Current Events/July 2023
Sensitive information revealed in the emails prompts immediate backlash and privacy concerns. Office of the Ombudsman for his failure in handling the 2015 Mamasapano clash, which resulted in the deaths of 44 members of the Special Action Forces of the Philippine National Police. The Trump Administration asks the U.S. Supreme Court to stop implementation of yesterday’s ruling by Hawaii District Judge Derrick Watson that expanded the State Department’s definition of “close family” used to implement the Supreme Court’s June order that permits admission to the U.S. A court of Lima orders 18 months of pre-trial imprisonment for former president Ollanta Humala and his wife Nadine Heredia for alleged money laundering. Both have turned themselves in.
Winston Blackmore and James Oler, leaders of a polygamist Mormon sect in Canada, are convicted. The Chinese Central Commission for Discipline Inspection announces that current Politburo member Sun Zhengcai is under investigation for violating party discipline. Polish President Andrzej Duda announces he will veto two judicial reform bills passed by Poland’s parliament, which the European Commission said would result in sanctions, and which have generated continuous demonstrations across the country. The ruling Law and Justice Party needs to put together a three-fifths majority to override the veto. Brown University researchers discover that a substantial amount of water may be present beneath the surface of the Moon. Sun is the fourth sitting Politburo member since 1990 to fall from power.
U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of Michigan, Mark A. Goldsmith, halts for 90 days the mass deportation from the United States of more than 1,400 Iraqi nationals, including Chaldean Christians, to allow the plaintiffs time to appeal their cases. Former Democratic IT shared employee Imran Awan is arrested on charges of bank fraud at the Washington Dulles International Airport. The American Civil Liberties Union petitioned for the injunction stating these people would face persecution in Iraq where they are considered ethnic and religious minorities.
This planned visit has drawn protests in the United Kingdom since February, rent condo in bangkok and more than 1.8 million signatures on a petition to Parliament to cancel the meeting. Turkish authorities have ordered the arrest of 105 people working in information technology who were believed to have been involved in the attempted overthrow of the government last year, state-run Anadolu Agency reported on Tuesday. Haiti will reinstate its armed forces after 20 years of having none. Donald Trump Jr. discloses emails in which he and Rob Goldstone discuss gathering opposition research against Hillary Clinton through a June 2016 meeting with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya.
The Holy Name of Jesus cathedral in Raleigh, North Carolina is dedicated. A U.N. peacekeeping helicopter crashes during a mission in northern Mali, resulting in the death of two German pilots within. According to the Defense Ministry, between 26 and 30 military personnel are dead and over 80 Taliban militants have been either killed or wounded amid intense fighting at a military base in Kandahar Province. Wildfires prompt the evacuation of 12,000 people along the French Riviera, while more than 4,000 firefighters and French Armed Forces personnel backed by 19 water-bomber planes are mobilised to extinguish the flames.
A fourth victim is wounded. Several journalists were also injured in the assault. Supporters of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro storm the opposition-controlled National Assembly and injure several lawmakers, including the President of the National Assembly, Julio Borges. A group of people are arrested in the Peruvian village of Muqui, located in the Andes, after they painted a wall with allusive symbols and messages to the far-left terrorist organization, Shining Path, responsible for crimes against humanity in Peru from 1980 to 1992. Police later clarified that the true intentions of the arrested, some of them students of a technical training institute, were to make a short film. Samoa’s Legislative Assembly appoints Tuimalealiifano Va’aletoa Sualauvi II as O le Ao o le Malo, or Head of State. Sheriffs deputies then shot and killed the suspect.
