International relations

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization officially grants membership to Belarus. (Yahoo! News)

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/belarus-joins-chinese-russian-shanghai-090745230.html

Law and crime

Thirty-three people are killed in mass shootings at Fourth of July celebrations, with 11 people killed and 55 others injured in Chicago, Illinois, two people killed and three others injured in Huntington Beach, California, one person killed and six others injured in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and one person killed and five others injured in Boston, Massachusetts. (AP)

• https://apnews.com/article/gun-violence-shootings-july-fourth-90bd7b9473e280e14429489decafd552

Law and crime

Tunisian opposition leader and founder of the Republican People's Union party Lotfi Mraïhi is arrested on suspicion of money laundering. (Al Jazeera)

• https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/7/4/tunisia-opposition-leader-lotfi-mraihi-arrested

Politics and elections

Former Prime Minister Liz Truss loses her seat of South West Norfolk, becoming the first former prime minister to lose their seat in over a century since Arthur Balfour in the 1906 general election. (The Independent)

• https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/liz-truss-general-election-norfolk-b2573293.html