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Portal:Current events

This is an archived version of Wikipedia's Current events Portal from September 2024.

September 1, 2024 (2024-09-01) (Sunday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • Israel–Hamas war
    • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
      • At least five Palestinians, including a child, are killed and several others are injured in Israeli strikes on the Jabalia refugee camp and the Shuja'iyya neighborhood of Gaza City. (Anadolu Agency) (Middle East Monitor)
  • 2024 Tarqumiyah shooting
    • Three Israeli police officers are killed in a drive-by shooting on a road near Tarqumiyah in the West Bank. (The Jerusalem Post)
• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • Seven civilians injured in IDF strikes on Hezbollah targets in Aita al-Shaab and Beit Yahoun, southern Lebanon. (Al Jazeera)
  • Hezbollah launches 20 rockets on Upper Galilee. (Al Jazeera)

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Ukraine launches more than a hundred drones against targets in Russia, including the Konakovo Power Station in Konakovo, Tver Oblast, and the Moscow Refinery in Moscow. (Reuters)
  • Eastern Ukraine campaign
    • Russia reports that its forces have taken control of the settlements of Ptyche and Vyimka in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. (Reuters)
  • Kharkiv strikes
    • At least 47 people are injured when Russian missiles hit a shopping mall and events complex in Kharkiv, Ukraine. (Reuters)
• 2024 Bangladesh quota reform movement
  • The office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights announces that it will deploy a fact-finding team to investigate human rights abuses and violations committed by government forces during the quota reform movement, after being requested to do so by the interim government of Muhammad Yunus. (The New York Times)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Kamchatka Mil Mi-8 crash
  • The wreckage of the Russian Air Force Mil Mi-8T helicopter that crashed on August 31 over the Russian Kamchatka Peninsula is located. (Kommersant) (BBC News)

Health and environment

• 2024 Brazil wildfires
  • The number of wildfires in the Amazon rainforest reaches its highest number in fourteen years at 38,266 fire hotspots as a result of an ongoing drought in South America. (Reuters)
• A weather station near Qeshm International Airport in Dayrestan, Iran, records the highest unverified heat index on Earth of 82.2 °C (180.0 °F) and the highest dew point of 36.1 °C (97.0 °F). Climatologists will investigate to confirm the readings' accuracy. (The Economic Times) (Times of India)

Law and crime

• Eleven people are killed and more than 40 others are injured when a truck crashes into a bar in Azua, Dominican Republic. The driver subsequently flees the scene. (AP)
• Two people are killed and four more injured during a vehicle-ramming attack outside a restaurant in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. The perpetrator's motive is unknown. (AP)

Politics and elections

• Israel–Hamas war
  • September 2024 Israel ceasefire protests
    • Hundreds of thousands of Israelis, including approximately 300,000 in Tel Aviv, protest in cities across the country following the recovery of the bodies of six hostages from Gaza, with the national trade union center calling for a general strike on Monday and for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to resign after failing to negotiate a ceasefire. (The New York Times) (CNN)
    • At least 29 people are arrested in Tel Aviv on accusations of vandalism, disorderly conduct, and attacking police officers. (CNN)
• 2024 Saxony state election, 2024 Thuringian state election
  • Parliamentary elections in the German states of Saxony and Thuringia show large gains for the right-wing populist Alternative for Germany party and the left-wing populist Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht party as well as losses for the left-wing and liberal parties of the governing coalition and for the socialist The Left party. In Thuringia, a far-right party comes in first place in a state election for the first time since World War II. (DW)

September 2, 2024 (2024-09-02) (Monday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Islamic State–Taliban conflict
  • 2024 Qala Bakhtiar bombing
    • A suicide bombing in Kabul, Afghanistan, kills 6 people and injures 13. (AP)
• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • Two people, including an independent contractor working for UNIFIL, are killed in an Israeli airstrike on the Tyre-Naqoura road in Lebanon with other airstrikes on Bint Jabal, Yaroun, Ayta al-Shab, Hanine, Tayr Harfa and Blida and shelling of Kfarchouba and Shebaa. (Al Jazeera)
  • Hezbollah launches Katyusha rockets on Ein Ya'akov, Ga'aton and Yehiam, northern Israel. (Al Jazeera)
• Red Sea crisis
  • Houthi militants strike two crude oil tankers in the Red Sea with multiple missiles and drones. (Reuters)

Arts and culture

• Wreck of the Titanic
  • An expedition to the shipwreck of the RMS Titanic reveals considerable deterioration of the bow, as well as the rediscovery of a bronze Diana of Versailles replica last seen during the initial survey of the wreck in 1986. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Pacific typhoon season
  • At least fourteen people are killed in landslides and floods caused by Tropical Storm Yagi in the Philippines. (AP)
• Eleven children are killed and 13 more are injured when a bus crashes into a group of middle school students and their parents in Tai'an City, Shandong, China. (ABC)

International relations

• Foreign relations of Ukraine, Mongolia–Russia relations
  • President of Russia Vladimir Putin arrives in Mongolia to discuss a China–Russia gas pipeline meant to recoup Russian losses from Western sanctions, despite Ukraine and the European Union urging Mongolia to arrest Putin under his International Criminal Court warrant. (Reuters) (Euronews)
  • Ukraine's Foreign Ministry states that Mongolia's refusal to arrest Vladimir Putin while on a state visit means that it shares "responsibility for the war crimes" committed by Russia, and vows to work with allies to enforce punitive measures on Mongolia. (Reuters)
• Foreign relations of Turkey
  • Turkey formally applies to join the BRICS geopolitical bloc, citing the lack of progress in its accession to the European Union. (Bloomberg) (Daily Sabah)
• United States–Venezuela relations
  • The United States seizes a Dassault Falcon 900 jet used by Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro on accusations that the purchase of the jet violated U.S. sanctions against Venezuela, and flies the jet from the Dominican Republic to Florida. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• 2024 Makala prison jailbreak attempt
  • At least 129 inmates are killed and 59 more injured in an attempted prison break at Makala Prison in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (AP)
• Brazilian investigation into Elon Musk
  • The Brazilian Supreme Court unanimously upholds justice Alexandre de Moraes' decision to block social media platform X, in the country. De Moraes also set a daily fine of R$50,000 (US$8,900) for people or companies using VPNs to access the site. (AP)
• Nth Room case, Gender inequality in South Korea
  • The South Korean National Police Agency announces an investigation into the messaging app Telegram for abetting and hosting chat rooms that distribute deepfake pornography, including of children. (DW)
• 2024 CTA shooting
  • Four people are killed in a mass shooting targeting homeless people on a Chicago Transit Authority train in Forest Park, Illinois, United States. (WBBM-TV)
• One person is fatally shot and at least four other people are injured including one person who was critically injured in a mass shooting at the West Indian Day Parade in Brooklyn, New York, United States. (AP)

Politics and elections

• Israel–Hamas war protests
  • Israel–Hamas war protests in the United States
    • Thousands of people gather in Manhattan, New York City, United States, to protest against the Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip, rally for support of Palestinians, and call for New York institutions to divest from Israeli businesses. (CBS News)
  • September 2024 Israel ceasefire protests
    • Histadrut, Israel's national trade union center, begins a one-day general strike to protest against the Netanyahu government's failure to negotiate a ceasefire and hostage deal. The strike is later ordered to end prematurely by a Tel Aviv labor court, claiming the strike was illegally political in nature rather than economic. (BBC) (The Guardian)
• Over ten thousand hotel workers strike in cities across the U.S. to demand higher pay, as part of the Hotel Workers Rising campaign organized by the UNITE HERE labor union. (Reuters)

Sports

• 2024 Summer Paralympics
  • Japan at the 2024 Summer Paralympics
    • Japan defeats the United States in the wheelchair rugby final, winning its first ever gold medal in the sport. (Olympics)

September 3, 2024 (2024-09-03) (Tuesday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure
    • September 2024 Poltava strike
      • Russian missile strikes on Poltava, Ukraine, kill at least 55 people and injure more than 328 others. (Reuters) (AP)
• Islamic State–Taliban conflict
  • 2024 Qala Bakhtiar bombing
    • The Islamic State claims responsibility for yesterday's suicide bombing outside a Taliban building in Kabul, Afghanistan, which killed six people. (Al Arabiya)
• Boko Haram insurgency
  • Tarmuwa massacre
    • At least 102 people are killed during a mass shooting at a market and against homes in Tarmuwa, Yobe State, Nigeria, by over 50 Boko Haram militants. (AP)
• A clash between the isolated indigenous Mashco-Piro community and Peruvian loggers attempting to clear a forest path near their territory results in the deaths of two loggers, with two more missing. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• English Channel migrant crossings
  • During a people smuggling operation, at least 12 migrants drown when their boat breaks apart and capsizes in the English Channel. (Sky News)

Health and environment

• 2024 Gaza Strip polio epidemic
  • The World Health Organization announces that its polio vaccination campaign in the Gaza Strip has surpassed its intended target of 156,500 projected vaccinations within two days. (BBC News)

International relations

• Iraq–Switzerland relations
  • Switzerland reopens its embassy in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, after closing it during the Gulf War in 1991. (BNO News)

Law and crime

• 2020–2021 U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan
  • United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken is subpoenaed by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs after refusing to testify on the government's actions regarding the U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021 and the concurrent deaths of thirteen service members. (Reuters)
• Israel–Hamas war
  • The United States Department of Justice charges Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar and five other militants with conspiracy to provide material support for terrorism, conspiracy to murder Americans, and five other counts each. (DW)
• Lebanese liquidity crisis
  • Former head of the Central bank of Lebanon Riad Salameh is arrested for financial crimes such as accruing more than $110m via financial crimes involving Optimum Invest, a Lebanese firm that offers income brokerage services. Al Jazeera
• Spanish General Council of the Judiciary blockade
  • Isabel Perelló is elected as President of the Supreme Court and the General Council of the Judiciary in Spain, becoming the first woman to hold the position. (El Periódico) (El País) (El Diario)
• Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine is "seriously injured" after being shot in the leg in a shootout with the Uganda People's Defence Force near Kampala. (AP)

Politics and elections

• Five Ukrainian ministers resign from their positions, including Deputy Prime Minister Olha Stefanishyna, resulting in vacancy of over one-third of the cabinet. (Reuters)

September 4, 2024 (2024-09-04) (Wednesday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Lviv strikes
    • At least seven people are killed and 53 others are injured when Russian drones and missiles hit buildings in Lviv, Ukraine. (Reuters)
• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • A civilian is killed and seven others are injured in Israeli airstrikes and shelling in southern Lebanon. (Al Jazeera) (MSN)

Arts and culture

• Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro announces that Venezuela will celebrate an early Christmas on 1 October. (NBC News)

Disasters and accidents

• Mediterranean Sea migrant smuggling
  • Seven people are rescued and at least 21 others remain missing after a boat carrying Syrian migrants from Libya capsizes off the coast of Lampedusa in the Pelagie Islands of Italy. (Al Jazeera)

Health and environment

• 2024 Brazil wildfires
  • Twenty percent of the Brasília National Forest in Brazil is destroyed by a wildfire that investigators suspect was started deliberately. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• 2024 Apalachee High School shooting
  • Four people are killed and nine people are wounded in a mass school shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, United States. (CNN)
• Brazilian investigation into Elon Musk
  • SpaceX removes its employees from Brazil amid ongoing legal issues between CEO Elon Musk and the Brazilian Supreme Court over Musk's social media company X. (The Wall Street Journal)
• Grenfell Tower fire
  • The second phase of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry concludes, with the report noting "systematic dishonesty" of manufacturers and the failures of the government leading up to the fire. (BBC News)
• Hachette v. Internet Archive
  • The Internet Archive loses its court appeal in a copyright lawsuit over its digital library of ebooks and documents that major publication companies have worked to shut down over claims of lost revenue. (Jurist) (The New York Times)
• Dismissed mayor of Bamban, Philippines, Alice Guo is arrested by the Directorate General of Immigration in Tangerang, Indonesia, after fleeing from the Philippines amid an ongoing Senate inquiry. (The Guardian) (Rappler)
• Jonathan Meijer files a lawsuit against Netflix for allegedly portraying him negatively for his serial sperm donation in its documentary series The Man with 1,000 Kids. (DW)

Politics and elections

• Election of the VIII Māori monarch
  • The New Zealand Māori Council selects Ngā Wai Hono i te Pō as the new Queen following the death of her father King Tūheitia in August. (DW)
• Ukrainian foreign affairs minister Dmytro Kuleba resigns from office amid a cabinet reshuffle. (Left Bank) (The Washington Post)
• In Canada, New Democratic Party leader Jagmeet Singh announces that he has terminated the confidence and supply agreement his party made with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Liberal government in 2022. (CBC News)

