Portal:Current events/2022 July 30
July 30, 2022 (Saturday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Insurgency in Balochistan
- Six Balochistan Liberation Army separatists and a Pakistani soldier are killed during clashes in Kech District, Balochistan, Pakistan. (AP)
- At least 125 people are injured when supporters of Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr storm the parliament in Baghdad's Green Zone. (Metro)
- One person is wounded in an assassination attempt on President of Guatemala Alejandro Giammattei. The president is unharmed. (ABC)
Business and economy
- 2022 Russia–European Union gas dispute
- Russia's Gazprom suspends gas supplies to Latvia after accusing it of "violating conditions of purchase". The Latvian government says the suspension of gas from Russia is not expected to have a major impact on the economy. (BBC News)
Disasters and accidents
- July 2022 United States floods
- Urban Search and Rescue Missouri Task Force 1 is deployed in Eastern Kentucky, United States. (KMBC)
Health and environment
- COVID-19 pandemic
- COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
- COVID-19 pandemic in Niue
- Niue records its first community case of COVID-19, prompting Minister of Health Sauni Tongatule to move the country to its highest alert level. (RNZ)
- COVID-19 pandemic in North Korea
- North Korea announces zero "fever cases" for the first time since mid-May when the country first announced an outbreak of COVID-19. Authorities stated that 4.8 million people were infected and that 74 people died from the virus. (Al Jazeera)
- 2022 monkeypox outbreak
Law and crime