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Topics in the news
- Tropical Storm Trami (satellite image shown) leaves more than 120 people dead in the Philippines.
- An attack by the Kurdistan Workers' Party on the Turkish Aerospace Industries headquarters in Ankara leaves seven people dead.
- Moldova votes to amend its constitution to include the aim of becoming a European Union member state.
- Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas, is killed in a firefight with Israeli forces in Gaza.
October 28, 2024
(Monday)
October 27, 2024
(Sunday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Sudanese Civil War
- 2024 eastern Gezira State massacres
- The United Nations condemns the Rapid Support Forces' targeted mass killing of civilians in Gezira State, comparing it to earlier mass killings in Darfur. (BBC)
- 2024 eastern Gezira State massacres
- Arab–Israeli conflict
- A man is killed and thirty others are injured when an Arab Israeli man rams his truck into a bus stop north of Tel Aviv, Israel, before being fatally shot by an armed civilian. Authorities are investigating it as a suspected terrorist attack. (BBC News)
- Former Bolivian president Evo Morales survives an alleged assassination attempt. (Reuters)
Politics and elections
- 2024 Uruguayan general election
- 2024 Japanese general election
- The citizens of Japan vote for 465 seats in the House of Representatives. The ruling coalition of Liberal Democratic Party and Komeito loses its majority. (NHK)
- October 2024 Bulgarian parliamentary election
- The citizens of Bulgaria vote for a new National Assembly in the seventh election in four years. (Euronews)
- 2024 Georgian parliamentary election
- The President of Georgia Salome Zourabichvili announces that she does not recognize the official results of the election, alleging that the country has been the victim of a "Russian special operation". (Radio Free Europe) (Civil.ge)
October 26, 2024
(Saturday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- 2024 Iran–Israel conflict
- October 2024 Israeli strikes on Iran
- Israel launches airstrikes against Iran, with explosions reported in Tehran and Karaj according to Iranian state media. Four soldiers are killed. (Sky News) (Reuters) (Axios)
- The Israel Defense Forces says that it is carrying out "precise strikes on military targets in Iran" in response to recent ballistic missile attacks launched from Iran. (The Telegraph)
- October 2024 Israeli strikes on Iran
- Sudanese Civil War
- 2024 eastern Gezira State massacres
- At least 300 people are killed when the Rapid Support Forces attack several villages in Gezira State, Sudan. (Al Arabiya)
- 2024 eastern Gezira State massacres
- Sistan and Baluchestan insurgency
- Ten police officers are killed by Jaish ul-Adl gunmen in a mass shooting on a police convoy in Sistan and Baluchestan province, Iran. (AP)
- Somali Civil War
- An IED planted by Al-Shabaab in a restaurant in Karan district, Mogadishu, Somalia, kills at least five people and injures at least five others. (The Somali Digest) (Hiiraan Online)
Disasters and accidents
- 2024 Pacific typhoon season
- The death toll from the flooding and landslides caused by Tropical Storm Trami in the Philippines increases to at least 126. (UPI)
- Nineteen people are killed and five others are injured when a bus crashes on a highway in Zacatecas, Mexico, while heading from Nayarit to Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua. (Reuters)
Law and crime
- Killing of Odair Moniz
- Portuguese police activate special security protocols in response to two large demonstrations in Lisbon following the fatal shooting of a Cape Verdean immigrant by a police officer in Amadora on Monday, which resulted in widespread riots. (RTP News)
Politics and elections
- 2024 Georgian parliamentary election
- Georgians vote for the 150 seats of the parliament. (BBC News)
- Opposition parties refuse to accept early results indicating the ruling Georgian Dream party's victory, and accuse it of election fraud. Exit polls published by pro-government and pro-opposition TV channels show each camp leading respectively. (DW News)
October 25, 2024
