Portal:Current events/2022 July 10

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Battle of Donbas
      • Missile strike on Chasiv Yar
        • A Russian airstrike on an apartment complex in Chasiv Yar, Donetsk Oblast, kills at least 47 people and leaves nine others injured. (Sky News)
• Mexican drug war
  • Six people are killed and eight others are wounded in a mass shooting at a party in León, Guanajuato, Mexico. (Infobae)

Business and economy

• Uber Files
  • Over 124,000 confidential documents are leaked from Uber, showing efforts by Uber to lobby governments for preferential treatment. (BBC News)
  • Leaked documents reveal that French President Emmanuel Macron went to "extraordinary lengths" to help Uber disrupt the French taxi industry, telling Uber's executives that he had brokered a "secret" deal with his socialist opponents in his cabinet. (The Guardian)

Disasters and accidents

• Most of Argentina is placed on "yellow alert" by the National Meteorological Service due to high winds, hail and snowfall. (M1)

Health and environment

• 2022 monkeypox outbreak
  • 2022 monkeypox outbreak in the United States
    • Kansas reports its first case of monkeypox. (Kansas City Star)
  • New Zealand reports its first cases of monkeypox. (Health GOV New Zealand)

International relations

• Kiribati announces its withdrawal from the Pacific Islands Forum, effective immediately, after President Taneti Maamau publishes a letter where he expresses four reasons for doing so, mainly due to the Secretary-General of the Forum never having been from the Micronesian region of the Pacific islands. (1news)

Law and crime

• 2022 Soweto shooting; 2022 Pietermaritzburg shooting
  • In South Africa, 15 people are killed in a mass shooting at a bar in Soweto, Gauteng. Four more are killed at a tavern in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal. Many others are wounded in both attacks. (BBC News)

Politics and elections

• 2022 Japanese House of Councillors election
  • Japanese citizens go to the polls to elect members of the upper house of the National Diet. (Nikkei)
  • An exit poll by NHK projects that the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)-led coalition will retain its majority in the upper house, winning 76 of the chamber's 125 contested seats. The LDP is the party of former prime minister Shinzo Abe, who was assassinated two days prior while campaigning for the party's candidate for Nara, Kei Satō. (Al Jazeera)
• 2022 Israeli legislative election
  • Israeli politicians Benny Gantz and Gideon Saar form a political alliance to compete against Yair Lapid and Benjamin Netanyahu. (Haaretz)

Sports

• 2022 Wimbledon Championships
  • Novak Djokovic of Serbia wins his seventh Wimbledon and overall 21st Grand Slam title after defeating Nick Kyrgios of Australia in the men's singles final, 4–6, 6–3, 6–4, 7–6 (7–3). (BBC Sport)