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October 5, 2024 (Saturday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- September 2024 Lebanon strikes
  - Hamas says that an Israeli strike killed Saeed Atallah, a leader in Al-Qassam Brigades, along with three family members in a Palestinian refugee camp in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli. (Reuters)
Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Russian forces capture the village of Zhelanne Druge in Donetsk Oblast. (The Economic Times)
Naxalite–Maoist insurgency
- Indian police claim that thirty-one Naxalite rebels are killed after a shootout with Indian soldiers in Abujhmad forest, Chhattisgarh, India. (Al Jazeera)

October 4, 2024 (Friday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

Israel–Hamas war
- Israeli incursions in the West Bank during the Israel–Hamas war
  - Hamas' armed wing Al-Qassam Brigades confirms the death of commander Zahi Yaser Oufi in an Israeli strike against Tulkarm, West Bank, Palestine yesterday. (Reuters)
Red Sea crisis
- 2024 missile strikes in Yemen
  - The United States launches airstrikes against Houthi locations in Yemen, including in the capital Sanaa, and the port city of Al Hudaydah. (Al Jazeera)
Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Pokrovsk offensive
  - The head of military administration of Pokrovsk, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, Serhiy Dobriak reports that Russian forces are now about 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) from the city, and have destroyed or damaged 80% of the city's critical infrastructure. (Reuters)

Business and economy

The European Union votes 10–5 with 12 abstentions to institute tariffs of up to 45% on electric vehicles manufactured in China. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

2024 European floods
- 2024 Bosnia and Herzegovina floods
  - Sixteen people are killed in floods and landslides in Jablanica, Bosnia and Herzegovina. (Al Jazeera)
2023–2024 South American drought
- Extreme drought in the Amazon rainforest of Brazil causes the river banks of the city of Manaus to fall to their lowest levels since 1902, severely impacting trade in the region. (Reuters)

Human rights

Women's rights in Afghanistan
- The European Court of Justice rules that all Afghan women are eligible for asylum in the European Union. (The Guardian)

International relations

Georgia–European Union relations, Accession of Georgia to the European Union
- The European Union threatens sanctions and a suspension of relations with Georgia if Georgia becomes a "one-party state" with no political opposition following the next parliamentary elections on October 26. (Reuters)

Law and crime

Parole for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans
- The United States Department of Homeland Security reports that the Biden administration will not renew the legal status of 530,000 migrants who entered the U.S. as part of a provisional humanitarian program beginning in 2022. (Reuters)
Pork barrel scam
- The Sandiganbayan court in the Philippines acquits Chief Presidential Legal Counsel and former Senate president Juan Ponce Enrile, his former aide Gigi Reyes, and Janet Napoles of plunder in connection with the alleged misuse of Ponce Enrile's Priority Development Assistance Fund during his senatorial term. (AFP via CNA) (Rappler)
At least two people are killed and three others are injured, including one critically, in a suspected arson fire at a 100-year-old three-story building in the Old Montreal neighbourhood of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. (CBC News) (CTV News Montreal)
A woman from Toronto, Ontario, Canada, is arrested and charged following a series of spree stabbings that resulted in the deaths of three people in Toronto, Niagara Falls, and Hamilton between Tuesday and Thursday. (CFTO-TV)

Politics and elections

2024 French political crisis, French anti-Barnier government protests
- The left-wing New Popular Front coalition files a motion of no confidence against the new right-wing Barnier government amid ongoing political protests in France. (Reuters)

