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Current events of
July 8, 2014
(
2014-07-08
)
(Tuesday)
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Armed conflicts and attacks
Gaza–Israel conflict
The Israeli cabinet approves the call up of 40,000 reserve soldiers as Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu
warns of a ground operation against
Palestinian rockets attacks
and infiltration attempts into Israel.
(The Times of Israel)
The
Israel Defense Forces
launch
an air and artillery offensive
in the Gaza Strip to quell rocket attacks and the
Israeli Air Force
conducts more air strikes against the
Gaza Strip
after
Hamas
fires rockets into Israel.
(BBC)
(AP)
Taliban insurgency
The
Taliban
claims responsibility for an attack in central
Afghanistan
that claims the lives of 10 civilians, four
Czech
members of the
International Security Assistance Force
and two Afghan police officers.
(
Wall Street Journal
)
War in Somalia (2009–present)
Al-Shabaab
Islamic militants storm the
presidential
palace in
Mogadishu
with heavy gunfire as government troops try to repel them.
(AP via
National Post
)
Disasters and accidents
Typhoon Neoguri (2014)
Typhoon Neoguri heads towards the southern
Japanese
island of
Okinawa
with 100,000 on the island and adjacent islands urged to evacuate.
(AFP via Yahoo! news Australia)
,
(Reuters)
More than 50 people are injured after two trains collide near the
South African
city of
Durban
.
(AP)
International relations
The
Prime Minister of Australia
Tony Abbott
and the
Prime Minister of Japan
Shinzo Abe
sign a
free trade agreement
in the
Australian
capital
Canberra
.
(ABC News Australia)
The
United Nations
Permanent Court of Arbitration
rules in favour of
Bangladesh
in a border dispute with
India
over the
Bay of Bengal
.
(Reuters)
Law and crime
Several buses are set alight and an electronics store looted in the
Brazilian
city of
Sao Paulo
following Brazil's crushing defeat by Germany in the World Cup semi-final.
(AFP via Yahoo! News Australia)
A jury acquits
Rengan Rajaratnam
after a trial on
insider trading
charges in
U.S. District Court
in
New York City
.
(Bloomberg)
Politics and elections
Around 70
pro-US
activists occupy
Taiwan provincial
government hall.
(Focus Taiwan)
Amidst
several spending scandals
, the French major opposition party
Union for a Popular Movement
is discovered to have an hidden debt of €79.1 millions for the year 2013
(Lemonde.fr)
Sports
Brazil v Germany (2014 FIFA World Cup)
Germany
won 7-1
against
Brazil
to go through to the final in the biggest margin of victory in the
FIFA World Cup
's semifinal history.
(AP)
(Bloomberg)
Miroslav Klose
of Germany breaks the World Cup goal scoring record he previously shared with
Ronaldo
in a semi-final against
Brazil
.
(ABC News Australia)
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