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July 6, 2021 (Tuesday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

Disasters and accidents

Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Air Flight 251
- Kamchatka Aviation Enterprise Flight 251 crashes near the sea in Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia, killing all the 28 people on board. (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)
Nine people, aged between 15 and 39 years old, are arrested in Hong Kong during a police operation at a room. They are accused of building bombs and planing attacks in the city's courts, transport networks and streets. Police said they seized the explosives and quoted that the room was used as a laboratory for the construction of bombs. The motive behind the planned attacks is however unknown. (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