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This article covers breaking news and events in July 2014.

Daily events

Tuesday 1st July 2014

Wednesday July 2, 2014

  • Accra / Ghana : At a conference in the Ghanaian capital, eleven African health ministers discuss the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, which has ended fatally in 468 cases among 763 people.
  • La Paz / Bolivia : The National Congress in Bolivia decides that child labor is allowed from the age of 10 years. Approval from the child and youth protection authority is required; the minimum age for employment is 14 years. 850,000 working children are decriminalized and given the rights of adult workers. President Evo Morales is expected to enact the Código Niña, Niño y Adolescente .

Thursday 3rd July 2014

  • Riyadh / Saudi Arabia : Saudi Arabia moves 30,000 soldiers towards the Iraqi border after Iraqi soldiers stationed there withdrew, amid the ongoing fighting between government forces and the recently proclaimed Islamic State .

Friday 4th July 2014

Saturday 5th July 2014

Sunday 6th July 2014

Monday 7th July 2014

  • Mexico City / Mexico : A severe earthquake with a magnitude of 6.9 shook the region around southern Mexico and Guatemala . In addition to a lot of property damage, four people are killed.

Tuesday July 8, 2014

5-0 for Germany after 29 minutes
Effects of the Israeli operation "Protective Edge" in the Gaza Strip

Wednesday 9th July 2014

Thursday July 10, 2014

  • Tokyo / Japan : Typhoon Neoguri hits the Japanese island of Honshu . This resulted in massive flooding, hundreds of flights canceled and at least one person was killed.

Friday 11th July 2014


Sunday 13th July 2014

The German national soccer team at the award ceremony after the final of the soccer World Cup

Monday July 14, 2014

Tuesday 15th July 2014

Wednesday July 16, 2014

Thursday 17th July 2014

Flight route of Malaysia Airlines flight 17

Friday July 18, 2014

  • Witu / Kenya : Seven people, including four policemen, are killed in an attack by the Islamist al-Shabaab with automatic fire rifles on a coach and a police vehicle.

Saturday 19th July 2014

  • Dresden / Germany : In a serious traffic accident on the federal highway 4 with two coaches from Poland and Ukraine and a minibus, ten people die and over 39 are seriously injured.
  • Mosul / Iraq : The jihadist-Salafist terrorist organization Islamic State (IS) uses an ultimatum to force thousands of Christian residents to exodus one of the oldest Christian communities in Iraq . Refugees had their valuables removed at checkpoints. The houses of the last 25,000 Christians in the city are marked with an N for Nasara , a term used in the Koran for Christians.

Sunday 20th July 2014

  • Pensacola / United States : A jury in the US state of Florida sentenced the US tobacco company RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company to pay $ 16 million in damages to the widow of a smoker who died of lung cancer in 1996 and to pay a fine of US $ 23.6 billion Dollars, because the tobacco company deliberately failed to explain that smoking causes lung cancer and that nicotine is highly addictive , even though the company was aware of this effect. Reynolds describes the amount of the sentence as excessively excessive and announces that he wants to challenge the verdict .

Monday July 21, 2014

Tuesday July 22, 2014

Wednesday July 23, 2014

Thursday July 24, 2014

Friday 25th July 2014

  • Bishkek / Kyrgyzstan : The Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev , who was in office from 2005 to 2010 , has been sentenced to life imprisonment in absentia for the violent crackdown on anti-government protests in April 2010, in which 77 people were killed. Bakiyev has lived in exile in Belarus since April 2010 . His brother Shanibek Bakiyev, the former head of state personal protection, was sentenced to life imprisonment and his son Maxim Bakiyev was sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment for money laundering.
  • Syria : A first aid convoy of the United Nations according to UN resolution 2165 , coordinated by the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), crosses the border to the civil war country Syria with nine trucks from Turkey . It is supposed to provide the civilian population in Aleppo and Idlib with food, tents and water treatment equipment.

Saturday 26th July 2014

Sunday July 27, 2014

  • Benghazi / Libya : 38 people were killed in fighting between units of the renegade major general Khalifa Haftar and the Salafist militia Ansar al-Sharia .
  • Tripoli / Libya : Due to the ongoing fighting in the capital and especially at the airport, the US embassy was evacuated with close air support . 78 embassy employees, protected by around 80 heavily armed US marines, were brought to Tunisia. Several European countries have asked their citizens to leave Libya.
  • Kolofata / Cameroon : In the Mayo-Sava district , the Islamist terrorist organization Boko Haram kidnapped his wife and killed at least three people in an attack on the house of Deputy Prime Minister Amadou Ali .