October 3, 2024 (Thursday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

Israel–Hamas war
- Israeli incursions in the West Bank during the Israel–Hamas war
  - 2024 Tulkarm Camp airstrike
    - An Israeli Air Force jet launches an airstrike on a refugee camp in Tulkarm in the occupied West Bank, killing at least 20 people. (Al Jazeera)
- Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip
  - An Israeli airstrike in central Gaza kills Aziz Salha, known for his role in the 2000 Ramallah lynching. (Jerusalem Post)
  - The Israel Defense Forces announces that they killed Rawhi Mushtaha, head of the Hamas government in Gaza, along with Sameh al-Siraj and Sami Oudeh, who were responsible for security in Hamas, in an airstrike three months ago in northern Gaza. (BBC News)
Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- 2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon
  - Israel launches multiple strikes using bunker buster bombs on Beirut, Lebanon, targeting Hezbollah official Hashem Safieddine. (Al Arabiya)
  - Nine medics are killed in an Israeli airstrike against an Islamic Health Authority office in Beirut, Lebanon, bringing the death toll of medics killed in Lebanon in the past two weeks to 97. (Al Jazeera) (Al Jazeera 2)
  - The Lebanese Armed Forces open fire on Israeli troops near Bint Jbeil, Nabatieh Governorate, Lebanon, for the first time since the invasion began, after two Lebanese Army soldiers were killed earlier today in separate Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon. (The Times) (Al Arabiya)
  - A Hellenic Air Force plane evacuates Greek and Cypriot nationals from Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport in Lebanon. (Ekathimerini)
- Spillover of the Israel–Hamas war
  - The Islamic Resistance in Iraq launch a kamikaze drone attack on a military base in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, killing two IDF soldiers and injuring 24 others. (Times of Israel)
Haitian crisis
- Armed gunmen from the Gran Grif gang commit a mass shooting with automatic rifles and a series of arson attacks in the town of Pont-Sondé, Haiti, killing at least 70 people and seriously injuring 16 others, with a local government prosecutor describing the incident as a massacre. (CTV News)

Disasters and accidents

2024 Atlantic hurricane season
- Effects of Hurricane Helene in North Carolina
  - One thousand U.S. soldiers are deployed to western North Carolina to aid the North Carolina National Guard in humanitarian operations and to help find hundreds of missing people. (NBC News)
- United States Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas reports that the Federal Emergency Management Agency lacks the funding to provide necessary support for the remainder of the 2024 hurricane season. (Axios)
2024 famine in Haiti
- Save the Children reports that 17% of all children in Haiti are currently suffering from emergency food insecurity primarily caused by national gang wars. (Reuters)
Nine people are killed in a fire at a hospital in Pingtung County, Taiwan. (AP)
Seven people are killed and 19 others are injured when a bus falls into a ravine in Balochistan, Pakistan. (Dawn)
At least 78 people are killed when a boat capsizes in Lake Kivu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Al Jazeera)
An engine surge causes a fire in a Ryanair Boeing 737-800 while taxiing at Brindisi Airport in southern Italy, prompting the evacuation of the 184 passengers and crew on board. (CTV News) (ASN)

Health and environment

2023–2024 mpox epidemic
- Ghana reports its first case of mpox this year. (Reuters)
Rwanda Marburg virus disease outbreak
- Officials in Rwanda report that the death toll from the Marburg virus outbreak in the country has increased to 11 people. (AP)

International relations

Chagos Archipelago sovereignty dispute
- The United Kingdom and Mauritius jointly announce that a deal has been made to resolve the dispute over the Chagos Archipelago, with sovereignty of the British Indian Ocean Territory being handed over to Mauritius in exchange for the United Kingdom and the United States retaining control of the military base on Diego Garcia for the next 99 years. (BBC News) (Reuters)

Law and crime

LGBT rights in Georgia
- Georgian LGBT propaganda law
  - The Georgian Parliament Speaker signs into law a wide-ranging bill that bans gender transitioning and gender-affirming care, same-sex marriage and adoption, and depictions of LGBTQ+ people in media after the President refused to sign it, which chief European Union diplomat Josep Borrell states could prevent the nation's accession to the EU. (Politico)
Prosecution of S. Iswaran
- Former Singapore Transport Minister S. Iswaran, who pleaded guilty to four charges of obtaining valuable items as a public servant and one charge of obstruction of justice last week, is sentenced to one year in jail. (CNA) (Straits Times)
Six migrants are killed and ten others are injured in a mass shooting after two Mexican soldiers open fire on a truck near the Guatemalan border in Mexico. (CTV News)
A Yazidi woman, who had been kidnapped at age 11 by the Islamic State in 2014 in Iraq and sold and trafficked to Gaza, is freed from captivity in Gaza following a secret operation involving the United States and Israel. The woman's captor is believed to have previously been killed in an Israeli airstrike. (Reuters)

