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Han Kang

• The Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to South Korean poet and novelist Han Kang (pictured).
• The Nobel Prize in Chemistry is divided, with half awarded to Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper for their work on protein structure prediction and the other half to David Baker for his work on computational protein design.
• Hurricane Milton makes landfall in the U.S. state of Florida.
• John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton receive the Nobel Prize in Physics for their research in machine learning with artificial neural networks.

Ongoing:

• Israel–Hamas war
• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
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• Sudanese civil war
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Recent deaths:

• Amaury du Closel
• Fleur Adcock
• Kiril Marichkov
• George Baldock
• Zaw Myint Maung
• Ifigenia Martínez y Hernández

October 14, 2024 (2024-10-14) (Monday)

October 13, 2024 (2024-10-13) (Sunday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • 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
    • Israeli airstrikes destroy an Ottoman-era market in Nabatieh, Lebanon, killing at least one person and injuring four others. (AP)
• 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)
• 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 Russian Armed Forces. (Reuters)
• 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)

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
  • Lithuanians vote in the first round of elections to elect the 141 members of the Seimas. (AP)
• 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)

October 12, 2024 (2024-10-12) (Saturday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • 2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon
    • Israel's military orders the residents of 23 villages in southern Lebanon to evacuate to areas north of the Awali River. (Reuters)
    • The UNIFIL headquarters in Naqoura, Lebanon, is hit by an Israeli airstrike. (CTV News) (BBC News)
• Israel–Hamas war
  • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
    • A family of eight is killed in an Israeli airstrike on a home at the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza Strip. (AP)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Ukrainian conscription crisis
    • Local media outlets report that Ukrainian military recruitment officers raided shopping centers, bars, restaurants, and a large concert venue across several Ukrainian cities including Kyiv, Dnipro, and Kharkiv to detain men not in compliance with conscription orders. (AP)
• Colombian conflict
  • The National Army of Colombia re-enters the corregimiento of El Plateado in Argelia, Cauca Department, Colombia, in an attempt to clear the corregimiento of FARC dissidents. (El Tiempo)
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • At least eleven people are killed and eight others are injured in tribal clashes in Kurram District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• A speedboat explodes at a port in Taliabu Island Regency, North Maluku, Indonesia, killing six people, including Benny Laos, a candidate for Governor of North Maluku in the upcoming election, and Regional House of Representatives member Ester Tantri. (CNN Indonesia) (CNBC Indonesia)
• Four people are killed and five others are injured in a gas tank explosion and fire at a gas station in Grozny, Russia. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• 2024 United States presidential election
  • Security incidents involving Donald Trump
    • A man is arrested outside former president Donald Trump's rally in Coachella, California, United States, with loaded firearms, a fake license plate, and several passports, in what is believed to have been an assassination attempt on Trump, according to the Riverside County sheriff. (Reuters)
  • Voter registration in the United States
    • The United States Justice Department sues the state of Virginia for removing voters from voter registration less than 90 days before Election Day on November 5. (Al Jazeera)
• Belarus–European Union border crisis, Human rights in Poland
  • As a response to Germany tightening border controls and following a call for EU-wide solutions by its Interior Minister Nancy Faeser, Prime Minister of Poland Donald Tusk issues a request to the European Union to accept a provisional suspension of migrants' right to asylum in order to control irregular immigration from Belarus, which human rights activists condemn as unconstitutional. (Reuters) (Euronews)

October 11, 2024 (2024-10-11) (Friday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Eastern Ukraine campaign
    • Battle of Toretsk
      • The military administrator of the city of Toretsk in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, reports that more than half of the city has been taken by Russian Armed Forces, with the Armed Forces of Ukraine fighting back at eight different locations. (Reuters)
• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • Two United Nations peacekeepers are injured when Israeli forces fire at a watchtower at their headquarters in southern Lebanon. (Euronews)
  • The Lebanese Armed Forces reports that two of its soldiers were killed in an Israeli strike on one of its positions in southern Lebanon. (Al Arabiya)
  • A drone launched from Lebanon damages a building and causes a power outage in Herzliya, Israel. (Crisis 24) (MTV Lebanon)
  • Israel destroys an Iranian Red Crescent Society field hospital on the Lebanon–Syria border. (Xinhua)
• Israel–Hamas war
  • At least 20 Palestinians are killed and dozens of others are injured by Israeli airstrikes on the Jabalia refugee camp in Gaza. (Reuters)

Arts and culture

• 2024 Nobel Peace Prize
  • This year's Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to Japanese atomic bomb survivors group Nihon Hidankyo for "its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again". (The Washington Post) (Nobel Prize)

