Portal:Current events/2014 July 14

• Korean maritime border incidents:
  • South Korea claims that North Korea has fired dozens of artillery shells into the sea near the disputed border. (AP via Fox News)
• Sinai insurgency:
  • One soldier and seven civilians, including two children, are killed in two successive mortar blasts in Egypt's city of Al-Arish in the Sinai Peninsula. (Indian Express)
• 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine:
  • A Ukrainian Antonov An-26 military transport plane was shot down near Luhansk where there is currently heavy fighting between Ukrainian forces and separatist rebels. Ukraine claims that it was shot down by a rocket fired from Russia. (Interfax) (AP via CBC)
  • Ukraine and Russia trade charges of alleged violations of the border with the Russians claiming that shell fired from the Ukraine killed a Russian man in a border town on the weekend. (Reuters)

• Anti-Israel protesters in Paris, France, surround a synagogue and chant anti-Semitic slogans resulting in a clash with police leaving three temple members in the hospital. Additional anti-Semitic attacks take place across the country including the firebombing of a synagogue and the assault of a 17-year-old girl. (Jerusalem Post)

• The General Synod of the Church of England meeting in York votes to allow women to become bishops. (BBC News)

• South Korean electronics company Samsung suspends business with one of its Chinese suppliers after finding possible evidence of use of child labour in one of its plants. (AFP via NDTV)
• Shareholders in Australian retailer David Jones Limited agree to accept a $2 billion takeover from South African retailer Woolworths. (Bloomberg via Business Week)

• Costa Concordia disaster
  • Efforts to refloat the Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia begin off the coast of Italy two and a half years after it sank. (Sky News Australia)

• 2014 West Africa Ebola outbreak:
  • The ebola virus outbreak in West Africa continues to get worse with the death toll now exceeding 500. (AP)

• William Hague stands down as the United Kingdom Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs as part of a cabinet reshuffle by Prime Minister David Cameron. (AFP via ABC News Australia)