Portal:Current events/2018 July 1

July 1, 2018 (Sunday)

Disasters and accidents

A bus skids off a mountain road into a 700-foot (210 m)–deep ravine in Uttarakhand, India, killing at least 48 people. (Sky News)
A road accident in Tanzania leaves 20 dead and 45 others injured. (Xinhua)

International relations

Law and crime

List of helicopter prison escapes
- Three heavily armed gunmen who hijacked a helicopter help Rédoine Faïd, one of France's most notorious gangsters, escape from a prison in Réau, Île-de-France. Police later discovered the abandoned helicopter in Gonesse. Faïd previously escaped prison in 2013 and was briefly France's most wanted criminal. (BBC)
Cannabis in the United States
- Cannabis in Vermont
  - Vermont legalizes recreational marijuana, becoming the ninth U.S. state to do so. (SFGate)
Crime in Idaho
- A man stabs multiple people celebrating a three-year-old's birthday party at an apartment complex housing refugees in Boise, Idaho. Nine people are injured, including the birthday girl and five other children; the birthday girl dies the next day. (Reuters)
Terrorism in the United States
- FBI agents arrest a Cleveland man they say told an undercover agent he was planning to bomb a July 4^th celebration. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

2018 German government crisis, European migrant crisis
- German Chancellor Angela Merkel faces resistance by the Bavarian CSU over the result of the EU asylum policy summit last week. (Bloomberg) (Frankfurter Allgemeine)
- Interior minister Horst Seehofer offers his resignation citing a conflict with Angela Merkel over her refugee policy. (Sky News)
2018 Mexican general election
- Voters in Mexico elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador as their new President in a landslide victory. Additionally, 128 senators and 500 deputies were also chosen. (Politico) (BBC)

Sports

Health and environment

Pimachiowin Aki, a large area of Boreal Forest that spans parts of the Canadian provinces of Manitoba and Ontario, and includes the lands of four First Nations, is recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. (CBC)