Science and technology

• A small 1.5-metre (4.9 ft) asteroid, 2024 RW₁, is predicted to fall harmlessly as a fireball over the island of Luzon in the Philippines at approximately 16:40 UTC (00:40 local time), the ninth asteroid to be successfully discovered before impacting Earth. (New Scientist)

September 5, 2024 (2024-09-05) (Thursday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • 2024 Israeli military operation in the northern West Bank
    • Six Palestinian gunmen are killed and another is injured in an Israeli airstrike in Tubas in the West Bank. Separately, a teenager is killed by Israeli soldiers in Tubas. (Reuters)
• Kurdish–Turkish conflict, Iraq–Turkey relations
  • Kurdistan Workers' Party insurgency
    • A Turkish drone strike kills three people, including a child, in Kurdistan Region, Iraq, one day after a similar attack on a car in the region killed three people from the same family. (Barron's)

Arts and culture

• American rock band Linkin Park emerges from a seven-year hiatus with the announcement of an upcoming studio album, a worldwide concert tour, and introduces Emily Armstrong as the band's new co-vocalist. The band went on hiatus in 2017 following the death of then-lead vocalist Chester Bennington. (Rolling Stone)

Business and economy

• The United Kingdom's Competition and Markets Authority announces an investigation into Ticketmaster over the dynamic pricing of Oasis Live '25 Tour tickets. (AP)

Health and environment

• 2023–2024 mpox epidemic
  • The Democratic Republic of the Congo receives its first batch of Bavarian Nordic mpox vaccines donated by the European Union and is expected to receive the second batch of vaccines on September 7. (Al Jazeera)

International relations

• Nicaragua–United States relations, Protests against Daniel Ortega
  • The United States announces that it has secured the release of 135 political prisoners in Nicaragua, who were jailed by the government of President Daniel Ortega. (Al Jazeera)

Law and crime

• 2024 Apalachee High School shooting
  • The Georgia Bureau of Investigation arrests the father of Colt Gray, the perpetrator of yesterday's mass school shooting in Barrow County, Georgia, United States, on charges of second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter for allowing his son to possess a gun. (AP)
• Domestic violence in Kenya
  • Ugandan marathoner Rebecca Cheptegei dies at a hospital in Eldoret, Kenya, after sustaining burns from a gasoline attack by her former partner almost a month after participating in the women's marathon at the 2024 Summer Olympics. (BBC News)
• Weiss special counsel investigation
  • Hunter Biden pleads guilty to federal tax evasion shortly before his trial was expected to begin in California, United States. (NBC News)
• 2024 Munich shooting
  • An Austrian man is killed in a shootout with police in Munich, Germany, near the Munich Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism and the Israeli Consulate. A terrorist motive is suspected. (TIME)
• A 15-year-old Hindu boy is killed by a Muslim mob inside a police station in Khulna, Bangladesh, after allegedly insulting the Islamic prophet Muhammad on Facebook. (The Hindustan Times)
• The European Union, the United States, the United Kingdom and seven other countries sign the first international treaty on the use of artificial intelligence systems. (DW) (Council of Europe)

Politics and elections

• 2024 Niuean constitutional referendum
  • Voters in Niue approve a bill to change the title of the Premier of Niue to prime minister, effective immediately, while rejecting a proposal to increase the term of the Niue Assembly from three to four years. (Radio New Zealand)
• Reform of the House of Lords
  • House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill
    • In the United Kingdom, the ruling Labour Party drafts a bill that would remove the right of all hereditary peers to sit in the House of Lords. (BBC News)
• Michel Barnier is appointed Prime Minister of France, succeeding caretaker Gabriel Attal, who announced his resignation in the aftermath of the legislative elections in July. (The Washington Post)

Sports

• 2024–25 UEFA Nations League
  • San Marino, the lowest-ranked FIFA-affiliated national team, defeats Liechtenstein 1–0 in Serravalle, San Marino, to win the team's first competitive victory in their 36-year history. (ESPN)

September 6, 2024 (2024-09-06) (Friday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • Israel–Hamas war
    • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
      • At least 27 Palestinians are killed by Israeli airstrikes in cities across the Gaza Strip, including in the Nuseirat refugee camp. (Reuters)
  • Israeli occupation of the West Bank
    • Killing of Aysenur Eygi
      • Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi, a Turkish American woman, is shot dead by Israeli troops during an anti-Israeli settlement protest in the West Bank. (AP)
    • Israeli settlers and soldiers storm the Palestinian village of Qaryut, beating and opening fire against the residents, killing a 13-year-old girl and wounding two men. (Palestine News Network)

Arts and culture

• The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs announces the end of its international adoption program after suspending the program during the COVID-19 pandemic. (Al Jazeera)
• China opens the world's largest indoor skiing resort in Pudong, Shanghai, with a 90,000 square metres (970,000 sq ft) skiing area and a total campus area of 350,000 square metres (3,800,000 sq ft). (DW)

Disasters and accidents

• Eighteen students are killed and 27 others are injured in a fire at a boarding school in Nyeri, Kenya. (Al Jazeera)
• A Piper PA-46 aircraft crashes into a cornfield after going into a nosedive in Anderson, Indiana, United States, killing all four occupants on board. (FOX59)

Law and crime

• 2024 United Kingdom riots
  • Sheffield Crown Court in South Yorkshire, UK, sentences Thomas Birley, a British man who set fire to a hotel that housed asylum seekers in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, to nine years in prison for arson with the intent to endanger life, the longest sentence related to the riots so far. (Al Jazeera)
• Prosecution of Donald Trump in New York
  • New York Supreme Court justice Juan Merchan postpones former U.S. President Donald Trump's sentencing in his criminal case until after Election Day on November 5. (The New York Times) (Reuters)
• Polish prosecutors charge three Belarusian citizens for diverting Ryanair Flight 4978 under a fabricated bomb threat to arrest political activist Roman Protasevich and his girlfriend Sofia Sapega. (DW)
• Brazilian human rights minister Silvio Almeida is fired from his cabinet position following several accusations of sexual harassment towards women, including another cabinet minister. (Reuters)

September 7, 2024 (2024-09-07) (Saturday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Eastern Ukraine campaign
    • Russian artillery targets the city of Kostiantynivka in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, killing three civilians and injuring three others. (Reuters)
• Manipur violence
  • Ethnic violence between the Meitei and Kuki tribes kills five people in Manipur, India. The Government of Manipur orders all schools in the state to remain closed in response. (Al Jazeera)
• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • Three Lebanese paramedics are killed and two others are wounded in an Israeli airstrike while they were firefighting in Faroun with two Amal militants killed in southern Lebanon. Hezbollah launches over 100 missiles and shelling at several Israeli military sites in Israel in retaliation. (VOA) (Middle East Eye)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Pacific typhoon season
  • Typhoon Yagi
    • Four people are killed and at least 78 people are injured by Typhoon Yagi in Hải Dương and Quảng Ninh province, Vietnam, as it makes landfall in Hanoi. (BBC News)
• Thirteen people are killed and 44 others injured after a collision between a tank truck and a bus between Bouaké and Korhogo, in Ivory Coast. (AP)

International relations

• 2024 Venezuelan political crisis, Argentina–Venezuela relations
  • Venezuelan security forces surround the Argentine embassy in Caracas after several opposition members take refuge inside the embassy. Electricity is reportedly cut to the embassy, with Vente Venezuela describing the situation as a siege. (CNN)

Law and crime

• Interstate 75 Kentucky shooting
  • Several people are injured in a mass shooting near Interstate 75 in Laurel County, Kentucky, United States. (CNN)
• Five inmates escape from a high-security prison near Lisbon, Portugal. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• 2024 Algerian presidential election
  • Algerians vote for the President, with incumbent President Abdelmadjid Tebboune expected to win a second term. (Al Jazeera)
• French anti-Barnier government protests
  • Nationwide protests against Emmanuel Macron's appointment of Michel Barnier as the new prime minister break out in 130 cities and towns across France, with left-wing coalition New Popular Front claiming that Macron stole the election. (Reuters)

Science and technology

• The Boeing Crew Flight Test capsule returns to Earth uncrewed, landing at the White Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico, United States, after being docked for three months at the International Space Station. (CNN)

Sports

• 2024 US Open
  • In tennis, Aryna Sabalenka defeats Jessica Pegula in the final of the US Open Women's singles tournament to win her first US Open title ever and her second Grand Slam title overall. (Reuters) (WTA)

September 8, 2024 (2024-09-08) (Sunday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Pokrovsk offensive
    • Russia formally claims control of Novohrodivka, Donetsk Oblast, twelve kilometers (seven miles) from the strategically important Ukrainian logistical hub city Pokrovsk. (Reuters)
• War in Afghanistan
  • Fall of Kabul, 2020–2021 U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan
    • Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee release a report criticizing U.S. President Joe Biden for his handling of the withdrawal of American forces from Afghanistan. (The Hill)
• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • The Israeli military says that several Hezbollah militants were killed in airstrikes on Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon. (Al Jazeera)
• Syrian civil war
  • Israel launches several airstrikes in central Syria, targeting the Tartus and Hama governorates. (CNN)
• Sudanese civil war
  • The World Health Organization reports that the death toll from the civil war in Sudan has increased to more than 20,000 people. (AP)

Arts and culture

• 76th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards
  • American historical drama television series Shōgun wins a record 14 Emmys at the 2024 Creative Arts Emmy Awards, the most won for any single season. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• Wildfires in the United States during 2024
  • Over 11,000 people are evacuated in San Bernardino County, California, United States, as the Line Fire quadruples in size to over 27 sq mi (17,000 acres). (The New York Times) (BBC News)
• Forty-eight people and 50 cattle are killed in an explosion caused by a collision between a fuel tanker and a truck in Agaie, Niger State, Nigeria. (AP)
• Fourteen people are killed and another person is injured when a bus crashes on a highway between Aden and Taiz in Yemen. (AP)

Law and crime

• 2024 Allenby Bridge shooting
  • Three Israeli civilians are killed in a shooting at the Allenby Bridge on the Israel–Jordan border. (Reuters)
• Kingdom of Jesus Christ compound standoff
  • Kingdom of Jesus Christ pastor Apollo Quiboloy, who is charged with sex trafficking, is arrested amid a standoff between the police and members of the church at the church's headquarters in Davao City, Philippines. (Al Jazeera)
• 2024 Pasaquina Bell UH-1 crash
  • Nine people, including El Salvador's National Civil Police chief Mauricio Arriaza Chicas and a fraud suspect, are killed during a helicopter crash while being en route to San Salvador. The crash is considered to be intentional. All flags on government buildings will be flown half-mast for three days. (BBC)

Politics and elections

• 2024 Algerian presidential election
  • Incumbent President of Algeria Abdelmadjid Tebboune is re-elected for his second term with 95% of the vote. (Al Jazeera)
• 2024 Venezuelan political crisis
  • Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo González flees Venezuela to seek political asylum in Spain. The Spanish government says that González left Venezuela on a Spanish Air Force plane at his own request. (BBC News)

Sports

• 2024 Summer Paralympics
  • Thailand at the 2024 Summer Paralympics, Wheelchair fencing at the Summer Paralympics
    • Thai wheelchair fencer Saysunee Jana becomes the first female wheelchair fencer, and the second overall, to win gold medals in all three fencing disciplines, épée, foil, and sabre. (Bangkok Post)
• 2024 US Open
  • In tennis, Jannik Sinner defeats Taylor Fritz in the final of the US Open Men's singles tournament to win his first US Open title ever and his second Grand Slam title overall. Sinner is also the first Italian man to ever win the US Open. (CNN)

