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Topics in the news
- Moldova votes to amend its constitution to include the aim of becoming a European Union member state.
- Yahya Sinwar (pictured), the leader of Hamas, is killed in a firefight with Israeli forces in Gaza.
- The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences is awarded to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson for their comparative studies of prosperity between nations.
- The Europa Clipper spacecraft is launched to investigate Europa, an icy moon of Jupiter.
October 24, 2024
(Thursday)
Disasters and accidents
- 2024 Pacific typhoon season
- Tropical Storm Trami (Kristine) makes landfall on northeastern Luzon, Philippines, killing at least 26 people. (BBC) (Reuters)
International relations
- North Korea–South Korea relations
- Balloon propaganda campaigns in Korea
- North Korea sends a wave of trash balloons over South Korea with a balloon falling on the Blue House presidential compound in central Seoul. The balloon reportedly contained leaflets criticizing South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and his wife Kim Keon-hee. (ABC News)
- Balloon propaganda campaigns in Korea
Politics and elections
- The European Parliament awards the Sakharov Prize to Venezuelan opposition leaders María Corina Machado and Edmundo González for their activism in Venezuela. (Reuters)
October 23, 2024
(Wednesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Kurdish–Turkish conflict
- 2024 Turkish Aerospace Industries headquarters attack
- Five people are killed and 22 more injured during a bombing–shooting attack at the Turkish Aerospace Industries headquarters in Kahramankazan, Ankara Province, Turkey. The perpetrators are later killed during a shootout with security forces. The Turkish government suspects the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) to be behind the attack. (Al-Monitor) (Reuters) (DW)
- The Turkish Air Force launches airstrikes on PKK targets across northern Syria and Iraqi Kurdistan in response to the attack, with Turkish drone strikes in Kobani, Syria, injuring three Asayish officers. (Reuters) (ANHA)
- 2024 Turkish Aerospace Industries headquarters attack
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Eastern Ukraine campaign
- The Russian Defense Ministry claims that Russian forces have captured the villages of Mykolaivka and Serebrianka in Donetsk Oblast, while Ukrainian military newspage DeepState reports heavy conflict surrounding Selydove. (Reuters)
- Foreign involvement in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- The U.S. State Department reports that it has confirmed evidence that North Korean troops are now present in Russia and are preparing to travel to the battlefield in Ukraine. South Korea says that Pyongyang has promised to send up to 10,000 troops to support the war effort. (The Guardian)
- United States and the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- The U.S. Defense Department finalizes a US$20 billion loan to Ukraine for military and economic support as part of a collective US$50 billion loan between G7 members. (Reuters)
- Eastern Ukraine campaign
- Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- Assassination of Hashem Safieddine
- Hezbollah confirms that Hashem Safieddine, head of their executive council, was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Beirut, Lebanon, on October 3. (BBC News)
- Assassination of Hashem Safieddine
- Israel–Hamas war
- Israeli airstrikes across Gaza kill 42 people. (Reuters)
- Mexican drug war
- Nineteen suspected cartel members are killed and one local cartel leader is arrested in a shootout between gunmen and police officers in Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico. (Reuters)
Disasters and accidents
- Two people are killed and 11 injured after an explosion at a Toyota Material Handling factory in Bologna, Italy. (Stato Quotidiano)
- Three people are found deceased at a care home in Swanage, Dorset, England. (Sky News)
Health and environment
- Demographics of Germany, German economic crisis
- The Ifo Institute for Economic Research reports that Germany experienced a 13% birth rate decline nationally and up to a 17.5% birth rate decline in eastern Germany between 2021 and 2023, with the institute attributing the decline to several reasons including the COVID-19 pandemic, the Russo-Ukrainian war, and high inflation. (DW)
International relations
- China–Holy See relations
- China and the Holy See agree to extend their 2018 provisional agreement on the appointment of Catholic bishops in China for a further four years. (Vatican News)
- China–India relations
- Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi holds a bilateral meeting with President of China Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the 16th BRICS summit in Kazan, Russia. This is the first bilateral meeting between India and China in five years and comes in the aftermath of the 2020 border skirmishes between Indian and Chinese troops. (India Today)
Law and crime
- 2024 social unrest in Martinique
- Protesters with automatic weapons target police and firefighters in Martinique, where protests over the high cost of living have prompted France to deploy forces to the island. (AP)
- A court in Munich, Germany, charges a Russian man for stabbing two Ukrainian soldiers at a shopping center in Murnau am Staffelsee, Bavaria, Germany, in April. (DW)
- Four people, including the shooter, are killed and nine others are injured in a mass shooting and standoff when a man opens fire on police and his family in Novo Hamburgo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. (The Brazilian Report)
Science and technology
- Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre announces that his government will raise the minimum age limit to use social media from 13 to 15 in order to protect children from the "power of the algorithms". (The Guardian)
October 22, 2024
(Tuesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- 2024 Iran–Israel conflict
- Israeli retaliation leak, Israel–United States relations
- The FBI announces an investigation into the leaking of classified U.S. intelligence documents regarding military plans for Israeli retaliation against Iran. (Reuters)
- Israeli retaliation leak, Israel–United States relations
- Israel–Hamas war
- Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
- An Israeli drone strike on Beit Lahia in the Gaza Strip, kills at least fifteen people, including several women and children. (Al Jazeera)
- Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
- Islamic State insurgency in Iraq
- Prime Minister of Iraq Mohammed Shia' Al Sudani announces the death of several Islamic State senior members, including the group's leader in Iraq, in a military operation in Saladin Governorate, Iraq. (The Washington Post)
Disasters and accidents
- Eleven people are killed after a fuel truck explosion on a highway near Kampala, Uganda. (AP)
Health and environment
- The U.S. Center for Disease Control announces that one person has died and at least 48 others have become ill in an E. coli outbreak linked to McDonald's Quarter Pounder beef sandwiches in ten western and midwest states with the first case confirmed on 27 September. (BBC News)
Politics and elections
- 2024 United States presidential election
- Foreign interference in the 2024 United States elections
- The presidential campaign of former U.S. President Donald Trump files a formal complaint to the Federal Election Commission against the United Kingdom's Labour Party, accusing the Labour Party of "blatant foreign interference" in the election to support the Kamala Harris presidential campaign. (BBC News)
- Foreign interference in the 2024 United States elections
October 21, 2024
(Monday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Sudanese civil war
- 2024 New Way Cargo Airlines Ilyushin Il-76 shootdown
- An Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane crashes in North Darfur, Sudan, killing its crew of two Russians and three Sudanese nationals. The Rapid Support Forces claim that they shot down the aircraft with a surface-to-air missile and say that they have recovered the airplane's flight recorder. Russia says that its diplomats in Sudan are currently investigating the crash. (Sudan Tribune) (AP)
- A Sudanese Armed Forces jet bombs a mosque in Wad Madani, Gezira State, killing at least 31 people. The attack coincides with the RSF launching an assault across the state following the defection of the Rapid Support Forces' top commander in the state to the SAF. (Sudan Tribune)
- 2024 New Way Cargo Airlines Ilyushin Il-76 shootdown
- Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- Thirteen people are killed and 57 more wounded during Israeli airstrikes near Rafik Hariri University Hospital in Beirut, Lebanon. (Al Jazeera)
- Israel launches airstrikes across Lebanon, including in Beirut and the Beqaa Valley, targeting financial institutions that are allegedly linked to Hezbollah. (AP)
- Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir
- Seven people are killed and five others are injured in a mass shooting at a camp for construction workers near Sonamarg, Jammu and Kashmir, India. (Al Jazeera)
Disasters and accidents
- 2024 Talerddig train collision
- Two passenger trains collide head-on at Talerddig, Powys, Wales, killing one passenger and injuring 15 others. (BBC News)
Health and environment
- The World Health Organization declares Egypt to be malaria-free. (BBC News)
International relations
- China–India relations
- India and China reach a breakthrough in discussions on disengagement and border patrol along the disputed Line of Actual Control. (Zee News) (DW)
