Portal:Current events/2023 July 3

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • July 2023 Jenin incursion
    • Eight Palestinians are killed and more than 50 others are injured when Israeli soldiers storm the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank. The Israeli Air Force also launches airstrikes during the night. (Al Jazeera)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • 2022–2023 Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure
    • Russia launches drone attacks on Sumy, Ukraine, killing two people and injuring 19 others. In response to the attack, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy calls for a major upgrade of anti-aircraft defences. (Reuters)

Arts and culture

• Censorship in Vietnam
  • Vietnam announces that it will ban the upcoming American film Barbie over a scene showing a map displaying the nine-dash line in the South China Sea, which Vietnam does not recognize. (Reuters)

Business and economy

• Indian oil refiners start payments for Russian oil imports in Chinese yuan as an alternative to the US dollar due to the sanctions against Russia. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• Four people are injured in an explosion at a building in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. (Reuters)

International relations

• Georgia–Ukraine relations
  • Volodymyr Zelenskyy requests Georgian ambassador Gela Dumbadze to return home within 48 hours to negotiate imprisoned former Georgian president and Ukrainian citizen Mikheil Saakashvili's transfer to a Ukrainian clinic due to Saakashvili's declining health. (AFP via SCMP)
• International sanctions during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • The Ukrainian National Agency on Corruption Prevention adds British conglomerate Unilever to its "international sponsors of war" list, claiming that Unilever's Russian operations indirectly fund the invasion. (AFP via WION)

Law and crime

• 2023 Kingsessing, Philadelphia shooting
  • Five people are killed and two others are injured in a shooting spree in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. (BBC News)
• 2023 Fort Worth shooting
  • Three people are killed and eight others are injured in a mass shooting at a festival in Fort Worth, Texas, United States. (Reuters)
• A court in Iran sentences prominent writer and human rights activist Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee to five years in prison. Iraee has been detained since September 2022. (IranWire)
• Nicaraguan bishop Rolando José Álvarez Lagos, imprisoned in February for refusing exile to the United States with 222 political prisoners, is temporarily released but immediately rearrested, amidst conflicting reports and tensions between the Nicaraguan government and the Holy See. (AFP via The Manila Times)

Politics and elections

• 2024 Senegalese presidential election
  • President Macky Sall announces that he will not seek re-election for a third term in next year's election. (Le Monde)