Portal:Current events/2018 July 29

July 29, 2018 (Sunday)

Disasters and accidents

2018 Pacific typhoon season
- Typhoon Jongdari hits central and western Japan, injuring at least 21 people and cutting power to tens of thousands of homes. The typhoon is the latest in the series of weather events to affect the country, following devastating floods and a fatal heat wave earlier in the month. (BBC)
2018 Attica wildfires
- The death toll from the fires in Greece rises to 91 while 25 other people are still missing. (AP)
List of people who disappeared mysteriously
- TeNiya Elnora Jones, a University of Kentucky student studying abroad in the Middle East, is reported missing after a swimming accident over the weekend in Tel Aviv, Israel. (USA Today)

International relations

Law and crime

Four cyclists, two Americans, one Dutch national and one Swiss national, are killed in the Khatlon Region, Tajikistan by a hit-and-run driver while three others are injured. A 21 year old male suspect has been arrested. (RFE/RL) (NU.nl)

Politics and elections

Sports