Portal:Current events/2016 July 2

July 2, 2016 (Saturday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

2016 Gulshan attack
- 13 hostages were rescued following a standoff with the Rapid Action Battalion. (Reuters)
- Twenty hostages and two policemen were killed, and six gunmen are dead with one captured alive. (CNN)
War in Afghanistan
- At least two people are killed and dozens more are wounded in a suicide bombing in Jalalabad, Nangarhar Province. (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)
Iraqi Civil War, Military intervention against ISIL
- According to The Pentagon, two senior ISIL leaders have been killed by a United States-led coalition airstrike in Mosul. (The Guardian) (BBC)
Syrian Civil War
- Syrian government airstrikes in Damascus kill at least 30 people. According to the rebels, the airstrikes were revenge for the killing of a Syrian Air Force pilot by Al-Nusra Front yesterday. The airstrikes reportedly targeted a medical centre and a school. (The Guardian)
2016 Istanbul airport attack
- Turkish police arrest a total of 41 people in connection with the Istanbul Atatürk Airport terrorist attack. (UPI.com)

Law and crime

A lone gunman opened fire at a café in Žitište, Serbia, killing five people and injuring 20 more. The perpetrator was arrested shortly afterward while attempting to flee the scene. (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)
Four children are stabbed to death by their mother in Memphis, Tennessee. The mother was taken into custody. (Local 8 News)

Politics and elections

Australian federal election, 2016
- Australians vote to elect a government for the next three years. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, leader of the conservative Liberal Party-led Coalition, dissolved both houses of Parliament in May in a bid for a Senate more friendly to his agenda. The final result showed the Coalition with a bare 1 seat majority in the House with 76 seats and the Australian Labor Party with 69 seats. (Reuters) (Sydney Morning Herald)
Aftermath of the United Kingdom European Union membership referendum, 2016
- In pro-EU rallies, thousands of people protest in London against the United Kingdom withdrawal from the European Union and ask that Article 50 not be invoked. (The Guardian)