Portal:Current events/2013 July 22
July 22, 2013 (Monday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Six people – including army officers and policemen – are killed and another eleven wounded in a series of militant attacks in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula. (Reuters)
- At least 37 people are killed in Iraq amid a two-day spate of suicide bombings and armed prison escapes. (AP via Fox News)
Arts and culture
- Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, gives birth to a healthy boy, George Alexander Louis. The child, formally known as His Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge, is third in line to the British throne. (BBC) (The Guardian) (New Zealand Stuff) (CNN)
Disasters and accidents
- Two earthquakes strike Gansu province, China, killing at least 89 people and injuring over 500. (CNN) (Reuters) (NBC News) (BBC)
- A Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-700 crash-lands at New York's LaGuardia Airport, injuring ten passengers. (Sky News) (BBC)
International relations
- Pope Francis begins a week-long official visit to Brazil, his first foreign trip since assuming the pontificate. (BBC)
- The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees states that there are approximately 625,000 refugees from the Syrian civil war living in Lebanon. (IANS via Vancouver Post)
- The European Union announces the addition of the military wing of Hezbollah to its official list of terrorist organizations. (CNN)
- The presidents of Colombia and Venezuela meet to resolve a high-level diplomatic dispute. (Reuters)
Law and crime
- British pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline admits that some of its senior executives in China appear to have broken the law as part of a bribery scandal. (Reuters)
- British Prime Minister David Cameron announces plans for every household in the UK to automatically have pornography blocked by their internet service provider, unless they choose otherwise. (BBC)
- At least five people are killed and seven injured after criminals open fire on community safety volunteers in the western Mexican state of Michoacán. (AP via Silicon Valley Mercury)
- A 76-year-old man is sentenced to life in prison without parole for the 2012 murder of a 13-year-old boy in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (AP) (Huffington Post)
Science
- The United Kingdom experiences its hottest day since July 2006, with a temperature of 33.5C (92.3F) recorded at Heathrow and Northolt in London. (BBC)
- American scientists report that dolphins have unique names for one another, which they respond to just as humans do. (National Geographic)
Sports
- Ryan Braun of the Milwaukee Brewers is suspended without pay for the rest of the season for violating Major League Baseball's drug policies. (USA Today)
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