Portal:Current events/2022 July 30

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Insurgency in Balochistan
  • Six Balochistan Liberation Army separatists and a Pakistani soldier are killed during clashes in Kech District, Balochistan, Pakistan. (AP)
• At least 125 people are injured when supporters of Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr storm the parliament in Baghdad's Green Zone. (Metro)
• One person is wounded in an assassination attempt on President of Guatemala Alejandro Giammattei. The president is unharmed. (ABC)

Business and economy

• 2022 Russia–European Union gas dispute
  • Russia's Gazprom suspends gas supplies to Latvia after accusing it of "violating conditions of purchase". The Latvian government says the suspension of gas from Russia is not expected to have a major impact on the economy. (BBC News)

Disasters and accidents

• July 2022 United States floods
  • Urban Search and Rescue Missouri Task Force 1 is deployed in Eastern Kentucky, United States. (KMBC)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Washington, D.C.
      • President Joe Biden tests positive for COVID-19 for a second time and will be in isolation. (CNBC)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Niue
    • Niue records its first community case of COVID-19, prompting Minister of Health Sauni Tongatule to move the country to its highest alert level. (RNZ)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in North Korea
    • North Korea announces zero "fever cases" for the first time since mid-May when the country first announced an outbreak of COVID-19. Authorities stated that 4.8 million people were infected and that 74 people died from the virus. (Al Jazeera)
• 2022 monkeypox outbreak
  • 2022 monkeypox outbreak in Spain
    • Spain reports its second confirmed death from monkeypox, a day after reporting the first confirmed death outside of Africa. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• Indonesia restricts access to eight websites, including PayPal, Yahoo! and Steam, for failing to register with the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology. Online services registered with the ministry are required to comply with disclosure and content removal requests. (Reuters)