Portal:Current events/July 2019
July 2019 was the seventh month of that common year. The month, which began on a Monday, ended on a Wednesday after 31 days.
Portal:Current events[edit]
This is an archived version of Wikipedia's Current events Portal from July 2019.
July 1, 2019 (Monday)
Armed conflict and attacks
- War in Afghanistan; 1 July 2019 Kabul attack
- 40 people are killed and over 100 injured by a car bombing and shooting in Kabul, Afghanistan. The Taliban claims responsibility and loses five gunmen. (New York Times)
- Taliban militants overran the Qush Tepa district of Jowzjan Province, resulting in the deaths of over 50 Afghan soldiers. Many others were captured. (ATNNews)
- Iran–Israel conflict during the Syrian Civil War
- Israel strikes multiple Iranian and Syrian military targets outside Damascus and Homs, killing 16 people and wounding 21. (Haaretz)
- A stray Syrian S-200 missile fired in response to the Israeli strikes crashes and explodes on a mountain near Vouno in Northern Cyprus, located 20 km (12 miles) northeast of Nicosia, causing no injuries but starting a fire. (Reuters)
- Iranian intervention in Iraq (2014–present), Iran–Iraq relations
- Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi signs a decree ordering all Iranian-backed Shia militias to integrate into the Iraqi Armed Forces by the end of July. The decree will change the names of the militias such as the Popular Mobilization Forces to new divisions and brigades within the military. (Reuters) (Rudaw)
- Nine people were injured in a Houthi drone attack on Saudi Abha International Airport. (Haaretz)
Business and economy
- Whaling in Japan
- Japan resumes commercial whaling after 30 years following the country's withdrawal from the International Whaling Commission. At least 227 whales are expected to be killed through to December. (The Guardian)
- Phase-out of lightweight plastic bags
- A ban on single-use plastic shopping bags comes into force in New Zealand. Businesses that break the ban will face fines of up to $100,000NZD. (Gulf Today)
- 2019 Japan–South Korea trade dispute
- Japan announced tightening of chemical exports to South Korea that are crucial for semiconductor industry. (Reuters)
Disasters and accidents
- At least 16 people are killed and 45 injured when a bus rolls over on a road in Tucumán Province, Argentina. (Clarín)
- In Lower Saxony, Germany, a Bundeswehr helicopter crashes, killing one of the pilots. (DW)
- In Mexico, a storm drops over a metre of hail over parts of Guadalajara, damaging hundreds of houses. (CBC)
International relations
- Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, Nuclear program of Iran
- Iran announces that it has enriched more than 300 kilograms (660 lb) of uranium to 3.67%, contrary to previous agreement. This is still highly insufficient to produce one nuclear weapon. (Deutsche Welle)
- Japan–United States relations, Japan–North Korea relations, 2018–19 Korean peace process
- After speaking by phone with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Japanese Foreign Minister Tarō Kōno says "he hopes the meeting adds momentum to efforts toward the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula". Kōno also says that Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe "wants to meet Kim Jong-un to solve the issue of North Korean abductions of Japanese citizens". (Japan Today)
- Libya–Turkey relations
- After political pressure from Turkey, six Turkish sailors are released from detention by the Libyan National Army under general Khalifa Haftar. (The Guardian)
Law and crime
- France's interior minister, Christophe Castaner, has asked the Paris police chief to provide explanations about a video that went viral on social media, where law enforcement officers are seen spraying with pepper spray and dragging protesters from the Extinction Rebellion anti-climate change movement. Although the police needed to evict the protesters, who obstructed a transit route, the mechanisms that they used generated negative reactions. (The Guardian)
Politics and elections
- 2019 Hong Kong anti-extradition bill protests
- Hong Kong anti-extradition bill protesters briefly break into the Legislative Council Complex, which houses the local parliament. (The Guardian)
- LGBT rights in Japan
- Ibaraki Prefecture becomes the first in Japan to recognize same-sex partnerships. (Japan Today)
- David Hurley is sworn is as the 27th Governor-General of Australia, succeeding Peter Cosgrove. (SBS News)
July 2, 2019 (Tuesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Islamist militants attack a Niger Armed Forces base in the village of Inates, near the border with Mali, with two car bombs and gunmen, killing 18 soldiers. They also kidnapped four Nigerien soldiers and stole dozens of vehicles. (BBC News)
- Second Libyan Civil War
- A Libyan National Army airstrike on a suburb of Tripoli hits a detention centre for illegal migrants, killing at least 53 people and injuring 80 people. (Reuters) (CNN)
Disasters and accidents
- A fire on the Russian Navy's Losharik submarine kills 14 crew members while the vessel conducts tests in Russian territorial waters. (Sky News) (RFERL)
- At least 18 people have died and more than a dozen are still missing in devastating floods that swept southeastern Siberia, Russia. (The Japan Times)
International relations
- Iran–Saudi Arabia relations, Japan–Saudi Arabia relations
- Saudi Arabia's minister of state for foreign affairs Adel al-Jubeir says his country will work with Japan and other nations to come up with a plan to ensure that ships can safely transit the Persian Gulf region. Jubeir also calls for "action" on Iran. (NHK)
- China–United Kingdom relations, Hong Kong–United Kingdom relations, 2019 Hong Kong anti-extradition bill protests, Aftermath of the Handover of Hong Kong
- China warns the United Kingdom that "no country has the right to intervene on the issue of mass protests in Hong Kong", as it considers the problems of this self-governed city an "internal problem". For China, the agreement by which the United Kingdom returned Hong Kong is nothing more than "a historical document of no practical importance" and "that European country no longer has any responsibility over Hong Kong". The British chancellery, for its part, dismissed the Chinese opinion, and has said that "it is the right and obligation of the United Kingdom to work to enforce the agreement", which, in theory, guarantees a high degree of autonomy for Hong Kong for 50 years until 2047 without Chinese interference. (Sky News)
Politics and elections
- 2020 United States presidential election
- There has been a shake-up within the campaign organization of former Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper, which includes the departure of the manager of Hickenlooper's presidential campaign, Bradley Komar. Komar and other departing staffers reportedly believe that Hickenlooper should quit the race as he has no realistic prospect of victory. (Reuters)
- Education in Argentina, Argentina–Cuba relations
- Argentine Education Minister Alejandro Finocchiaro, who strongly condemned a school in Chaco Province for displaying a Cuban flag and displaying pictures of Che Guevara, says the school "has no supervision" and that they are "indoctrinating children with communism and totalitarian and populist governments". He also added in an interview on state TV that the school will be reviewed. (La Nación) (Clarín)
- The Fidesz supermajority of Hungary's National Assembly passes a bill, which takes the entire research network away from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and hands them to a new government-backed organisation. (Index)
- 2019 European Parliament election
- The Ninth European Parliament starts its term. (BBC News)
- Fugitive Catalan independence leaders Carles Puigdemont and Toni Comín, together with imprisoned Oriol Junqueras, are not allowed to take office as MEPs by the Supreme Court of Spain and Court of Justice of the European Union, while a pro-independence demonstration takes place in Strasbourg. (Reuters)
