first face-to-face meeting with a world leader since the COVID-19 pandemic began. (Al Jazeera)

Law and crime

LGBT rights in Georgia (country), 2021 attack on Tbilisi Pride
- Police in Georgia open a criminal investigation into the death of a journalist who was assaulted during attacks targeting LGBT+ activists planning the Tbilisi pride march. Organizers eventually called off the march when more homophobic attacks took place. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

July 2021 Bulgarian parliamentary election
- Bulgaria holds another election after the three largest parties failed to form a coalition government following the election in April. (Euronews)
- Exit polls do not show a clear winner, with newly-formed populist party There Is Such a People narrowly beating out GERB, the party of previous Prime Minister Boyko Borisov, by 0.2 percentage points. (Reuters)
2021 Moldovan parliamentary election
- Moldovan voters head to the polls in a snap election to elect new members of the Parliament. (Al Jazeera)
- Results show the pro-EU Party of Action and Solidarity, which President Maia Sandu has close ties to, as the winner with 52% of the vote. (DW)
2021 Cuban protests
- Thousands of Cubans, most of them young, attend a rare anti-government protest in San Antonio de los Baños to protest the increased food and medicine shortages brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. Hundreds of Cubans in Miami, Florida, United States, hold solidarity protests as Mayor Francis Suarez calls for an international intervention against the Cuban government in a press conference. (France 24) (NBC Miami)

Science and technology

Virgin Galactic Unity 22
- British billionaire Richard Branson travels into space aboard the VSS Unity, a spaceplane owned and operated by the space flight company Virgin Galactic. At the age of 70, he is the second oldest person to travel to outer space. (BBC News)

Sports

UEFA Euro 2020
- UEFA Euro 2020 Final
  - Italy beats England 3–2 on penalties in the UEFA Euro 2020 Final after a 1–1 draw following extra time. (BBC Sport)
  - England fans storm London's Wembley Stadium ahead of the team's matchup against Italy, with many of the intruders not removed from the stadium until halfway through the match. (The Times)