September 9, 2024 (2024-09-09) (Monday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Eastern Ukraine campaign
    • Russian troops capture the village of Memryk in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. (Al Jazeera)
  • Russia–NATO relations
    • The Latvian Defence Ministry confirms that a Russian military Shahed drone that crashed near the village of Gaigalava, Latvia, last week was carrying explosives and was likely intended to strike Ukraine. (Reuters)
  • Use of incendiary weapons in the Russo-Ukrainian War
    • Ukraine begins the implementation of "dragon drones" that spray molten thermite on forest cover to reveal and help destroy Russian units and military equipment. (Al Jazeera)
• Israel–Hamas war
  • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
    • At least eight people are killed and dozens are wounded in Israeli strikes across the Gaza Strip, bringing the confirmed Palestinian death toll to over 41,000. (Al Jazeera)
• Syrian civil war
  • Iran–Israel conflict during the Syrian civil war
    • At least 25 people are killed and more than 40 others are injured in overnight Israeli airstrikes targeting Iranian research centers in Syria, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. (The Guardian) (Syriahr)
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • Thirteen people are injured when a roadside bomb targets a police vehicle escorting a polio vaccination team in Wana, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (Arab News)
• Kurdistan Workers' Party insurgency
  • The Turkish Ministry of Defense announces that a Turkish soldier was killed in clashes with the Kurdistan Workers' Party in Duhok Governorate, Iraq. (Daily Sabah)
• Sudanese civil war
  • The Rapid Support Forces renew an assault on the city of Sennar, Sennar State, Sudan, killing at least 31 people and injuring more than 100 others. (Reuters)

Business and economy

• Draghi report on European competitiveness is published. (Politico)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Brazil wildfires, 2023–2024 South American drought
  • Fifty-nine percent of Brazil's area suffers from significant drought conditions, the worst national drought recorded. These conditions cause historically low Amazon basin levels and are contributing to at least 160,000 wildfires in 2024 that are causing widespread air pollution. (AP)
• 2024 Pacific typhoon season
  • The death toll from Typhoon Yagi in northern Vietnam increases to more than 64 people, with 24 others still missing. (Al Jazeera) (AP News)
• Eighteen people are killed and four are missing during floods caused by torrential rains in southern Morocco. Fifty-six homes are destroyed and 110 roads damaged. (Arab News)
• At least 16 people are killed and 22 others are injured when a bus and a truck collide in Bambey Department, Senegal. (TRT Afrika)
• At least six people are killed when a boat carrying migrants capsizes off the coast of Senegal over the weekend. (Reuters)

International relations

• Slovakia–Ukraine relations, Far-right politics in Ukraine
  • The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry expresses "disappointment" regarding assertions made by Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico that Kyiv should remove "fascist elements" from the Armed Forces of Ukraine, using rhetoric similar to Russian allegations of current neo-Nazism in Ukraine's Azov Brigade. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• Censorship in Nigeria
  • The Nigerian State Security department arrests Joe Ajaero, the leader of the Nigeria Labour Congress, at Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja, Nigeria, days after Ajaero criticised the Nigerian government for increasing gas prices. (DW)
• Ali Kiba, a Tanzanian official from the opposition party Chadema, who went missing last week, is found dead with signs of beatings and acid poured on his face. (ABC News)
• Germany's traffic light coalition government announces border restrictions on all its national land borders, including those with other EU nations, for at least six months in order to combat irregular migration from asylum seekers. (Reuters)
• The exiled National Council of Resistance of Iran claim that its offices in Stockholm, Sweden, were firebombed overnight with Molotov cocktails. The Swedish Police Authority announces that they have opened an investigation into the arson. (Al Arabiya)
• Forty-seven inmates escape from a maximum security prison in Margibi County, Liberia. (Reuters)
• Finnish-Canadian sportswear mogul Peter Nygård is sentenced to 11 years in prison for sexual assault. (CBC News)
• Authorities in Guinea-Bissau say that they have seized more than 2.6 tonnes of cocaine that was found on a plane arriving from Venezuela at Osvaldo Vieira International Airport in Bissau. (BBC News)

September 10, 2024 (2024-09-10) (Tuesday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Ukraine launches drone attacks on multiple Oblasts of Russia, including Moscow, prompting all flights to be suspended at Vnukovo International Airport and Moscow Domodedovo Airport. Bryansk Governor Alexander Bogomaz says that at least 59 Ukrainian drones have been shot down over the region. Russia also reports that two people were killed in the Ukrainian drone attack on Moscow. (Reuters) (Times of Israel)
  • Iran and the Russian invasion of Ukraine, International sanctions against Iran
    • U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says that Russia has received a shipment of Fath 360 tactical ballistic missiles from Iran, and expects their deployment "within weeks". Iran denies the claim, calling it "psychological warfare". In response, the United Kingdom, France, and Germany announce new sanctions on Iran for supplying Russia with ballistic missiles. (BBC News) (The Telegraph)
  • Military aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War
    • The Netherlands lifts all of its weapons restrictions on military equipment that it provided to Ukraine, allowing the Ukrainian military to target Russia with long-range weapons, while also urging NATO allies to lift their own weapons restrictions. (Kyiv Post)
• Israel–Hamas war
  • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
    • According to Hamas, at least 40 people are killed and more than 60 others are injured in an Israeli airstrike on the Al-Mawasi refugee camp in Rafah in the Gaza Strip. Twenty tents housing displaced people are destroyed during the attack. (Al Jazeera)
    • The Israeli military says the strike targeted senior Hamas commanders operating in a command center embedded inside a designated humanitarian area whom the Israel Defense Forces says were all involved in the October 7 attack. (Al Arabiya) (Times of Israel)
• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • A Redwan Force commander is killed and fourteen civilians are injured in Israeli airstrikes on Saghbine and Rachaf in southern Lebanon. (Al Jazeera)

Disasters and accidents

• The death toll from the capsizing of a migrant boat off the coast of Senegal over the weekend increases to 26 after the discovery of 17 more bodies. (Reuters)

International relations

• Belarus–European Union border crisis, Germany–Poland relations
  • Prime Minister of Poland Donald Tusk condemns Germany's new land border restrictions due to Germany's previous lack of support for other European Union nations impacted by irregular migration. (Reuters) (TVN24)

Law and crime

• The Court of Justice of the European Union rules that Apple Inc. must pay €13 billion (US$14.3 billion) to the government of the Republic of Ireland as compensation for extraordinarily low taxes levied by Ireland against Apple. (Euronews)
• Google is fined €2.4 billion (US$2.7 billion) by the Court of Justice of the European Union for favoring its own shopping search results over those of its competitors. (Politico)
• His Majesty's Prison Service begins releasing thousands of prisoners in England and Wales early amid a record high prison population and a shortage of prison cells for new inmates. (BBC News)
• A Swiss appeals court convicts Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan of rape and sexual coercion, sentencing Ramadan to three years in prison, with two years suspension. (Al Jazeera) (BBC News)

Politics and elections

• 2024 Jordanian general election
  • Jordanians go to the polls to elect all 138 members of the House of Representatives. (NPR)
• 2024 Mexican judicial reform
  • Protesters opposed to the ruling Morena party's reform package storm the Senate of Mexico and force an interruption of the bill's first reading in the upper house. The session reconvenes later at an alternative venue and passes the bill by an 86–41 vote. (The Guardian) (CNN)
• 2021–present United Kingdom cost-of-living crisis
  • The House of Commons of the United Kingdom votes 348–228 to end the Winter Fuel Payment for 10 million pensioners in England and Wales after Prime Minister Keir Starmer warned that the scheme was no longer affordable to be applied universally. (Sky News)
• 2024 United States presidential election
  • A presidential debate hosted by ABC News between U.S. vice president and Democratic nominee Kamala Harris and former president and Republican nominee Donald Trump takes place at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (CNN)

September 11, 2024 (2024-09-11) (Wednesday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israel–Hamas war
  • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
    • September 2024 Al-Jawni School attack
      • Eighteen people, including six UNRWA staffers, are killed in Israeli airstrikes on a school in central Gaza. (Reuters)
    • An Israeli Air Force UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter crashes in Rafah during a mission to evacuate an injured combat engineer, killing two personnel on board. (Times of Israel)
  • 2024 Israeli military operation in the West Bank
    • At least six Palestinians are killed by an Israeli drone strike on Tubas in the West Bank. (Reuters)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • August 2024 Kursk Oblast incursion
    • Russian forces reportedly recapture 10 settlements in Kursk Oblast. (Anadolu Agency)
  • Military aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War
    • The United Kingdom reportedly approves the use of Storm Shadow cruise missiles to strike targets inside Russian territory. (The Kyiv Independent)
• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • One Hezbollah militant is killed and one militant and two civilians are injured in Israeli drone strikes in southern Lebanon. (Al Jazeera)
• Haitian crisis (2018–present)
  • A new wave of shootouts erupts in Haiti over a football match leaving at least one gang leader dead. Reports admit being unable to determine the total death toll. (AP)

Business and economy

• Hundreds of workers at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, Kenya, go on strike to protest against a planned deal to lease the airport to the Indian conglomerate Adani Group for 30 years. (Al Jazeera)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Atlantic hurricane season
  • Hurricane Francine makes landfall in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, United States, as a Category 2 hurricane. (National Hurricane Center)
  • The National Weather Service issues a flash flood emergency for New Orleans and municipalities west of it, due to the eye wall of Hurricane Francine stalling over the region. (NBC News)
• 2024 Nigeria floods
  • Due to the Alau Dam collapse by heavy floods more than 80% of the animals in the Sanda Kyarimi Park Zoo in Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria have been killed. (Reuters)
• 2024 Pacific typhoon season
  • The death toll from Typhoon Yagi in northern Vietnam increases to 179 people, with 145 others still missing. The majority of the victims were killed by floods and landslides in Lào Cai, Yên Bái, and Cao Bằng provinces. (AP) (Al Jazeera)

Law and crime

• Malaysian police rescue 400 minors suspected of being sexually abused at Islamic charity homes linked to Al-Arqam. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• Israel–Hamas war protests
  • Victoria Police arrest 39 people and fire stun grenades, rubber bullets, and pepper spray at anti-war and pro-Palestinian protestors picketing outside a military weapons expo in Melbourne, Australia. (Al Jazeera)
• Women's rights in Afghanistan
  • An All Afghan Women's Summit is held in Tirana, Albania, where more than 130 Afghan women gathered to protest the crackdown on women's rights by the Taliban. (The Guardian)

Science and technology

• Spaceflight
  • Following the launch of the Russian Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, there were a record 19 people in outer space: the three astronauts on the MS-26 mission, three more on China's Tiangong space station, four people on the SpaceX Polaris Dawn mission, and nine more on board the International Space Station. (CollectSPACE)

September 12, 2024 (2024-09-12) (Thursday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Eastern Ukraine campaign
    • Russian artillery shelling kills three Red Cross workers and injures two others in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. (Reuters)
  • Foreign involvement in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • A spokesperson for the Indian Foreign Ministry say that about 45 Indian nationals have been discharged from the Russian military, with efforts currently underway to get a further 50 Indians released. (Reuters)
  • Kharkiv strikes
    • Russian shelling of the settlement of Borova in Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine, kills three civilians and injures nine others, including several emergency service personnel. (Reuters)
  • Military aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War, Russia–NATO relations
    • Russian president Vladimir Putin warns that Ukrainian use of NATO weapons to strike deep into Russian territory indicates NATO's formal entry into war against Russia, due to the programming of these weapons by NATO personnel representing a "direct confrontation". (The Independent)
  • Southern Ukraine campaign
    • Ukraine accuses Russia of conducting missile strikes on a Saint Kitts and Nevis-flagged bulk carrier carrying grain to Egypt in the exclusive economic zone of Romania in the Black Sea. No casualties are reported. (Reuters)
• Israel–Hamas war
  • 2024 Israeli military operation in the West Bank
    • The death toll from Israel's military operation in the occupied West Bank increases to 50, with three people killed by a drone strike in Tulkarm. (Al Jazeera)
  • United States support for Israel in the Israel–Hamas war
    • The U.S. State Department approves $165 million in weapons sales to Israel to fund tank transporters along with spare parts, tool kits, and technical and logistics support. The parts are expected to be delivered in 2027. (AP)
• Afghan conflict
  • 2024 Afghanistan bus shooting
    • Fourteen people are killed and six more are injured during a mass shooting by Islamic State militants against a bus carrying Shia Hazara people between the Afghan provinces of Ghor and Daikundi, after returning from a pilgrimage in Iraq. (AP)
• Sistan and Baluchestan insurgency
  • Three border guards are killed and a civilian is injured by Jaish ul-Adl gunmen in Mirjaveh, Sistan and Baluchestan province, Iran. (AP)

Business and economy

• 2023–2024 video game industry layoffs
  • Microsoft announces that it will lay off 650 Microsoft Gaming employees as part of cuts to its workforce. (Variety)

Health and environment

• The British government announces that a ban on junk food adverts on television before 9 PM will enter force in October 2025 under plans to tackle childhood obesity. (Sky News)

