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Former United States president Donald Trump survives an assassination attempt during a political rally near Butler, Pennsylvania.
- On July 13, 2024, Donald Trump, a former president of the United States and the Republican Party's presumptive nominee in the 2024 presidential election, was shot and wounded in his right ear while addressing a campaign rally near Butler, Pennsylvania. Shortly after Trump began addressing the rally, Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old man from Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, fired eight rounds with an AR-15–style rifle from the roof of a building located around 400 feet (120 meters) from the stage. Crooks also killed audience member Corey Comperatore and critically injured two other audience members. He was subsequently shot and killed by the U.S. Secret Service's counter-sniper team.
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A faulty software update by CrowdStrike, an American cybersecurity company, causes global computer outages.
- On 19 July 2024, a faulty update to security software produced by CrowdStrike, an American cybersecurity company, caused widespread problems as computers and virtual machines running Microsoft Windows crashed and were unable to properly restart. Businesses and governments around the globe were affected in what has been described as the largest outage in the history of information technology and "historic in scale". Microsoft estimated that 8.5 million machines were affected, which had "broad economic and societal impacts" as many of those were enterprise computers used in critical services.
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In association football, Euro 2024 concludes with Spain defeating England in the final, and the Copa América concludes with Argentina defeating Colombia in the final.
- The UEFA Euro 2024 final was a football match that determined the winners of UEFA Euro 2024. The match was the 17th final of the UEFA European Championship, a quadrennial tournament contested by the men's national teams of the member associations of UEFA to decide the champions of Europe. The match was held at the Olympiastadion in Berlin, Germany, on 14 July 2024, and was contested by Spain, in their fifth final, and England, in their second overall and consecutive final. It was England's first appearance in a major men's tournament final held outside their home country.
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- The 2024 Copa América final was an international soccer match to determine the winners of the CONMEBOL 2024 Copa América. The match was played at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida, on July 14, 2024. Kickoff was delayed by over an hour and twenty minutes, due to overcrowding and other incidents which occurred near the stadium.
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In tennis, Barbora Krejčíková and Carlos Alcaraz win the women's and men's singles, respectively, at the Wimbledon Championships.
- The 2024 Wimbledon Championships was a Grand Slam tennis tournament that took place at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London, England, comprising singles, doubles and mixed doubles play. Junior, wheelchair and Invitational tournaments were also scheduled.
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KP Sharma Oli is appointed the prime minister of Nepal after the incumbent Pushpa Kamal Dahal loses a no confidence motion.
- Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli (Nepali: खड्ग प्रसाद शर्मा ओली, pronounced [ˈkʰʌɽɡʌprʌsad̪ ˈoli]); commonly known as KP Sharma Oli; (English pronunciation: ) (born 22 February 1952) is a Nepalese politician serving as the Prime Minister of Nepal since 15 July 2024 and chairman of the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist) since 2014. He previously served as prime minister from 11 October 2015 to 3 August 2016, from 15 February 2018 to 14 May 2021 and from 14 May 2021 to 13 July 2021, He has been the Member of Parliament for Jhapa 5 since 2017, he previously served as an MP for Jhapa 6, Jhapa 2 and Jhapa 7.
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In the Rwandan general election, Paul Kagame is re-elected as the president, and the Rwandan Patriotic Front coalition win a majority in the lower house.
- General elections were held in Rwanda on 15 July 2024 to elect the president and members of the Chamber of Deputies.
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General secretary and former president of Vietnam Nguyễn Phú Trọng dies at the age of 80.
- Nguyễn Phú Trọng (Vietnamese: [ŋwiən˦ˀ˥ fu˧˦ t͡ɕawŋ͡m˧˨ʔ] new-yen foo chong; 14 April 1944 – 19 July 2024) was a Vietnamese politician and communist theorist who served as general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam from 2011 until his death in 2024. As the head of the party's Secretariat, Politburo and Central Military Commission, Trọng was Vietnam's paramount leader. From 2018 to 2021 he also served concurrently as president of Vietnam.
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The International Court of Justice finds the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories to be a violation of international law.
- Legal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem is a proceeding before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) stemming from a resolution adopted by the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in December 2022, requesting the Court to render an advisory opinion.
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Israel–Hamas war (ongoing)
- An armed conflict between Israel and Hamas-led Palestinian militant groups has been taking place chiefly in the Gaza Strip since 7 October 2023. The fifth war of the Gaza–Israel conflict since 2008, it has been the deadliest for Palestinians in the entire Israeli–Palestinian conflict, and the most significant military engagement in the region since the 1973 Yom Kippur War.
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Russian invasion of Ukraine (ongoing)
- On 24 February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which started in 2014. The invasion, the largest conflict in Europe since World War II, has caused hundreds of thousands of military casualties and tens of thousands of Ukrainian civilian casualties. As of 2024, Russian troops are occupying about 20% of Ukraine. From a population of 41 million, about 8 million Ukrainians had been internally displaced and more than 8.2 million had fled the country by April 2023, creating Europe's largest refugee crisis since World War II.
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Sudanese civil war (ongoing)
- A civil war between two rival factions of the military government of Sudan, the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) under Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) under the Janjaweed leader Hemedti, began during Ramadan on 15 April 2023. Fighting has been concentrated around the capital city of Khartoum and the Darfur region. As of 21 January 2024, at least 13,000–15,000 people had been killed and 33,000 others were injured. As of 5 July 2024, over 7.7 million were internally displaced and more than 2.1 million others had fled the country as refugees, and many civilians in Darfur have been reported dead as part of the Masalit massacres.
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