Business and economy

• 2024 Boeing machinists strike
  • Aerospace company Boeing announces it will cut 17,000 jobs, 10% of its global workforce, and delay the deliveries of its Boeing 777X planes due to effects of the ongoing machinists strike. (Reuters)
• King of Belgium Philippe and King of the Netherlands Willem-Alexander jointly open the Nieuwe Sluis canal lock in Terneuzen, Netherlands, which is part of a series of locks connecting the Western Scheldt to the Port of Ghent. (NOS)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 South American wildfires
  • 2024 Peru wildfires
    • The Global Wildfire Information System states that 10,400 wildfires have been reported in Peru so far this year, more than twice as many as were reported in 2020, and that the wildfires burned an area nearly 2.5 times larger than those in 2020. (Reuters)

International relations

• Foreign relations of Nicaragua, Foreign relations of Israel
  • Nicaragua formally breaks off diplomatic relations with Israel, calling the Israeli government "fascist" and "genocidal". (Reuters)
• France–Israel relations, Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • France summons the Israeli ambassador to France over recent attacks against United Nations peacekeepers in Lebanon, calling the attacks a violation of international law and asking Israel to explain itself. (Le Monde)

October 10, 2024 (2024-10-10) (Thursday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israel–Hamas war
  • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
    • Attacks on schools during the Israeli invasion of Gaza
      • An Israeli strike on a school sheltering displaced people in Gaza kills 28 people and injures 54 others. (AP)
  • Military aid to Israel during the Israel–Hamas war
    • Chancellor of Germany Olaf Scholz announces plans for Germany to supply Israel with a new shipment of weapons, and that the German government has agreed to continue shipments for at least the near future. (Euronews)
• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • 2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon
    • An Israeli Merkava tank opens fire on a UNIFIL checkpoint in southern Lebanon, injuring two peacekeepers. Israeli troops also open fire on two other UN positions near the Blue Line, although no casualties are reported. (BBC News)
  • At least 22 people are killed in Israeli airstrikes on two different areas in central Beirut, Lebanon. (AP)
• Sudanese civil war
  • October 2024 Sudan airstrikes
    • Sudanese human rights group Emergency Lawyers reports that over 500 Sudanese civilians have been killed in airstrikes conducted by the Sudanese Armed Forces on multiple civilian areas held by the Rapid Support Forces. (Reuters) (Dabanga Sudan)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • The World Bank approves a new financial intermediary fund consisting of grants from the United States, Japan, Canada, and other countries coupled with interest from frozen Russian assets to give to Ukraine as part of a $50 billion loan. (Reuters)
  • Ukraine's Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War confirms the death of journalist Victoria Roshchyna, who had been held prisoner by Russia since August 2023. (The Kyiv Independent)
• Insurgency in Balochistan
  • At least twenty-one miners are killed and six others are injured in an attack by unknown armed militants on a private coal mine in Duki District, Balochistan, Pakistan. (Reuters)

Arts and culture

• 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature
  • This year's Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to South Korean writer Han Kang "for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life". (Nobel Prize)

Disasters and accidents

• One person is killed and twelve others are trapped when an elevator fails at the Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine in Cripple Creek, Colorado, United States. (Sky News)

Health and environment

• 2024 Atlantic hurricane season
  • At least ten people are killed in damages by tornadoes caused by Hurricane Milton in Florida, United States. (Reuters)
• In its annual Living Planet report, the World Wildlife Fund estimates that wild populations of animal species have decreased over 70% since 1970, with some high-biodiversity areas seeing up to 95% declines. (DW)

International relations

• Israel–Italy relations, Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni summons the Israeli ambassador to Italy after Israeli forces target bases manned by Italian peacekeepers in southern Lebanon. (CNN)

Law and crime

• Capital punishment in Malaysia, Murder of Shaariibuugiin Altantuyaa
  • The Federal Court of Malaysia commutes the death sentence of Azilah Hadri, one of Altantuyaa's murderers, to 40 years imprisonment. (CNA)
• Multiple Palestinian, Dutch, and Jewish human rights organizations sue the Dutch government for exporting weapons and military goods to Israel, thereby allegedly failing to prevent violations of the Genocide Convention and other war crimes in the Gaza Strip. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• War crimes in the Israel–Hamas war
  • United Nations human rights investigators accuse Israel of crimes against humanity and the crime of extermination by deliberately targeting health facilities and medical personnel in Gaza. (Al Jazeera)

Science and technology

• Tomb of Christopher Columbus
  • Researchers from the University of Granada confirm that bones lying in the Seville Cathedral in Seville, Andalusia, Spain, belonged to Christopher Columbus. (ABC Spain)
• The Internet Archive and the Wayback Machine are taken offline following a denial-of-service attack, with the hackers also stealing 31 million password hashes in a data breach. (Forbes)

