Portal:Current events/2021 July 6
July 6, 2021 (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 crashes near the sea in Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia, killing all the 28 people on board. (Al Jazeera)
- A government warehouse near Karaj in Iran catches on fire after an explosion, where an attack recently occurred targeting a nuclear facility allegedly used to produce uranium enrichment centrifuges. (Israel Hayom)
Health and environment
- COVID-19 pandemic
- COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh
- Bangladesh reports record 11,525 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the national total of confirmed cases to 966,406. (Bdnews24.com)
- COVID-19 pandemic in Fiji
- 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)
- COVID-19 pandemic in Russia
- Russia reports record 737 deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the national death toll to 139,316. (The Moscow Times)
- COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom
- The United Kingdom reports 28,773 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, which is the highest single-day total of new cases since January 29. (Sky News)
- COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh
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
- Governor General of Canada
- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announces that Inuk leader Mary Simon has been appointed to be the 30th Governor General of Canada, the first indigenous person to assume the role. Simon will succeed Chief Justice Richard Wagner, who has been acting as Administrator since the resignation of Governor General Julie Payette in January. (CBC)