July 3, 2012 (Tuesday)
Armed conflict and attacks
- Syrian uprising (2011-present):
- A Human Rights Watch report claims that Syrian intelligence agencies are running 27 torture centers across Syria. (Reuters via Yahoo! News) (CNN)
- At least 25 people are killed and 40 wounded in a truck bombing in the market place of the Iraqi city of Diwaniyah. (AP via Google News)
Business and economy
- Bob Diamond resigns as the Chief Executive of British bank Barclays following a scandal in which the bank tried to manipulate the Libor and Euribor interest rates systems. (BBC)
Disasters
- A major earthquake strikes New Zealand with minor damage reported. (The New Zealand Herald) (ABC News)
International relations
- Pakistan decides to reopen key NATO supply routes into Afghanistan after U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton apologized for a NATO airstrike that killed 26 Pakistani soldiers and officials in November 2011. (BBC)
Politics and elections
- Police search the home and offices of former French president Nicolas Sarkozy as part of a judicial investigation into financial relations between his political camp and L'Oréal heiress Liliane Bettencourt. (Reuters)
- The current governing coalition in Romania, the Social Liberal Union, starts a fast-paced parliamentary offensive against President Traian Basescu by dismissing the leaders of both chambers of Parliament. (Reuters)
- Hundreds of activists demonstrate in Ramallah to protest against the violent dispersal of two similar rallies at the weekend in a rare expression of public discontent with the ruling party of the Palestinian Authority headed by Mahmud Abbas. (AFP)
Sport
- American gambler Antonio Esfandiari wins the 2012 World Series of Poker $1,000,000 Buy-In "The Big One for One Drop" with the highest prize money in poker of $18.3 million. (AP via NBC Sports)