Portal:Current events/2024 July 21

July 21, 2024 (2024-07-21) (Sunday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Red Sea crisis
  • 2024 Israeli strikes on Yemen
    • The death toll from yesterday's Israeli airstrikes on Al Hudaydah, Yemen, increases to six. (Al Jazeera)
  • The Houthis target Eilat, Israel, with multiple ballistic missiles, in response to yesterday's airstrikes in Yemen. (Sky News)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Eastern Ukraine campaign
    • Russian forces capture the villages of Andriivka in Luhansk Oblast and Pishchane in Kharkiv Oblast. (Anadolu Agency) (RTL)
• 2024 Bangladesh quota reform movement
  • The Supreme Court of Bangladesh reduces the government job quota reserved for families of veterans who fought in the Bangladesh Liberation War from 30% to 5%, leaving 93% of jobs to be allocated on merit and 2% set aside for ethnic minorities, transgender, and disabled people. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Canadian wildfires
  • Wildfires continue to spread in northern Alberta, Canada, prompting emergency evacuations in John D'Or Prairie 215, Fox Lake and Garden River. At least 55 of the 158 active wildfires are reported as "out of control". (Reuters)
• Six people, including two children, are killed in a multiple-vehicle collision in West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom. (Sky News)

International relations

• China–Philippines relations, Territorial disputes in the South China Sea
  • The Philippines announces an agreement with China on resupply missions to the beached naval ship Sierra Madre on Second Thomas Shoal in the South China Sea following an incident in June. (The Guardian)
• Iran–Sudan relations
  • Iran and Sudan receive each other's ambassadors for the first time in eight years, after resuming diplomatic relations in October 2023. (Al Jazeera)

Law and crime

• Conscription of yeshiva students
  • Israel begins issuing call-up notices for military conscription to Haredi Jews amid mass protests in Jerusalem. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• 2024 United States presidential election
  • Withdrawal of Joe Biden from the 2024 United States presidential election
    • Kamala Harris 2024 presidential campaign
      • Incumbent U.S. President Joe Biden announces that he will not seek a second term in office and ends his presidential campaign, while endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee. (NBC News)
      • Several prominent Democrats endorse Kamala Harris for president. (The New York Times)
• 2024 anti-tourism protests in Spain
  • Thousands of people protest in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, against mass tourism and private jets in the country. (Reuters)
• Tanzanian president Samia Suluhu Hassan dismisses foreign minister January Makamba and information minister Nape Nnauye, replacing the latter with current housing minister Jerry Silaa. (Reuters)

Sports

• 2024 Formula One World Championship
  • 2024 Hungarian Grand Prix
    • In auto racing, McLaren driver Oscar Piastri wins his first Formula One race at the Hungarian Grand Prix, becoming the first driver born in the 2000s to win a Formula One race. (AP)
• 2024 Tour de France
  • In cycle sport, Tadej Pogačar wins the Tour de France for the third time in his career. (TSN)

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