- The European Council nominates German Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen to replace Jean-Claude Juncker as President of the European Commission. If confirmed by the European Parliament, she will be the first woman to hold the position. The Council also nominates Charles Michel of Belgium as President of the European Council, Josep Borrell of Spain as High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, and Christine Lagarde of France as President of the European Central Bank. (BBC News)
- 2020 United States census
- The U.S. Departments of Justice and Commerce announce that the Trump administration will not implement a proposed citizenship question in the 2020 census, and will perform the census without the question. This follows the U.S. Supreme Court rejecting the administration's rationale for the question in the case Department of Commerce v. New York. (The Washington Post)
- Following the fatal shooting of a young Ethiopian–Israeli man on June 30, countrywide riots in Israel result in more than 80 injuries. (The Jerusalem Post)
Law and crime
- Tax returns of Donald Trump
- The U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means sues U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin and Commissioner of Internal Revenue Charles Rettig to obtain six years of U.S. President Donald Trump's tax returns. (NPR)
Science and technology
- Solar eclipse of July 2, 2019
- A total solar eclipse is visible from parts of Chile and Argentina, and a large remote stretch of the southern Pacific. (time and date)
- Ascent Abort-2
- NASA carries out a successful in-flight test of the launch abort system of its new Orion spacecraft, a milestone in the development of the Artemis program to resume human exploration beyond low Earth orbit. (Space.com)
July 3, 2019 (Wednesday)
Armed conflict and attacks
- Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir
- Five Pakistani soldiers are killed and one is injured by a bomb blast in Jammu and Kashmir. (Economic Times)
- Syrian Civil War
- A mass grave containing over 200 bodies is discovered in Raqqa, Syria. The victims, who were shackled and shot in the head, are believed to have been killed by ISIL militants. (Al Jazeera)
Disasters and accidents
- Over one million people in the Japanese prefectures of Miyazaki and Kagoshima are ordered to evacuate their homes due to torrential rainfall. An elderly woman in Kagoshima city died after a mudslide hit her home. (BBC News)
- One tourist is killed and several injured when Mt. Stromboli in Italy erupts. (BBC News)
- At least 26 people have died after a fishing boat capsized off the coast of Honduras. (BBC News)
- At least six people are killed and 190 injured after a tornado hits the city of Kaiyuan in Liaoning Province, China. (Global News)
Law and crime
- Death of Otto Warmbier, North Korea–United States relations
- The parents of Otto Warmbier, an American student who died in North Korean custody after allegedly being tortured, file a claim for a seized North Korean cargo ship in an attempt to collect on a $501 million judgment they received after suing the country. (Associated Press)
Politics and elections
July 4, 2019 (Thursday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Sanctions against Iran
- Royal Marines seize control of an oil tanker off the coast of Gibraltar that was en route to Baniyas in Syria, suspected of breaching EU sanctions against Syria, carrying Iranian crude oil. The United Kingdom's Ambassador to Iran, Robert Macaire, is summoned in Tehran over the incident, which Iran describes as an "illegal seizure". (BBC News)
Art and culture
- Salute to America
- A major holiday celebration and military parade is held in Washington, D.C., United States, by President Donald Trump to commemorate the Fourth of July/Independence Day. (CNN) (NBC)
Business and economics
- Lightsource BP, a solar energy developer headquartered in London, has announced that it will acquire utility-scale solar projects in Brazil, 1.9 gigawatts of projects, for an undisclosed sum. This is a major expansion for Lightsource, which is 43% owned by the energy giant BP. (Reuters)
Disasters and accidents
- 2019 Ridgecrest earthquakes
- An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.4 with scores of foreshocks and aftershocks hits Southern California, 150 miles (240 km) north of Los Angeles near the city of Ridgecrest. No injuries are reported. The earthquake is the largest in Southern California since the 1999 Hector Mine earthquake. (CNN) (USGS) (USGS)
- European migrant crisis
- More than 80 people are missing after a migrant boat capsizes off the coast of Tunisia, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM). (The Guardian)
International relations
- Australia–North Korea relations
- An Australian student who had been detained in North Korea on June 25 is freed thanks to diplomatic talks between Australia and North Korea via Swedish officials. (Reuters)
- Kosovo–Serbia relations
- Amid a deterioration in relations, Kosovo bans all Serbian officials from entering the country, in response to "constant propaganda and false news about the country and our citizens" from Belgrade. (RFERL)
Law and crime
- Crime in Virginia
- A 20-year-old man is charged with stabbing three in a machete attack in a plasma center in Petersburg, Virginia. (Yahoo! News)
July 5, 2019 (Friday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- 2019 Reyhanlı car bombing
- A car bomb explodes in the Turkish city of Reyhanlı. The blast kills three Syrian citizens who were inside the car. (Daily Sabah)
- War in Afghanistan
- Fourteen civilians are killed and 45 injured in mortar attacks in Faryab Province. Taliban insurgents claim responsibility for the attack. (TOLOnews)
- A bomb hits a mosque in Ghazni, Afghanistan, killing two and wounding over 40. (TOLOnews)
Arts and culture
- Hijab by country
- Tunisian Prime Minister Youssef Chahed announces that the niqab will be banned in public institutions effective immediately, citing security concerns following a pair of suicide bombings on June 27. (Al Jazeera)
Disasters and accidents
- 2019 Ridgecrest earthquakes
- A magnitude 7.1 earthquake hits Southern California just a day after a magnitude 6.4 earthquake in the same area. (USGS)
- Seven Americans, including coal billionaire Chris Cline, are found dead in a helicopter crash in the Bahamas. (Los Angeles Times)
Politics and elections
- Operation Car Wash
- New text messages between Brazilian judge Sérgio Moro and Operation Car Wash's prosecutors are leaked by The Intercept Brasil and Veja. In the messages, Judge Moro illegally advises the prosecutors in including pieces of evidence against defendants of cases presided by him and suggests dates for Federal Police operations. The messages also suggest that Moro withheld evidence to prevent cases being transferred out of his jurisdiction to the Supreme Federal Court. (Veja)
- Sudanese protests
- The Sudanese military and representatives of civil groups agree on a deal to share power for a transition period. (DW)
July 6, 2019 (Saturday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Islamist insurgency in Mozambique
- ISIL claims responsibility for a Wednesday attack in Nangade District in Mozambique, which killed seven people. (Business Standard)
- Five soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces are injured in a vehicle-ramming attack in Hizma, Palestine. The suspect is still at large. (The Jerusalem Post)
- Syrian Civil War
- The SNHR says at least 544 civilians (including 130 children) have been killed, and another 2,117 people injured since a Russian-led Syrian government assault on the last rebel bastion in northwestern Syria began two months prior. (Al Jazeera) (Reuters)
Disasters and accidents
- 23 people are injured in a gas explosion at a shopping mall in Plantation, Florida. (WPLG) (CNN)
- At least 2 company employees are confirmed killed and two more are critically injured in an explosion at the industrial waste processing plant owned by Monotaro due to improper handling of spray cans. (nikkei.com)
Law and crime
- American billionaire Jeffrey Epstein is arrested and faces new charges related to alleged sex crimes involving minors. (ABC News)
July 7, 2019 (Sunday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- War in Afghanistan, 2019 Ghazni bombing
- Fourteen people are killed and nearly 200 are injured in a suicide car bombing by the Taliban in Ghazni, Afghanistan. (Al Jazeera)
Arts and culture
