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Tuesday July 5, 2022

The House stands adjourned until July 5, 2022 at 10:00 AM EDT pro forma

The Senate stands adjourned until July 5, 2022 at 6:25 AM EDT pro forma

House of Representatives District Work Period July 5 - July 8

Senate State Work Period June 27 - July 8

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Steering Committee meeting of the WHO Member State mechanism on Substandard and Falsified Medical Products

World Health Organization (WHO) United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland

https://www.who.int/news-room/events/detail/2022/07/05/default-calendar/steering-committee-meeting-of-the-who-member-state-mechanism-on-sf-medical-products

3:00 AM EDT

International Mathematical Union IMU Award Ceremony 2022

Fields Medals, IMU Abacus Medal, Chern Medal Award, Carl Friedrich Gauss Prize and Leelavati Prize will be announced

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6I0siVD7RBI

5:00 AM EDT

Particle Zoo 2.0: New tetra- and pentaquarks at LHCb

CERN

https://home.cern/events/webcasts/particle-zoo-20-new-tetra-and-pentaquarks-lhcb

https://webcast.web.cern.ch/old/event/1381

5:30 AM EDT

Financial Stability Report - July 2022 (to be published at 10.30am)

Bank of England

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/financial-stability-report/2022/july-2022

8:00 AM EDT

Welcome to the CERN openlab lecture programme! What is CERN openlab?

CERN

https://home.cern/events/webcasts/welcome-cern-openlab-lecture-programme-what-cern-openlab

https://webcast.web.cern.ch/old/event/1357

8:30 AM EDT

Tackling computer challenges at CERN in 2022

CERN

https://home.cern/events/webcasts/tackling-computer-challenges-cern-2022

https://webcast.web.cern.ch/old/event/1355

9:30 AM EDT

Assessing the 2022 G7 Summit: The Sherpa Perspective

Center for Strategic & International Studies

https://www.csis.org/events/assessing-2022-g7-summit-sherpa-perspective

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnePxJ9oKfo

9:30 AM EDT

Book Launch: On Dangerous Ground: America's Century in the South China Sea

Center for Strategic & International Studies

https://www.csis.org/events/book-launch-dangerous-ground-americas-century-south-china-sea

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKbE0PjJhHE

10:00 AM EDT

Large Hadron Collider Run #3

CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research

https://twitter.com/CERN/status/1542206352335978496

https://home.cern/events/launch-lhc-run-3

11:00 AM EDT

Low-Code/No-Code Software Development for Good

ai for good is organized by ITU in partnership with 40 UN Sister Agencies and co-convened with Switzerland

https://aiforgood.itu.int/event/low-code-no-code-software-development-for-good/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoP-E8pGdsw

11:15 AM EDT

President Biden Awards the Medal of Honor to Four U.S. Army Soldiers who Fought in the Vietnam War

The White House

https://www.defense.gov/News/Live-Events/#/?currentVideo=29145

https://www.dvidshub.net/webcast/29145

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMy66oFVwYU

1:00 PM EDT

Physics Department Summer Lectures 2022 "QCD Spin" (Block 3)

Brookhaven National Laboratory

https://indico.bnl.gov/event/15829/timetable/

2:00 PM EDT

Department Press Briefing with Spokesperson Ned Price

State Department

The Department Press Briefing will be live-streamed on www.state.gov and www.youtube.com/statedept

3:00 PM EDT

Press Briefing by Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre

The White House

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gE-N8BGFyaA

3:00 PM EDT

Book Event: America’s Great-Power Opportunity

Center for Strategic & International Studies

https://www.csis.org/events/book-event-americas-great-power-opportunity-0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8jzyY2h2jY

8:45 PM EDT

Tuesday Sunset Parades at the Marine Corps War Memorial - Gates Open 7PM to 8PM

Iwo Jima Memorial

https://www.barracks.marines.mil/Parades/2022-Parade-Schedule-Reservations/

https://www.barracks.marines.mil/Parades/Sunset-Parade/

AFP arrests alleged international drug kingpin extradited from Thailand

Australian Federal Police (AFP) have extradited a man from Thailand to Melbourne, who they allege was a senior figure in an international organised crime syndicate accused of conspiring to traffic illegal drugs into Australia.

Key points:

The AFP worked with Thai police to extradite the 66-year-old Chinese-British man from Bangkok to Melbourne

They said he was a senior criminal associate of a transnational drug cartel

It will be alleged the man was part of a conspiracy to traffic five separate quantities of methamphetamine

Working with Royal Thai Police, the AFP extradited the 66-year-old man from Bangkok to Melbourne on Saturday.

The AFP confirmed the man was Chinese-British national Chung Chak Lee.

It will be alleged the man was part of a conspiracy to traffic five separate quantities of methamphetamine — or derivatives of the drug — totalling 40kg over a number of months in 2012.

They said he was a senior criminal associate of a transnational drug cartel.

Thai authorities arrested the man in his Bangkok apartment in October 2020, carrying out an arrest warrant based on charges to be laid in Australia.

The dual national appeared before Melbourne Magistrates Court on Saturday afternoon facing a charge of conspiracy to traffic a commercial quantity of a controlled drug of which the maximum penalty is life imprisonment.

AFP Assistant Commissioner Krissy Barrett said his extradition was part of a long-running investigation into a prolific transnational organised crime syndicate.

"The extradition of someone we allege to be high on the pecking order of this serious criminal syndicate is a significant milestone for the AFP," she said.

"It shows the AFP and its partners remain one step ahead in working tirelessly to keep our community safe."

https://www.afp.gov.au/news-media/media-releases/alleged-senior-crime-syndicate-member-extradited-australia

https://gettr.com/post/p1gca988c47