Portal:Current events/2022 July 30

July 30, 2022 (2022-07-30) (Saturday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Insurgency in Balochistan
  • Six Balochistan Liberation Army militants and one Pakistani soldier are killed during clashes in Kech District, Balochistan, Pakistan. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• The death toll of the recent floods in Iran has risen to at least 53. (The New York Times) (Yahoo! News)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Niue
    • Niue records its first community spread cases of COVID-19, prompting Minister of Health Sauni Tongatule to move the country to its highest alert level. (RNZ Pacific)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in North Korea
    • North Korea announces zero "fever cases" for the first time since mid-May when it first announced an outbreak of COVID-19. The authorities said 4.8 million people were infected and 74 died from the virus. (Al Jazeera)
• 2022 monkeypox outbreak
  • 2022 monkeypox outbreak in Spain
    • Spain confirms its second monkeypox death just a day after confirming the first in Europe and the first outside of Africa. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• Indonesia restricts access to eight websites, including PayPal, Yahoo!, and Steam, for failing to register with the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology. Online services registered with the ministry are required to comply with disclosure and content removal requests. (Reuters)

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