International relations

• Jordan–United Kingdom relations
  • The United Kingdom suspends visa-exempt status for Jordanian nationals traveling to the UK due to an increase in asylum claims made by Jordanians. (The Jerusalem Post)
• Peace negotiations in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Brazil–Ukraine relations, China–Ukraine relations
  • Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy strongly denounces a Brazilian–Chinese peace initiative, stating that both nations are effectively siding with Russia for allowing the Russian army to take Ukrainian territory as a means to "de-escalate" the war instead of assisting Ukraine in resisting the invasion. (Kyiv Independent)
• United States–Venezuela relations, 2024 Venezuelan political crisis
  • The United States government imposes sanctions on 16 allies of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro, accusing them of voter suppression and human rights abuses. (AP)
• The United States announces it will support the addition of two new permanent seats on the United Nations Security Council for African nations and one non-permanent seat for a small island developing nation. (AP)

Law and crime

• Blasphemy in Pakistan
  • A police officer shoots and kills a man being held in custody on suspicion of blasphemy at a police station in Quetta, Balochistan, Pakistan. (Al Arabiya)

Politics and elections

• Papuan prime minister James Marape survives a vote of no confidence. (RNZ)
• Senegalese president Bassirou Diomaye Faye dissolves the opposition-led National Assembly and calls for a snap election on November 17. (AP)

Science and technology

• Polaris program
  • American billionaire Jared Isaacman becomes the first person to perform a commercial spacewalk as part of the Polaris Dawn private spaceflight mission operated by SpaceX. (AP)

September 13, 2024 (2024-09-13) (Friday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Russian artillery targets 15 areas in Sumy Oblast, Ukraine, killing two civilians near the village of Yampil and injuring nine others. (Reuters)
  • China and the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Reuters reports that Russia has begun production of thousands of Garpiya-A1 long-range combat drones used against Ukrainian civilian and military targets, that incorporate engines, parts, and technology from China. (Reuters)
  • Humanitarian impacts of the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency reports that due to the ongoing war, Ukraine's death rate is now the highest in the world at 18.6 per thousand people, while its birth rate is the lowest at six children born per thousand people. (Kyiv Post)
• War on drugs in Ecuador
  • Ecuadorian security crisis
    • Maria Daniela Icaza, director of the Litoral Penitentiary in Guayaquil, the largest prison in Ecuador and the site of the country's deadliest prison riot in 2021, is fatally shot in her vehicle by suspected drug cartel gunmen. (CBS News)
• Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir
  • Two Indian soldiers are killed in action in clashes with separatists in Kishtwar, Jammu and Kashmir, India. (NDTV)
• Islamic State insurgency in Iraq
  • Abu Ali Al-Tunisi, an Islamic State commander for whom the U.S. Treasury Department had offered $5 million for information for, is killed during a joint United States–Iraq operation in Al Anbar Governorate. Ahmad Hamed Zwein, an Islamic State deputy commander in Iraq, is also killed in the operation. (AP)
• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • A Redwan Force commander is killed and 17 injured in Israeli drone strikes in Ahmadiya and Kfar Remen in southern Lebanon. (Al Jazeera)

Business and economy

• 2024 Boeing machinists strike
  • More than 33,000 Boeing factory workers go on strike for the first time since 2008 after rejecting a labor contract. (CNBC)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Pacific typhoon season
  • The death toll from Typhoon Yagi in northern Vietnam increases to 233 people, with more than 820 others injured, and 103 people still missing. (AP)
  • At least ten people are killed by flooding and landslides caused by Typhoon Yagi in Thailand, along with at least 33 people killed in Myanmar. (DW)
• A Bulgarian Air Force L-39 Albatros jet crashes during rehearsals for an air show at the Graf Ignatievo Air Base near Plovdiv, Bulgaria, killing both pilots. (AP)
• Two people are presumed dead and at least two others are injured in an explosion and subsequent fire at a gas station in Clearwater County, Idaho, United States. (AP)

International relations

• Germany–Kenya relations, Immigration to Germany
  • Germany and Kenya agree on a labour migration deal which will see 250,000 skilled and semi-skilled Kenyan workers go work in Germany amid a shortage of skilled labour in the German economy. The agreement will also simplify the return of illegal migrants to Kenya. (BBC News)
• Russia–United Kingdom relations
  • Russia revokes the accreditation of six British diplomats and accuses them of espionage. (BBC News)

Law and crime

• 2024 Democratic Republic of the Congo coup attempt
  • A court in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, sentences 37 people to death for their alleged roles in the attempted coup the prior May. (AP)
• Rotherham child sexual exploitation scandal
  • Seven men receive prison sentences ranging from six to 25 years for sexual offences against girls aged 11 to 16 that occurred in the town of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, Northern England from the late 1980s until 2013. (BBC News)
• Bedfordshire Police arrest an 18-year-old man on suspicion of murder after three people are found dead in flat in a tower block in Luton, England, United Kingdom. (BBC News)
• Three young Chinese people are killed in a suspected arson attack on a shop in Milan, Italy. (ANSA)
• China increases the country's retirement age for the first time since 1978. Beginning in 2025, the retirement age for men will be increased to 63, and the retirement age for women will be increased to either 55 or 58 depending on their occupation. (NPR)

September 14, 2024 (2024-09-14) (Saturday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Russia–NATO relations
    • Russian officials say that the approval of Ukrainian use of long-range weapons to strike inside Russia will result in an "uncontrolled escalation" with the West and the "destruction" of Kyiv. (Reuters)
    • NATO Chair Rob Bauer backs the use of long-range weapons by Ukrainian forces to strike targets inside Russia. (ABC News)
  • Ukrainian conscription crisis
    • Following a meeting in Kyiv, Ukraine, the foreign ministers of Poland and Ukraine call for ending social benefits for Ukrainian men in Poland, and for programs in the European Union to return them to Ukraine in order to stop draft evasion. (Reuters)
• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • Four injured in an Israeli airstrike on Hermel in northern Lebanon. (Al Jazeera)
• Somali Civil War
  • At least five people are killed and eight others are injured in a series of roadside explosions in Kahda District, Mogadishu, Somalia. The local government blames jihadist group Al-Shabaab due to its frequent targeting of civilians. (Garowe Online) (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 South American wildfires
  • 2024 Brazil wildfires
    • The estimated area burned by wildfires in Brazil this year reaches 37.6 million hectares (93 million acres), an area larger than the size of Germany and more than double the yearly average from 2012–2023. (Financial Times)
• 2024 European floods
  • At least four people are killed and thousands of homes are damaged in floods in Romania and the Czech Republic. (Reuters)
• At least 15 people are killed and around 40 others are injured when a tank truck explodes in Miragoâne, Haiti. (Al Jazeera)
• At least three people are killed and 49 others are injured in a train collision in Zagazig, Sharqia Governorate, Egypt. (CNN)
• At least forty people drown and 24 more are presumed dead after a wooden boat carrying farmers capsizes near Gummi, Zamfara State, Nigeria. (CNN) (Al Jazeera)

Politics and elections

• 2024 Tunisian presidential election
  • Tunisian police arrest more than 80 members of the opposition Ennahda Movement party amid protests against President Kais Saied in the capital city Tunis. (Al Jazeera)
• 2024 Venezuelan political crisis
  • Venezuelan interior minister Diosdado Cabello announces that three US citizens, two Spanish citizens, and a Czech citizen have been arrested and are accused of planning to "generate violence" and "destabilize" Venezuela, with the Spanish citizens also accused of being Spanish secret service workers. (Reuters)
• 2026 South Sudanese general election
  • The government of South Sudan and President Salva Kiir postpone the general election originally scheduled for December 2024 to December 2026, citing a need for additional time to complete a census, register political parties, and draft a permanent constitution. (Al Jazeera)

September 15, 2024 (2024-09-15) (Sunday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israel–Hamas war
  • Spillover of the Israel–Hamas war
    • A Houthi ballistic missile launched from Yemen reaches central Israel for the first time. The missile is fragmented by an interceptor, with no casualties reported. (Reuters)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Kharkiv strikes
    • At least 41 people are injured when a Russian guided bomb hits an apartment building in Kharkiv, Ukraine. (CNN)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 European floods
  • 2024 Central European floods
    • The death toll from the ongoing floods in Central and Eastern Europe increases to eight, including six people in Romania, one in Poland, and a firefighter in Austria. (Al Jazeera) (Reuters)
• 2024 Pacific typhoon season
  • The death toll from Typhoon Yagi in Myanmar increases to 74 people, with 89 others still missing and nearly 240,000 people displaced. (AP)
• English Channel migrant crossings
  • At least eight illegal migrants are killed and ten others are hospitalized after a boat capsizes off the French coast while attempting to cross the English Channel. (Al Jazeera)

International relations

• Georgia–Russia relations, Georgian–Ossetian conflict
  • Georgian oligarch and Georgian Dream founder Bidzina Ivanishvili proposes a national apology to South Ossetia after blaming former President Mikheil Saakashvili for starting the Russo-Georgian War at the will of Western powers. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• 2024 Nigeria floods
  • Borno State flooding
    • Over 280 prisoners escape from a prison in Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria, due to damage to prison walls caused by heavy floods. (Reuters)
• Mining in Papua New Guinea
  • At least 20 people are killed in clashes between illegal miners near the Porgera Gold Mine in Porgera, Papua New Guinea. (AP)
• Trump International Golf Club shooting
  • Shots are fired near former US President Donald Trump at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, United States. (AP)

Politics and elections

• 2024 Brazilian municipal elections
  • 2024 São Paulo mayoral election
    • São Paulo mayoral candidate Pablo Marçal is hospitalized after being assaulted by fellow candidate Datena with a metal chair during a televised debate on TV Cultura. (AP)
• 2024 Mexican judicial reform
  • President of Mexico Andrés Manuel López Obrador signs a series of constitutional amendments that overhaul the federal judiciary, allowing voters to elect federal judges. (Reuters)
• King of Jordan Abdullah II approves the resignation of Prime Minister Bisher Khasawneh, and appoints chief of staff Jafar Hassan as the new prime minister. (Al Jazeera)

Science and technology

• Polaris program
  • The spacecraft of the Polaris Dawn private spaceflight mission operated by SpaceX returns to Earth after five days in orbit. (BBC News)

Sports

• 2024 IndyCar Series
  • In open-wheel car racing, Chip Ganassi Racing driver Álex Palou wins the IndyCar Series championship, his third series championship in the last four seasons. (NBC Sports)

September 16, 2024 (2024-09-16) (Monday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israel–Hamas war
  • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
    • Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip
      • At least 16 Palestinians are killed and at least thirteen others are wounded in Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip, including several houses in Gaza City and Nuseirat refugee camp. (DW)
• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • One person is killed and four others injured in Israeli airstrikes on Hula in southern Lebanon. (Yahoo)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 European floods
  • 2024 Central European floods
    • Four people in Poland, three in the Czech Republic, and one in Romania, are killed during massive floods, bringing the death toll from the ongoing flood in Central and Eastern Europe to 16. (AP)
• 2024 Portugal wildfires
  • Portugal asks the European Union for help to fight large wildfires in the northern and central regions of the country. (Reuters)

International relations

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • August 2024 Kursk Oblast incursion
    • The Ukrainian ministry of foreign affairs invites the United Nations and the Red Cross to join humanitarian efforts in Kursk Oblast, Russia. (Reuters)
• Ukraine–United States relations, United States and the Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Ukrainian officials publicly distance themselves from the Donald Trump-involved shooting suspect and warn that Russia will use the situation for anti-Ukraine propaganda, following reports of the suspect protesting for the Azov Brigade and regularly calling for international support and troops for Ukraine. (Reuters) (Reuters 2)

Law and crime

• Immigration to Germany
  • Germany initiates rigorous temporary border checks at all of its borders in order to reduce irregular migration, prompting criticism from some European Union member nations stating that the border checks contradict the EU's foundations of free movement and solidarity. (Reuters)
• Trump International Golf Club shooting
  • Ryan Wesley Routh is charged with two gun-related crimes in federal court after being suspected of attempting to assassinate former United States President Donald Trump. (Reuters)
• Two police officers are fatally shot in Alibori Department, Benin. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• North Korea announces that it will revise its constitution on October 7, with changes including the designation of South Korea as a separate country and its primary enemy. This comes after North Korea announced that it would no longer pursue peaceful Korean reunification. (NHK World Japan)