Law and crime
- 2000 Sipadan kidnappings
- A trial court in Taguig, Philippines, convicts 17 leaders and members of Abu Sayyaf, including two top officials of the Rajah Sulaiman Movement who were on the United Nations Security Council's Sanctions List, of the kidnapping of 21 tourists from Sipadan, Malaysia, in 2000. The convicts are sentenced to reclusión perpetua. (AFP via SCMP) (PNA)
- Operation Car Wash
- A court in Peru sentences former president Alejandro Toledo to 20 years and six months in prison for receiving bribes. (Reuters)
- Five members of a family, including three teenagers, are killed in a mass shooting in Fall City, Washington, United States. (USA Today)
- Former Albanian president Ilir Meta is arrested on accusations of corruption. (Reuters)
Politics and elections
- The National Assembly of Vietnam appoints army general Lương Cường as the country's president, succeeding Communist Party General Secretary Tô Lâm. (VOA) (AP) (VnExpress)
Science and technology
- A 52nd Mersenne prime is discovered by a participant of the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search, six years after the last new Mersenne prime was discovered in 2018. The prime number is 41,024,320 digits in length, making it the largest known prime number. (Mersenne.org)
October 20, 2024
(Sunday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Israel–Hamas war
- Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
- October 2024 Beit Lahia attacks
- Hamas reports that the number of dead and missing following an Israeli bombardment of residential areas in northern Gaza yesterday increases to 87, becoming among the highest single-incident death tolls in the past few months and also prompting condemnation from the United Nations. (Reuters)
- Siege of Jabalia
- The Israel Defense Forces announce that Colonel Ehsan Daxa, the commander of the 401st Armored Brigade, was killed by an IED in Jabalia in northern Gaza, becoming one of the most senior officers to have been killed in the fighting in Gaza. (The Times of Israel)
- October 2024 Beit Lahia attacks
- Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
- 2024 Iran–Israel conflict
- Israeli retaliation leak
- Two confidential U.S. intelligence documents are leaked to a pro-Iranian Telegram channel. The documents contain military assessments describing the detailed preparation of Israel's retaliatory attacks against Iran for striking Israel. (NPR)
- Israeli retaliation leak
- Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- 2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon
- Israeli troops open fire on a truck belonging to the Lebanese Armed Forces near Hanine, killing three soldiers. Israel later issues a formal apology for the attack, stating that its forces mistakenly believed they were targeting a vehicle used by Hezbollah to transport rockets. (The Times of Israel)
- 2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon
- Sudanese civil war
- Battle of Khartoum, 2024 Sudan famine
- The Sudan Tribune reports disease outbreaks and starvation in Khartoum North, Sudan, as a military offensive and fighting continues in the city. (Sudan Tribune)
- Battle of Khartoum, 2024 Sudan famine
Disasters and accidents
- 2024 Atlantic hurricane season
- Hurricane Oscar makes landfall in Cuba amid a national electrical blackout. (USA Today)
- At least two people are killed and 309 others are rescued in flash flooding in Roswell, New Mexico, United States. (The New York Times) (NBC News)
- Four people are killed when a helicopter crashes into a radio tower in Houston, Texas, United States. (ABC News)
Politics and elections
- 2024 Moldovan presidential election, 2024 Moldovan European Union membership referendum
- Moldovans vote for a president and also vote in a referendum that would amend the constitution to include a commitment for Moldova to join the European Union. (Le Monde)
- The presidential election goes to a second-round between current president Maia Sandu and politician Alexandr Stoianoglo of the pro-Russian Party of Socialists. (BBC)
- The European Union referendum is narrowly approved by voters, with president Maia Sandu alleging foreign electoral intervention from Russia. (Reuters)
- Inauguration of Prabowo Subianto
- Prabowo Subianto and Gibran Rakabuming Raka are inaugurated as the 8th president and 14th vice president of Indonesia, respectively. (AP) (Reuters)
Sports
- 2024 WNBA Finals
- In basketball, the New York Liberty defeat the Minnesota Lynx in 5 games to win their first WNBA championship. (CTV News)
October 19, 2024
(Saturday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Israel–Hamas war
- Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
- October 2024 Beit Lahia attacks
