Portal:Current events/2011 July 31

Current events of July 31, 2011 (2011-07-31) (Sunday)

Armed conflict and attacks At least 9 people including a suspect are killed and 28 others are injured in a knife attack in Kashgar, west Xinjiang, China, marking the second attack of the month in Xinjiang. (CRI) (Xinhua) (The Washington Post) Ramadan Massacre: At least 121 people are killed in a Syrian Army tank raid on the town of Hama and over 150 people are reportedly killed across the country. (Al Jazeera), (Al-Jazeera), (Al-Arabiya) Disasters and accidents At least seven people drown after a collision between a pleasure boat and a barge in central Moscow, Russia. (The Moscow News) (The Jerusalem Post) No-one was killed when a Caribbean Airlines Boeing 737 plane crashed and split in two at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Guyana (The Trinidad Guardian) Law and crime Mexican Federal Police say suspected cartel leader José Antonio Acosta Hernández, who was arrested on Friday, has confessed to ordering the murder of 1,500 people in the country's northern state of Chihuahua. (BBC) Politics 2011 U.S. debt ceiling crisis The Senate of the United States fails to pass legislation lifting the debt ceiling with compromise talks continuing. (CNN), (New York Times) Barack Obama, the President of the United States, and Congressional leaders reach a deal on extending the debt ceiling. (Economic Times), (Washington Post)