- The Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire, United Kingdom, the ancient ruins of Babylon in Babil Governorate, Iraq, among other sites are designated UNESCO World Heritage Sites. (BBC News) (The Independent)
International relations
- Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, Nuclear program of Iran
- Iran announces plans to begin enriching uranium beyond the limit set in its 2015 nuclear deal, with world powers pressing Europe to salvage the accord after the United States withdrew from it last year. (Al Jazeera)
Politics and elections
- 2019 Greek legislative election
- Citizens of Greece go to the polls to vote for the next members of the Hellenic Parliament. (BBC News)
- Leader of the Opposition Kyriakos Mitsotakis, from New Democracy, wins an absolute majority and is expected to be sworn in Prime Minister as incumbent Alexis Tsipras falls to second place. Far-right Golden Dawn loses all the seats they had in the Parliament. (The New York Times)
- Operation Car Wash, Foreign relations of Venezuela, Foreign relations of Brazil
- New leaked messages between Brazilian judge Sérgio Moro and prosecutors of Operation Car Wash show that Moro suggested they leak confidential information concerning Odebrecht's activities in Venezuela to members of the Venezuelan opposition. Some prosecutors even entertained the possibility of provoking a civil war in Venezuela over the leaks. (The Intercept Brasil)
- Anglican bishop David Vunagi is sworn in as Governor-General of Solomon Islands. (Solomon Times)
Sports
- 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup
- In the final match of the 2019 Women's World Cup, the United States wins 2–0 over the Netherlands. Golden Boot winner Megan Rapinoe scored on a penalty kick, followed by Rose Lavelle's strike in the 69th minute. (The New York Times)
- 2019 Copa América
- Hosts Brazil defeat Peru 3–1 in the final match of the Copa América at the Estádio do Maracanã in Rio de Janeiro. It is their ninth title and first since 2007. (The Guardian)
- 2019 CONCACAF Gold Cup
- Mexico wins their eighth Gold Cup, defeating the United States 1–0 in the final match in Chicago. (The Washington Post)
- FIBA Women's EuroBasket 2019
- Spain wins its fourth title of the Eurobasket competition after defeating France in the final match. (El Mundo)
July 8, 2019 (Monday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen
- The United Arab Emirates announces a partial withdrawal of its forces from Yemen as part of a "strategic redeployment". (CNN)
Business and economy
- Deutsche Bank announces lay-offs – roughly 18,000 job cuts – around the globe as part of a "reinvention", scrapping its global equities and cutting its fixed income operations. (Deutsche Bank) (The New York Times)
Disasters and accidents
- Flash flooding in Washington, D.C. delivers a month's worth of rain on the local area in the span of an hour. The torrential rain leaves commuters stranded on car rooftops, floods several metro stations and causes flooding in the White House. (CNET)
International relations
- African Continental Free Trade Agreement
- African leaders agree on a continent-wide free trade zone, which encompasses all African nations except for Eritrea and Somaliland. The various European territories located in Africa are also excluded. It will be the largest free trade zone since the creation of the World Trade Organization. (DW)
Law and crime
- The International Criminal Court declares Bosco Ntaganda guilty of having committed war crimes during the Ituri conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (DW)
- Tax returns of Donald Trump
- New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signs a bill that will allow congressional committees to access President Donald Trump's state tax returns. (The New York Times)
Politics and elections
- 2019 Greek legislative election
- Winner of the general election Kyriakos Mitsotakis is sworn in as the new Prime Minister of Greece, succeeding Alexis Tsipras. (Reuters)
- Pope Francis names for first time in Vatican history female members of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life. (Catholic News Agency)
July 9, 2019 (Tuesday)
International relations
- Argentina–Lebanon relations
- Argentine President Mauricio Macri issues a decree declaring Hezbollah a "terrorist organization". (La Nación)
Politics and elections
- 2020 United States presidential election, 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries
- U.S. billionaire Tom Steyer announces his run for nomination by the United States Democratic Party in the 2020 United States presidential election. (CNN)
July 10, 2019 (Wednesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Assailants raid a village in Papua New Guinea's Hela province, killing and dismembering 16 women and children, and burning buildings. (The Guardian)
- Three or five of Iran's IRGC Navy gunboats unsuccessfully attempt to seize control of British oil tanker British Heritage in the Persian Gulf, according to UK's Ministry of Defense as well as two anonymous U.S. officials. The Royal Navy's HMS Montrose reportedly warns the boats to back away from the BP Shipping-owned tanker, which they do. The incident is allegedly captured on a U.S. aircraft's camera. (CNN)
Business and economy
- Three large shipbuilders in the People's Republic of China announce that they are in talks to merge. This is part of an ongoing shake-up and consolidation of that industry in the face of high operational costs and sluggish new orders. (Caixin Eng.)
Disasters and accidents
- An unexpected violent storm hits the Greek region of Halkidiki with heavy rain, hail, and strong winds, killing six foreign tourists. (BBC News)
International relations
- United Kingdom–United States relations
- Sir Kim Darroch, the United Kingdom's ambassador to the United States, resigns his appointment amid public disagreements with U.S. President Donald Trump initiated by a series of leaked diplomatic cables in which the ambassador criticized the president, and will leave the post upon the appointment of his successor. (BBC News)
- Kosovo–Serbia relations
- Serbian Defense Minister Aleksandar Vulin is banned from entering Kosovo. (ABC News)
Law and crime
- List of lawsuits involving Donald Trump
- The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit dismisses a lawsuit by the state of Maryland and the District of Columbia against President Donald Trump, citing lack of legal standing in challenging payments to President Trump's private properties by foreign customers. (CNBC) (Politico)
Science and technology
- 2019 in archaeology
- Paleoanthropologists announce, through the Nature journal, that a human skull (Apidima 1) discovered inside a cave in Greece, is dated to 210,000 years ago, making it the oldest known Homo sapiens individual found outside of Africa. (BBC News) (Nature)
Sports
- 2019 Cricket World Cup
- New Zealand defeats India in the first semi-final of the Cricket World Cup. (The Independent)
- 2019 ESPY Awards
- The 27th annual ESPY Awards are held in the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, California. The United States women's national soccer team wins the Outstanding Team Award for their 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup victory, Giannis Antetokounmpo wins the Best Male Athlete Award, Alex Morgan wins the Best Female Athlete Award, and Saquon Barkley wins the Breakthrough Athlete of the Year Award. (ESPN)
July 11, 2019 (Thursday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Second Libyan Civil War
- Four people are killed and over 30 injured in a car bomb attack at a funeral for a senior Libyan National Army commander in Benghazi. (Reuters)
- Syrian Civil War
- A car bomb detonates in a Turkey-backed rebel city, Afrin, near the entrance, killing 11 and injuring over 30 badly. (Reuters)
- Another car bomb detonates in the city of Qamishli near a church, injuring 11. The Islamic State claimed responsibility. (Rudaw)
Disasters and accidents
- Tropical Storm Barry (2019)
- Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards declares a state of emergency as Tropical Storm Barry makes unprecedented levels of rainfall on Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and the western Florida Panhandle. (CNN) (CNN²)
