Portal:Current events/2019 July 25
July 25, 2019 (Thursday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Japan–North Korea relations
- North Korea tests two new missiles that land in the Sea of Japan, though not within Japanese territory. Japanese Defense Minister Takeshi Iwaya condemns the testing as "extremely regrettable". (Al Jazeera) (DW)
Health and environment
- July 2019 European heat wave
- A number of national maximum temperature records are broken, several surpassing records set the previous day: Germany sees 42.6 °C (108.7 °F) at Lingen, Belgium 41.8 °C (107.2 °F) at Begijnendijk and The Netherlands 40.7 °C (105.3 °F) at Gilze en Rijen. (Accuweather) (The Guardian)
- The United Kingdom reports a temperature reading of 38.1 °C (100.6 °F) in Cambridge, the second highest UK temperature yet recorded. It is subsequently confirmed that a reading of 38.7 °C (101.7 °F) is verified, also in Cambridge, beating the previous record of 38.5 °C (101.3 °F) set in Faversham, Kent on 10 August 2003 to become the new national record. (The Guardian)
- All-time records for various cities and towns in Western Europe are broken, most notably Paris, reaching a temperature of 42.6 °C (108.7 °F).
Law and crime
- Capital punishment in the United States
- U.S. Attorney General William Barr resumes the federal usage of the death penalty. Five inmates are expected to be executed between December 2019 and January 2020. If carried out, these would be the first federal executions in the United States in sixteen years. (CNBC) (The New York Times)
- At least four people are killed and two wounded in a shooting spree that spread across multiple Los Angeles neighborhoods. Police tackled and arrested the suspect, Gerry Zaragoza, after a 12-hour manhunt. (CNN) (Reuters via AOL.com)
Politics and elections
- U.S. President Donald J. Trump had a phone conversation with the president of Ukraine, including discussion of U.S. presidential candidate Joe Biden's son. Trump asked the Ukrainian president to "look into it," as per a White House transcript. (White House.gov)
- The 92-year-old and first freely-elected President of Tunisia, Beji Caid Essebsi, dies. Tunisian parliament President Mohamed Ennaceur takes the role of interim president. (Associated Press) (BBC News)
- 2019 Algerian protests
- Algerian interim president Abdelkader Bensalah appoints a six-member panel to set a presidential election date. The previous date of July 4 was cancelled due to lack of candidates amid mass protests. (Reuters)
Sports
- Outfielder Stevie Wilkerson of the Baltimore Orioles becomes the first position player in Major League Baseball history to record a save, doing so in a 10–8 victory over the Los Angeles Angels. (CBS)