Portal:Current events/2022 July 20

July 20, 2022 (Wednesday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

Kurdish–Turkish conflict
- Operation Claw-Lock
  - Zakho resort attack
    - Iraqi government and regional authorities claim that Turkish Armed Forces fired four missiles at a resort in the Zakho District of Kurdistan Region in Iraq, killing eight Iraqi tourists and injuring 23 others. (AP)
Russo-Ukrainian War
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
  - Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says that his country's military goals are no longer limited to the Donbas region and have expanded to also include "the Kherson region, the Zaporizhzhia region and a number of other territories". (Al Jazeera)
Somali Civil War
- Al-Shabaab raids Yeed and Aato in Bakool, Somalia, near the Ethiopian border. Fourteen Ethiopian police officers and three civilians are killed. (Reuters) (VOA)

Business and economy

2021–2022 inflation surge
- Inflation in the United Kingdom increased to 9.4% last month, breaking a 40-year record, as food and fuel prices continue to increase. (The Guardian)
Russia in the European energy sector
- The European Commission tells EU member states to reduce gas usage by 15% until March 2023 as part of an emergency plan after President Vladimir Putin warns that Russian supplies of natural gas could be reduced further. (Reuters)
International sanctions during the Russo-Ukrainian War
- The European Union bans imports of gold from Russia and freezes Sberbank's assets. (Euronews)
Economy of Ukraine
- Ukraine's government, facing an estimated 35% to 45% decrease in GDP, asks its international creditors to freeze its debt payments for two years, including a $1.2 billion debt payment due at the beginning of September. The proposal is backed by major Western governments and other major lenders. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

2022 European heat wave
- Six federal states of Germany (Baden-Württemberg, Hamburg, Lower Saxony, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Saxony-Anhalt and Schleswig-Holstein) see their all-time high records beaten, with the highest temperature, 40.3 °C (104.5 °F), set at Bad Mergentheim. (Tagesschau)
- Abed, a hamlet on the Danish island of Lolland, sets the highest July temperature recorded in the country, reaching 35.9 °C (96.6 °F). (Danish Broadcasting Corporation)
A United States Army soldier is killed and nine others are injured after a lightning strike at a training area at Fort Gordon in Georgia. (USA Today)
One person is killed and 23 others are injured after a tornado hits Jiangsu, China. (AP)

International relations

Foreign relations of Syria, Foreign relations of Ukraine
- The Foreign Ministry of Syria announces that the country is formally suspending diplomatic relations with Ukraine. (AP)

Politics and elections