- Seven people, including six foreign tourists, are killed and 100 others injured during a violent storm that swept across Thessaloniki, Greece. (BBC News)
Law and crime
- British right-wing activist Tommy Robinson is sentenced to nine months in prison for contempt of court — minus time served equals about another 10 weeks in prison. Supporters attacked police and journalists following the court proceedings. Police say no new arrests were made. (BBC News)
- American R&B singer R. Kelly is arrested in Chicago on federal sex crime charges. (NBC News)
Science and technology
- JAXA's Hayabusa2 space probe makes its second successful and final landing on Apollo asteroid 162173 Ryugu. (The Guardian)
July 12, 2019 (Friday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Asasey Hotel attack
- A car bomb and a gun attack kill at least 26, including two prominent journalists and nine foreigners, in Kismayo, Somalia. (BBC News)
- War in Afghanistan
- A suicide bomber kills nine people and injures 40 others at a wedding in the Nangarhar Province in Afghanistan. The bomber is believed to be a minor. (BBC News) (Reuters)
- 2019 Venezuelan presidential crisis
- The Venezuelan government arrests two members of disputed Interim President Juan Guaidó's personal security. The government claims that the pair were trying to sell weapons stolen from the national army and organising the failed coup attempt on 30 April. The opposition denies the weapons charges. (Reuters)
International relations
- Russia–Turkey relations
- Turkey receives its first shipment of the S-400 missile system from Russia, defying U.S. and NATO calls to cancel the deal. (BBC News)
Law and crime
- Oulu child sexual exploitation scandal
- Oulu District Court hands down the last sentences concerning the cases involving eight foreign-born men who abused the same girl victim. (Yle)
Politics and elections
- U.S. Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta announces his resignation from office amid growing public criticism over his past role in securing a 2008 plea deal for former financier Jeffrey Epstein, after Epstein was arrested and charged with sex trafficking of minors. He is to be replaced by Acting Secretary Patrick Pizzella effective July 19. (NBC News)
July 13, 2019 (Saturday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- War in Afghanistan
- Taliban gunmen storm a hotel in Badghis Province, killing four soldiers and two civilians. Three of the five gunmen are killed and two are arrested. (RFE/RadioLiberty)
- A U.S. soldier is also killed in a separate bombing in Wardak Province. (Al Jazeera)
- 2019 Tacoma attack
- Four policemen kill a suspect attempting to attack an ICE immigrant detention center in Tacoma, Washington. The perpetrator was armed with a rifle and incendiary devices, and had left a three-page manifesto advocating political violence (BBC News) (Heavy)
Disasters and accidents
- Manhattan blackout
- A blackout in New York City affects 42,000 people near Times Square. (CNN)
- Monsoon of South Asia
- Three days of heavy rain in Nepal trigger floods and landslides resulting in at least 67 deaths. India was also affected by heavy floods, resulting in the death of 34 people, while 29 others died in Bangladesh. (BBC News)
- Tropical Storm Barry increases to 121 kilometers per hour (75 miles per hour), becoming the first hurricane of the 2019 Atlantic hurricane season.
Politics and elections
- U.S. Vice President Mike Pence says the conditions under which asylum seekers are being held in facilities along the U.S. border with Mexico are unacceptable, after visiting two federal detention centers in Texas, remaining the highest-ranking member of the Trump administration to say so. He calls upon the U.S. Congress to act. (CNN)
Sports
- 2019 Wimbledon Championships
- Simona Halep defeats Serena Williams (6–2, 6–2) to win the 2019 Wimbledon women's singles championship, her first Wimbledon victory and her second Grand Slam singles title. Williams was attempting to equal Margaret Court's all-time record of 24 Grand Slam singles titles. (The Guardian)
July 14, 2019 (Sunday)
Disasters and accidents
- A GippsAero GA8 Airvan sky diving operation plane crashes on an island outside Umeå, Sweden, killing all nine people onboard. (The Guardian)
International relations
- Argentina–Brazil relations
- Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro renews his support for the re-election of Argentine President Mauricio Macri. "We're brothers, and I want prosperity for our nations," he concludes in an interview. (Clarín)
Science and technology
- The European Union's Galileo satellite navigation system suffers a major outage due to a "technical incident related to its ground infrastructure," taking all active Galileo satellites offline. (BBC News)
Sports
- 2019 Wimbledon Championships
- In the men's singles final match, Serbian Novak Djokovic beats Swiss Roger Federer in five sets for his 16th Grand Slam title win in a match that lasted four hours and 56 minutes. It was the longest Wimbledon final of all time, and also the first men's singles final in any of the four Grand Slam events that went to a fifth-set tiebreaker. (Wimbledon) (ESPN)
- 2019 Cricket World Cup
- England beats New Zealand in the 2019 Cricket World Cup Final on total boundaries after both regulation play and a super over end in a tie. (ESPN)
July 15, 2019 (Monday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- War in Afghanistan
- A landmine blast in the Khakrez District kills 11 pilgrims, including seven children. (Reuters)
Law and crime
- Aftermath of the Charlottesville car attack
- James A. Fields Jr. receives a second life sentence in prison plus 419 years for driving his car into a crowd of protestors, killing one and injuring 28, at the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. (AP)
- A police raid on a neo-Nazi group in northern Italy results in the arrest of three people. Sophisticated weaponry, including a Matra Super 530F air-to-air missile, are seized during the operation. (BBC News)
July 16, 2019 (Tuesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Syrian Civil War
- Syrian government airstrikes targeting residential areas in the towns of Jisr al-Shughur, Khan Shaykhun, Maar Shoreen, Hantoteen and Ain Al Bardeh in Idlib province, kill at least nine civilians and injure 14 others. (AA)
Business and economy
- Nate Sutton, associate general counsel of Amazon, in testimony before a committee of the U.S. Senate, denies that the company uses individual data to compete unfairly with smaller sellers using its third-party platform. (Seeking Alpha)
Law and crime
- Odebrecht case
- Former President of Peru Alejandro Toledo is arrested in the United States following an extradition request. (US News)
- American musician R. Kelly pleads not guilty to federal sex-assault charges but is denied bail. (NBC News)
Politics and elections
- Telegramgate scandal
- Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rosselló says that he will remain in office despite protests. (CBS News)
- The European Parliament elects Ursula von der Leyen of Germany as the new President of the European Commission. Succeeding Jean-Claude Juncker, she will be sworn in on 1 November 2019. She is the first woman to be elected to this office in EU history. (BBC News)
- Christine Lagarde announces that she will step down as managing director of the International Monetary Fund on 12 September 2019. (BBC News)
July 17, 2019 (Wednesday)
Disasters and accidents
- A national emergency is declared in the Philippines after more than 100,000 people contract dengue fever. (Fox News)
Health and environment
- 2018–20 Kivu Ebola epidemic
- The World Health Organisation declares the most recent Ebola outbreak in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. (The Guardian)
International relations
- Turkey–United States relations
- The United States removes NATO ally Turkey from the Joint Strike Fighter program, following the country's acquisition of the Russian S-400 missile system. Turkey had planned to buy 100 F-35 Lightning II jets. (BBC News)
Law and crime
- AMIA bombing
- At the request of Israel and the United States, Argentina officially declares Hezbollah a terrorist organization, freezing assets and expelling all members of the organization from the country. It also holds it responsible for the 1994 attack against AMIA. (Clarín) (Perfil) (TN)