September 17, 2024 (2024-09-17) (Tuesday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Hezbollah–Israel conflict
  • 2024 Lebanon pager explosions
    • Nine people are killed and over 2,750 others are injured, including civilians, Hezbollah members, and the Iranian ambassador to Lebanon, when their booby trapped pagers explode in Lebanon and Syria. Hezbollah accuses Israel of perpetrating the attacks. (AP) (The Times of Israel) (Al Jazeera) (The New York Times)
  • Three Hezbollah militants are killed and two others are injured in Israeli airstrikes on Blida in southern Lebanon. (Al Jazeera)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Southern Ukraine campaign
    • Russian artillery targets the town of Komyshuvakha in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Ukraine, killing two people and injuring five others. (Reuters)
  • Doctors Without Borders halts its operations in Russia after its government removed the organization from its roster of approved foreign charities. (Al Jazeera)
• Israel–Hamas war
  • A poll by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research finds that, for the first time during the war, a majority of the residents of Gaza does not support Hamas' invasion of Israel. (Reuters)
• Ituri conflict
  • CODECO militants kill ten civilians in an overnight attack on a Hema village in Ituri Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Some of the victims were beheaded, according to local authorities. (Reuters)
• Mali War
  • 2024 Bamako attacks
    • JNIM gunmen open fire on a military camp in Bamako, Mali, killing a number of soldiers. The perpetrators tried to infiltrate the camp, and also opened fire on the Modibo Keita International Airport. At least 15 suspects are arrested. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 European floods
  • 2024 Central European floods
    • Four people are found dead after floods in Austria, while another is killed in Poland, bringing the death toll from the ongoing floods in Central and Eastern Europe to 21. (Al Jazeera) (Al Jazeera 2)
• 2024 Pacific typhoon season
  • The death toll from Typhoon Yagi in Myanmar increases to 236 people, with more than 77 people still missing. (Al Jazeera)
• 2024 Portugal wildfires
  • Three Portuguese firefighters die while fighting wildfires in the country's central and northern regions, bringing the death toll from the wildfires to seven people. (Reuters)
• At least 25 children are killed in Kaduna State, Nigeria, when a bus carrying Muslims celebrating Mawlid crashes. (Al Arabiya)
• Six people are killed in a landslide caused by heavy rains in Naucalpan, Mexico. (AP)

International relations

• Foreign relations of Afghanistan
  • The Taliban government reopens the Afghan embassy in Muscat, Oman. (ABC News)

Law and crime

• 2024 Bangladesh quota reform movement
  • Ekattorer Ghatak Dalal Nirmul Committee President Shahriar Kabir is arrested in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on charges of crimes against humanity, mass killing, and murder for his involvement with Sheikh Hasina's government during the quota reform movement. (Dhaka Tribune)
• LGBT rights in Georgia
  • The Parliament of Georgia approves a law on "family values and the protection of minors" that would restrict LGBTQ+ rights in the country. (DW)
• Mazan rapes
  • Dominique Pélicot, the 71-year-old man accused of drugging his wife to sleep and recruiting dozens of men to rape her for more than ten years, admits to all of the charges against him in his first testimony since the trial opened on September 2. (BBC News)

Science and technology

• Meta Platforms bans Russian state media from Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp, including RT and Rossiya Segodnya, citing alleged deceptive tactics used by the networks to carry out "influence operations" while evading detection. (CBC News)

Sports

• 2026 Commonwealth Games
  • Glasgow, Scotland, is formally selected as the host city of the 2026 Commonwealth Games. (BBC News)

September 18, 2024 (2024-09-18) (Wednesday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • 2024 Lebanon pager explosions
    • The death toll from yesterday's pager explosions in Lebanon, targeting Hezbollah's communication network, increases to twelve, including four healthcare workers and two children, with more than 2,800 others injured. (Al Jazeera) (AP)
    • Walkie-talkies and other electronic devices continue to explode across Lebanon, including at a funeral in Baalbek for three Hezbollah members and a boy who were killed in yesterday's explosions. At least 20 people are killed and more than 450 others are injured. (Al Jazeera) (AP)
    • Several home solar energy systems explode in Beirut, Lebanon. (ABC News)
• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • Israeli occupation of the West Bank
    • The United Nations General Assembly votes 124–14 with 43 abstentions to demand that Israel end its unlawful presence in the occupied Palestinian territories within the next 12 months. (Reuters)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Toropets depot explosions
      • A Ukrainian drone attack on a Russian weapons depot in Toropets, Tver Oblast, causes an explosion large enough to be detected as an earthquake by monitoring stations. Local residents are told to evacuate and schools in the region are closed. (The Guardian)
• Mexican drug war
  • Mexican Secretary of Defense Luis Cresencio Sandoval announces that at least 30 people have been killed since September 9 during shootouts between rival factions of the Sinaloa Cartel in Sinaloa, Mexico. Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador partially blames the United States for the surge in violence. (AP) (AP 2)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 South American wildfires
  • 2024 Peru wildfires
    • President of Peru Dina Boluarte issues a state of emergency for the departments of Amazonas, San Martín, and Ucayali, which have been significantly impacted by wildfires that have killed at least sixteen people. (Reuters)
• 2024 Portugal wildfires
  • Twelve people are arrested on suspicion of arson resulting in widespread wildfires in Northern and Central Portugal that have killed at least seven people. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• 2024 Shenzhen stabbing
  • A 10-year-old Japanese student is killed in a stabbing near his school in Shenzhen, China. (BBC)
• 2024 Armenian coup attempt allegations
  • The Government of Armenia announces that the National Security Service (NSS) has thwarted a coup attempt by Armenian Russophiles armed, trained, and financed by the Russian Federation. (Politico)
• Alleged Ghost developer and administrator Jay Je Yoon Jung is arrested in Sydney, Australia, on five charges related to the encrypted communication network's development and operation. (The Register)

Science and technology

• Instagram introduces teen accounts for users under the age of 18 that will be private by default, limit "sensitive content" and allow parents to view contacts. (DW)

September 19, 2024 (2024-09-19) (Thursday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • 2024 Lebanon pager explosions
    • The death toll from yesterday's walkie-talkie explosions in Lebanon targeting Hezbollah militants increases to 25, with more than 600 others injured. A total of 37 people have been killed and more than 3,000 others injured in explosions over the last two days. (The Independent)
    • United States officials report that Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin was pre-warned by Israel about the military operation in Lebanon occurring later that day, and claim that they received no prior details about the nature of the attack. (AP)
  • The Israeli Air Force strikes more than 100 Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon, destroying multiple rocket launch systems and weapons depots. Lebanese security forces say the raids are the most intense since the conflict began. Israeli fighter jets are also reported over Beirut. One Hezbollah militant is killed. (Reuters) (Al Jazeera)
  • Two Israeli soldiers are killed and eight others are injured in Hezbollah drone and anti-tank missile attacks on the Israel–Lebanon border. (The Times of Israel)
• Israel–Hamas war
  • Israeli incursions in the West Bank during the Israel–Hamas war
    • Six Palestinians are killed and 18 others are injured in an Israeli military raid in the city of Qabatiya in the West Bank. (Reuters)
  • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
    • The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child accuses Israel of severe violations of the Convention on the Rights of the Child through its military's actions in the Gaza Strip. (Reuters)
• Colombian conflict
  • Colombian peace process
    • Colombia suspends peace negotiations with the National Liberation Army (ELN) insurgent group after the ELN detonated explosives on a military base, killing two soldiers and wounding more than two dozen others. (DW)
• 2024 New Caledonia unrest
  • Two New Caledonian independence activists are killed by police during an operation in Saint-Louis over their alleged involvement in the ongoing riots. (AP)

Arts and culture

• A previously unknown piece composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ganz kleine Nachtmusik, is discovered at a library in Leipzig, Germany. The seven miniature movements for a string trio were probably composed in the 1760s, when Mozart was in his early teens. (The Guardian)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 South American wildfires
  • 2024 Peru wildfires
    • Out of control and deadly wildfires in Peru have reached at least seven archaeological sites and have begun to burn near the indigenous Shipibo-Conibo community. (Reuters)
• A military helicopter carrying international peacekeepers crashes near Mogadishu, Somalia. The helicopter was en route to Baledogle Airfield. No fatalities are reported. (Anadolu Agency) (Garowe Online)

Law and crime

• One person is killed and another is severely injured in a stabbing attack near the Erasmusbrug in Rotterdam, Netherlands. (AP)

Politics and elections

• 2024 Venezuelan political crisis
  • International reactions to the 2024 Venezuelan presidential election
    • The European Parliament recognizes Venezuelan exiled presidential candidate Edmundo González as the country's president. (Politico.eu)
• 2000 Fijian coup d'état
  • Fijian coup leader George Speight is released from prison after obtaining a pardon from President Wiliame Katonivere. Speight was imprisoned in 2002 for his role in the 2000 coup d'état in which ethnic Fijian nationalists attempted to overthrow Indo-Fijian Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry. (RNZ)
• Iranian interference in the 2024 United States elections
  • The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation and two other American agencies announce that Iranian hackers sent unsolicited emails to people associated with the Joe Biden presidential campaign that included material that was stolen from Donald Trump's campaign. (NBC News)

Sports

• 2024 Major League Baseball season, 40–40 club
  • In baseball, Los Angeles Dodgers designated hitter Shohei Ohtani becomes the first Major League Baseball player to hit 50 home runs and steal 50 bases in a single season. (Reuters)

September 20, 2024 (2024-09-20) (Friday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • Assassination of Ibrahim Aqil
    • Israel launches airstrikes on the Haret Hreik neighborhood of Beirut, Lebanon, targeting Hezbollah operatives. The airstrikes hit at least one building, killing at least 14 people, including senior Hezbollah leader Ibrahim Aqil, and injuring 66 others. (Al Jazeera)
• Mali War
  • 2024 Bamako attacks
    • The death toll from the JNIM's attacks three days ago against a military camp in Bamako, Mali, and Modibo Keita International Airport is confirmed to be at least 77 people killed and around 200 others injured. (Al Jazeera)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant crisis
    • Russian management at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant accuses the Armed Forces of Ukraine of creating threats to the plant's safety by launching a drone to attack a nearby electrical substation. (Reuters)
• Syrian civil war
  • Three children are killed and a fourth child from the same family is injured, when a land mine in a plastic bag explodes near a park in Manbij, Aleppo Governorate, Syria. (SOHR)
  • Kata'ib Hezbollah announce that Abu Haidar al-Khafaji, a senior commander in the group, was killed in Damascus, Syria, and blame Israel for the attack. (Barron's)
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • Militants kill nine Pakistani soldiers in separate attacks in North and South Waziristan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (ABC News)

International relations

• Afghanistan–Iran relations
  • Iran summons the acting head of Afghanistan's embassy after saying that a visiting Afghan official disrespected the country's national anthem by not standing during a performance of the anthem, days after a similar incident occurred in Pakistan. The Afghan delegate apologizes, claiming that this was because the public performance of music is banned by the Taliban. (Al Arabiya)
• Ukraine–European Union relations
  • President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen announces a loan of up to €35 billion (US$39 billion) for Ukraine in military and energy support following Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's drafting of a new victory plan against Russia. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• Capital punishment in Taiwan
  • The Constitutional Court in Taiwan upholds the legality of the death penalty in the country, but limits its use to the "most serious crimes". (Time)
• Three people are injured in a stabbing attack at a mosque in Châteauguay, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The perpetrator is arrested and charged. (CTV News)

Politics and elections

• 2024 United States presidential election
  • Jill Stein 2024 presidential campaign
    • The United States Supreme Court rules in favor of a Democratic Party bid to withhold the Green Party from the Nevada ballot for the 2024 presidential election, which was caused by the Nevada Secretary of State mistakenly directing the Green Party to use an incorrect affidavit form for ballot qualification. (Reuters)

September 21, 2024 (2024-09-21) (Saturday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • Assassination of Ibrahim Aqil
    • Hezbollah confirms that Ahmed Wahbi, a top commander who oversaw the military operations of the Redwan special forces during the Gaza war until early 2024, was killed in the Israeli airstrikes yesterday in Beirut, Lebanon. (TRT World)
    • The death toll from yesterday's airstrikes in Beirut increases to 38 people, including sixteen Hezbollah militants and twenty-two civilians, with 17 others still missing. (Al Jazeera)
• Israel–Hamas war
  • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
    • At least 22 people are killed and 30 others are injured in an Israeli airstrike on a school in the Zeitoun area of Gaza City. (CTV News)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Kharkiv strikes
    • Twenty-one people are injured when a Russian guided bomb hits an apartment building in Kharkiv, Ukraine. (Reuters)
• Nduga hostage crisis
  • Papuan separatists release Philip Mehrtens, a New Zealander pilot, after holding him hostage for over 19 months. (BBC)
• Mexican drug war
  • Two gunmen and a civilian are killed, and a paramedic is wounded, during a Mexican Army operation in the Tres Ríos sector of Culiacán. (Noreste)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Tabas coal mine explosion
  • At least 51 miners are killed, several are trapped and twenty-one are injured after a coal mine explodes in Tabas, Iran, caused by a methane gas leak. (Al Jazeera)