October 2, 2024 (Wednesday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

Israel–Hamas war
- 2024 Jaffa shooting
  - Hamas military wing Al-Qassam Brigades claims responsibility for yesterday's mass shooting and stabbing attack in Jaffa, Israel, that killed seven people and injured 17 others. (Al Jazeera)
- Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip, Gaza Strip famine
  - Humanitarian aid groups tell Reuters that Israel introduced new customs regulations and restrictions on humanitarian aid deliveries into the Gaza Strip in mid-August, which are significantly delaying the delivery of food and essential supplies via the Jordan route. (Reuters)
- Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip
  - The Gaza Health Ministry reports that at least 51 people, including seven women and twelve children, are killed in coordinated Israeli strikes in southern Gaza. (AP) (Guardian)
  - An Israeli airstrike on a school housing displaced people kills 30 Palestinians in Gaza. (Reuters)
Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- 2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon
  - Eight Israeli soldiers are killed in ambushes by Hezbollah militants in southern Lebanon. (AP)
Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Kharkiv strikes
  - At least ten people are injured when a Russian guided bomb hits an apartment building in Kharkiv, Ukraine. (Reuters)
Haitian crisis
- The United Nations International Organization for Migration reports that over 700,000 Haitians are internally displaced in the country due to gang violence, with more than half being children. (Al Jazeera)
Islamic State insurgency in Iraq
- Four Iraqi soldiers are killed and three others are injured in an ambush by Islamic State militants near Kirkuk, Iraq. (Iraqi News Agency) (Reuters)
Terrorism in Denmark, Attacks against Israeli embassies and diplomats
- Danish police arrest three Swedes in connection with two explosions that occurred near the Israeli embassy in Copenhagen, Denmark. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

An unexploded ordnance from World War II detonates under a taxiway at Miyazaki Airport in Miyazaki, Japan, causing more than 80 flights to be cancelled. (NHK) (The Guardian)
More than 100 people, mostly women and children, are missing after a wooden boat carrying 300 people sinks in the Niger River near Mokwa, Niger State, Nigeria. At least 150 people are rescued and 16 bodies are recovered. (DW) (Al Jazeera)

International relations

Israel and the United Nations
- Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs Israel Katz bans UN Secretary-General António Guterres from entering Israel and declares him persona non grata for not "unequivocally" condemning yesterday's Iranian missile attack. (Reuters) (DW)

Law and crime

Two men and a pregnant woman are shot and killed by unidentified assailants in a barbershop in Lisbon, Portugal. The three suspects fled the scene on foot. (Reuters)
The Mexican Armed Forces announces its soldiers opened fire on a truck after "hearing detonations" while pursuing it near Huixtla, Chiapas, Mexico. The vehicle was carrying migrants, six out of thirty-one of whom are killed. (Al Jazeera) (AP)
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation announces an investigation into a plastic factory after six workers have died or went missing from flooding by Hurricane Helene. (ABC News)

Sports

Two NASCAR teams, 23XI Racing owned by former basketball player Michael Jordan, and Front Row Motorsports, file an antitrust lawsuit against NASCAR, alleging "anticompetitive and exclusionary practices". (The Athletic)