- Mexican drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán is sentenced to life in prison plus thirty years, and is ordered to forfeit US$12.6 billion. He accused the U.S. government of "torture and corruption" during his sentencing hearing in the U.S. District Court in Brooklyn, New York. He will likely be sent to ADX Florence in Colorado to serve his sentence. (CNBC)
- Pakistan arrests Hafiz Saeed, the founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba, which has been blamed by the United States and India for the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks that left more than 160 people dead. (CBS News)
- A shooting in Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan, leaves two dead, including a Turkish diplomat. (DW)
Politics and elections
- President-elect of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen resigns from her position as Federal Minister of Defence of Germany. Chancellor Angela Merkel appoints Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, the leader of the ruling CDU, as her successor. (DW)
- 2018–19 Sudanese protests
- The U.S. House of Representatives votes 332–95 to table an impeachment-related measure against U.S. President Donald Trump. (CNN)
- During a campaign rally, U.S. President Donald Trump says "Squad" members "hate our country". In light of recent statements made by Trump deemed as racist, the crowd of Trump supporters started chanting "send her back" in regards to Representative Ilhan Omar. (USA Today)
Science and technology
- Astronomers rule out the chances of ~30-meter asteroid 2006 QV89's impacting Earth in September 2019 by eliminating the possibility of its passing through an area where it would have to be if it were on an impacting orbit. Prior to this, the asteroid had been given a one-in-7,000 chance of impacting Earth. (phys.org)
July 18, 2019 (Thursday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- War in Afghanistan
- Twelve people are killed and over 80 injured by two car bombs at a gate outside police headquarters in Kandahar, Afghanistan. (Reuters)
- Sinai insurgency
- A suicide bombing kills two people in northern Sinai a day after four bodies were found decapitated. (Al Jazeera)
- U.S. President Donald Trump reports the United States Navy's USS Boxer "destroys" an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) drone in a "defensive action", in the Strait of Hormuz. The Iranian drone reportedly came within 1,000 yards (3,000 ft) of the U.S. vessel and ignored multiple calls to stand down. (CNBC)
International relations
- Iran confirms its seizure of a Panamanian-flagged oil tanker traveling from the United Arab Emirates, and its 12 crewmembers, in the Persian Gulf last week. The tanker is being held at Qeshm Island, and is accused by Iran of smuggling oil. The United Arab Emirates denies owning or operating the tanker. (USA Today)
- Argentina–Iran relations
- Argentine Justice and Human Rights Minister Germán Garavano says that all countries are responsible to extradite the Iranian accused of the AMIA bombing to Argentina in case they ever set foot on their soil. (Perspectiva Sur)
- Holy See–Iran relations
- Cardinal Louis Raphael Sako, the head of the Iraq’s Chaldean Catholic Church, voices his concerns about rising tensions between the US and Iran could endanger plans for Pope Francis visit to Iraq. (Asia News)
Law and crime
- Kyoto Animation arson attack
- A 41-year-old man sets fire to the main offices of Kyoto Animation, an animation studio based in Kyoto, Japan. At least 34 people are confirmed dead and 35 injured. Many of the victims are in their 20s and 30s. (The Guardian)
July 19, 2019 (Friday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Iran–United Kingdom relations
- Iranian Navy of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps captures British tanker Stena Impero and temporarily seizes British-operated and Liberian-flagged tanker Mesdar in the Persian Gulf. British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt says there will be "serious consequences" if Iran does not release the tanker. (CNN) (Yahoo!) (BBC News)
- Iran–United States relations
- Iran denies that one of its drones was shot down by the United States on July 18, saying all of their drones "returned to their bases." (USA Today)
- A car bombing at Kabul University kills eight and injures dozens. (Reuters)
Disasters and accidents
- Skydive Umeå Gippsland GA8 Airvan crash
- The Gippsland GA8 Airvan is grounded in Australia, New Zealand and the European Union following a fatal crash on July 14. (The Guardian) (New Zealand Herald)
Politics and elections
- Ramush Haradinaj, Prime Minister of Kosovo, resigns after receiving a summons from the Kosovo Specialist Prosecutor's Office as a war crimes suspect. (DW)
Sports
- 2019 Africa Cup of Nations
- Algeria defeats Senegal in the Africa Cup of Nations Final, winning their second continental championship. (The Guardian)
July 20, 2019 (Saturday)
Arts and culture
- List of highest-grossing films
- The Walt Disney Company reports that Avengers: Endgame has surpassed Avatar as the highest grossing movie of all time, unadjusted for inflation. (CNN)
Business and economy
- British Airways halts flights to Cairo for at least seven days, citing security concerns. Lufthansa also halts all flights, although only for one day. (Reuters)
Disasters and accidents
- An explosion at a gas factory in China's Henan Province kills at least 15 people and leaves 256 injured. (DW)
Sports
- Manny Pacquiao vs. Keith Thurman
- In boxing, Manny Pacquiao defeats Keith Thurman via split decision held in MGM Grand Garden Arena, Las Vegas, Nevada. (ABS-CBN News)
July 21, 2019 (Sunday)
Business and economy
- German airline Lufthansa resumes flights between Cairo and Frankfurt and Munich, while British Airways flights to Cairo remain cancelled for six more days. The UK Foreign Office warns against "all travel" to certain parts of Egypt, but its standard advice for Cairo is for passengers to check for changes. (BBC News) (UK Foreign Office)
International relations
- United States–Venezuela relations
- The Venezuelan military reports that on Friday, an American Naval reconnaissance plane entered its national airspace, threatening flights to Maiquetia Airport; the United States asserts that their aircraft was over international waters in the Caribbean on an approved mission. The US plane was followed for a prolonged time by a Venezuelan fighter. (Bloomberg) (The Guardian)
- Foreign relations of Argentina
- President Mauricio Macri and Justice and Human Rights Minister of Argentina Germán Garavano say that Argentina will start to receive reports of human rights abuses and criminal accusations against the Venezuelan government. Macri also reiterates his support for Juan Guaidó. (TN)
Law and crime
- Taiwan Customs officers discover 9800 cartons of cigarettes worth more than 200,000 USD smuggled in five trucks of presidential motorade when President Tsai Ing-wen has returned from an official trip to the Caribbean and leaves the airport via a VIP lane. A security agent of National Security Bureau within Tsai's entourage allegedly pre-ordered the cigarettes duty-free from China Airlines and stored them at a warehouse of the airline's catering company at Taoyuan International Airport. National Security Bureau Director-General Peng Sheng-chu resigns over the scandal on the following day. (Taiwan News) (CNA)(Taipei Times)
- 2019 Hong Kong anti-extradition bill protests
- A mob of suspected masked triad members dressed in white and armed with batons attack commuters indiscriminately at Yuen Long station, injuring 45, including a pro-democracy legislator and a pregnant woman. Hong Kong police have been accused of allowing the violence to happen due to their delayed response and decision to limit emergency services in the area. (The Guardian) (SCMP)
- Pro-Beijing legislator Junius Ho applauds the assailants for their actions, saying they should be "pardoned for defending their homes" and calling them his "heroes". (HKFP) (SCMP)
- A former Venezuelan state oil executive at PDVSA, Juan Carlos Márquez, is found hanged in an apartment in Madrid. He had been taken into custody in connection with an investigation into corruption and money laundering. (BBC News)
