Corax
Finland's first openly gay professional hockey player, 29-year-old Janne Puhakka, is shot dead with a hunting rifle by his 66-year-old Norwegian ex-boyfriend Rolf Nordmo after the relationship ended, the couple started dating secretly when Puhakka was 19 and he came out as gay after the end of his career in 2018
World
The case regarding the European Commission's refusal to allow the New York Times access to text messages between Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen regarding the vaccine agreement will be brought before the Court of Justice of the European Union in November
French authorities declare a curfew and ban protests in its overseas territory of Martinique in the Caribbean after riots over high food prices left one dead and 26 injured police, protests began in early September
The Libertarian Party and two independent candidates who have spoken out against smart cities get 11 seats in the local parliament in the state of New South Wales in Australia, in their manifesto it says that if we don't take a stand now, we are headed for a 24/7 government surveillance and a social credit system similar to China
The British territory of the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean is transferred to Mauritius as announced jointly by the Prime Ministers of both countries, and the American and British military base on the included Diego Garcia atoll will continue to operate as before
Miscellaneous
Football star Kylian Mbappé suspected of rape after a party night in Stockholm but calls the accusations fake news, is said to have landed with private plane on Wednesday and with his friend, the soccer player Nordi Mukiele, booked the entire nightclub V for private parties on Wednesday and Thursday during which there was a total phone ban
Jack the Ripper was Aaron Kosminski, a Jewish immigrant from Poland, according to DNA analysis of object from crime scene, author Russell Edwards says that Kosminski had contacts involved with freemasonry which might have helped him escape justice
3D map of Iceland in the resolution of 2.5 meters is made public by the company Loftmydnir which used data collected over 30 years through aeroplane photos instead of satellite photos which is the approach most often used in creating 3D maps
President of Haiti's Transitional Presidential Council, Edgard Leblanc Fils, spills water in the lectern as he drinks straight from a pitcher instead of a glass, just after addressing the United Nations General Assembly, saying the country has inspired others to throw off the yoke of unbearable colonialism, Fils then demanded justice and respect for Haiti
Media
Mel Gibson is working on a television series about the Great Siege of Malta in 1565 and was recently on a visit to the island where he met the country's Prime Minister Robert Abela, says the story of the 700 knights who won when they defended Malta against the attacks of the Ottomans is incredible
British magazine The Spectator is bought by businessman Paul Marshall, owner of right-wing media GB News and online publication Unherd, for GBP 100 million, is profitable and has grown turnover every year since 2013
Youtube stops recommending certain types of health and fitness videos to teenagers as it can be harmful to their self-confidence and body image, the same measures were taken for the US last year
Court upholds previous ruling that the Internet Archive's activity of scanning and lending library books violates copyright laws, assesses that all four requisites for fair use speak in favor of the publisher, but judges that the site's activity is not commercial in nature, unlike the assessment of the previous instance
SpaceX's Starlink will block X in Brazil after the Supreme Court's decision to ban the platform in the country and to freeze of Starlink's assets to ensure that X pays its fines, both companies' owner Elon Musk writes that if Brazil does not return the illegally seized property they will seek reciprocal seizure of government assets too
Russian opposition journalist Sergei Mikhailov, editor of the publication Listok, is sentenced to eight years in prison for reporting on the number of dead civilians in the Kiev suburb of Butja and Mariupol in Donetsk, something that the court judge was knowlingly spreading of fake information
X, formerly Twitter, is being shut down in Brazil after order from Supreme Court Justice Alexandre De Moraes citing refusal to comply with local laws, using VPNs to get around the shutdown faces fines of USD 8,900 daily, and according to X's owner Elon Musk, the social media platform is the country's most used news app and what the people want
Politics
Afro-Swedish EU parliamentarian Alice Bah Kuhnke (MP) tells The Guardian she has learned to keep her ID close at hand as she frequently is stopped in and around the European Parliament and that other black parliamentarians have the same experience, the article author writes that the over-representation of white men in parliament have far-reaching consequences
Argentine President Javier Milei attends a convention of European patriots organized by the right-wing party Vox with Marine Le Pen among others present and has no plans to meet the king or Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez during a visit to Spain, calls socialism satanic and a cancer in a speech on the first day of the visit
Dutch Geert Wilders presents an agreement between four parties that will introduce the country's strictest immigration policy ever by, among other things, getting exemptions from the EU's immigration policy similar to Denmark, takes place after his party the Freedom Party became the largest party in the 2023 election and since then negotiated the formation of a government, still unclear who will be prime minister
The Flemish nationalist party Vlaams Belang is leading the polls ahead of the Belgian election at June 9 with 28 percent support and the party's Barbara Pas says the desire to have children generally remains the same, but cannot be fulfilled by the people due to practical and financial obstacles which the party seeks to eliminate
