Portal:Current events/2023 July 9

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Syrian civil war
  • War against the Islamic State
    • The United States Central Command announces that a MQ-9 Reaper drone strike killed a senior Islamic State leader, Usamah al-Muhajir, in eastern Syria two days ago. (Reuters)
  • At least eight people are killed by two separate car bombings in northern Syria. (AFP via Al Arabiya)
• Somali Civil War
  • The United States Department of Defense announces that ten Al-Shabaab members were killed today by airstrikes near Afmadow, Jubaland, Somalia. (CNN)

Disasters and accidents

• Fifteen people are killed by landslides and flooding across northern India. (Al Jazeera)
• Ten people are killed and 30 others are injured when a bus falls off a bridge into a river in North Central Province, Sri Lanka. (Xinhua)
• Seven people are killed and twelve others are injured when a gas cylinder explosion causes a three-story building to collapse in Jhelum, Punjab, Pakistan. (Dunya News)
• Three people are killed when a small Cessna plane crashes in Eastern Region, Iceland. (Iceland Monitor)
• One person is killed and an unknown number of others are missing as a result of floods caused by torrential rains in Hudson Valley, New York, United States. (The New York Times)
• A jet bridge collapses at the Dublin Airport in Ireland, damaging an American Airlines Boeing 787 aircraft. (Irish Times)

International relations

• New Zealand–European Union relations
  • New Zealand signs a free trade agreement with the European Union, which is expected to increase EU exports to the South Pacific nation by €4.5 billion a year. (AFP via RTÉ)
• 15th BRICS summit
  • South African President Cyril Ramaphosa confirms that the upcoming BRICS summit in Johannesburg will be conducted in-person for the first time since 2019, despite an International Criminal Court arrest warrant against Russian president Vladimir Putin. However, Ramaphosa does not state whether Putin will attend the summit. (AFP via The Moscow Times)
• Poland–Ukraine relations
  • President of Poland Andrzej Duda and President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy commemorate the victims of the 1943 massacres in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia at a ceremony held at the Saint Peter and Paul Cathedral in Lutsk, Ukraine. (DW)

Law and crime

• British public broadcaster BBC suspends a male presenter over allegations of sexual misconduct involving a minor, which the BBC first became aware of two months ago. (CNN)

Politics and elections

• 2023 Gabonese general election
  • President Ali Bongo Ondimba announces his bid for a third term in office. (AFP via The Guardian)
• 2024 Salvadoran general election
  • President Nayib Bukele formalizes his presidential re-election campaign with the Nuevas Ideas political party. (AP)
• 2023 Uzbek presidential election
  • Uzbeks vote for a president following the approval of the constitutional referendum which reset term limits, allowing incumbent president Shavkat Mirziyoyev to serve two more seven-year terms. (AFP via France 24)

Sports

• 2023 LPGA Tour
  • 2023 U.S. Women's Open
    • In golf, American Allisen Corpuz wins the 78th U.S. Women's Open at the Pebble Beach Golf Links in Pebble Beach, California, United States, after firing a three-under 69 to finish on nine under, three shots ahead of England's Charley Hull and South Korea's Jiyai Shin. (BBC Sport)