Monday July 28, 2014

  • Canberra / Australia : The Australian government under Prime Minister Tony Abbott approves the planned Carmichael coal mine of the Indian Adani Group (named after Gautam Adani) in the state of Queensland . The mining project costs 16.5 billion Australian dollars (11.5 billion euros) and is expected to produce around 60 million tons of coal annually. The coal is to be shipped to India via the seaport in Abbot Point .
  • The Hague / Netherlands : The Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) awards the former shareholders of the Russian oil company Yukos , which was declared bankrupt in 2006, with compensation from the Russian state totaling 50 billion US dollars (the equivalent of 37.2 billion euros).
  • Gaza Strip / Palestinian Autonomous Territories : At least eight children were killed in a rocket hit a playground at the Al-Shati refugee camp on the Mediterranean coast.
  • Jerusalem / Israel : The Israeli Defense Forces call on the civilian populations of Jabaliya , Schedschaija and Zeitoun in the Gaza Strip to flee the locations via SMS cell phone messages. Previously, at least four Israelis were killed in a Palestinian attack with mortar shells.
  • Monrovia / Liberia : Due to the spreading Ebola epidemic , President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf orders the closure of almost all national borders and bans public events. The only exceptions are the strictly controlled Monrovia International Airport , Monrovia-Spriggs Payne Airport and the three most important border crossings.
  • Tripoli / Libya : During the fighting between rival militias, around 10 km from the capital, a rocket hit a six million liter fuel tank of the National Oil Corporation (NOC) and set it on fire. The fire has meanwhile got "out of control", according to the oil company. According to the NOC spokesman Mohammed Al-Hrari, other oil and gas tanks could explode, including an adjacent natural gas storage facility with a total capacity of more than 90 million liters.

Tuesday July 29, 2014

Wednesday July 30, 2014

  • Ambegaon / India : After days of monsoon rain, a large part of the village of Malin in the Pune district was destroyed by a landslide . At least 20 people are killed, another 150 residents are still missing.
  • Benghazi / Libya : The Salafist militia Ansar al-Sharia conquers the military base of the Libyan special forces "Saiqa" under Colonel Wanis Abu Khamada southeast of Benghazi, who are forced to withdraw. At least 35 soldiers are killed in the fighting.
  • Eastbourne / United Kingdom : The pier is largely destroyed in a fire.
  • Stockholm / Sweden : The Swedish Academy has added a neutral personal pronoun to the word list with the word hen , thereby introducing a gender-neutral personal pronoun into the Swedish language .
  • Yarkant / China : Several people are killed in clashes between Uyghurs and Han Chinese . State media reports of a crowd of Uyghurs armed with knives and axes who allegedly attacked a police station. The World Uyghur Congress said 20 people had been killed.

