Portal:Current events/2013 July 31

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;Disasters and accidents

• At least ten people die as a result of a heatwave in the Shanghai which has recorded its highest temperatures on record, surpassing {{convert|40|C}}. [https://web.archive.org/web/20130801210936/http://www.france24.com/en/20130731-least-10-dead-record-heatwave-hits-shanghai (AFP via France 24)]
• Forty people are missing and presumed drowned after a bus plunges into a canal near Sirhind-Fategarh, Punjab, India. [http://www.hindustantimes.com/Punjab/Patiala/Bus-from-Delhi-to-Amritsar-falls-into-Bhakra-Canal/SP-Article1-1101080.aspx (The Hindu Times)]
• At least seven people have been killed and another 40 hospitalised from drinking illegal alcohol in the Cuban capital Havana. [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-23526369 (BBC)]

;Law and crime

• The Independent Commission Against Corruption in the Australian state of New South Wales finds that former Ministers Ian Macdonald and Eddie Obeid acted corruptly and recommends that charges be laid. [http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/state-politics/ian-macdonald-eddie-obeid-facing-charges-after-being-found-by-icac-to-have-acted-corruptly/story-e6frgczx-1226688614716 (The Australian)]

;Politics and elections

• India's ruling coalition endorses the creation of a new state of Telangana to be carved out of Andhra Pradesh in southern India. [https://archive.is/20130801090605/http://www.wmdt.com/story/22972813/ruling-coalition-endorses-new-state-in-south-india (AP via WMDT)]
• Voters in Zimbabwe go to the polls for a general election. [https://web.archive.org/web/20140724225304/http://www.thesundaily.my/news/784966 (Sun Daily)]
• Salem Labyedh resigns as Tunisia's Education Minister following last week's assassination of Mohamed Brahmi. [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-23522121 (BBC)]

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