Portal:Current events/2024 July 24

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Arts and culture

• Polish divers announce that they had discovered a 19th-century shipwreck in the Baltic Sea off the Swedish coast, its hold replete with crates of champagne and porcelain. (France 24)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Pacific typhoon season
  • Metro Manila, Philippines, is placed under a state of calamity due to flash floods caused by Typhoon Gaemi. (Bloomberg)
• 2024 Saurya Airlines CRJ-200 crash
  • A Bombardier CRJ-200 crashes during takeoff at Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu, Nepal, killing eighteen on board and leaving the captain as the only survivor. (Reuters)
• Panamanian border police say that [[en migrants have drowned in a river near Panama's border with Colombia. (Al Jazeera)

Law and crime

• German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said that the Islamic Centre Hamburg would be banned for propagating extremism. The Iranian Foreign Ministry summoned the German ambassador Hans-Udo Muzel over the ban. (DW)

Science and technology

• Scientists find dark oxygen being produced from metals on the seafloor. Until now, it was thought that oxygen was created only through photosynthesis, a process that requires sunlight. (NPR)

Sports

• Olympic Games
  • At the International Olympic Committee meeting before the start of the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, it is announced that the French Alps region has gotten conditional approval to host the 2030 Winter Olympic Games, and that Salt Lake City, Utah will host the 2034 Winter Olympic Games (Salt Lake City has previously hosted the Winter Games before, in 2002; France last hosted the Winter Games in 1992 in Albertville). (FOX News), (MSN, ESPN)

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