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Topics in the news
- Yahya Sinwar (pictured), the leader of Hamas, is killed in a firefight with Israeli forces in Gaza.
- The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences is awarded to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson for their comparative studies of prosperity between nations.
- The Europa Clipper spacecraft is launched to investigate Europa, an icy moon of Jupiter.
- Kenyan Ruth Chepng'etich breaks the women's marathon world record at the Chicago Marathon.
- The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to the Japanese atomic bomb survivors group Nihon Hidankyo.
October 19, 2024
(Saturday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Israel–Hamas war
- An Israeli airstrike kills at least 33 people, including 21 women, at a Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza Strip. (BBC News)
- At least 73 Palestinians are killed in Israeli strikes on Beit Lahia. (Al Ahram)
- Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
- Israeli forces strike the Gaza Strip, killing at least 50 people and injuring several others. (NPR)
- Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- 2024 drone attack on Benjamin Netanyahu's residence
- A drone strike targets Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's house in the resort town Caesarea. (AP)
- 2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon
- Israeli strikes on a vehicle and an apartment building in Baaloul and north of Beirut kill seven people, including the mayor of Sohmor. (Boston25 News)
- 180 projectiles are fired from Lebanon, striking vehicles and a building, killing one person and injuring thirteen others. (Star Tribune)
- The Israel Defense Forces says the Israeli Air Force killed Naser Abed al-Aziz Rashid, Hezbollah's deputy commander in Bint Jbeil yesterday. (Washington Times) (Jerusalem Post)
- 2024 drone attack on Benjamin Netanyahu's residence
Disasters and accidents
- 2024 Cuba blackout
- Some electricity is restored after a power outage in Cuba. (AP)
Law and crime
- Iraqi protesters storm and wreck the office of Saudi-owned MBC TV channel after it aired a programme calling Hamas and Hezbollah leaders "terrorists". (New Arab)
- The Communications and Media Commission in Iraq suspends MBC operations in Iraq. (Roya News)
Politics
- Clashes between protestors and police break out over demonstrations of arrested activists in Nasiriyah, Iraq. (CityNews)
October 18, 2024
(Friday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Israel–Hamas war
- Killing of Yahya Sinwar
- Hamas confirms that its leader, Yahya Sinwar, was killed in action during a shootout with Israeli soldiers two days ago in Rafah, Gaza Strip, Palestine. (Al Jazeera)
- Killing of Yahya Sinwar
- Two gunmen entering Israel from Jordan are killed in a shootout with border guards near the Dead Sea. (Al Jazeera)
Disasters and accidents
- 2024 Cuba blackout
- A nationwide power outage occurs in Cuba following a critical failure at the Antonio Guiteras power station in Puerto Padre, Las Tunas Province. (CNN)
International relations
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Foreign involvement in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, North Korea–Ukraine relations
- South Korea's national intelligence agency says that North Korea has started sending troops to fight with Russia in Ukraine. South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol calls for a security meeting and says the international community must respond with "all available means". (BBC)
- Foreign involvement in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, North Korea–Ukraine relations
- Swiss neutrality
- Switzerland joins the European Sky Shield Initiative to contribute to building a pan-European air and missile defense system, while also allowing the nation to train and purchase military systems with other European nations. (Reuters)
- Western Sahara conflict
- Morocco rejects a proposal put forward by the UN envoy for Western Sahara Staffan de Mistura that would partition Western Sahara with the northern part being annexed by Morocco and the southern part forming an independent state controlled by the Polisario Front. (Atalayar)
Law and crime
- Four people, including the gunman, are killed in a school shooting in Heliópolis, Bahia, Brazil. (CNN Brazil)
Politics and elections
- Kenya's National Assembly unanimously approves Interior Secretary Kithure Kindiki as the new Deputy President following his nomination by President William Ruto. However, the High Court temporarily suspends the impeachment of former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua in order to hear challenges. (AP)
October 17, 2024
(Thursday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Israel–Hamas war
- Killing of Yahya Sinwar
- The Israeli military announces that Yahya Sinwar, the de facto leader of Hamas and the mastermind of the October 7 attack, was killed along with two other militants in a shootout with Israeli forces in Rafah Governorate, Gaza. (AzerNews) (CNN)
- An Israeli airstrike on a school sheltering displaced Palestinians in Jabalia, northern Gaza, kills 28 people, including at least five children. (Sky News) (Al Jazeera)
- Killing of Yahya Sinwar
- Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- 2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon
- Five Israeli soldiers from the Golani Brigade are killed in fighting with Hezbollah forces in southern Lebanon. IDF Spokesman Daniel Hagari says several Hezbollah operatives have been captured during the clashes. (The Times of Israel)
- 2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon
- Red Sea crisis
- 2024 missile strikes in Yemen
- U.S. B-2 Spirit stealth bombers carry out raids on underground bunkers used by the Houthis in Sanaa Governorate, Yemen. U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says that five underground facilities were targeted in the strikes. (AP)
- 2024 missile strikes in Yemen
- Colombian conflict
- FARC dissidents open fire against a prison convoy in Cauca Department, Colombia, killing two prison guards and serial killer Manuel Octavio Bermúdez. Six others are wounded. (Infobae)
