Portal:Current events/2024 July 2
July 2, 2024 (Tuesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Israel–Hamas war
- Accusations of United States complicity in Israeli war crimes in the Israel–Hamas war
- A dozen resigned United States government officials release a joint statement denouncing President Joe Biden's administration for its "undeniable complicity" in war crimes against Palestinian civilians by violating U.S. laws to continue sending Israel weapons. (Reuters)
- Siege of Khan Yunis
- An Israeli airstrike kills at least nine people in Khan Yunis in the Gaza Strip, hours after Israel ordered a mass evacuation of parts of the city. (AP)
- Accusations of United States complicity in Israeli war crimes in the Israel–Hamas war
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Two people are killed and nine others are injured when Russian artillery and drones hit Nikopol in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine. (Reuters) (Ukrinform)
- Kazakh dissident Aydos Sadykov has died two weeks after being shot outside his home in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Al Jazeera)
Disasters and accidents
- 2024 Atlantic hurricane season
- One person is killed in a landslide caused by Tropical Storm Chris in San Salvador, El Salvador. (Expreso Mexico)
- 2024 Uttar Pradesh stampede
- 123 people are killed in a stampede at a religious gathering in Hathras, Uttar Pradesh, India. (India Today) (Hindustan Times)
- Kobayashi red yeast rice scandal
- Seventy-six more deaths and at least 500 hospitalizations in Japan are linked to use of red yeast rice supplements distributed by Kobayashi Pharmaceutical, causing kidney disease and other severe conditions. (Asahi TV)
- Floods in northern Myanmar trap thousands of people in their homes and cause power outages and disruptions to telephone services. (Barron's)
International relations
- Peace negotiations in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Hungary–Ukraine relations, 2024 peace missions by Viktor Orbán
- Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán visits Kyiv, Ukraine, for the first time since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, proposing a ceasefire plan which is rejected by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. (Kyiv Independent)
- Hungary–Ukraine relations, 2024 peace missions by Viktor Orbán
- Panama–United States relations
- Panama and the United States sign a deal to reduce the flow of illegal immigration to the southern United States border through the Darién Gap, with the United States covering the costs of repatriating migrants who enter Panama illegally. (DW)
Law and crime
- Islamic terrorism in Europe
- Terrorism in the United Kingdom
- St James's University Hospital nursing assistant Mohammad Farooq is convicted at Sheffield Crown Court of crimes relating to plotting lone wolf attacks on RAF Menwith Hill in North Yorkshire and his Leeds workplace. (BBC News)
- Terrorism in the United Kingdom
- Attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election
- Former New York City Mayor and lawyer Rudy Giuliani is disbarred in the U.S. state of New York for his efforts in attempting to overturn the 2020 election. (AP)
- Australia issues statements to several social media and search engine websites ordering the websites to draft and enforce guidelines to prevent minors from seeing inappropriate material before October 3 or face national restrictions. (Reuters)
- The United States Department of Homeland Security deports 116 Chinese migrants back to China to deter illegal migration across the Mexico–United States border, representing the nation's first "large charter flight" deportation in the past five years. (AP)
- Serial killer Lucy Letby is convicted of an attempted murder in a retrial at Manchester Crown Court in Manchester, England. (BBC News)
Politics and elections
- 2023–2024 Dutch cabinet formation
- In the Netherlands, the Schoof cabinet is installed with Dick Schoof taking office as the new prime minister. (Rijksoverheid) (BBC News)
- 2023–2024 Georgian protests
- Protestors march in Tbilisi surrounding the Parliament Building in protest of the Georgian Dream party, the law on foreign agents, and in support of Georgia joining the EU. (Al Jazeera)
- Kenya Finance Bill protests
- Protests against the controversially rejected Kenyan finance bill and President William Ruto continue in major cities in the country, with the National Commission on Human Rights reporting at least 39 people killed and 361 injured in the protests. (Al Jazeera)
Science and technology
- The fifth busy beaver number is confirmed to be 47,176,870. (Quanta)