1. Haitian President Jovernail Moise was assassinated in his home on the 7th. The Prime Minister of Haiti said in a radio statement that at 1 am that day, Moise was attacked and killed in his home by a group of unidentified ”Spanish and English speaking” militants.

2.Claudio Olivera, the Bitcoin king of Brazil, has been arrested on suspicion of fraud and embezzlement of client funds, involving about $300m. In 2019, the group reported the mysterious disappearance of more than 7000 bitcoins it held for customers. A police investigation found that most of the bitcoins flowed into Olivera’s own wallet.

3. The European Commission will formally announce its proposed carbon border tariff policy on July 14, targeting energy and energy-intensive companies first. Experts suggest that export enterprises need to keep a good record of ”carbon cost” and use various means such as technology upgrading to achieve carbon peak and carbon neutralization from the perspective of enterprises as soon as possible, so as to reduce the carbon footprint of export products, especially those exported to the European Union.

4.Chipmaker Intel plans to invest $20 billion (129.6 billion yuan) to build chip plants in several EU member states, with a new market capitalization of $226.1 billion (1.46 trillion yuan). In order to break the technological shackles of the United States, compete for more voice in the global semiconductor industry, and ensure the autonomy of the European semiconductor industry, Europe is gradually “working together to resist the United States.”

5.The Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee announced on the 10th that spectators will not be allowed to enter baseball and softball games in Fukushima and football matches in Sapporo, so that spectators are allowed to watch only two Olympic events, track cycling and football, and there are only three venues left. In addition, the Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee said that the Olympic football match to be held at the Sapporo Dome Stadium will also be held behind closed doors.

6.CNN: as temperatures in many places are approaching record highs, most of the four states, including California and Nevada, have issued a “level four” high temperature risk level. Nearly 200 people have died in the US states of Oregon and Washington due to the recent heat wave. The highest temperature in Las Vegas, Nevada, reached 47.2 degrees Celsius on the afternoon of July 10, the highest since 1942. On July 10, local time, the highest temperature in death Valley in southeastern California, one of the hottest regions in the world, reached 54.4 degrees Celsius, close to an all-time high.

7.Japan Economic Research Center: Japan’s actual GDP is expected to return to pre-epidemic levels by the end of the year. Japan’s real GDP growth rate will maintain a high growth rate of 4.58 per cent from October to December, and real GDP at an annualised rate will reach 549 trillion yen. 

8.The European Commission fined BMW and Volkswagen 875 million euros for conspiring to stop the use of clean emission technologies in violation of EU antitrust regulations. 

9.Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations: in June, global food prices fell for the first time month-on-month after rising for 12 months in a row. As lower prices for vegetable oils, grains and dairy products offset higher prices for meat and sugar, the FAO food price index fell 2.5 per cent month-on-month to 124.6 points in June, but still rose 33.9 per cent from a year earlier. 

10.South Korean epidemic prevention department: the fourth wave of the epidemic is spreading in an all-round way, and the number of confirmed cases and the risk of transmission are likely to be higher than the previous three waves of pandemics. There were 1316 new cases confirmed by COVID-19 in South Korea on July 9, 41 more than the previous day and more than 1200 for three consecutive days, the highest since the outbreak in South Korea.

11.Sales figures released by BMW Group show that from January to June 2021, BMW Group delivered a total of about 467000 BMW and MINI vehicles in the Chinese market, an increase of 41.9% year-on-year and a record high for the same period.

12.South Korean Ministry of Industry, Trade and Resources: of the 2452 modified gross tonnage shipbuilding orders generated in the first half of the world, South Korean domestic shipbuilders received a total of 10.88 million modified gross tonnage orders, accounting for 44 per cent. In terms of order value, South Korea received $26.7 billion in shipbuilding orders, accounting for 49 per cent of global orders in the first half of the year. 

13.The 71-year-old British billionaire Richard Branson icon, founder of Virgin Galactic, traveled into space aboard a powered spaceship on the morning of July 11 local time. It also includes two pilots and three company employees. On the topic of whether there is a space race, Branson denied that he and Bezos are competing for who will go into space first. The plane landed at 11:41 local time on July 11, marking Branson’s first successful commercial space trip in the world. The flight was successful, nine days ahead of Amazon’s former CEO Bezos, becoming the first private spaceflight to enter the edge of space.