- Hamas claims that at least 73 Palestinians were killed in Israeli strikes on Beit Lahia in the Gaza Strip, although the Israel Defence Forces dispute this claim. (Al Ahram)
- Refugee camp airstrikes in the Israel–Hamas war
- Israeli forces strike the Gaza Strip, killing at least 50 people, including at least 33 people in an airstrike on the Jabalia refugee camp. (NPR) (BBC News)
- October 2024 Beit Lahia attacks
- Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
- Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- 2024 drone attack on Benjamin Netanyahu's residence
- Hezbollah launches around 200 drones and other projectiles from Lebanon toward locations in northern Israel, killing one person and injuring thirteen others. One of the targets is Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's house in the resort town of Caesarea. (Star Tribune) (AP)
- 2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon
- Israeli strikes on a vehicle and an apartment building in Baaloul, Lebanon, and areas north of Beirut, Lebanon, kill seven people, including the mayor of the town of Sohmor. (Boston25 News)
- The Israel Defense Forces says that the Israeli Air Force killed Hezbollah's deputy commander Naser Abed al-Aziz Rashid in Bint Jbeil, Lebanon, yesterday. (The Washington Times) (The Jerusalem Post)
- 2024 drone attack on Benjamin Netanyahu's residence
Disasters and accidents
- Sapelo Island dock collapse
- At least seven people are killed and several others are reported missing when a dock collapses on Sapelo Island in Georgia, United States. (AP)
Law and crime
- Protesters storm and damage the office of the Saudi-owned MBC TV channel in Baghdad, Iraq, after the channel aired a programme which called Hamas and Hezbollah leaders "terrorists". The Iraq Communications and Media Commission later suspends MBC's operations in Iraq in response to the incident. (New Arab) (Roya News)
- Three people are killed and eight others are injured in a mass shooting when at least two gunmen opened fire on people at a school's football homecoming win celebration in near Lexington, Mississippi, United States. (AP)
Science and technology
- Intelsat communications satellite Intelsat 33e breaks up in Earth's orbit, resulting in network disruptions to customers in Europe, Africa and parts of the Asia-Pacific region. The United States Space Force says they are tracking at least "20 associated pieces" of the satellite. (BBC News)
October 18, 2024
(Friday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Israel–Hamas war
- Killing of Yahya Sinwar
- Hamas confirms that its leader, Yahya Sinwar, was killed in action during a shootout with Israeli soldiers two days ago in Rafah, Gaza Strip, Palestine. (Al Jazeera)
- Killing of Yahya Sinwar
- 2024 Neot HaKikar shooting
- Two gunmen entering Israel from Jordan are killed in a shootout with border guards near the Dead Sea. (Al Jazeera)
Disasters and accidents
- 2024 Cuba blackout
- A nationwide power outage occurs in Cuba following a critical failure at the Antonio Guiteras power station in Puerto Padre, Las Tunas Province. (CNN)
International relations
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Foreign involvement in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, North Korea–Ukraine relations
- The South Korean National Intelligence Service says that North Korea has started sending troops to fight with Russia in Ukraine. South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol calls for a security meeting and says the international community must respond with "all available means". (BBC)
- Foreign involvement in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, North Korea–Ukraine relations
- Swiss neutrality
- Switzerland joins the European Sky Shield Initiative to contribute to building a pan-European air and missile defense system, while also allowing the nation to train and purchase military systems with other European nations. (Reuters)
- Western Sahara conflict
- Morocco rejects a proposal put forward by the UN envoy for Western Sahara Staffan de Mistura that would partition Western Sahara with the northern part being annexed by Morocco and the southern part forming an independent state controlled by the Polisario Front. (Atalayar)
Law and crime
- Four people, including the gunman, are killed in a school shooting in Heliópolis, Bahia, Brazil. (CNN Brazil)
Politics and elections
- Kenya's National Assembly unanimously approves Interior Secretary Kithure Kindiki as the new Deputy President following his nomination by President William Ruto. However, the High Court temporarily suspends the impeachment of former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua in order to hear challenges. (AP)
- Clashes between protestors and police break out over demonstrations of arrested activists in Nasiriyah, Iraq. (CityNews)
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