Law and crime

• September 2024 Birmingham shooting
  • Four people are killed and seventeen others are injured following a mass shooting in Birmingham, Alabama, United States. (ABC News) (AP)

Politics and elections

• 2024 French political crisis
  • Newly appointed Prime Minister of France Michel Barnier announces a centre-right coalition government, and adds ten conservative Republican members to his cabinet. (Reuters)
• 2024 Sri Lankan presidential election
  • Sri Lankan voters head to the polls to elect a new president between 39 candidates. The main frontrunners are Anura Kumara Dissanayake of the socialist National People's Power and current Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa of the progressive United People's Power Party. (BBC)
• Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama announces plans to create a 27-acre sovereign enclave for the Bektashi Order in Tirana modeled after the Vatican City, which would be called the "Sovereign State of the Bektashi Order". (The New York Times)

Sports

• 2024 Chicago White Sox season, Worst Major League Baseball season win–loss records
  • In professional baseball, the Chicago White Sox earn their 119th loss of the 2024 MLB season, tying the American League loss record set by the 2003 Detroit Tigers while now being one loss away from tying the post-1900 MLB loss record of the expansion 1962 New York Mets. (AP)

September 22, 2024 (2024-09-22) (Sunday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • 2024 Lebanon pager explosions
    • The death toll from the pager explosions across Lebanon last week increases to 42 people, with more than 3,500 others injured. (The Guardian)
  • Assassination of Ibrahim Aqil
    • The death toll from the Israeli airstrikes two days ago in Dahieh, Beirut, Lebanon, increases to at least 45 militants and civilians. (Al Jazeera)
  • Hezbollah launches a barrage of rockets and Fadi 1 and Wadi 2 missiles at the Israeli Air Force Ramat David Airbase in Haifa, Israel, in retaliation for the assassination of Ibrahim Aqil with three Israeli civilians injured in Krayot and Lower Galilee and one lightly injured by an Iron Dome interception. (CTV News) (AP)
  • Two Hezbollah militants and a civilian killed in Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon. (Al Jazeera)
• Israel–Hamas war
  • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
    • At least seven people are killed in an Israeli airstrike on the Kafr Qasim school on the Al-Shati refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. (Al Jazeera)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Zaporizhzhia strikes
    • At least 16 people are injured in Russian airstrikes in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine. (Reuters)
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • A police officer is killed and four others are injured in an IED attack on a multinational diplomatic convoy in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (AP)
• Mexican drug war
  • The death toll from the ongoing shootouts between rival factions of the Sinaloa Cartel in Sinaloa, Mexico, increases to 70 people with 51 others missing. (Al Jazeera)

Disasters and accidents

• Six people are killed and eight others are missing in floods and landslides caused by record rainfall in the Noto Peninsula of Japan. (Al Jazeera)
• Three people are killed, three others are injured, and a person is missing when a two-story building collapses in Naples, Italy. (CTV News)

Law and crime

• Censorship in Israel
  • Israeli forces carry out a raid and order the closure of the offices of Al Jazeera Arabic in Ramallah in the West Bank. (AP)
• Iran–Israel relations
  • The Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp arrests twelve people in six different provinces accused of being foreign operatives for Israel and "planning acts against Iran's security". (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• 2024 Sri Lankan presidential election
  • For the first time in Sri Lanka's history, election officials begin a second round of vote counting. In the first round, National People's Power candidate Anura Kumara Dissanayake led with 42.31% of the vote counted, while opposition leader and United People's Power candidate Sajith Premadasa took second place with 32.76%. Incumbent President Ranil Wickremesinghe came in third place with 17% of the vote. Following the counting of second and third preferences, Dissanayake is declared president-elect by the election commission. (AP) (BBC News)
• The United Nations adopts the "Pact for the Future", aiming for multilateral cooperative work towards peace and security, global governance, climate change, sustainable development, human rights, and more. (Reuters)

Science and technology

• Researchers from the University of Cape Town and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology announce they have reconstructed the oldest human genome ever found, belonging to a man and a woman who lived about 10,000 years ago in the Mesolithic period. The prior oldest decoded genome was from about 2,000 years ago. (DW)

September 23, 2024 (2024-09-23) (Monday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • September 2024 Lebanon strikes
    • Over 492 people are killed and 1,645 others are injured when the Israeli Air Force conducts over 1,400 airstrikes in Lebanon targeting Hezbollah, the deadliest day of conflict since the 2006 Lebanon War. (New York Times) (Al Jazeera) (AP)
    • Hezbollah launches dozens of rockets and drones at Israel in retaliation for the airstrikes. (CBS News)
    • The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon advises all posted civilian employees to evacuate southern Lebanon. (The Jerusalem Post)
    • The Israeli military advises Lebanese civilians in southern Lebanon to evacuate north. (AP)
  • The United States deploys additional military forces to the Middle East following significantly escalating conflict between Israel and Hezbollah and a potential wider regional conflict, adding to the 40,000 U.S. troops already present in the region. (AP)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • August 2024 Kursk Oblast incursion
    • The Russian Foreign Ministry reports that at least 56 Russian civilians were killed and 266 others were injured by the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Kursk Oblast, Russia, which the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry denies as Russian propaganda. (Reuters)

Business and economy

• Swedish lithium-ion technology developer Northvolt announces revised company operational scopes and its intention to layoff 1,600 workers in the country. (CBC)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Pacific hurricane season
  • Hurricane John makes landfall near Marquelia, Guerrero, Mexico, as a Category 3 hurricane. (AP) (NHC)
• Mediterranean Sea migrant smuggling
  • At least four people are found dead after a small boat carrying migrants sinks off the coast of Samos, Greece. (AP)
• At least 30 decomposing bodies are found in a boat off the coast of Dakar, Senegal. (Reuters)

Health and environment

• 2023–2024 mpox epidemic
  • The World Health Organization announces that nearly 30,000 suspected mpox cases have been reported in Africa so far this year, primarily in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as the death toll from mpox surpasses 800 people. (Reuters)
• Deforestation of the Amazon rainforest
  • Climate researchers report that since 1985, deforestation in the Amazon has caused the loss of an area of rainforest equal to the combined area of France and Germany. (France 24)

International relations

• Argentina–Venezuela relations
  • A court in Argentina orders the arrest of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro and interior minister Diosdado Cabello, accusing them of crimes against humanity. (Infobae)
  • The Supreme Court of Venezuela orders the arrest of Argentinian President Javier Milei after Argentina detains a Venezuelan aircraft. (AP)
• Japan–Russia relations
  • Japanese fighter jets fire warning flares at a Russian aircraft that violated Japanese airspace off Rebun Island. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• 2021 Boulder shooting
  • Ahmad Alissa, the gunman responsible for killing ten people at a supermarket in Boulder, Colorado, United States, in 2021, is convicted of ten counts of first-degree murder and sentenced to ten consecutive life sentences. (AP)
• 2024 social unrest in Martinique
  • The Government of France sends the Companies for Republican Security riot police unit to Martinique, following resistance from cost of living and social inequality protesters against French-issued bans on demonstrations. (AP)
• German police announce that they found 95 kg (209 lb) of cocaine worth €7 million ($7.8 million) hidden inside banana crates in supermarkets across North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. (DW)

Sports

• 2024 AFL season
  • 2024 Brownlow Medal
    • In Australian football, Patrick Cripps wins his second Brownlow Medal with 45 votes, the most votes since the current voting system was introduced, and also becomes the seventeenth player to win the award more than once. (ABC News Australia)

September 24, 2024 (2024-09-24) (Tuesday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • September 2024 Lebanon strikes
    • The death toll from the ongoing Israeli airstrikes across Lebanon increases to 558 people, including 50 children, with 1,835 others injured. (Al Jazeera)
    • The Israeli government declares a nationwide state of emergency until September 30. (Anadolu Agency)
    • Ibrahim Qubaisi, Hezbollah's missiles and rocket force commander, is killed after an airstrike in Beirut, Lebanon. Five other people are also killed in the attack. (The Guardian)
    • The United Kingdom deploys 700 troops to Cyprus ahead of a planned evacuation of thousands of British nationals from Lebanon. The UK has advised all of its citizens to leave Lebanon immediately if they can. (Reuters)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Kharkiv strikes
    • At least three people are killed and 22 others are injured in a Russian guided bomb attack on an apartment building in Kharkiv, Ukraine. (Reuters)
• Mexican Drug War
  • The death toll from the ongoing shootouts between rival factions of the Sinaloa Cartel increases to at least 77 people, with the finding of two corpses on a highway today. (Infobae)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 South American wildfires
  • 2024 Brazil wildfires
    • Over thirty environmental organizations condemn Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's actions that contradict his calls for further global action against climate change, such as requests for drilling oil reserves near the Amazon River and paving the BR-319 roadway through the Amazon that they state contribute to ongoing wildfires. (AP)
• 2024 Atlantic hurricane season
  • Tropical Storm Helene forms in the Gulf of Mexico and is expected to become a major hurricane before making landfall on the U.S. Gulf Coast on September 26. (National Hurricane Center)
• 2024 Pacific hurricane season
  • Three people are killed in flooding caused by remnants of Hurricane John in Mexico. (Reuters)
• The USNS Big Horn of the United States Navy runs aground and is damaged off the coast of Oman while operating in the Middle East after replenishing the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group. (AP)

Law and crime

• Attempted assassination of Donald Trump in Florida
  • Ryan Wesley Routh is formally charged for attempting to assassinate former U.S. President and Republican Party nominee Donald Trump at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, United States. (NBC News)
• Human rights in Belarus
  • Belarusian independent news outlet Reform.news reports that Jörg Dornau, an Alternative for Germany member of the Saxony parliament, has allegedly used political prisoners as labor on a Belarusian onion plantation owned by his agricultural firm. (Politico)
• Murder of Felicia Gayle
  • Marcellus Williams is executed by the state of Missouri shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court denies a request to delay the execution. (CBS News)
• Recognition of same-sex unions in Thailand
  • Thailand passes the marriage equality law allowing same-sex couples to be legally wed starting in January 2025. (AP)
• Prosecution of S Iswaran
  • Former Transport Minister of Singapore S Iswaran was indicted in court for five (out of 35 known so far) charges for obtaining valuables as a civil servant and one for obstructing the course of justice; decision for his sentencing was adjourned on 3 October. This is the first time since Singapore's independence where a politician has been convicted for such offence.(CNA) (Straits Times)

Politics and elections

• Argentine President Javier Milei proposes an "agenda of freedom" with economic, social, and foreign policies that directly contradict the United Nations' "Pact for the Future", which he calls a model to "repress, restrict and curtail" humanity's freedom and ineffective at preventing conflicts. (Reuters)
• Newly-elected Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake dissolves the Parliament and calls for snap elections on November 14. (Reuters) (AP)
• Harini Amarasuriya is appointed the new Prime Minister of Sri Lanka. (Reuters)

Science and technology

• Scientists from the University of Waterloo announce that they have positively identified bones found on King William Island in Nunavut, Canada, as those of James Fitzjames, captain of HMS Erebus during Franklin's lost expedition. (CBC News)
• A Monash University-led study on the Ordovician meteor event provides evidence that rings may have existed around Earth approximately 446 million years ago. (Forbes)

Sports

• The Lebanese Football Association suspends all football matches indefinitely amid Israeli airstrikes on the country. (Al Jazeera)

September 25, 2024 (2024-09-25) (Wednesday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • September 2024 Lebanon strikes
    • Hezbollah launches a ballistic missile targeting the Mossad headquarters in Tel Aviv, Israel, which is intercepted, while Israel conducts an additional 260 airstrikes across Lebanon, killing at least 72 people. (ABC News) (Al Jazeera)
  • The United States, the European Union, and several other countries call for an immediate 21-day ceasefire along the Blue Line on the Israel–Lebanon border, which has been rejected by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (Reuters)
• Sectarian violence in Pakistan, Shia–Sunni relations
  • At least 25 people are killed and dozens are injured in clashes between Shia and Sunni Muslim tribes in Kurram District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, since September 20. (AP)

