Portal:Current events/2022 July 15

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • At least three civilians are killed and 15 others are injured in Russian cruise missile strikes on the city of Dnipro. (Reuters)
• Insurgency in the Sahel
  • Mali War
    • Three civilians, two gendarmes and one policeman are killed as gunmen attack a checkpoint in Koulikoro, Mali. (Al Jazeera)
• Insurgency in Balochistan
  • Nine Balochistan Liberation Army separatist insurgents are killed during a gunfight with the Pakistan Army in Balochistan, after the group kidnapped and killed a colonel. (AP)
• Sudanese nomadic conflicts
  • 65 people are killed and 150 are wounded in tribal clashes in Blue Nile, Sudan. (Al Jazeera)

Business and economy

• Transport in Spain
  • Spain introduces free tickets for suburban and medium-distance services for Renfe, the state-owned railway operator, starting from September 1 and until the end of the year. Other modes of public transport already have a 30% discount. (The Guardian)

Disasters and accidents

• July 2022 European heat wave; 2022 European wildfires
  • A national emergency is declared in the United Kingdom, with the first ever red alert for extreme heat being issued by the Met Office, ahead of a heat wave which is now expected to break temperature records in the British Isles. (BBC News)
  • Portugal reports 238 deaths related to the ongoing heat wave as it battles more than 30 active wildfires. In France, more than 10,000 people have fled wildfires in Gironde and in Spain, firefighters continue to battle forest fires near the town of Monsagro. (BBC News)
• Mexican drug war
  • Fourteen people are killed and another is injured when a helicopter involved in the search and arrest of drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero crashes in Los Mochis, Mexico. (Al Jazeera)
• Six people are killed in a multiple vehicle collision in Montana, United States, during a major dust storm. (AP)

International relations

• Saudi Arabia–United States relations
  • U.S. President Joe Biden meets with Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Jeddah despite previously vowing to make him a "pariah". (Bloomberg)
• EU adopts 7th package of Russia sanctions. (EU Sanctions)

Law and crime

• Judiciary of Poland
  • Polish Supreme Court Disciplinary Chamber law
    • The controversial Disciplinary Chamber of the Supreme Court is abolished. However, Didier Reynders, the European Commissioner for Justice, says that the European Court of Justice's ruling ordering the abolishment has not been fully respected and therefore Poland will continue to pay a fine of €1 million per day for contempt of court. (Rzeczpospolita)
• Mexican drug war
  • Ex-leader of the Guadalajara Cartel Rafael Caro Quintero is captured by the Mexican Navy in Choix, Sinaloa, Mexico. (AP) (BBC News)
• Terrorism in Germany
  • A 33-year-old former German Army officer is sentenced to five-and-a-half years in prison for plotting a terrorist attack on senior politicians while posing as a Syrian refugee. (CNN)

Science and technology

• International Space Station programme
  • NASA and Roscosmos sign an agreement to integrate future flights to the International Space Station. The agreement will allow Russian cosmonauts to fly on U.S. spacecraft in return for allowing American astronauts to use Russia's Soyuz spacecraft. (Reuters)