UK Digital Media minister UK Digital Media minister Oliver Dowden announces to the House of Commons that the country's mobile providers will be barred from buying 5G equipment from Huawei starting December 31, and will be required to remove it from their networks by 2027. Lord Browne resigned from his position as chairman of Huawei's UK branch shortly before the announcement.
International students in the United States The Trump administration reverses its student visa policy, announced on July 6, to deport international students whose courses move fully online. The plan met stiff opposition. At least 59 universities and the attorneys general of 18 states sued to block this directive. Federal district judge Allison Burroughs dismisses the first case brought to court as moot because the federal government has agreed to rescind the policy.
2020 Hong Kong pro-democracy primaries Exit polls results show a strong support for young pro-democracy candidates, including independent activist Joshua Wong and League of Social Democrats candidate Jimmy Sham. A spokesperson for the Liaison Office of China in Hong Kong says that the election could be in violation of the new security law and could be nullified.
2020 Belarusian presidential election The Belarusian election commission bars two prominent opposition candidates to current President Alexander Lukashenko from running in the election, ensuring a victory for Lukashenko. The barred candidates are Viktar Babaryka who was disqualified for an open criminal case against him and Valery Tsepkalo whose signatures on a supporting petition were nullified.
July 2020 New Zealand National Party leadership election Todd Muller resigns as leader of the New Zealand National Party citing health and family reasons. A party caucus elects Judith Collins as the party's new leader.
2020 United States elections Former Auburn football coach Tommy Tuberville defeats former attorney general Jeff Sessions in the Alabama Republican primary. Tuberville will face Democratic incumbent Doug Jones.
People in Maine, Alabama, and Texas are expected to cast their votes in both regular and run off primaries.
George Floyd protests Nearly 100 people protesting the police killing of Breonna Taylor are arrested outside the home of Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron.
To death Following a social media campaign that generated 7.5 million posts with the hashtag #do_not_execute, the Iranian authorities halt the impending executions of three anti-government protestors who were arrested during street protests in November 2019 in which hundreds of demonstrators were killed. A retrial is ordered.
The Supreme Court of the United States rules 5–4 to lift the block on four federal executions scheduled for July and August. Convicted murderer Daniel Lewis Lee, whose execution was scheduled for the previous afternoon, is executed by lethal injection at the federal penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana. Two more executions are scheduled for later in the week.
China–United States relations U.S. President Donald Trump signs legislation and an executive order that will "hold China accountable" for recent "oppressive actions" in Hong Kong by ending its preferential economic status with the United States.
Mongolia Mongolia puts five districts under a six-day quarantine after a 15-year-old boy dies of the bubonic plague in the remote Gobi-Altai province amid fears of an epidemic.
Moderna is expected to start a late stage clinical trial at 87 study locations in the United States for its COVID-19 vaccine on July 27.
Virginia Governor Ralph Northam says that he will increase enforcement of masks and social distancing as cases in the Hampton Roads area spike.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo adds Minnesota, New Mexico, Ohio and Wisconsin to the state's quarantine requirement list, while Delaware is removed.
USS ''Bonhomme Richard'' The fire on USS "Bonhomme Richard" continues for a third consecutive day. The United States Navy says its crews have made significant progress fighting flames and reducing smoke, but it is still unclear when the fire will be extinguished. There have been 61 injuries; 38 sailors and 23 civilians have been treated mostly for minor injuries related to firefighting.
2020 Iran explosions Iranian police launch an investigation following another suspicious explosion, this one at an industrial complex south of Mashhad.
Removal of Confederate monuments and memorials The University of Mississippi removes a monument of Confederate soldiers from the campus. The monument is expected to be relocated to a cemetery.
Central African Republic Civil War A Rwandan United Nations peacekeeper was killed and two others wounded in an ambush on a convoy in Nana-Mambéré, Central African Republic.