July 30, 2019 (Tuesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- War in North-West Pakistan
- Four are killed and over 20 injured in a bomb blast near a police station in Quetta, Pakistan. (Al Jazeera)
Arts and culture
- Federal agents have joined the investigation of a fire that destroys a 125 year-old landmark Catholic Church of the Visitation in Westphalia, Texas. After storms destroyed two earlier church structures in the 1880s, the Church of Visitation was completed in February of 1895 and dedicated on May 23, 1895. (Catholic News Agency)
Disasters and accidents
- At least 18 people, including thirteen civilians and five crew members, are killed and 12 others injured after a small military plane crashes into a residential area near the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi. (BBC News)
- Eleven deaths and multiple hospitalizations are attributed to the ongoing heat wave in Japan. (BBC News)
Politics and elections
- Al-Sultan Abdullah is crowned as the 16th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia at Istana Negara, Kuala Lumpur. (Berita Harian)
- Romanian Interior Minister Nicolae Moga resigns amid outrage over the slow response by police, state prosecutor's office and the secret service in charge of telecomunications to the disappearance and possible murder of a 15-year-old girl in the city of Caracal. (RFE/RL)