Portal:Current events/2022 July 11

July 11, 2022 (2022-07-11) (Monday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • 11 July 2022 shelling of Kharkiv
      • Three civilians are killed and 31 others are injured in a Russian shelling of Kharkiv. The city's mayor says that the latest shelling has targeted civilian infrastructure. (SwissInfo)
    • Russian occupation of Kharkiv Oblast
      • The Russian-appointed military-civilian administration leader of Velykyi Burluk in Kharkiv Oblast, Yevgeny Yunakov, is assassinated in a car bombing. (Reuters)
    • 2022 Ukraine summer counteroffensive
      • Ukrainian Ground Forces recapture the town of Ivanivka in Kherson Oblast after launching a counter-offensive against Russian forces. (Reuters)
• Colombian conflict
  • A Colombian airstrike on a camp in the Caquetá Department kills 10 FARC dissidents. (BBC News)

Arts and culture

• New South Wales premier Dominic Perrottet announces that the Australian Aboriginal Flag will be flown permanently above the Sydney Harbour Bridge, which is widely regarded as an iconic Australian landmark. The flag will be flown on top of the bridge's arches alongside the national flag, replacing the flag of New South Wales, after the state government decided against accommodating all three flags. (CNN)

Business and economy

• A Russian court lifts the suspension for the CPC pipeline and instead fines its operators 200,000 rubles ($3,300) for oil spills. The oil pipeline, one of the world's largest, is the route for nearly all of Kazakhstan's oil exports, which represents about 1% of global oil supply. (Reuters)
• The Nord Stream 1 natural gas pipeline from Russia to Germany is suspended for the first of 10 days of scheduled annual maintenance. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• 2022 European heat wave
  • French authorities issue a warning as temperatures reach as high as 40 °C (104 °F) amid ongoing wildfires. (RFI)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
    • COVID-19 vaccination in the United States
      • The Biden administration announces that the United States will purchase 3.2 million doses of the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine once the vaccine is approved. (The New York Times)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Macau
    • Macau closes all of its casinos in order to contain an outbreak of COVID-19 in the city. (Straits Times)
• 2022 monkeypox outbreak
  • 2022 monkeypox outbreak in the United States
    • New Mexico reports its first case of monkeypox. (KRQE-TV)

International relations

• Government and intergovernmental reactions to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Lithuania–Russia relations
    • Lithuania expands sanctions on the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad to include cement, concrete, wood, alcohol and alcohol-based industrial chemicals. (Reuters)
• The 51st Pacific Islands Forum begins in Suva, Fiji, amid escalating geopolitical competition between China and the United States. (Al Jazeera)

Law and crime

• LGBT rights in Russia
  • Lawmakers in Russia propose to extend the anti-"gay propaganda" bill to all people regardless of their age. (Al Jazeera)

Politics and elections

• 2022 vote of no confidence in the government of Élisabeth Borne
  • The French government survives a no confidence vote tabled by the left-wing NUPES coalition. The no confidence vote received only 146 yes votes out of the 289 needed. (Le Monde)
• Russian president Vladimir Putin signs a decree allowing all Ukrainians to become fast-track Russian citizens, which previously only applied to those living in the Donetsk People's Republic and the Luhansk People's Republic. (Reuters)

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