Opinion
Andrew Beck: Ten years ago, Javascript's creator, Brendan Eich, was forced out as CEO of Mozilla, which he co-founded, as a result of donations he made to lobby groups opposed to the legalization of same-sex marriage, which I felt at the time was a major escalation of the culture war and made me realize that the ideological conformity to the top-down, programmatic transformation of the country was all that mattered
Robin Hanson: Global monoculture is a dangerous mistake which is on track to repeat historical patterns of population collapse, centuries of minimal development and increasing illiberalism, no cultural counterforce has realistic chance of reversing the trends but high tech could prevent some of the problems ahead
Europe
The Advocate General at the European Court of Justice, Michael Collins, argues that Malta's sale of citizenship does not contravene the EU constitution, as the European Commission has claimed, and recommends the European Court of Justice to drop the case
Poland is setting up, 49 integration centers, funded by EU, where immigrants can take language courses, get legal help and psychological support, the country's current Prime Minister Donald Tusk was the former president of the European Council
42-year-old Nigerian Lucky Francis, who was brought back to Denmark to face trial after attacking a Danish helicopter in the Gulf of Guinea in 2021 and as a result of being fired upon had one of his legs amputated, escapes sentence due to the injury, receives asylum in the country and, according to reports, has cost taxpayers over EUR 550,000
Around 200 German police officers raid neo-Nazi martial arts event in Hachenburg in Rhineland-Palatinate for several hours, confiscate items that indicate right-wing extremist sentiments and are now investigating whether possession of these could be punishable, no one arrested and several minors said to have participated, Interior Minister Michael Ebling says the operation sends a clear signal and that their zero-tolerance policy towards the enemies of the constitution is not negotiable
Ukraine will not extend its agreement with Russia on the transit of natural gas via Ukraine to Europe which expires in 2024, is announced by Prime Minister Denys Sjmyhal during press conference with gas importer Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico
The European Commission is suing Hungary over legislation intended to defend the country against undue political influence by foreign entities that came into force in December 2023, saying the law violates several EU rules and principles
Every chicken in the UK must be registered with the state from October 1st, citing improved preparedness for avian flu and other infectious diseases
French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen in court together with 26 other party members accused of misuse of EU funds by fabricating employees of the EU Parliament with whose salaries they financed domestic political activities, threatened with up to ten years in prison, five-year ban on political assignments but says nothing will stop her from standing in the upcoming presidential election
North America
The relationship between the Kamala Harris team and the Biden administration has worsened in recent weeks, according to ten sources to Axios, Joe Biden held a impromptu press conference on Friday at the same time as Harris' campaign in Michigan and after Harris complained that Florida Governor, Ron DeSantis, did not return her calls regarding hurricane Milton, Joe Biden praised the governor for being gracious and cooperative
Vem Miller, who was stopped outside Donald Trump's Coachella in California rally on Sunday on suspicion of plotting to assassinate the former president, denies all charges in a lengthy statement and is preparing a lawsuit over his arrest, Miller is said to have been noticed for strange press credentials and when his car was searched two guns were found
Only 78 percent of blacks in the United States support Kamala Harris, to be compared with Hillary Clinton's 92 percent in 2016 and Joe Biden's 90 percent in 2020, according to poll published by the New York Times, and Barack Obama says during a campaign stop in Pittsburgh that they have not seen the same support as when he ran up in 2008 and says he believes the real reason black men don't support Harris is because she's a woman
The number of students being home-schooled in the 2023-2024 school year increased in 19 out of 21 US states surveyed, according to data from the Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy, report author Angela Watson is unsure of the reasons but says she knows it's due to something other than the pandemic
Black Marcellus Williams is executed in Missouri after being sentenced to death in 2001 for the 1998 murder of Felicia Gayle who was found at home by her husband with 43 stab wounds, became a devout Muslim while in prison, acted as an imam for other inmates, was spared execution in 2015 and 2017, has the entire the time maintained his innocence and until the very end, attempts were made to overturn the sentence
Latin America
The Dominican Republic announces plan to per week deport up to 10,000 Haitians who made it to the neighboring country after the recent lawlessness, according to the UN, the Dominican Republic sent back 200,000 Haitians last year
Venezuela plans to issue arrest warrants for Argentina's President Javier Milei, his sister Karina Milei and Security Minister Patricia Bullrich over the expropriation of state-owned aircraft at the behest of the US Justice Department, which claimed it actually belonged to Iranian airline affiliated with the terrorist-designated Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