(Friday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Israel–Hamas war
- Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
- Siege of Jabalia
- Kamal Adwan Hospital siege
- Israeli troops storm the Kamal Adwan Hospital in Jabalia in the Gaza Strip. (Reuters)
- Three Israeli soldiers from the Armored Corps are killed in an IED blast in Jabalia in the Gaza Strip. (Haaretz)
- Kamal Adwan Hospital siege
- Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip
- Israeli airstrikes in Gaza kill 72 people, including at least 38 in Khan Younis. (Reuters)
- Siege of Jabalia
- Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- 2024 Kursk offensive, Foreign involvement in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Ukraine reports that the first North Korean units have entered the active "warzones" in Russia's Kursk Oblast. The North Korean soldiers are reportedly under the command of Deputy Defence Minister Yunus-bek Yevkurov. (Yonhap News Agency)
- Dnipro strikes
- Kyiv strikes, Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- One person is killed and five others are injured when a Russian drone strikes a residential building in Solomianskyi District, Kyiv, Ukraine. (Reuters)
- 2024 Kursk offensive, Foreign involvement in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- 2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon
- Two people are killed and six others are injured when a rocket fired from Lebanon hits a building in the town of Majd al-Krum in northern Israel. (The Jerusalem Post)
- Two cameramen and a technician working for Al Mayadeen and Al-Manar are killed and several other people are injured when an Israeli airstrike hits a guest house housing journalists in Hasbaya, Lebanon. (Al Jazeera)
- The Israeli Air Force strikes the Syrian military-controlled Jusiyah–Qaa border crossing on the Lebanon–Syria border, accusing Hezbollah of using the border crossing to transfer weapons from Syria. (The Times of Israel)
- 2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon
- Kurdish–Turkish conflict
- 2024 Turkish Aerospace Industries headquarters attack
- The Kurdistan Workers' Party claims responsibility for Wednesday's attack on the headquarters of the Turkish Aerospace Industries in Ankara Province, Turkey, which killed five people and injured dozens of others, saying that the attack had been "planned for a long time". (France 24)
- 2024 Turkish Aerospace Industries headquarters attack
- A police officer is killed and another is injured in a stabbing attack at a police station in Bosanska Krupa, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The perpetrator, a 15-year-old boy, is arrested. (AP)
Arts and culture
- The homepage for the Internet Archive is crawled by the Wayback Machine at 19:44:38 UTC, marking the first "blue" capture of this page since October 10, 2024, when the DDOS-related shutdown began. (Archive)
Disasters and accidents
- 2024 Pacific typhoon season
- The death toll from Tropical Storm Trami's landfall in central and northern Philippines increases to 76 people, with more than 320,000 people evacuated. (Al Jazeera)
- The number of people who have become ill in an E. coli outbreak linked to McDonald's Quarter Pounder hamburgers in the United States increases to 75. (Reuters)
Law and crime
- 2024 CrowdStrike-related IT outages
- Delta Air Lines files a lawsuit against cybersecurity company CrowdStrike after Crowdstrike's global outages in July forced the airline to cancel more than 7,000 flights, costing Delta Air Lines over $500 million. (Reuters)
- A high court in Gulu, Uganda, sentences former Lord's Resistance Army commander Thomas Kwoyelo to 40 years in prison on 44 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity, including enslavement, torture, and rape. (DW)
- A man fatally shoots two of his family members before killing himself in Huntsville, Ontario, Canada. (CTV News Barrie)
Politics and elections
- 2024 Kiribati presidential election
- Citizens of Kiribati vote for the President between three candidates, incumbent Taneti Maamau, Bautaake Beia from the Tobwaan Kiribati Party, and independent Kaotitaake Kokoria. (The Nikkei) Incumbent Taneti Maamau wins the election.
- Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s government announces that Ontario is planning to ban international students from medical schools in the province beginning in 2026. (Pelham Today)
Sports
- 2024 Major League Baseball season
- 2024 World Series
- In baseball, Los Angeles Dodgers first baseman Freddie Freeman hits the first ever walk-off grand slam in World Series history to win the first game of the 2024 World Series against the New York Yankees. (Fox News)
- 2024 World Series
October 24, 2024
(Thursday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- 2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon
- Five Israeli soldiers are killed and seven others are injured in gun battles with Hezbollah militants in southern Lebanon. (Reuters)
- Assassination of Hashem Safieddine
- Hezbollah confirms that Hossein Ali Hazimeh, head of its intelligence headquarters, was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Beirut, Lebanon, on October 3. (Webangah) (Mehr News Agency)
- 2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Eastern Ukraine campaign
- The Armed Forces of Ukraine reports that Russian Armed Forces have made significant advances in the strategic city of Selydove, predicting that it could be captured in a few days. (Euronews)
- Eastern Ukraine campaign
- Israel–Hamas war
- At least 17 Palestinians, including children, are killed in an Israeli airstrike on a school in Nuseirat refugee camp. (Reuters)
- Israel says that it killed Muhammad Abu Attawi, a commander in Hamas' Nukhba forces who participated in the Nova music festival massacre, in an airstrike in Gaza yesterday. (Reuters) (The Times of Israel)
- Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir
- Islamist insurgents target an Indian Army vehicle with small arms fire near Gulmarg, Jammu and Kashmir, India, killing two soldiers and two civilian porters and injuring three other soldiers. (The Indian Express)
- Mexican drug war
- Two car bombs explode outside police stations in Acámbaro and Jerécuaro, Guanajuato, Mexico, injuring three police officers in Acámbaro. (AP)
Business and economy
- Regulation of electronic cigarettes, Smoking bans in the United Kingdom
- The British government announces that single-use vapes will be banned in England and Wales beginning on 1 June 2025. (BBC News)
Disasters and accidents
- 2024 Pacific typhoon season
- Tropical Storm Trami makes landfall in northeastern Luzon, Philippines, killing at least 26 people. (BBC News) (Reuters)
- Eight people are killed when a NNPC Limited Sikorsky S-76C+ helicopter crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Bonny Island, Rivers State, Nigeria. (Daily Maverick) (BBC News Pidgin)
- Four people are killed and one other is seriously injured when a Tesla car crashes into a guardrail and struck a concrete pillar at high speed after losing control causing a fire in Toronto, Canada. (CTV News Toronto)
International relations
- North Korea–South Korea relations
- Balloon propaganda campaigns in Korea
- North Korea sends a wave of trash balloons over South Korea, with one balloon falling on the presidential compound in central Seoul. The balloon reportedly contained leaflets criticizing South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and his wife Kim Keon-hee. (ABC News)
- Balloon propaganda campaigns in Korea
Law and crime
- Four people, including the perpetrator, are killed in a mass stabbing in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. (WLWT-TV)
Politics and elections
- 2024 Montserratian general election
- Residents of Montserrat vote to elect nine of the eleven members of the Legislative Assembly under plurality block voting. (Loop News)
- Former Premier of Montserrat Reuben Meade and his newly established party United Alliance wins five seats in the general election, establishing a majority and the ability to form a new government. The People's Democratic Movement party wins three seats and the Movement for Change and Prosperity party wins one seat. (St. Vincent Times) (Loop News)
- The European Parliament awards the Sakharov Prize to Venezuelan opposition leaders María Corina Machado and Edmundo González for their activism. (Reuters)
October 23, 2024
(Wednesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Eastern Ukraine campaign
- The Russian Defense Ministry claims that Russian forces have captured the villages of Mykolaivka and Serebrianka in Donetsk Oblast, while Ukrainian military newspage DeepState reports heavy conflict surrounding Selydove. (Reuters)
- Foreign involvement in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- The U.S. State Department reports that it has confirmed evidence that North Korean troops are now present in Russia and are preparing to travel to the battlefield in Ukraine. South Korea says that Pyongyang has promised to send up to 10,000 troops to support the war effort. (The Guardian)
- United States and the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- The U.S. Defense Department finalizes a US$20 billion loan to Ukraine for military and economic support as part of a collective US$50 billion loan between G7 members. (Reuters)
- Eastern Ukraine campaign
- Kurdish–Turkish conflict
- 2024 Turkish Aerospace Industries headquarters attack
