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Portal:Current events/2015 July 30

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;Armed conflicts and attacks

;Disasters and accidents

  • A heat wave hits the Middle East with Baghdad recording a top temperature of {{convert|50|C|F}} and the Iranian city of Bandar Mahshahr recording a near world record heat index temperature of {{convert|165.2|F|C|order=flip}}. [https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2015/07/30/iran-city-hits-suffocating-heat-index-of-154-degrees-near-world-record/ (Washington Post)]
  • At least 30 people are killed in a landslide that struck villages near Pokhara, Nepal. [http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/07/30/uk-nepal-landslide-idUKKCN0Q40B520150730 (Reuters UK)]

;International relations

  • A Taiwanese high school student commits suicide by charcoal fumes after a protest against controversial Sinocentric revisions in a curriculum guideline; hundreds storm the education ministry in response. [https://news.yahoo.com/student-protester-suicide-deepens-political-row-taiwan-181837575.html (AFP via Yahoo)] [http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2015/07/31/2003624291 (Taipei Times)] [https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-33731411 (BBC)] [https://news.yahoo.com/student-protesters-sit-taiwan-education-ministry-070214072.html (AP via Yahoo)] [http://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-taiwan-students-protest-20150731-story.html (Los Angeles Times)]
  • Russia vetoes a U.N. Security Council resolution that would have established an international criminal tribunal to investigate the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17. [https://www.wsj.com/articles/russia-vetoes-u-n-tribunal-on-malaysia-airlines-flight-downed-over-ukraine-1438253293 (WSJ)]

;Law and crime

  • The Israeli Knesset passes a controversial law that legalizes forced-feeding of Palestinian prisoners. [http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-government-sanctions-force-feeding-palestinian-prisoners-1232916376 (Middle East Eye)]
  • India executes Yakub Memon for his role in the 1993 Bombay bombings. [https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-33713407?ns_mchannel=social&ns_campaign=bbc_breaking&ns_source=twitter&ns_linkname=news_central (BBC)]

;Politics and elections

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