Portal:Current events/2018 July 6

July 6, 2018 (Friday)

Arts and culture

The wreckage of Nazi German submarine U-966, which was sunk in November 1943, is discovered off the coast of Galicia, Spain. (BBC)

Disasters and accidents

Tham Luang cave rescue
- A former UDAU diver dies from lack of oxygen while delivering supplies to a group of boys and a man trapped in the Tham Luang Nang Non. (ABC)
2018 Japan floods
- Heavy rain in Japan prompts the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of people. At least 38 people have died in landslides. (BBC)

Health and environment

2018 Eastern Canada heat wave
- As the heat wave in Quebec comes to an end, the death toll rises to 54. (CBC)

Law and crime

Capital punishment in Japan
- Japan executes former Aum Shinrikyo leader Shoko Asahara and six other main members of Aum Shinrikyo, who led the 1995 Tokyo subway sarin attack, by hanging. (BBC)
Humboldt Broncos bus crash
- The driver of the tractor-trailer that collided with the Humboldt Broncos team bus is arrested and is expected to face 29 charges. (CBC)

Politics and elections

Corruption in Pakistan
- In the Avenfield corruption case, the court announced a 10 year sentence and 8 million pound fine for the former Prime Minister of Pakistan, Nawaz Sharif. His daughter and political heir, Maryam Nawaz, was sentenced to 7 years imprisonment and a 2 million pound fine. Sharif's son-in-law, Muhammad Safdar Awan, received a one-year sentence. (DAWN)
Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales is accused of sexual abuse of ten public officials by former Foreign Minister Edgar Gutierrez. (TeleSUR)