Portal:Current events/2024 July 10
July 10, 2024 (Wednesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Israel-Hamas War
- Siege of Gaza City
- The Israel Defense Forces orders a complete evacuation of all Palestinians from Gaza City to travel south in advance of a new offensive on Hamas targets. (AP)
- Siege of Gaza City
- Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
- Three security officers and three Pakistani Taliban gunmen are killed during a shootout in Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (AP)
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Two Ukrainians are killed by Russian drone and missile attacks on a port in southern Odesa Oblast, Ukraine, which damaged port infrastructure, an energy facility, and a civilian ship. (Reuters)
International relations
- 2024 Hungarian Presidency of the Council of the European Union, Germany–Hungary relations, Hungary–Poland relations
- Several European Union nations including Poland, Germany, and the Baltic states threaten to boycott meetings hosted by the newly instated Hungarian EU presidency following Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's unauthorized meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin under the EU's flag. (Barron's)
Law and crime
- Capital punishment in Iraq
- The Karkh criminal court in Baghdad, Iraq, sentences the widow of Islamic State caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi to death over her ties to ISIS and for detaining Yazidi women in her house. (Al Arabiya)
Politics and elections
- 2024 French legislative election
- The New Popular Front releases a statement demanding that French President Emmanuel Macron immediately allow them to form a government with no parliamentary majority, calling delays "a coup against democracy" and retention of French PM Gabriel Attal as an attempt to "erase the election results". (AP)