- Somali Civil War
- A suicide bombing at a restaurant in Mogadishu, Somalia, kills at least seven people and injures at least six others. Islamic terrorist group al-Shabaab claims responsibility for the attack. (AL24 News) (Daily Sabah)
International relations
- South Africa–Taiwan relations
- The Government of South Africa orders Taiwan to relocate its representative office from the South African capital of Pretoria, allegedly due to pressure from China. (Focus Taiwan)
Law and crime
- A court in Vietnam sentences tycoon Trương Mỹ Lan to life in prison for fraud, in addition to a death sentence that Lan received in April for embezzlement. (Radio Free Asia)
- A court in Bangladesh orders the arrest of former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and 45 others for crimes against humanity. Hasina is in exile in India. (AP)
Politics and elections
- The Senate of Kenya convicts Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua on 5 out of 11 charges, thereby removing him from office. (BBC News)
October 16, 2024
(Wednesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- 2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon
- Attack on Nabatieh municipal council
- At least 16 people, including the mayor are killed in an IAF airstrike on a municipal building of Nabatieh, southern Lebanon, with Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati condemning the attack. (BBC News)
- Attack on Nabatieh municipal council
- 2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Foreign involvement in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, North Korea–Ukraine relations
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says that North Korea has now become directly involved in the war in Ukraine, with a senior Ukrainian intelligence official saying that around 3,000 North Korean troops are currently in Russia and are training for deployment to Russian-occupied territories. (Politico)
- United States and the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- U.S. President Joe Biden announces a new $425 million military aid package for Ukraine, containing long-range weaponry. (The Kyiv Independent)
- Foreign involvement in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, North Korea–Ukraine relations
Disasters and accidents
- 2024 Majiya fuel tanker explosion
- At least 170 people are killed and dozens of others are injured when a gasoline tanker overturns and explodes in Majiya, Jigawa State, Nigeria. (Al Jazeera)
- Bodies of five Russian climbers that disappeared on October 6 while summiting Mount Dhaulagiri in Nepal are discovered near the peak and retrieved. (AP)
- An explosion at a house in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, kills at least two people and injures six others. An investigation to determine the cause of the explosion by the Health and Safety Executive is underway. (BBC News)
- Three workers are killed and four others are injured when a bridge collapses into the Strong River ahead of it's demolition in Mississippi, United States. (ABC News)
Law and crime
- 2023 Brazilian Congress attack
- The Supreme Court of Brazil determines the government must seek the extradition of Brazilian nationals accused of participating in the 2023 attack on government buildings in Brasília who are currently residing in Argentina. (Reuters)
- 2024 Indian bomb hoaxes
- It is reported that at least 10 flights operated by Indian airlines have received bomb threat hoaxes over the past 48 hours, causing the flights to be delayed or diverted. (BBC News)
- Attorney General of Spain Álvaro García Ortiz is charged by the Supreme Court for revealing secrets about a tax fraud case involving the boyfriend of the president of the Community of Madrid Isabel Díaz Ayuso. However, García Ortiz announces that he will not resign. (RTVE)
October 15, 2024
(Tuesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Eastern Ukraine campaign
- Governor of Kharkiv Oblast Oleh Syniehubov orders the mandatory evacuation of all civilians from Kupiansk and Borova in Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine. (Reuters)
- Eastern Ukraine campaign
- Highway 4 shooting
- A police officer is killed and four others are injured in a mass shooting on Highway 4 near Ashdod, Israel. The gunman is killed by a passing armed civilian. (Al Jazeera) (The Times of Israel)
Arts and culture
- Models Alex Consani and Valentina Sampaio become the first transgender women to walk the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show. (Hindustan Times)
Business and economy
- The United States Department of Transportation fines the German airline Lufthansa $4 million for its mistreatment of Orthodox Jewish passengers during a flight from New York to Hungary through Germany in 2022. (AP)
- Google signs an agreement with Kairos Power to use small nuclear reactors to generate the energy to power its artificial intelligence (AI) data centers. (BBC News)
Disasters and accidents
- A car driving in the wrong direction collides with another car on the M6 motorway in Cumbria, England, killing five people, including two children and seriously injuring another. (BBC News) (Sky News)
Health and environment
- Climate change and food security in Africa
- The World Food Programme says that millions of people in southern African countries are facing a food crisis, with more than 21 million children currently malnourished. (Reuters)
International relations
- Israel–Hamas war, Israel–United States relations
- The Biden administration sends a letter to the Israeli government, urging it to take action to improve the humanitarian crisis in Gaza within 30 days. (CNN)
- Iran–European Union relations
- The European Union sanctions fourteen Iranian individuals and firms, including Iran Air and several high-ranking members of the Quds Force, for allegedly transferring missiles and drones to Moscow in order to help Russia in its invasion of Ukraine. (Al Jazeera)
- North Korea–South Korea relations
- North Korea announces that it has destroyed portions of an unused road that linked North Korea with South Korea. (AP)