Politics and elections
- 2019 Japanese House of Councillors election
- Japanese citizens head to the polls to elect one half of the members of the country's House of Councillors. (Japan Times)
- The Liberal Democratic Party of Japan, led by Prime Minister Shinzō Abe, wins a clear, but reduced, majority of the seats but falls short on gaining the two-thirds supermajority needed to start the pursued process of amending the constitution. (Reuters)
- 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election
- Ukrainian citizens vote for the new members of the Verkhovna Rada, following its dissolution by President Volodymyr Zelensky in May. (DW)
- Servant of the People, President Zelensky’s party, wins most of the seats with a comfortable majority. (The Guardian)
Sports
- 2019 Open Championship
- In golf, Shane Lowry of Ireland wins the year's final men's major at Portrush, Northern Ireland by 6 shots over England's Tommy Fleetwood. (ESPN)
July 22, 2019 (Monday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Second Libyan Civil War, Libya–Tunisia relations
- Tunisia's Ministry of Defence says that a pilot is arrested after a damaged Libyan warplane, reported to be a L-39 Albatros, makes an emergency landing on a road near the southern town of Beni Khadash. (Reuters)
- Suicide bombers attack a French military base in Gao, Mali, where Estonian, French and Malian troops serve. Six Estonians and "around the same number" of French personnel are wounded in the attack. (ERR)
- July 2019 Mogadishu bombing
- A bomb kills 17 people and injures 28 others in Mogadishu, Somalia. (New York Times)
Arts and culture
- Billboard reports that Lil Nas X tied the all-time record on the Billboard Hot 100 with his song "Old Town Road", as it spends its sixteenth week atop the chart; the other record-holders are Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men with "One Sweet Day", and Luis Fonsi with "Despacito" featuring Daddy Yankee. The song broke the record the next week. (Billboard)
Business and economy
- Due to declining sales, American retailer GNC announces it will close between 700 and 900 stores. (USA Today)
International relations
- Iran–United States relations
- The Iranian government announces the arrest of 17 citizens in the last months who are accused of spying in favour of the CIA. (DW)
- Russia–South Korea relations
- South Korean fighter jets fire warning shots at three Russian planes as a reaction to an alleged violation of the country's national airspace. (DW)
- Foreign relations of Venezuela
- Four months after being expelled from the country, German Ambassador to Venezuela Daniel Kriener returns to his post in the nation. (VOA)
- Holy See–Syria relations
- Pope Francis petitions President Bashar al-Assad Assad to protect weak and defenseless in Syria. The pope’s appeal is in a letter to Assad delivered by Cardinal Peter Turkson, prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development at a meeting with the president in Damascus. (Catholic News Agency)
Law and crime
- A shooting in the town of Wächtersbach, Hesse, Germany gravely injures an Eritrean man. The suspect commits suicide after fleeing the scene. Police treat the incident to be inspired by xenophobia. (DW)
Politics and elections
- 2019 Haitian protests
- Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Michel Lapin, who was appointed 4 months ago, resigns amidst renewed protests. President Jovenel Moïse appoints Fritz-William Michel as the new Prime Minister. (teleSUR)
- Hundreds of followers from the Shia group Islamic Movement for Nigeria were out on the streets in Abuja to demand the release of their leader Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky, who has been detained since 2015. Police opened fire and killed eleven protesters and a journalist. A police officer was also killed in the fight. (BBC News)
Science and technology
- The Indian Space Research Organization successfully launches Chandrayaan-2 to survey lunar water from Satish Dhawan Space Center, India's second lunar exploration mission. If successful, Chandrayaan-2 will become the first spacecraft to land on the lunar south pole. (FP)
July 23, 2019 (Tuesday)
International relations
- Foreign relations of Venezuela
- Through Argentine Foreign Affairs Minister Jorge Faurie, the Lima Group say that "the use of force in Venezuela will be implemented when required". (El Nacional)
- Hezbollah foreign relations
- Hezbollah condemns Argentina over its designation of their group as a "terrorist organization", saying Argentina did so under "United States pressure". (Itón Gadol)
Politics and elections
- 2019 Conservative Party leadership election
- Boris Johnson is elected as Leader of the UK Conservative Party, and as a result is expected to become Prime Minister of the United Kingdom on 24 July 2019. (BBC News)
July 24, 2019 (Wednesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Somali Civil War
- A suicide bomber detonates inside the office of Mogadishu's mayor Abdirahman Abdi Osman, killing six government officials. Osman is seriously injured in the attack and his condition is critical. (BBC News)
Business and economy
- Boeing 737 MAX groundings
- Boeing reports its largest-ever quarterly loss, of US$2.9 billion, as a result of the grounding of its 737 MAX series, with the company saying that it could halt its production. (The Guardian)
Health and environment
- July 2019 European heat wave
- Highest-ever temperatures are recorded in Germany (at 40.5°C or 104.9°F), the Netherlands (at 39.2°C or 102.5°F), and Belgium (at 38.9°C or 102.0°F). (Deutscher Wetterdienst) (The Guardian)
Politics and elections
- Premiership of Theresa May, Premiership of Boris Johnson
- Theresa May visits Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace to formally tender her resignation and recommend her replacement as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. (Royal Communications)
- Greenpeace protesters block The Mall, the drive to Buckingham Palace, holding up Prime Minister-designate Boris Johnson on his way to visit the Queen. (The Guardian)
- Johnson is asked by the Queen to form a new administration, making him the 55th Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. (BBC News)
- Multiple cabinet members resign on the day of Johnson's ascension to premiership, or in the days preceding it, in response to Johnson's politics and views on Brexit, including Chancellor, Philip Hammond, Foreign Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, David Gauke, Sir Alan Duncan, Rory Stewart, Anne Milton, and Theresa May's de facto deputy the: Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster & Minister for the Cabinet Office, David Lidington. (The Guardian) (Financial Times) (The Times)
- Secretary-General of the European Commission Martin Selmayr is appointed as EC representative in Austria from November 1 on. (Politico) (Deutsche Welle)
- Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer is sworn in as German defence minister. (Deutsche Welle)
July 25, 2019 (Thursday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Japan–North Korea relations
- North Korea tests two new missiles that land in the Sea of Japan, though not within Japanese territory. Japanese Defense Minister Takeshi Iwaya condemns the testing as "extremely regrettable". (Al Jazeera) (DW)
Health and environment
- July 2019 European heat wave
- A number of national maximum temperature records are broken, several surpassing records set the previous day: Germany sees 42.6 °C (108.7 °F) at Lingen, Belgium 41.8 °C (107.2 °F) at Begijnendijk and The Netherlands 40.7 °C (105.3 °F) at Gilze en Rijen. (Accuweather) (The Guardian)
- The United Kingdom reports a temperature reading of 38.1 °C (100.6 °F) in Cambridge, the second highest UK temperature yet recorded. It is subsequently confirmed that a reading of 38.7 °C (101.7 °F) is verified, also in Cambridge, beating the previous record of 38.5 °C (101.3 °F) set in Faversham, Kent on 10 August 2003 to become the new national record. (The Guardian)
- All-time records for various cities and towns in Western Europe are broken, most notably Paris, reaching a temperature of 42.6 °C (108.7 °F).
