## [2024-07-16](/feed/2024/07/16/index.md)

##### Roberta Metsola
### [Roberta Metsola is re-elected as President of the European Parliament with the highest number of votes ever registered for a candidate in the history of the European Parliament. ](/feed/2024/07/16/roberta-metsola-is-re-elected-as-president-of-the-european-parliament-with-the-highest-number-of-votes-ever-registered-f.md)
##### Kenya Finance Bill protests
### [Police fire tear gas and water cannons at anti-government protestors as demonstrations continue in cities across Kenya, calling for the removal of President William Ruto. ](/feed/2024/07/16/police-fire-tear-gas-and-water-cannons-at-anti-government-protestors-as-demonstrations-continue-in-cities-across-kenya.md)
##### 2024 Welsh government crisis
### [Six weeks after losing a vote of no confidence in the Senedd, Vaughan Gething resigns as First Minister of Wales. ](/feed/2024/07/16/six-weeks-after-losing-a-vote-of-no-confidence-in-the-senedd-vaughan-gething-resigns-as-first-minister-of-wales.md)
##### 2024 French legislative election
### [French President Emmanuel Macron approves the resignation request of Prime Minister Gabriel Attal, who will continue to serve as head of the transitional caretaker government. ](/feed/2024/07/16/french-president-emmanuel-macron-approves-the-resignation-request-of-prime-minister-gabriel-attal-who-will-continue-to.md)
##### Chinese
### [Chinese businessman Guo Wengui is found guilty by a U.S. jury on multiple fraud charges, accused of running a racketeering enterprise from 2018 to 2023 that defrauded thousands of investors out of over $1 billion. ](/feed/2024/07/16/chinese-businessman-guo-wengui-is-found-guilty-by-a-us-jury-on-multiple-fraud-charges-accused-of-running-a-racketeeri.md)
##### Police
### [Police in Paraguay seize more than four tons of cocaine, worth $240 million, at a river port in Asunción, the largest cocaine seizure in the country's history. ](/feed/2024/07/16/police-in-paraguay-seize-more-than-four-tons-of-cocaine-worth-240-million-at-a-river-port-in-asuncion-the-largest-co.md)
##### German
### [German authorities in four states search the properties of management and shareholders of the right-wing extremist magazine "Compact", seizing assets and evidence after the magazine was banned by the interior ministry. ](/feed/2024/07/16/german-authorities-in-four-states-search-the-properties-of-management-and-shareholders-of-the-right-wing-extremist-magaz.md)
##### Deir ez-Zor Governorate
### [Former governor of Deir ez-Zor Governorate, Syria, and director of the Adra Prison Samir Ousman al-Sheikh is arrested by the FBI in Los Angeles, California, United States. Al-Sheikh has been accused of torturing and killing political dissidents while serving as prison director and governor. ](/feed/2024/07/16/former-governor-of-deir-ez-zor-governorate-syria-and-director-of-the-adra-prison-samir-ousman-al-sheikh-is-arrested-by.md)
##### American
### [American senator Bob Menendez is found guilty on all counts, including acting as a foreign agent, in a federal corruption trial. ](/feed/2024/07/16/american-senator-bob-menendez-is-found-guilty-on-all-counts-including-acting-as-a-foreign-agent-in-a-federal-corruptio.md)
##### Vietnam
### [Six Vietnamese and American people are found dead at the Grand Hyatt Erawan Bangkok hotel in Bangkok, Thailand, in a suspected cyanide poisoning incident. ](/feed/2024/07/16/six-vietnamese-and-american-people-are-found-dead-at-the-grand-hyatt-erawan-bangkok-hotel-in-bangkok-thailand-in-a-sus.md)
##### Kosovo War
### [The Kosovo Specialist Chambers criminal tribunal sentences former Liberation Army member Pjetër Shala to 18 years in prison for war crimes committed during the war. ](/feed/2024/07/16/the-kosovo-specialist-chambers-criminal-tribunal-sentences-former-liberation-army-member-pjeter-shala-to-18-years-in-pri.md)
##### Israel–Hamas war
### [An investigation by the Associated Press and Israeli investigative organization Shomrim finds that the United States and Israel allowed tax-deductible donations totaling over