- Five people are killed and 22 more injured during a bombing–shooting attack at the Turkish Aerospace Industries headquarters in Kahramankazan, Ankara Province, Turkey. The perpetrators are later killed during a shootout with security forces. The Turkish government suspects the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) to be behind the attack. (Al-Monitor) (Reuters) (DW)
- The Turkish Air Force launches airstrikes on PKK targets across northern Syria and Iraqi Kurdistan in response to the attack, with Turkish drone strikes in Kobani, Syria, injuring three Asayish officers. (Reuters) (ANHA)
- 2024 Turkish Aerospace Industries headquarters attack
- Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- Assassination of Hashem Safieddine
- Hezbollah confirms that Hashem Safieddine, head of their executive council, was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Beirut, Lebanon, on October 3. (BBC News)
- Assassination of Hashem Safieddine
- Israel–Hamas war
- Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip reportedly kill at least 42 people. UNRWA says one of their staff members was killed after their vehicle was hit by Israeli forces in Deir al-Balah. (Reuters)
- Mexican drug war
- Nineteen suspected cartel members are killed and one local cartel leader is arrested in a shootout between gunmen and police officers in Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico. (Reuters)
Disasters and accidents
- Two people are killed and 11 injured after an explosion at a Toyota Material Handling factory in Bologna, Italy. (Stato Quotidiano)
- Three people are found deceased and seven are hospitalized due to carbon monoxide poisoning at a care home in Swanage, Dorset, England. (Sky News)
Health and environment
- Demographics of Germany, German economic crisis
- The Ifo Institute for Economic Research reports that Germany experienced a 13% birth rate decline nationally and up to a 17.5% birth rate decline in eastern Germany between 2021 and 2023, with the institute attributing the decline to several reasons including the COVID-19 pandemic, the Russo-Ukrainian war, and high inflation. (DW)
International relations
- China–Holy See relations
- China and the Holy See agree to extend their 2018 provisional agreement on the appointment of Catholic bishops in China for a further four years. (Vatican News)
- China–India relations
- Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi holds a bilateral meeting with President of China Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the 16th BRICS summit in Kazan, Russia. This is the first bilateral meeting between India and China in five years and comes in the aftermath of the 2020 border skirmishes between Indian and Chinese troops. (India Today)
Law and crime
- 2024 social unrest in Martinique
- Protesters with automatic weapons target police and firefighters in Martinique, where protests over the high cost of living have prompted France to deploy forces to the island. (AP)
- A court in Munich, Germany, charges a Russian man for stabbing two Ukrainian soldiers at a shopping center in Murnau am Staffelsee, Bavaria, Germany, in April. (DW)
- A man kills two of his relatives and wounds two more during a mass shooting at their home in Novo Hamburgo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. A policeman and the perpetrator are killed during the ensuing shootout, while three more officers are wounded. (The Brazilian Report)
- Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre announces that his government will raise the minimum age limit to use social media from 13 to 15 in order to protect children from the "power of the algorithms". (The Guardian)
October 22, 2024
(Tuesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- 2024 Iran–Israel conflict
- Israeli retaliation leak, Israel–United States relations
- The FBI announces an investigation into the leaking of classified U.S. intelligence documents regarding military plans for Israeli retaliation against Iran. (Reuters)
- Israeli retaliation leak, Israel–United States relations
- Israel–Hamas war
- Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
- An Israeli drone strike on Beit Lahia in the Gaza Strip, kills at least fifteen people, including several women and children. (Al Jazeera)
- Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
- Islamic State insurgency in Iraq
- Prime Minister of Iraq Mohammed Shia' Al Sudani announces the death of several Islamic State senior members, including the group's leader in Iraq, in a military operation in Saladin Governorate, Iraq. (The Washington Post)
Disasters and accidents
- Eleven people are killed after a fuel truck explosion on a highway near Kampala, Uganda. (AP)
Health and environment
- The U.S. Center for Disease Control announces that one person has died and at least 48 others have become ill in an E. coli outbreak linked to McDonald's Quarter Pounder beef sandwiches in ten western and midwest states with the first case confirmed on 27 September. (BBC News)
Politics and elections
- 2024 United States presidential election
- Foreign interference in the 2024 United States elections
- The presidential campaign of former U.S. President Donald Trump files a formal complaint to the Federal Election Commission against the United Kingdom's Labour Party, accusing the Labour Party of "blatant foreign interference" in the election to support the Kamala Harris presidential campaign. (BBC News)
- Foreign interference in the 2024 United States elections
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