Thursday July 31, 2014

See also

Web links

Canton of Schwyz in July 2014
Commons : July 2014  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  4. Child labor in Bolivia - you toil for the rich. Sueddeutsche.de , July 4, 2014, accessed on July 8, 2014 .
  5. Child labor in Bolivia: With the trumpet on the street. The daily newspaper , July 4, 2014, accessed on July 8, 2014 .
  6. Saudi Arabia deploys 30,000 soldiers to border with Iraq - al-Arabiya TV. Reuters , July 3, 2014, accessed July 4, 2014 .
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  14. Escalation in the Middle East: The missile war returns to Israel. In: SPON . Spiegel Online GmbH, July 8, 2014, accessed on July 9, 2014 .
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  16. Jenny Wivell: Rain Caused by Japan's Neoguri Creates fatal landside. BBC , July 10, 2014, accessed July 29, 2014 .
  17. Smitha Mundasad: First dengue vaccine 'shows promise'. BBC , July 11, 2014, accessed July 29, 2014 .
  18. Militias fight for the airport in Tripoli , Süddeutsche.de, July 15, 2014
  19. Tripoli airport again under rocket fire ( memento from July 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), DPA, Stern.de, July 14, 2014
  20. Women are allowed to become bishops , süddeutsche.de, July 14, 2014
  21. Juncker elected new President of the European Commission by a large majority , European Commission, July 15, 2014
  22. Special European Council - Conclusions , European Council, 16 July 2014
  23. Netherlands jointly responsible for 300 deaths in Srebrenica , Welt Online, July 16, 2014
  24. Possible shooting down: Malaysian passenger plane crashed over Ukraine. Retrieved July 17, 2014 .
  25. All 298 people on board the plane are dead. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . Retrieved July 18, 2014 .
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  28. Islamic State fighters seize Syria gas field , aljazeera.com, July 17, 2014
  29. Kenya Al-Shebaab gun attack on bus kills seven people , Telegraph.co.uk, July 20, 2014
  30. Exodus: Christians flee Mosul after ISIS ultimatum , Kleine Zeitung , July 19, 2014
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  36. faz.net: Joko Widodo elected - A beacon of hope becomes the new President of Indonesia , July 22, 2014
  37. Unicef.org: No time to lose: New UNICEF data show need for urgent action on female genital mutilation and child marriage , July 22, 2014 (English)
  38. Spiegel Online: Unicef ​​Report: More than 700 million women were married as children , July 22, 2014
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  42. Kurier.at: Government resigned in the wake of EU election debacle - minority government made up of socialists and liberal Turkish party failed. , July 23, 2014
  43. faz.net: Fuad Masum - Kurd is the new President of Iraq , July 24, 2014
  44. ^ Welt.de: Bloodbath in the United Nations school in Gaza , July 24, 2014
  45. Sky News: Israeli Tank Shells Gaza School: 15 Dead , July 24, 2014
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  50. Reuven Rivlin, the friendly falcon Handelsblatt, July 24, 2014
  51. SPIEGEL Online v. July 24, 2014: Power struggle in Kiev: Ukrainian government resigns
  52. ECHR press release ECHR 231 (2014) of July 24, 2014: Secret rendition and detention by the CIA in Poland of two men suspected of terrorist acts , July 14, 2014 (English)
  53. Süddeutsche.de: CIA secret prison tolerated - human rights court punishes Poland , July 24, 2014
  54. rp-online.de: At least 60 dead in an attack on prisoner transport , July 24, 2014
  55. Der Standard: Kyrgyzstan's ex-President Bakiyev sentenced to life imprisonment , July 25, 2014
  56. Wochenblatt.de: First UN aid convoy arrived in Syria ( Memento of the original from July 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , July 25, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wochenblatt.de
  57. ^ Welt.de: IS extremists expel Syria's army from Raka province , July 26, 2014
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  60. N-TV: Militias bring the country to its knees - Libya becomes a failed state , July 27, 2014
  61. DW.de: Boko Haram kidnaps the wife of Cameroon's deputy head of government , July 27, 2014
  62. ^ Süddeutsche.de: Great Barrier Reef in danger - Australian government approves giant coal mine , July 28, 2014
  63. pca-cpa.org: Final Awards Issued in 3 Arbitrations Between Former Shareholders of Yukos and the Russian Federation ( Memento of the original from July 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , July 28, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / pca-cpa.org
  64. NZZ.ch: $ 50 billion in damages - Yukos affair catches up with Russia , July 28, 2014
  65. FAZ.net: Gaza conflict - no end in sight , July 28, 2014
  66. ^ Spiegel Online: War in the Middle East: Israel calls on civilians in Gaza to flee , July 28, 2014
  67. Zeit.de: Liberia closes borders due to Ebola epidemic , July 28, 2014
  68. Abendblatt.de: Tripoli threatens disaster due to burning fuel tank , July 28, 2014
  69. Salzburger Nachrichten.at: Japan's whaling fleet killed 115 marine mammals , July 29, 2014
  70. Justiz.NRW.de: UBS settles tax dispute in Germany with payment of millions ( memento of the original from July 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , July 29, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.justiz.nrw.de
  71. Handelsblatt.com: UBS bleeds for German tax evaders , July 29, 2014
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  73. ^ Spiegel Online: Village buried under mud: More than 160 people missing after landslide in India , July 30, 2014
  74. jungewelt.de: Shortly before the explosion - Libya controlled by hostile militias. Ex-military and former Qaddafi supporters unite against Islamists , July 31, 2014
  75. Special Broadcasting Service: Libya Islamists seize key Benghazi base , July 31, 2014
  76. ^ Eastbourne Pier: Fire destroys large parts of famous English pier. Spiegel Online , July 30, 2014, accessed July 30, 2014 .
  77. Amelie Persson: Sweden introduces gender-neutral personal pronouns. Frankfurter Allgemeine , July 30, 2014, accessed July 30, 2014 .
  78. Morgenpost.de: Dozens of dead in an attack in China's unrest region - The conflict in the western province of Xinjiang is escalating , July 30, 2014