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Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israel–Hamas war
  • A Palestinian governmental body announces that senior Hamas leader Mustafa Muhammad Abu Ara has died in Israeli prison after being arrested in October 2023. (Reuters)
• 2024 Iran–Israel conflict, Israel–Hezbollah conflict
• Hezbollah launches airstrikes at northern Israel, IDF unsuccessfully intercepts the strikes which causes wildfires.

(Haaretz)

• Myanmar civil war
  • The Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army, an ethnic armed organization, claims to have captured Lashio, the location of an important regional military base, and Mogok, the center of the country's gem-mining industry. The country's ruling military junta denies the claims. (AP) (VOA)

Business and economy

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Economic impact of the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Fitch Ratings downgrades Ukraine's credit rating from "CC" to "C" due to the country's need to restructure US$20 billion in international bonds to foreign investors, increasing the country's risk of default. (Al Jazeera)
• Southwest Airlines announces the end to its 53-year open seating policy, starting in 2025. (Reuters) (Good Morning America)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Manila Bay oil spill
  • An oil tanker capsizes off the coast of Limay, Bataan, Philippines, killing one person and spilling oil into Manila Bay. (CNBC)
• At least 21 people are killed during a heat wave in Beni Mellal, Morocco. (NDTV)

Health and environment

• The Brazilian Ministry of Health reports the world's first Oropouche virus deaths of two women in Bahia. (The Telegraph)

International relations

• Israel–Hamas war, Israel–United States relations
  • Israel–Hamas war protests in the United States
    • July 2024 protest in Washington, D.C.
      • The White House and U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris issue statements strongly condemning vandalism and American flag burning during pro-Palestinian and anti-Benjamin Netanyahu protests in Washington, D.C., yesterday, with Harris calling them "despicable acts" by "unpatriotic protesters". (AP) (Politico)
  • U.S. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris hold separate meetings with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the White House on the Israel–Hamas war and plans following the conclusion of the war. (NBC News)

Law and crime

• Homelessness in California
  • In the United States, Governor of California Gavin Newsom signs an executive order directing state agencies on how to remove homeless encampments throughout the state. (AP)
• Human rights in Cambodia
  • Candlelight Party President Teav Vannol is fined 6 billion riel (US$1.5 million) for "defamation" of the current Cambodian government to foreign media following his party being barred from the 2023 general election, which saw the incumbent People's Party win 120 of 125 National Assembly seats. (Reuters)
• Spanish General Council of the Judiciary blockade
  • The twenty new members of the General Council of the Judiciary are sworn in, putting an end to the institutional crisis that the country's supreme judicial administrative body experienced for five years. (RTVE)
• The Canada Revenue Agency announces it will revoke the charity status of the Jewish National Fund, stating that the use of its donations to fund the IDF's military infrastructure violates Canadian tax laws. (National Post)
• Sinaloa Cartel leaders Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada and Joaquín Guzmán López are arrested by agents of the United States Department of Justice in El Paso, Texas. (BBC News)
• A German man who is sentenced to death in Belarus for photographing Belarusian military sites in Ukraine urges Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko to pardon him in a television appearance. (DW)

Science and technology

• Life on Mars, Perseverance (rover)
  • NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars finds a rock containing spotted features which are possible fossilized records of microbes, though non-biological processes cannot yet be ruled out. (Space.com)

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