Portal:Current events/2021 July 6

July 6, 2021 (2021-07-06) (Tuesday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Tigray War
  • Rebels of the Tigray Defense Forces mobilize to retake western Tigray from Amharan militias. (The Guardian)

Disasters and accidents

• Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Air Flight 251
  • Kamchatka Aviation Enterprise Flight 251, carrying 28 people, has gone missing in Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia. It is suspected that it has crashed in to the sea. Debris of the plane is found. (Al Jazeera)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Fiji
    • Fiji reports record 636 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the national total to 7,149 cases. The Ministry of Health also reports record six deaths, bringing the nationwide death toll to 39. (RNZ)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia
    • Indonesia reports a record second consecutive day of 31,189 new cases and a record third consecutive day of 728 deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, bringing the nationwide total confirmed cases and death toll to 2.45 million and to 61,868 respectively. (detikNews)

Law and crime

• Murders of Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman
  • Danyal Hussein is convicted at London's Old Bailey of both murders. (BBC)
• A court in Minsk, Belarus, sentences former presidential candidate and opposition politician Viktar Babaryka to 14 years' imprisonment on charges of bribery and tax evasion, which he denies. (DW)

Politics and elections

• Governor General of Canada
  • Inuk leader Mary Simon named as Canada's 1st Indigenous Governor General of Canada. (CBC)

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