Business and economy

• Pakistani economic crisis
  • The International Monetary Fund approves a $7 billion loan for Pakistan to help its economy, with $1 billion being disbursed immediately and the rest in instalments over 37 months. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Argentina wildfires
  • Intense and widespread wildfires in Córdoba Province, Argentina, destroy 40,000 hectares (400 km²) of forests and farmland, including several farm structures, and also kill large numbers of cattle. (Reuters)
• A blimp promoting Brazil soccer team São Paulo FC crashes into houses in the Brazilian municipality of Osasco, injuring the pilot. (Fox News)

International relations

• Brazil–Ukraine relations, China–Ukraine relations
  • Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accuses Brazil and China of using their proposed peace plan for ending the Russo-Ukrainian War to increase their geopolitical power "at Ukraine's expense" by urging developing nations to agree to the peace plan. (Reuters)
• Georgia–United States relations
  • The United States withdraws Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze's invitation to attend a summit of national leaders hosted by U.S. President Joe Biden during the ongoing United Nations General Assembly session, and refuses any further delegator meetings with Georgia, due to the "anti-democratic actions, disinformation, and negative rhetoric towards the U.S. and the West" resulting from Georgia's recently-passed foreign agents law. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• Crime in France, Immigration to France
  • The center-right Macron-appointed Barnier government expresses a willingness to work with the far-right National Rally's proposals to strengthen French immigration and crime laws following the murder of a 19-year-old woman in Paris last week. The suspect, who was arrested in Geneva, Switzerland, is a Moroccan convicted rapist who was released from prison this month and was meant to be deported. (Reuters)
• Criminal investigations into the Eric Adams administration
  • New York Mayor Eric Adams is indicted on federal charges following a corruption investigation, becoming the first mayor of New York City, United States, to face criminal charges while in office. (The New York Times)
• Four people are killed and two others are critically injured in a shooting spree in Nuoro, Sardinia, Italy. The perpetrator later commits suicide. (ANSA)
• A man hijacks a Los Angeles Metro Bus in South Los Angeles, California, United States, later killing one of the two passengers. The bus is driven at gunpoint for more than 7 miles (11 km) before the man surrenders to police. (AP)
• Six people are injured when a bomb explodes in a courthouse in Santa Maria, California, United States. A suspect is later arrested. (CNN)

Politics and elections

• 2024 United States presidential election, United States and the Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson demands that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy dismiss Ukrainian ambassador to the United States Oksana Markarova after Zelenskyy visited an ammunition factory in Pennsylvania with several Democratic politicians, which Johnson claims represented foreign electoral intervention. (Reuters)
• Cross-strait relations
  • The Japanese Navy sends a warship into the Taiwan Strait for the first time to reportedly "convey a message" to China, according to Japanese newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun. (DW)
• German Green Party leaders Omid Nouripour and Ricarda Lang state that they will step down following significant defeats in recent elections including the 2024 Brandenburg state election. (The Guardian)
• Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau survives a no-confidence vote by a vote of 211–119. (BBC News)

September 26, 2024 (2024-09-26) (Thursday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • September 2024 Lebanon strikes
    • Lebanese displacement during the Israel–Hezbollah conflict
      • Over 22,000 Lebanese residents have crossed into Syria in order to escape ongoing Israeli bombardment and a potential escalation of the conflict. (Barron's)
    • Two people, including Mohammad Hussein Srour, a senior commander in Hezbollah, are killed and 15 others are injured in an Israeli airstrike in Beirut, Lebanon. (Al Jazeera)
    • At least 92 people are killed and 153 others are injured in airstrikes across Lebanon, bringing the total death toll from the airstrikes to more than 700 people. (Al Jazeera)
  • Israel rejects proposals from the United States, Australia, and the European Union to initiate a temporary 21-day ceasefire with Hezbollah. (Reuters) (Reuters 2)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Eastern Ukraine campaign
    • The Russian Defense Ministry claims that Russian forces have taken the city of Ukrainsk in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. (The Moscow Times)
  • United States and the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Prior to a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, U.S. President Joe Biden announces a military aid package of more than $8 billion for Ukraine and directs The Pentagon to allocate all remaining security funds to Ukraine by the end of his presidential term in January 2025. (Reuters)
• Israel–Hamas war
  • United States support for Israel in the Israel–Hamas war
    • The United States grants Israel a $8.7 billion military aid package, with U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin stating that the U.S. will not change its commitment to providing military aid to Israel. (Reuters)
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • Eight Pakistani Taliban militants are killed in a shootout with soldiers in North Waziristan District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Atlantic hurricane season
  • Hurricane Helene
    • Hurricane Helene makes landfall in Florida, United States, as a Category 4 hurricane, with sustained winds of 140 mph (230 km/h) and a minimum central pressure of 938 millibars. (National Hurricane Center)
    • Tropical storm conditions occur across western Florida, with an automated weather station recording sustained winds of 54 mph (87 km/h) with gusts up to 68 mph (109 km/h) near Tampa Bay. (National Hurricane Center)
• 2024 India floods
  • 2024 Jivitputrika tragedy
    • At least 46 people, including 37 children, who were taking part in Jivitputrika festivities in Bihar, India, drown in rivers and bodies of water swollen by ongoing flooding across India. (Reuters)
  • Up to 275 mm (10.8 in) of rain falls across Mumbai, India, causing at least four deaths. (Al Arabiya)
• A bus crashes into a river in Wolaita, Ethiopia, killing 28 people and wounding 19 more. (Barron's)
• A United States defence official claims that a Chinese nuclear attack submarine, the first of the new Zhou-class, likely sank during construction earlier this year. (ABC News)

International relations

• Algeria–Morocco relations
  • Algeria imposes visa requirements on Moroccans, accusing them of criminal activity in Algeria, including "espionage" and "drug and human trafficking". (Al Arabiya)

Law and crime

• 2024 Lebanon pager explosions
  • Norwegian police issue an international search request for a Norwegian-Indian man linked to the sale of pagers to Hezbollah that exploded last week. (Times of Israel)
• Capital punishment in the United States
  • The U.S. state of Alabama executes a man via inert gas asphyxiation using nitrogen in the country's second ever execution by this method. (AP)
• A Mallorcan football fan is sentenced to one year in prison for yelling racist insults at football players Vinícius Júnior and Samuel Chukwueze. (Al Jazeera)
• Iwao Hakamada, the world's longest-serving death row inmate, is acquitted in Japan following a retrial. (BBC News)

September 27, 2024 (2024-09-27) (Friday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Eastern Ukraine campaign
    • The Russian Ministry of Defense claims soldiers captured the village of Marynivka in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. (Al Arabiya)
  • Kryvyi Rih strikes
    • At least one person is killed and five others are injured in a Russian missile strike on a police department in Kryvyi Rih, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine. (Reuters)
  • Nuclear risk during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Belarusian involvement in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko warns that Belarus will use Russian nuclear weapons if the country is attacked by NATO. (Anadolu Agency)
  • Southern Ukraine campaign
    • Russian loitering munitions hit the city of Izmail in Odesa Oblast, Ukraine, killing three people and wounding fourteen. (Reuters)
• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • September 2024 Lebanon strikes
    • Israel carries out several airstrikes using bunker buster bombs on Beirut, Lebanon, killing six people, injuring about a hundred and destroying six buildings. These also targeted Hezbollah's central headquarters to assassinate its leader, Hassan Nasrallah. (L'Orient le Jour) (Al Jazeera) (Ynet News)
    • A second wave of airstrikes hits three buildings in Beirut. (Al Jazeera)
  • Israel launches an airstrike against a Syrian military post in the countryside near Damascus, killing five soldiers and injuring another. (Al Arabiya)
• Israel–Hamas war
  • An aid worker of a United States-based charity is shot and killed in her car by Palestinian gunmen near Khan Yunis in the Gaza Strip. Gazan government officials claim that the gunmen had mistakenly identified the vehicle. (Al Arabiya)
• Haitian crisis
  • The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights reports that at least 3,661 people, including 100 children, have been killed in the first six months of the year by ongoing gang violence in Haiti. (Al Jazeera)
• Sudanese civil war
  • At least 18 people are killed when the Rapid Support Forces attack a market in Al-Fashir, Sudan. (Al Arabiya)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Atlantic hurricane season
  • Hurricane Helene
    • At least 17 people are killed and more than 900,000 people are reported to be without power due to high winds and flooding caused by Hurricane Helene in Georgia, United States. A rare flash flood emergency is also issued for the Atlanta metropolitan area. (CNN)
    • The Walters Dam in Tennessee was reported to have suffered a catastrophic failure due to ongoing heavy rainfall, with Cocke County Mayor Rob Mathis ordering the immediate evacuation of parts of the nearby city of Newport. (WVLT-TV). The reports were later confirmed to have been false. (Knoxville News Sentinel)
    • The Emergency Management department of Rutherford County, North Carolina, issues a warning for the "imminent" failure of the Lake Lure Dam due to significant rainfall, and orders immediate evacuations. (USA Today)
• 2024 Pacific hurricane season
  • Hurricane John
    • Tropical Storm John brings over 950 mm (37 inches) of rainfall to southern Guerrero, Mexico, twice eclipsing the amount of rainfall dropped by Hurricane Otis on the same area in 2023. (Reuters)
• Fifteen people are killed when an illegal gold mine collapses in Solok Regency, West Sumatra, Indonesia. (Reuters)
• Thirteen people are killed and 23 are injured after an explosion at a fuel station near Makhachkala, Dagestan, Russia. (AP)

International relations

• Iran–United States relations, Iran–Israel relations
  • The Iranian Foreign Ministry accuses Israel of using United States-produced and gifted 5,000 lbs bunker buster munitions to strike Hezbollah targets in residential areas in and around Beirut, Lebanon. (Reuters)
• Iraq–United States relations, Operation Inherent Resolve
  • Iraq and the United States agree to end the U.S.-led coalition mission in Iraq by September 2025, with all remaining American troops withdrawing by the end of 2026. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• Iran–United States relations
  • The United States Justice Department charges three members of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps for hacking Republican candidate Donald Trump's presidential campaign and "trying to disrupt the 2024 presidential election". (Reuters)
• Hamburg Police seize two tons of cocaine worth €100 million ($112 million) and arrest twelve suspects in Hamburg, Germany, including several foreigners. (DW)

Politics and elections

• 2024 Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) presidential election
  • Shigeru Ishiba defeats Sanae Takaichi in a runoff election to become the next president of the Liberal Democratic Party and prime minister designate. (Kyodo News)

Sports

• 2024 Chicago White Sox's 121st loss, Worst Major League Baseball season win–loss records
  • The 2024 Chicago White Sox earn their 121st loss against the Detroit Tigers, breaking the Major League Baseball record for the most amount of losses in a post-1900 season. (AP)

September 28, 2024 (2024-09-28) (Saturday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • September 2024 Lebanon strikes
    • 2024 Hezbollah headquarters strike
      • Hezbollah announces the death of its leader Hassan Nasrallah in yesterday's Israeli airstrikes in Beirut, Lebanon. (Reuters)
      • Interim Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati announces the country will have a national mourning period of three days for Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, starting on Monday. (Al Jazeera)
      • Iran confirms that Abbas Nilforoushan, an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps deputy commander, was killed in yesterday's airstrikes in Beirut. (Al Arabiya)
    • The Israel Defense Forces begin a blockade of Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport in order to prevent the shipment of Iranian weapons to Lebanon. The blockade will not affect the operation of civilian flights at the airport. (The Jerusalem Post)
• Iran–Israel proxy conflict
  • Red Sea crisis
    • The Houthis launch a ballistic missile from Yemen towards Ben Gurion Airport in Israel, prompting air raid sirens in Tel Aviv and most of Central Israel. (Reuters)
• Insurgency in Balochistan
  • Seven workers from Punjab Province are killed and another injured during a mass shooting at a rented house in Panjgur District, Balochistan Province, Pakistan. (AP)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Ten people are killed and 22 others are injured in a Russian double tap strike on a medical facility in Sumy, Ukraine. (Reuters)
• Somali Civil War
  • At least six people are killed and ten others are injured when a car bomb explodes outside a restaurant in Mogadishu, Somalia. (Reuters) (VOA Somali)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Atlantic hurricane season
  • Hurricane Helene
    • The death toll from Hurricane Helene in the United States increases to at least 64 people, including 21 in South Carolina and 18 in Georgia. (AP)
• 2024 Mari Petroleum Mil Mi-8 crash
  • A Mil Mi-8 helicopter carrying Mari Petroleum employees crashes in North Waziristan District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, killing six people and injuring eight others. (AP)
• 2024 Nepal floods
  • At least 170 people are killed and 59 others are missing in floods and landslides in Nepal. (The Journal)
• Nine people are killed, 27 others are rescued, and 48 others are missing when a boat carrying migrants capsizes off the coast of El Hierro in the Canary Islands, Spain. (AP)

