Portal:Current events/2012 July 25

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;Armed conflict and attacks

• Syrian civil war:
• The Syrian Army reportedly fires rockets and artillery barrages at the rebel-held Damascus suburb of Al-Tall. [http://blogs.aljazeera.com/topic/syria/syrian-forces-have-reportedly-fired-artillery-and-rocket-barrages-rebel-held-damascus (Al-Jazeera)]
• Lamia al-Hariri, Syrian ambassador to Cyprus, and her husband Abdelatif al-Dabbagh, Syrian ambassador to the UAE, defect to Qatar. [http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2012/07/20127248104698718.html (Al Jazeera)][https://web.archive.org/web/20120725122805/http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/07/25/228301.html (Al Arabiya)]
• Nine people are killed overnight in ethnic clashes in the Indian state of Assam with the total death toll since last Friday being 35. [https://web.archive.org/web/20190908195410/https://www.nst.com.my/latest/nine-more-killed-in-ne-india-170-000-displaced-1.112494 (AFP via New Straits Times)]

;Business and economy

• Egan-Jones Ratings Company downgrades Italy to CCC+ from B+, saying the country has a one-year default probability of 22%. [http://www.marketwatch.com/story/egan-jones-downgrades-italy-sees-22-default-risk-2012-07-25?link=MW_home_latest_news (MarketWatch)]
• Official figures indicate economic output in the United Kingdom fell by 0.7% between April and June, meaning the recession has deepened in the country. [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18977084 (BBC)]

;Disasters

• A 6.4 magnitude earthquake occurs off the Indonesian island of Sumatra with one man dying while fleeing his home. [http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5j-tnO295aJ1VkovH4WwmJ773HwXA?docId=CNG.007421df9b1fa45b01208882a65fff0b.81 (AFP via Google News)]

;Law and crime

• The court hearings are rescheduled for Leonid Khabarov, an alleged mastermind behind the new Russian revolution. [https://web.archive.org/web/20141227074029/http://www.tass-ural.ru/lentanews/na_sude_po_delu_o_podgotovke_myatezha_v_ekaterinburge_predpolagaemye_storonniki_kvachkova_zayavili_o.html (ITAR-TASS)]
• A private South Korean committee announces that it plans to file a lawsuit with the International Criminal Court against North Korea over repatriation of prisoners of war and remains of soldiers killed in the Korean War. [http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/news/2012/07/25/0200000000AEN20120725007200315.HTML (Yonhap)]

;Politics and elections

• Guo Jinlong resigns as the Mayor of the Chinese capital Beijing with Wang Anshun appointed as the acting mayor. [http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2012-07/25/c_131737496.htm (Xinhua)]
• Pranab Mukherjee is sworn in as the President of India. [http://ibnlive.in.com/news/live-pranab-set-to-take-oath-leaves-for-rajghat/274233-37-64.html (IBN Live)].
• North Korea state media declares the marriage of Kim Jong-un and Ri Sol-ju. [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-18986249 (BBC)]
• Union officials call off a public sector strike in the United Kingdom scheduled for the eve of the 2012 Olympics. [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-18982453 (BBC)]
• The Scottish Government announce plans to legalise same-sex marriage, prospectively becoming the first part of the United Kingdom to do so. [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-18981287 (BBC)]
• Ivica Dačić is sworn in as the Prime Minister of Serbia.

;Sports

• The 2012 Summer Olympics commences in Great Britain with the Women's football tournament. [http://ibnlive.in.com/news/womens-football-to-kick-off-london-olympics/274409-73.html (CNN-IBN)]

;Transport

• The UK's Manchester Airport launches an inquiry after an 11-year-old boy boarded a plane to Rome unaccompanied, and without passport, tickets or boarding pass. [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-18979032 (BBC)] [http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jul/25/11-year-old-flies-rome-manchester?newsfeed=true (The Guardian)]

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