US$200,000 to multiple Israeli far-right extremist groups involved in blocking and disrupting humanitarian aid delivery to the Gaza Strip. ](/feed/2024/07/16/an-investigation-by-the-associated-press-and-israeli-investigative-organization-shomrim-finds-that-the-united-states-and.md)
##### Estonia–Russia relations
### [The Baltic states announce their exit from Russia's and Belarus's electricity grid along with plans to synchronize their grid with the continental Europe grid on February 9, 2025. ](/feed/2024/07/16/the-baltic-states-announce-their-exit-from-russia-s-and-belarus-s-electricity-grid-along-with-plans-to-synchronize-their.md)
##### Czech Republic–Ukraine relations
### [The Czech Republic announces plans to facilitate Colt CZ Group assault rifle production and the construction of an ammunition factory in Ukraine. ](/feed/2024/07/16/the-czech-republic-announces-plans-to-facilitate-colt-cz-group-assault-rifle-production-and-the-construction-of-an-ammun.md)
##### Romania
### [Romania approves the culling of 481 bears in the country, after a 19-year-old woman was killed by a bear last week in the Carpathian Mountains. ](/feed/2024/07/16/romania-approves-the-culling-of-481-bears-in-the-country-after-a-19-year-old-woman-was-killed-by-a-bear-last-week-in-th.md)
##### 2024 European heatwaves
### [Ukrainian state electrical grid operator Ukrenergo begins emergency power shutdowns in seven eastern and central oblasts amid a record heat wave and equipment failures worsened by ongoing Russian attacks. ](/feed/2024/07/16/ukrainian-state-electrical-grid-operator-ukrenergo-begins-emergency-power-shutdowns-in-seven-eastern-and-central-oblasts.md)
##### Reactors
### [A malfunction causes an emergency shutdown of one of the four reactors at the Rostov Nuclear Power Plant in Rostov Oblast, Russia. Background radiation levels are reported as normal. ](/feed/2024/07/16/a-malfunction-causes-an-emergency-shutdown-of-one-of-the-four-reactors-at-the-rostov-nuclear-power-plant-in-rostov-oblas.md)
##### Midwestern United States
### [Heavy rainfall across the Midwestern United States causes a dam failure in Washington County, Illinois, prompting an immediate evacuation order in the nearby city of Nashville. ](/feed/2024/07/16/heavy-rainfall-across-the-midwestern-united-states-causes-a-dam-failure-in-washington-county-illinois-prompting-an-imm.md)
##### Ayacucho Region
### [At least 25 people are killed and 17 others are injured when a bus veers off a cliff and crashes in Ayacucho Region, Peru. ](/feed/2024/07/16/at-least-25-people-are-killed-and-17-others-are-injured-when-a-bus-veers-off-a-cliff-and-crashes-in-ayacucho-region-per.md)
##### Hezbollah–Israel conflict
### [Three Syrian children are killed by an Israeli airstrike on the village of Umm al-Tut in southern Lebanon, while two others are killed during a strike on the Kfar Tebnit-Khardali road. ](/feed/2024/07/16/three-syrian-children-are-killed-by-an-israeli-airstrike-on-the-village-of-umm-al-tut-in-southern-lebanon-while-two-oth.md)
##### 2024 Muscat mosque shooting
### [The Islamic State claims responsibility for the prior day's mass shooting at a Shi'ite mosque in Muscat, Oman. This is the first attack carried out by the Islamic State in the country. ](/feed/2024/07/16/the-islamic-state-claims-responsibility-for-the-prior-day-s-mass-shooting-at-a-shi-ite-mosque-in-muscat-oman-this-is-t.md)
##### 2024 Bangladesh quota reform movement
### [Six people are killed during clashes in Bangladesh as opposition demonstrators protesting government job quotas, which benefit pro-government families, clashes with police and pro-government supporters. ](/feed/2024/07/16/six-people-are-killed-during-clashes-in-bangladesh-as-opposition-demonstrators-protesting-government-job-quotas-which-b.md)
##### Israel–Hamas war
### [At least 57 Palestinians are killed by Israeli bombardments in Gaza City, Khan Younis, and Rafah. ](/feed/2024/07/16/at-least-57-palestinians-are-killed-by-israeli-bombardments-in-gaza-city-khan-younis-and-rafah.md)
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