Law and crime
- Capital punishment in the United States
- U.S. Attorney General William Barr resumes the federal usage of the death penalty. Five inmates are expected to be executed between December 2019 and January 2020. If carried out, these would be the first federal executions in the United States in sixteen years. (CNBC) (The New York Times)
- At least four people are killed and two wounded in a shooting spree that spread across multiple Los Angeles neighborhoods. Police tackled and arrested the suspect, Gerry Zaragoza, after a 12-hour manhunt. (CNN) (Reuters via AOL.com)
Politics and elections
- U.S. President Donald J. Trump had a phone conversation with the president of Ukraine, including discussion of U.S. presidential candidate Joe Biden's son. Trump asked the Ukrainian president to "look into it," as per a White House transcript. (White House.gov)
- The 92-year-old and first freely-elected President of Tunisia, Beji Caid Essebsi, dies. Tunisian parliament President Mohamed Ennaceur takes the role of interim president. (Associated Press) (BBC News)
- 2019 Algerian protests
- Algerian interim president Abdelkader Bensalah appoints a six-member panel to set a presidential election date. The previous date of July 4 was cancelled due to lack of candidates amid mass protests. (Reuters)
Sports
- Outfielder Stevie Wilkerson of the Baltimore Orioles becomes the first position player in Major League Baseball history to record a save, doing so in a 10–8 victory over the Los Angeles Angels. (CBS)
July 26, 2019 (Friday)
Business and economy
- The U.S. Department of Justice approves a $26 billion merger between T-Mobile and Sprint. If finalized, they will become the third-largest mobile network operator in the nation. (Reuters)
Disasters and accidents
- Heavy rains in Al Haouz Province, Morocco, trigger a landslide, resulting in the deaths of 15 people. (The New York Times) (Morocco World News)
- Two people die and more than 17 are injured when an internal balcony collapses at a nightclub in the South Korean city of Gwangju. (BBC News)
- 2019 Batanes earthquake
- At least nine people are killed and 60 others injured when two earthquakes strike the province of Batanes in the Philippines. (InquirerNet)
Health and environment
- Saudi Arabia suspends visas for Hajj pilgrims arriving from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, amid safety concerns regarding the ongoing Ebola epidemic in Kivu. (Al Jazeera)
Law and crime
- A man from the Bronx, New York City, is arrested for attempting to join the Taliban. (ABC News)
- Sixteen American Marines are arrested at Camp Pendleton, California, on suspicion of aiding human smuggling and drug charges. (CBS News)
July 27, 2019 (Saturday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Japan–North Korea relations
- Japan warns on Saturday that the new North Korean projectiles have trajectories that are not typical for conventional ballistic missiles, making them difficult or impossible to intercept en route to Japan. (Al-Manar)
- 2019 Borno funeral attack
- At least 65 people are killed and 10 injured in an attack by Boko Haram at a funeral in Maiduguri, Nigeria. (CNN)
Law and crime
- Two American teenagers are arrested in Rome for extortion and murder of an Italian military officer. (The New York Times)
Politics and elections
- President Félix Tshisekedi and the Congolese parliament, controlled by a rival party, agree to form a new government following negotiations, six months after he replaced Joseph Kabila during the 2018 DR Congo general election. Sylvestre Ilunga will be formally nominated for the post of Prime Minister in the coming week. (News24)
- Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro again accuses the United States of flying over its national waters. (El Sol de Mexico)
- 2019 Moscow City Duma election
- Several thousand people attend a rally in Moscow organized by opposition members due to several opposition candidates being disqualified from regional elections. The protests turned violent and police detained about 1,000 people, including politician Alexei Navalny. (BBC News)
July 28, 2019 (Sunday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- 28 July 2019 Kabul suicide bombing
- Gunfire and an explosion kills 20 and injures over 50 in an attack at the Kabul office of the Vice Presidential candidate Amrullah Saleh, who was slightly injured in the attack. (BBC News)
- Libyan Civil War
- An airstrike kills five doctors in a hospital in the southern outskirts of Libya's capital Tripoli. (BBC News)
- During conflicts in the state of Amapá in northern Brazil, armed miners invade a native reserve and stab to death an indigenous man. (BBC News)
Disasters and accidents
- At least 42 people die in a landslide striking a village in southern China. (BBC News)
- Heavy storms across central Italy kill three people and cause damages. One death was caused by lightning, one by a tornado, and one by getting caught in a flood. (Il Messaggero)
- The death toll of the heavy floods in Nepal rise to 113. (India Today)
Law and crime
- Gilroy Garlic Festival shooting
- A gunman opens fire at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in Gilroy, California, killing three people and wounding at least twelve others. The gunman is killed after engaging with the police. Police believe an accomplice is still at large. (SF Chronicle) (CBS News)
Politics and elections
- Hong Kong protests
- Tens of thousands of protesters demanding the resignation of pro-China Chief Executive of Hong Kong Carrie Lam take over the streets in Sai Wan and Causeway Bay, near China's Hong Kong Liaison Office, despite an official police ban on protests near the Chinese government building. (BBC News)
- During protests, Hong Kong groups organize to put pressure on the United Kingdom, asking for help to uphold the city-state's legal rights. The Joint Agreement of 1997 signed by the UK and China outlines that Hong Kong will have legislative and judiciary independence, based on systems implemented there under British rule. (The Guardian)
- 2021 Peruvian general election
- President Martín Vizcarra announces that he will present a constitutional reform that calls a snap election for April 2020. (Reuters)
Sports
- 2019 Tour de France
- In road cycling, Colombia's Egan Bernal wins the Tour de France by 1:11 on general classification over his British teammate Geraint Thomas. The 22-year-old Bernal is the first Colombian and first Latin American rider to win the Tour, and the youngest rider to do so since 1909. (BBC Sport)
July 29, 2019 (Monday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- War in Afghanistan
- An Afghan National Army soldier kills two United States Army soldiers in Kandahar, Afghanistan, which local police suspect is an insider attack. The killer is believed to be wounded. (BBC News)
- Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen
- Ten civilians, including children, are killed after a Saudi Arabian-led coalition air strike hits a market in northern Yemen, according to anonymous Houthi members. (The Washington Post)
- 2018–19 Sudanese protests
- Five students are shot dead after security forces open fire in the city of El-Obeid during a protest. (Al Jazeera)
Arts and culture
- Billboard reports that Lil Nas X has broken the all-time record on the Billboard Hot 100 with his song "Old Town Road", as it spends its seventeenth week atop the chart; the previous record-holders are Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men with "One Sweet Day", and Luis Fonsi with "Despacito" featuring Daddy Yankee. (Billboard)
Business and economy
- International sanctions during the Venezuelan crisis
- Venezuelan officials are accused of using the cryptocurrency Bitcoin in order to circumvent United States sanctions. (Yahoo! Finance)
- List of data breaches
- Capital One announces that a major data breach occurred on July 19, 2019, by one individual who compromised the data of about 106 million people in the United States and Canada. The Federal Bureau of Investigation have made an arrest after the alleged hacker, 33-year-old Paige Thompson from Seattle, boasted about her actions online. (BBC News)
Health and environment
