Portal:Current events/2020 July 8

• Internal conflict in Myanmar
  • Amnesty International says it has conducted a report which says that Myanmar's armed forces "have killed civilians, including children in indiscriminate air attacks" in Rakhine and Chin states, urging the United Nations Security Council to launch a war crimes investigation. Myanmar has been fighting the separatist Arakan Army in the region. The government did not immediately respond to calls for comment. (Al Jazeera)
• Insurgency in the Maghreb
  • At least 180 bodies have been found in mass graves in Djibo, Burkina Faso, where soldiers are fighting jihadists. It is suspected that the government forces were involved in mass extrajudicial executions. (BBC News)
• July 2020 Afghanistan attacks
  • A suicide bomber kills three people when he drives a military vehicle packed with explosives near the provincial governor's residence in Kandahar, Afghanistan. The Taliban claims responsibility. (Reuters)
• Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir
  • Local Bharatiya Janata Party leader Sheikh Wazeem Bari and two members of his family are shot dead in Bandipore district, Jammu and Kashmir. Senior Ministry of Home Affairs official K. Vijay Kumar blames the Islamic terrorist group Jaish-e-Mohammed. (Hindustan Times)

• Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on airlines
  • Delta Air Lines ends service to 11 airports in an effort to reduce domestic flights by 80% and international flights by 90% due to aviation restrictions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. (Business Insider)

• One person is killed and four others injured when a 20-metre crane collapses at a building site where flats were being constructed in the Bow district of East London, United Kingdom. (Reuters)
• American actress Naya Rivera is declared missing at Lake Piru in the Los Padres National Forest of Ventura County, California, after she reportedly rented a boat and swam in the lake with her four-year-old son. Rivera's son was found on the boat unharmed, while the Ventura County Sheriff's Office have initiated a search and rescue operation for the actress. (Reuters)

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in North America
    • COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
      • The United States surpasses three million cases of COVID-19 and sets a daily record of 62,021 new cases. (USA Today) (USA Today₂)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Europe
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Romania
      • Romania surpasses 30,000 cases of COVID-19 and sets a daily record of 555 new cases. (Romania Insider)

• Mexico–United States relations, Canada–United States relations
  • U.S. President Donald Trump hosts a meeting at the White House with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to discuss the new United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau declines to attend. (The Washington Post)
• Lithuania–Russia relations
  • Lithuania bans Russian state-owned television network RT due to its connection with Dmitry Kiselyov, who is sanctioned by the European Union for his role in the 2014 Ukrainian crisis. (LRT)

• Affordable Care Act legal challenges, Contraceptive mandate
  • In a 7–2 decision on Little Sisters of the Poor Saints Peter and Paul Home v. Pennsylvania, the United States Supreme Court upholds regulations that allow employers with religious or moral objections to decline to provide contraception coverage under the Affordable Care Act. (The New York Times) (The Washington Post)
  • The Supreme Court of the United States rules in favor of the Little Sisters of the Poor. The victory at the court comes after nine years of their legal fight against the Obama-era “contraception mandate”. (Catholic News Agency)
• Former Governor of Chihuahua and wanted fugitive César Duarte Jáquez is arrested by police in Miami, Florida, after being in hiding since 2017. He is wanted on corruption charges in Mexico, after allegedly misappropriating public funds. (Reuters)

• Politics of Ivory Coast
  • Ivory Coast's Prime Minister and candidate for the presidential election Amadou Gon Coulibaly dies in office after falling ill at a ministerial meeting. He had recently returned from France after undergoing treatment for heart problems. (BBC News)

• Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sports, Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on association football
  • Major League Soccer resumes its 2020 season after a four-month hiatus caused by the COVID-19 pandemic with a month-long tournament in Orlando, Florida. FC Dallas will sit out the tournament after 10 players and a coach were diagnosed with COVID-19. (Fox News)