Russia launches drone attacks on Sumy, Ukraine, killing two people and injuring 19 others. In response to the attack, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy calls for a major upgrade of anti-aircraft defences.
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July 3, 2023 (Monday)
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Armed conflicts and attacks
Eight Palestinians are killed and more than 50 others are injured when Israeli soldiers storm the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank. The Israeli Air Force also launches airstrikes during the night.
Arts and culture
Vietnam announces that it will ban the upcoming American film Barbie over a scene showing a map displaying the nine-dash line in the South China Sea, which Vietnam does not recognize.
Business and economy
Indian oil refiners start payments for Russian oil imports in Chinese yuan as an alternative to the US dollar due to the sanctions against Russia.
Disasters and accidents
International relations
The Ukrainian National Agency on Corruption Prevention adds British conglomerate Unilever to its "international sponsors of war" list, claiming that Unilever's Russian operations indirectly fund the invasion.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy requests Georgian ambassador Gela Dumbadze to return home within 48 hours to negotiate imprisoned former Georgian president and Ukrainian citizen Mikheil Saakashvili's transfer to a Ukrainian clinic due to Saakashvili's declining health.
Law and crime
A court in Iran sentences prominent writer and human rights activist Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee to five years in prison. Iraee has been detained since September 2022.
Five people are killed and two others are injured in a shooting spree in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
Three people are killed and eight others are injured in a mass shooting at a festival in Fort Worth, Texas, United States.
Nicaraguan bishop Rolando JosĆ© Ćlvarez Lagos, imprisoned in February for refusing exile to the United States with 222 political prisoners, is temporarily released but immediately rearrested, amidst conflicting reports and tensions between the Nicaraguan government and the Holy See.
Politics and elections
President Macky Sall announces that he will not seek re-election for a third term in next year's election.
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