- Philippines–United Arab Emirates relations
- Following a phone call with Emirati president Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed, Philippine president Bongbong Marcos confirms that 143 Filipinos in the United Arab Emirates have been pardoned by the Emirati government. (Philippine News Agency)
Law and crime
- The Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network is designated as a terrorist group by the Canadian government and is sanctioned by the U.S. government, due to the group's alleged ties to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. (CTV News)
October 14, 2024
(Monday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- 2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon
- October 2024 Aitou airstrike
- The Israel Defense Forces say that they killed Muhammad Kamel Naim, the head of the anti-tank missile array of Hezbollah's elite Redwan Force, in an airstrike in Nabatieh, Lebanon. (Times of Israel)
- 2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon
- Israel–Hamas war
- Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
- At least four people are killed and dozens of others are severely injured when an Israeli airstrike hits a tent camp at a hospital in Deir al-Balah in the Gaza Strip, causing the tents to catch fire. (Al Jazeera)
- At least ten people are killed by Israeli artillery fire at a food distribution centre in the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza. (BBC News)
- Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Southern Ukraine campaign
- Russian forces claim that they took the village of Levadne in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Ukraine. (Voice of America)
- Southern Ukraine campaign
Business and economy
- Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
- This year's Nobel Prize in economics is awarded to Turkish-American economist Daron Acemoglu, British-American economist Simon Johnson, and British economist James A. Robinson for their studies "of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity". (The New York Times) (Nobel Prize)
Disasters and accidents
- Twelve people are killed and 33 others are injured when a bus carrying students from Galala University overturns in Al Galala, Suez Governorate, Egypt. (AP)
- One person is killed and 23 others are injured when an NJ Transit River Line train collides with a tree that had fallen onto the tracks in Mansfield Township, New Jersey, United States. (CTV News)
Law and crime
- Israel–Hamas war protests in the United States
- Over 200 pro-Palestinian demonstrators against American involvement in Israeli attacks on civilians in the Gaza Strip, many from Jewish Voice for Peace, are arrested outside of the New York Stock Exchange for attempting to block it. (Reuters)
- The Papua New Guinea Defence Force shoot six people, killing one, during an operation against illegal mining near Porgera Gold Mine in Enga Province, Papua New Guinea. (BenarNews)
- Mexican National Guard finds the decapitated bodies of five men on a road in Ojuelos de Jalisco, Jalisco, Mexico. (Al Jazeera)
Science and technology
- SpaceX launches NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, United States, to study Jupiter's moon Europa, with the spacecraft expected to arrive in April 2030. (BBC News)
October 13, 2024
(Sunday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- 2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon
- Israeli attack on Ramyah UNIFIL post
- Two Israel Defense Forces Merkava tanks forcibly enter a UNIFIL base in Ramyah, Bint Jbeil District, Lebanon. The tanks fire rounds at the base, injuring fifteen United Nations peacekeepers. (BBC News)
- Israeli airstrikes destroy an Ottoman-era market in Nabatieh, Lebanon, killing at least one person and injuring four others. (AP)
- Israeli attack on Ramyah UNIFIL post
- 2024 Hezbollah drone strike on Binyamina
- Four Israeli soldiers are killed and 61 others are injured in a Hezbollah drone strike on Binyamina-Giv'at Ada, Israel. (Times of Israel)
- 2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon
- Israel–Hamas war
- United States support for Israel in the Israel–Hamas war
- United States Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin authorizes the deployment of a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense missile defense system to Israel to help boost the country's air defences. (Al Jazeera) (Reuters)
- An Israeli attack on a school used to shelter displaced Palestinians kills at least 22 people, including fifteen children, in the Nuseirat refugee camp in northern Gaza. (BBC News)
- United States support for Israel in the Israel–Hamas war
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Foreign involvement in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy states that North Korean troops have been deployed to Ukraine to fight alongside the Russian military. (Reuters)
- Foreign involvement in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Sudanese civil war
- Battle of Khartoum, October 2024 Sudan airstrikes
- At least 23 people are killed and 40 others are injured in a Sudanese Armed Forces airstrike on a marketplace in an area of Khartoum, Sudan, currently controlled by the Rapid Support Forces. (DW)
- Battle of Khartoum, October 2024 Sudan airstrikes
Disasters and accidents
- Two people are killed and 20 others are injured in a train collision in Minya Governorate, Egypt. (Al Ahram)
Politics and elections
- 2024 Lithuanian parliamentary election
- 2024 Macanese Chief Executive election
- Sam Hou Fai is elected as the new Chief Executive of Macau by the Election Committee, succeeding Ho Iat Seng. (Reuters)
Science and technology
- Starship flight test 5
- SpaceX completes its fifth test flight of the Starship spacecraft, successfully catching the rocket booster with the arms of the launch tower at Starbase in Texas, United States, and with the spacecraft landing in the Indian Ocean. (Space.com) (CNBC)
Sports
- 2024 Chicago Marathon
- Kenyan runner Ruth Chepng'etich runs 2:09:56 to break the world record for women's marathon by 1 minute and 57 seconds at the Chicago Marathon. (AP)
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