- The Wildlife Protection Society of India announces that the wild population of tigers in India has increased by a third since 2015 following a comprehensive survey. Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi describes the news as a "historic achievement". (Sky News) (The Guardian)
Law and crime
- An eight-year-old boy is killed and his mother injured after being pushed by a man into the path of an oncoming train at Frankfurt's main station, in Hesse, Germany. The attacker, a 40-year-old immigrant Eritrean man who lives in Switzerland, also attempted to knock a third person onto the tracks. The suspect and the victims did not know each another. (Sky News)
- 2019 Altamira prison riot
- Three are killed in a shooting at a garlic festival in Gilroy, California. (The Washington Post)
Politics and elections
- After two FARC leaders go into hiding from drug trafficking charges in Colombia and the United States, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro makes a public statement saying they are welcome to take refuge in his country. He also welcomes other FARC rebels to Venezuela, calling them "leaders of peace". (Reuters)
- 2019 Hong Kong anti-extradition bill protests
- The Chinese government's Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office condemns protests in Hong Kong as "evil and criminal acts committed by the radical elements", saying that Hong Kong's top priority is to "punish violent and unlawful acts in accordance with the law". Hong Kong legislators and journalists reject the statement from Beijing, expressing concern that this will worsen tensions. (BBC News)
July 30, 2019 (Tuesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- War in North-West Pakistan
- Four are killed and over 20 injured in a bomb blast near a police station in Quetta, Pakistan. (Al Jazeera)
Arts and culture
- Federal agents have joined the investigation of a fire that destroys a 125 year-old landmark Catholic Church of the Visitation in Westphalia, Texas. After storms destroyed two earlier church structures in the 1880s, the Church of Visitation was completed in February of 1895 and dedicated on May 23, 1895. (Catholic News Agency)
Disasters and accidents
- At least 18 people, including thirteen civilians and five crew members, are killed and 12 others injured after a small military plane crashes into a residential area near the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi. (BBC News)
- Eleven deaths and multiple hospitalizations are attributed to the ongoing heat wave in Japan. (BBC News)
Politics and elections
- Al-Sultan Abdullah is crowned as the 16th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia at Istana Negara, Kuala Lumpur. (Berita Harian)
- Romanian Interior Minister Nicolae Moga resigns amid outrage over the slow response by police, state prosecutor's office and the secret service in charge of telecomunications to the disappearance and possible murder of a 15-year-old girl in the city of Caracal. (RFE/RL)
July 31, 2019 (Wednesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- War in Afghanistan, 2019 Farah bombing
- Thirty-two civilians are killed and over 20 are injured after their bus hits a land mine on the main road between Herat and Kandahar. (New York Post)
- War on Terror
- Unnamed U.S. officials say they have received intelligence that Hamza bin Laden, son of Osama bin Laden and a wanted al-Qaeda terrorist, has been killed. The time, location and cause of death has not been disclosed. (The Guardian) (NBC News)
Business and economy
- Brazilian Minister of Economy Paulo Guedes announces that the full members of Mercosur—Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay—are negotiating a free trade deal with the United States. (Clarín) (Reuters)
Disasters and accidents
- 2019 wildfire season, 2019 Siberia wildfires
- Russian President Vladimir Putin orders the Russian Ground Forces to join firefighting efforts to help tackle raging wildfires in Siberia. A state of emergency has been declared in Irkutsk Oblast, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Buryatia and Sakha Republic, where millions of hectares are currently burning out of control. (BBC News)
- A United States Navy F/A-18E/F Super Hornet crashes in Death Valley National Park, California, leaving seven visitors on the ground with minor injuries. A search and rescue operation is underway for the pilot. (The Los Angeles Times)
- An explosion at an ExxonMobil oil refinery in Baytown, Texas, hospitalizes 66 people. (NBC News)
International relations
- United States sanctions against Iran, Iran–United States relations
- The United States Department of the Treasury sanctions Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif for implementing the "reckless agenda of the Supreme Leader of Iran Ali Khamenei". (BBC News) (CBS News)
Law and crime
- 2019 Hong Kong protests
- At least 10 people are injured after fireworks were shot from a moving car into a crowd of pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong. (BBC News)
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Disasters
- 2018–20 Kivu Ebola epidemic
- 2018–19 European windstorm season
- Midwestern U.S. floods
- Yemeni famine
- 2019 Pacific typhoon season
- 2019 North Indian Ocean cyclone season
Politics
- 1MDB scandal
- Afghan peace talks
- Albanian protests
- Algerian protests
- Austrian political scandal
- Brexit negotiations
- European migrant crisis (timeline)
- Haitian protests
- Hong Kong anti-extradition bill protests
- Iranian protests
- Iraqi protests
- Korean peace process
- Montenegrin protests
- Mueller report (investigation) (timeline)
- Nicaraguan protests
- Pakistani dance scandal
- Qatar diplomatic crisis
- Rohingya persecution in Myanmar
- Serbian protests
- Turkish purges
- Venezuelan presidential crisis (protests)
- Yellow vests movement
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- Spain: Trial of Catalonia independence leaders
- United Kingdom: Tommy Robinson
- United States: Keith Raniere, Eddie Gallagher
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- Guatemala: Otto Pérez Molina, Roxana Baldetti, Juan Carlos Monzón and others
- Greece: Nikolaos Michaloliakos
- Israel: Faina Kirschenbaum
- Philippines: Leila de Lima
- South Africa: Jacob Zuma
- Spain: Bárcenas affair
- United Kingdom: David Duckenfield, Graham Mackrell
- United States: Fat Leonard scandal, Varsity Blues scandal, Raid on the North Korean embassy in Madrid
Upcoming
- Guatemala: Álvaro Colom, Manuel Baldizón, Juan Alberto Fuentes
- Japan: Carlos Ghosn
- Philippines: Andal Ampatuan Jr.
- Sweden: ASAP Rocky
- United Kingdom: Football sex abuse scandal
- United States: 6ix9ine, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Elizabeth Holmes, Meng Wanzhou, Chris Collins, Duncan D. Hunter, Roger Stone, R. Kelly, Harvey Weinstein, Michael Avenatti, Golden State Killer
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- Association football
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- Baseball
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- Golf
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July 2019
- 31: Harold Prince
- 30: Deep Impact
- 29: Grant Thompson
- 26: Russi Taylor
- 25: Beji Caid Essebsi
- 25: John Ferriter
- 24: Margaret Fulton
- 22: Christopher C. Kraft Jr.
- 22: Li Peng
- 21: Paul Krassner
- 20: Sheila Dikshit
- 20: Peter McNamara
- 19: César Pelli
- 19: Rutger Hauer
- 18: David Hedison
- 17: Andrea Camilleri
- 17: Pumpsie Green
- 16: Johnny Clegg
- 16: John Paul Stevens
- 14: Hussain Muhammad Ershad
- 14: Pernell Whitaker
- 11: Sufi Muhammad
- 10: Jim Bouton
- 10: Valentina Cortese
- 9: Freddie Jones
- 9: Johnny Kitagawa
- 9: Ross Perot
- 9: Fernando de la Rúa
- 9: Rip Torn
- 7: Artur Brauner
- 6: Cameron Boyce
- 6: Martin Charnin
- 6: João Gilberto
- 3: Perro Aguayo
- 3: Chris Cline
- 3: Arte Johnson
- 2: Lee Iacocca
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- Algeria, Libya and Tunisia
- Cameroon
- Cameroon, Chad, Niger, and Nigeria
- Central African Republic
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Libya
- Mali
- Mozambique
- Nigeria
- Somalia
- South Sudan
- Sudan
Americas
- Colombia
- Mexico
- Peru
Asia
- Afghanistan
- China
- India
- India and Pakistan
- Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines
- Indonesia and Papua New Guinea
- Myanmar
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- Georgia
- Russia
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