All gifts to Argentine President Javier Milei are declared and include a chainsaw key ring, a pair of underwear, a mug with the inscription "socialism kills" from a German fan, Toblerone, a toy dog, the Argentina national soccer team jersey during a trip to Israel, red wine and olive oil from Georgia Meloni and cognac of the Hennessy XO brand from Emmanuel Macron
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro brings forward the start of the Christmas celebration for the third time during his administration, which was announced in a speech to the people during his show Con Maduro+ broadcast on Youtube, this year the celebration starts on October 1st, while in 2020 it was on the 15th and in 2021 on the 4th of October
Asia
Former defense minister Shigeru Ishiba is expected to become Japan's new prime minister after a vote in parliament next week after winning the Liberal Democratic party leadership vote with 215 votes to female challenger Sanae Takaichi's 194 votes
Armed faction of the West Papua National Liberation Army in Indonesia, led by Egianus Kogoya, are according to audio message published by spokesman willing to release the New Zealand pilot Phillip Mehrtens who was kidnapped over a year ago, the Indonesian army has said that military intervention would be dangerous and has instead prioritized diplomacy
Philippines and China reach agreement on Philippines-controlled reef Second Thomas Shoal which is also claimed by China, Taiwan and Vietnam, the US has repeatedly warned that attacks on Philippine ships in the South China Sea might lead to intervention as the US and the Philippines have a joint military agreement
Africa
In order to operate in South Africa, Starlink needs to be 30 percent owned by "historically disadvantaged groups", which includes blacks, women, youth and disabled, the service can be accessed from most parts of the world but for the delivery of necessary products to customers, permission from the states is required
Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine seriously injured after being shot in the leg by police outside the capital Kampala on Tuesday, street confrontations between him and the police is not unusual and in this case police say he had to no avail been advised against holding a street procession when he left a private event
Germany ends its military presence in Niger in Africa as the last 60 soldiers and equipment leaving, but the countries write in a joint statement that their military cooperation will not end, since 2016, 3,200 German soldiers served on air bases in the region
More cases so far in 2024 of people infected with monkeypox in Africa compared to all of 2023 and the World Health Organization calls for a meeting of its Emergency Committee, a new deadlier and more infectious strain of the virus is said to have been discovered in April in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Mahamat Idriss Deby is sworn in as president of Chad after winning elections with 61 percent of the vote after three years as a leader under military rule following the assassination of his father who ruled the country since a military coup in the early 90s, present at the installation was, among others, the minister of foreign trade of France and the international cooperation organization for French-speaking countries and areas, Francophonie
Congo-Kinshasa's army says the stopped failed coup attempt in capital Kinshasa following a shootout with three dead and says several foreigners among those arrested
Botswana President Mokgweetsi Masisi says in response to German authorities' proposal to limit the import of hunting trophies that they would like to offer 20,000 elephants to Germany and will not take no for an answer, says the number of elephants has increased explosively as a result of conservation efforts and that the country had to pay the price
Economy
Japan's Nikkei stock market falls 12.4 percent on Monday, which is the biggest fall in 37 years, and rises 10.2 percent on Tuesday, July 31 Bank of Japan raised interest rates and on Friday US jobs data came in worse than expected
Nvidia becomes the world's most valuable company with a market capitalization of more than 3.3 trillion dollars when it surpasses Microsoft earlier this week, the company has around 80 percent market share of the chips used for the development of artificial intelligence
EU imposes additional tariffs of up to 38.1% on Chinese electric vehicles from July, the move follows a nine-month investigation finding that unfair Chinese battery electric vehicles subsidies threaten EU industry, the EU braces for trade war with Beijing but argues that Chinese manufacturers can easily absorb the increased levies
Technology
Encrypted chat app Ghost, which police say is used by criminals, is cracked by Australian police, the apps owner, 32-year-old Jay Je Yoon Jung in Australia, was arrested on Tuesday and police raids are being carried out simultaneously in Ireland, Italy, Sweden and Canada
SpaceX performs the first private spacewalk ever as 41-year-old billionaire financier Jared Isaacman and 30-year-old astronaut Sarah Gillis step out of the capsule at nearly twice the height as the International Space Station
Nasa announces that SpaceX spacecraft will bring home the two astronauts who have been stranded on the International Space Station since June, instead of Boeing's Starliner that took them there and was then deemed unfit to take them back, would have returned after eight days but now expected to return in February next year
The U.S. AI Safety Institute under the US Department of Commerce, which was established after the Biden administration's executive order on AI in October 2023, signs cooperation agreements with OpenAI and Anthropic, which means that they will get access to new models before they are publicly launched
Science
Researcher Nathan Cofnas is fired from Emmanuel College, part of the University of Cambridge, for violating its diversity and inclusion policies when he argued that the number of black professors at Harvard would approach zero in a meritocracy and that they would not hold any high-profile positions outside of sports and entertainment