October 1, 2024 (Tuesday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Eastern Ukraine campaign
  - Battle of Vuhledar
    - Russian forces capture the town of Vuhledar in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, after Ukrainian forces retreat from the town. (The Daily Telegraph)
- Southern Ukraine campaign
  - Seven people are killed and 12 others are injured in Russian strikes in Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine. (Reuters)
2024 Iran–Israel conflict
- October 2024 Iranian strikes against Israel
  - Iran launches a wave of ballistic missile attacks against Israel in retaliation for the 2024 Hezbollah headquarters strike, killing a Palestinian civilian and injuring two others. The U.S. State Department had previously warned of an imminent Iranian attack, saying that such an attack would carry "severe consequences for Iran". (The Guardian) (CBS News) (CNN)
  - United States Navy destroyers USS Bulkeley and USS Cole successfully shoot down several Iranian missiles heading towards Israel. (UK Defence Journal)
- Iran–Israel conflict during the Syrian civil war
  - The Syrian military intercepts several drones or missiles over Damascus. Several of them explode in the Mezzeh neighborhood, killing three people and injuring nine others. (Al Jazeera) (AFP via Barron's) (Jerusalem Post) (Reuters)
Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- 2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon
  - Israeli forces invade southern Lebanon and begin a ground operation against Hezbollah. (Al Jazeera) (Jerusalem Post)
- A rocket explosion is reported in Tel Aviv, Israel, with the debris severely injuring a man. Separately, a drone is intercepted by Israeli forces over the Mediterranean Sea. (Al Jazeera)
- Israel launches an airstrike in the Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp in Sidon, Lebanon, in order to target Munir al-Maqdah, an official of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades. (Al Jazeera)
Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- 2024 Jaffa shooting
  - Two Palestinian gunmen open fire on pedestrians in Jaffa, Israel, killing at least seven people and injuring at least 17 others. The gunmen are subsequently shot and killed by armed civilians and police. (Reuters) (Times of Israel)

Business and economy

2024 United States port strike
- Over 45,000 dockworkers of the International Longshoremen's Association operating at thirty-six United States ports, primarily along the East Coast and the Gulf Coast, begin a labor strike, following the failure of the ports to reach a deal for worker compensation and a ban on automation. (AP)
CNN begins to roll out a paywall to view its news website. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

2024 Atlantic hurricane season
- The death toll from Hurricane Helene surpasses 160 people, with most of the deaths occurring in North Carolina, making it the second-deadliest hurricane to strike the contiguous United States in the past fifty years, behind only Hurricane Katrina. (CNN)
2024 famine in Haiti
- An Integrated Food Security Phase Classification report declares famine conditions in Haiti, with nearly 48% of Haitians suffering from Stage 4 "crisis" levels of food insecurity and nearly 6,000 in starvation. (Al Jazeera) (AP)
2024 Lam Luk Ka bus crash
- A bus carrying school students and teachers crashes and catches fire in Lam Luk Ka District, Pathum Thani Province, Thailand, killing 25 people, including 22 children, and injuring 19 others. (Khmer Times)
Rwanda Marburg virus disease outbreak
- Rwanda reports eight deaths from Marburg virus. (AP News) (US News)
At least 45 people are killed and dozens are missing after two boats carrying migrants capsizes off the coast of Djibouti. (Al Jazeera)

Law and crime

Three people are killed and fifteen others are injured in a mass stabbing at a supermarket in Songjiang district, Shanghai, China. Police arrest a 37-year-old man at the scene, adding that the man had come to Shanghai in order to "vent his anger due to a personal economic dispute". (Reuters) (BBC News)

Politics and elections

2024 Japanese general election
- Shigeru Ishiba is sworn in as the 65th prime minister of Japan, succeeding Fumio Kishida. (Mainichi) (AP)
2024 Mexican general election
- Claudia Sheinbaum is inaugurated as the 66th president of Mexico, becoming the first female Mexican president. (USA Today)
2024 United States presidential debates
- The U.S. Vice President debate is held between Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and U.S. Senator JD Vance. (Business Insider) (CBS News)
Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, celebrates his 100th birthday, becoming the first centenarian former U.S. president. (BBC News)
Former Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte is installed as the 14th Secretary General of NATO, succeeding Jens Stoltenberg. (DW)

September 30, 2024 (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 29, 2024 (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)

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