Health and environment

• United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres declares a warning at the UN General Assembly for nearly a billion people living in low-lying coastal areas due to the risk of rising sea levels caused by climate change potentially resulting in catastrophic flooding, coastal erosion, and climate migration. (Al Jazeera)

Law and crime

• 2024 Lusikisiki shootings
  • Seventeen people are killed in two mass shootings at homes in Lusikisiki, Eastern Cape, South Africa. (Reuters)

Sports

• 2024 AFL premiership season
  • The Brisbane Lions defeat the Sydney Swans 120–60 in the Australian Football League Grand Final to win their fourth AFL premiership title. (The Guardian Australia)

September 29, 2024 (2024-09-29) (Sunday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • September 2024 Lebanon strikes
    • 2024 Hezbollah headquarters strike
      • United States senator Mark Kelly confirms that it was U.S. produced and provided 2,000-pound bunker buster BLU-109 bombs that were used by Israel to assassinate Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut. (Reuters)
    • A total of 105 people are killed by Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon, including 32 in Ain El Delb and 21 in Baalbek-Hermel, and at least 359 people are injured. (Al Jazeera)
    • Hezbollah confirms that Nabil Qaouk, the group's senior official, and Ali Karaki, a senior commander, were killed in Israeli airstrikes in Dahieh, Lebanon. (AP) (Al Arabiya)
• Spillover of the Israel–Hamas war
  • Red Sea crisis
    • 29 September 2024 Israeli attacks on Yemen
      • Following the Houthis' launch of a ballistic missile from Yemen towards Ben Gurion Airport prompting air raid sirens in Tel Aviv, the Israeli Air Force launches airstrikes against seaports and power stations operated by the Houthis in Al Hudaydah Governorate, Yemen, killing four people and injuring 29 others. (Al Jazeera) (Al Arabiya)
• Syrian civil war
  • Twelve pro-Iranian militiamen are killed in airstrikes of unknown origin in Deir ez-Zor Governorate, Syria. (Al Arabiya)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Atlantic hurricane season
  • Hurricane Helene
    • The death toll from Hurricane Helene rises to at least 116 people, including 46 in North Carolina, 27 in South Carolina, 25 in Georgia, and 13 in Florida. (CBS News)
• 2024 Conyers Biolab fire
  • Approximately 17,000 people are ordered to evacuate their homes and more are ordered to shelter in place after a fire, potentially causing hazardous chlorine contamination, occurs at a BioLab facility in Conyers, Georgia, United States. (CNN)
• Seven people are killed and 85 others are injured after a head-on collision between a bus and a private vehicle in Majayjay, Laguna, Philippines. (Manila Bulletin)

Law and crime

• Thirty-one people are injured in a double arson and vehicle-ramming attack in Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The perpetrator, a 41-year-old Syrian national, is arrested shortly after the attacks. (DW)

Politics and elections

• 2024 Austrian legislative election
  • Austrians vote for the 183 members of the 26th National Council. (Reuters)
  • The far-right Freedom Party of Austria wins the most seats with 58 but falls short of a majority, with other parties expressing an unwillingness to form a coalition government with them. (BBC)

September 30, 2024 (2024-09-30) (Monday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • September 2024 Lebanon strikes
    • At least 95 people are killed and 172 others are injured in Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon. (Al Jazeera)
    • Five children belonging to the Imam al-Mahdi Scouts are killed in an Israeli airstrike in Charkiyeh in southern Lebanon. (Anadolu Agency)
    • Three militants of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine are killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Kola District of Beirut, Lebanon. Separately, Hamas's commander in Lebanon, Fatah Sharif, is killed alongside his family in Tyre. (Al Jazeera)
    • A Lebanese Army soldier is killed in an Israeli drone strike in Wazzani, Lebanon. (The Times of Israel)
  • 2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon
    • Israel informs the U.S. State Department that it will launch an imminent ground invasion of southern Lebanon in order to clear out Hezbollah infrastructure near Israeli border communities. (The Washington Post)
    • Lebanese troops withdraw from the Israeli border ahead of an Israeli ground offensive. (Reuters)
  • Lebanese displacement during the Israel–Hezbollah conflict
    • The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees reports that at least 100,000 people have crossed from Lebanon into Syria in order to flee from Israeli strikes. (Al Jazeera)

Business and economy

• Coal phase-out
  • The last coal-fired power station in the United Kingdom shuts down in Ratcliffe-on-Soar, Nottinghamshire, England, ending the 142-year history of coal-fired electricity in the UK. (The Guardian)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Nepal floods
  • The death toll from the floods and landslides in Nepal increases to 204 people, with 30 others missing. This is the highest recorded monsoon rainfall in Nepal in the past two decades. (The Guardian)
• Two people are killed in wildfires in Peloponnese, Greece, as several villages are evacuated due to the fires. (ITV News)
• Twelve people are killed, 29 others are rescued, and ten others are missing after a boat capsizes off the coast of Djerba, Tunisia. (Al Jazeera)

International relations

• Australia–Tuvalu relations, Climate change in Tuvalu
  • Tuvalu's climate minister denounces the Australian Labor government's decision to expand three coal mines as an existential threat to the nation, due to the role of the mines in causing rising sea levels that have forced mass displacement across Tuvalu's low-lying islands. (The Guardian)

Law and crime

• Lithuania announces that it has referred Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, the Belarusian government, military officers, and other security officials to the International Criminal Court at The Hague, accusing them of committing crimes against humanity and causing people to flee the country. (AP)

September 2024

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Ongoing events

Disasters

• European floods
• Gaza humanitarian crisis
• Haitian crisis
• Sudanese famine
• United States opioid epidemic

Economics

• Argentine monetary crisis
• Chinese property sector crisis
• South African energy crisis
• United Kingdom cost-of-living crisis
• Video game industry layoffs

Mass media and entertainment

• Blocking of Twitter in Brazil

Politics

• Mexico–United States border crisis
• South China Sea territorial disputes
• Venezuelan political crisis

Protests and strikes

• French anti-government protests
• Israel–Hamas war protests

• University campus protests

• New Caledonia social unrest
• Venezuelan protests

Elections and referendums

Recent

• September

• 20–21: Czechia, Senate (1st)
• 21: Sri Lanka, President
• 22: Liechtenstein, Referendum
• 22: Switzerland, Referendums
• 27–28: Czechia, Senate (2nd)
• 29: Austria, National Council

Upcoming

• October

• 06: Kazakhstan, Referendum
• 06: Tunisia, President
• 09: Mozambique, President, Assembly of the Republic
• 13: Macau, Chief Executive (indirect)
• 13: Lithuania, Seimas (1st)

Trials

Recently concluded

• Guinea:0Moussa Dadis Camara
• United States:0Thomas Girardi

Ongoing

• France:0Dominique Pélicot
• Israel:0Benjamin Netanyahu
• Kosovo:0Specialist Chambers
• United States:0YSL Records
• ICC:0Ali Kushayb  •  Mahamat Said Abdel Kani

Sports

• American football

• 2024 NFL season
• 2024 NCAA Division I FBS season

• Association football

• 2024–25 UEFA Champions League
• 2024–25 UEFA Europa League
• 2024–25 UEFA Conference League
• 2024 Copa Libertadores
• 2024 Copa Sudamericana
• 2024–25 UEFA Women's Champions League
• 2024–25 Premier League
• 2024–25 Serie A
• 2024–25 La Liga
• 2024–25 Bundesliga
• 2024–25 Ligue 1
• 2024 Major League Soccer season
• 2024 National Women's Soccer League season

• Australian rules football

• 2024 AFL season

• Baseball

• 2024 MLB season

• Basketball

• 2024 WNBA season

• Canadian football

• 2024 CFL season

• International cricket

• 2023–25 ICC World Test Championship

• Golf

• 2024 PGA Tour
• 2024 LPGA Tour

• Motorsport

• 2024 Formula One World Championship
• 2024 MotoGP World Championship
• 2024 NASCAR Cup Series

• Rugby league

• 2024 NRL season

• Tennis

• 2024 ATP Tour
• 2024 WTA Tour

More details – current sports events

Recent deaths

September

• 30: Gavin Creel
• 30: Dikembe Mutombo
• 30: Pete Rose
• 28: Winfield Dunn
• 28: Kris Kristofferson
• 27: Hassan Nasrallah
• 27: Maggie Smith
• 26: John Ashton
• 22: Roy Clay
• 22: Fredric Jameson
• 21: Benny Golson
• 21: Eddie Low
• 21: Al McCoy
• 21: Mercury Morris
• 20: Ibrahim Aqil
• 20: Daniel J. Evans
• 20: David Graham
• 20: Sayuri
• 18: Nick Gravenites
• 18: Salvatore Schillaci
• 17: Nelson DeMille
• 17: Neil King Jr.
• 17: JD Souther
• 16: Song Binbin
• 15: Elias Khoury
• 15: Tito Jackson
• 14: Otis Davis
• 14: Jaber Mubarak Al-Sabah
• 13: Michaela DePrince
• 13: Pravin Gordhan
• 13: Mary McFadden
• 12: Stephen Peat
• 12: Sitaram Yechury
• 11: Kenneth Cope
• 11: Alberto Fujimori
• 11: Chad McQueen
• 11: Joe Schmidt
• 10: Frankie Beverly
• 10: Jim Sasser
• 09: John Cassaday
• 09: James Earl Jones
• 09: Friedrich Schorlemmer
• 09: Caterina Valente
• 08: Mauricio Arriaza Chicas
• 08: Ed Kranepool
• 08: Zoot Money
• 08: Emi Shinohara
• 07: Diondre Overton
• 06: Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi
• 06: Rebecca Horn
• 06: Will Jennings
• 06: Cathy Merrick
• 06: Ron Yeats
• 05: Rebecca Cheptegei
• 05: Herbie Flowers
• 05: Sérgio Mendes
• 05: Rich Homie Quan
• 04: Bora Đorđević
• 02: James Darren
• 02: Rodolfo Hernández
• 01: Linda Deutsch

Ongoing conflicts

Global

• War against the Islamic State

Africa

• Cameroon

• Anglophone Crisis

• Central African Republic

• Civil war

• Democratic Republic of the Congo

• Kivu conflict

• Ethiopia

• Amhara conflict

• Mozambique

• Insurgency in Cabo Delgado

• Nigeria

• Boko Haram insurgency

• Sahel insurgency

• Mali War

• Burkina Faso
• Niger

• Somalia

• Civil war

• Sudan

• Civil war

Americas

• Mexico

• Mexican drug war

Asia−Pacific

• Afghanistan

• Islamic State–Taliban conflict
• Republican insurgency

• India

• Naxalite–Maoist insurgency

• Indonesia

• Papua conflict

• Myanmar

• Civil war

• Pakistan

• Insurgency in Balochistan
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

• Philippines

• NPA rebellion

Europe

• Russia and Ukraine

• Russian invasion of Ukraine

Middle East

• Iraq

• Islamic State insurgency

• Israel

• Israel–Hezbollah conflict

• Israel–Hamas war

• Syria

• Iran–Israel conflict

• Turkey

• PKK insurgency

• Yemen

• Red Sea crisis

See also – List of ongoing proxy wars

2024 events and developments by topic

Arts

• Animation (Anime)
• Architecture
• Comics
• Film (Horror, Science fiction)
• Literature (Poetry)
• Music (Classical, Country, Hip hop, Jazz, Latin, Metal, Rock, UK, US, Korea)
• Radio
• Television (Australia, Canada, Ireland, UK, Scotland, US)
• Video games

Politics and government

• Elections
• International leaders
• Sovereign states
• Sovereign state leaders
• Territorial governors

Science and technology

• Archaeology
• Biotechnology
• Computing
• Palaeontology
• Quantum computing and communication
• Senescence research
• Space/Astronomy
• Spaceflight
• Sustainable energy research

Environment and environmental sciences

• Climate change
• Weather (Heat waves
• Tornadoes
• Wildfires)

Transportation

• Aviation
• Rail transport
• Transportation technology

Establishments and disestablishments categories

• Establishments
• Disestablishments

Works and introductions categories

• Works
• Introductions
• Works entering the public domain