Sports

• Erling Haaland becomes the all-time top goalscorer of the Norway national football team with 34 goals in the last 36 matches, beating Jørgen Juve's 1934 record of 33 goals. (ESPN)

October 9, 2024 (2024-10-09) (Wednesday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israel–Hamas war
  • Israeli incursions in the West Bank during the Israel–Hamas war
    • At least four Palestinians are killed and one other is wounded when Israeli forces open fire on a vehicle in Nablus in the occupied West Bank. Palestinian factions call for a general strike on Thursday in response to the attack. (Al Jazeera)
• 2024 Hadera stabbing attack
  • Six people are injured, two critically, in a mass stabbing in Hadera, Haifa District, Israel. The attacker is shot dead by police. (Times of Israel)
• Insurgency in Balochistan
  • One Frontier Corps official and two terrorists are killed and thirteen others are injured by a suicide bombing and gun attack on a Frontier Corps post in Zhob, Balochistan, Pakistan. (Daily Ausaf)
• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • Two people are killed by a Hezbollah rocket fired at Kiryat Shmona, Israel. (BBC News) (MDA Israel)
• Sudanese civil war
  • The head of the Rapid Support Forces, Hemedti, accuses Egypt of being involved in airstrikes on the group's troops during the ongoing civil war in Sudan. (Reuters)

Arts and culture

• Nansen Refugee Award
  • Scalabrinian nun sister Rosita Milesi is awarded the Nansen Refugee Award by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees for her work with refugees and internally displaced people in Brazil for over 40 years. (DW)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Atlantic hurricane season
  • Hurricane Milton
    • More than 5.5 million people in Florida, United States, are currently under evacuation orders as Hurricane Milton weakens into a category 4 hurricane ahead of its expected landfall in the early hours of Thursday. (The New York Times) (CBS News)
    • Several tornadoes are reported in Florida, including along Interstate 75, ahead of Hurricane Milton's landfall. (BBC News)
    • Milton makes landfall as a category 3 hurricane near Siesta Key on Florida's Western Coast. (CBS News)
    • The Tropicana Field roof in St. Petersburg is damaged by winds caused from Hurricane Milton. (Tampa Bay Times)
• Five people are killed when a Beechcraft Baron aircraft crashes shortly after takeoff from Catalina Airport in Avalon, California, United States. (CTV News)

International relations

• Ecuador–United States relations
  • The U.S. State Department bans former Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa and former vice president Jorge Glas from entering the United States on accusations of corruption. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• Capital punishment in Japan
  • Japan's former longest-serving death row prisoner, Iwao Hakamada, is confirmed innocent after the prosecution waives their right to appeal the September 26 "not guilty" verdict from his retrial. (NHK)
• Censorship in Turkey
  • Turkey bans the social media platform Discord after it allegedly refused to give government officials information related to "child sexual abuse and obscenity" and the murder of two women in Istanbul last week. (DW)
• South Africa's genocide case against Israel
  • Bolivia formally joins South Africa's case in the International Court of Justice regarding Israel's conduct in the Gaza Strip as genocide, stating it "has a responsibility to condemn the crime of genocide". (Al Jazeera)

Politics and elections

• 2024 Mozambican general election
  • Mozambicans vote in the presidential, parliamentary and provincial elections. (Al Jazeera)

Science and technology

• Nobel Prize in Chemistry
  • This year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry is jointly awarded to British computer scientist Demis Hassabis and American chemist John M. Jumper for their work on protein structure prediction, and to American biochemist and computational biologist David Baker for his work on computational protein design. (The New York Times) (Nobel Prize)

Sports

• In tennis, the Wimbledon Championships announces it will replace line judges with an electronic line judge system starting in the 2025 Wimbledon Championships, ending the tradition after 147 years. (Reuters)

October 8, 2024 (2024-10-08) (Tuesday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • 2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon
    • The 146th Division of the Israel Defense Forces advances into southwestern Lebanon, opening up another front against Hezbollah. The Israeli Navy also announces a naval blockade extending for 60 kilometres (37 mi) along the Lebanese coast. (DW)
    • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calls on the Lebanese people to "rise up" against Hezbollah and to "take back" their country with the help of Israeli forces, warning that failing to do so could turn Lebanon into another Gaza. (The Telegraph)
    • The village of Yaroun in Nabatieh Governorate, Lebanon, is reported to be mostly destroyed following days of heavy fighting between Hezbollah and Israeli forces. (CNN)
  • Around 105 Hezbollah rockets hit the northern Israeli city of Haifa in the heaviest barrage fired at the city since the start of the war. (The Telegraph)
  • The Israel Defense Forces say that they killed Suhail Hussein Husseini, the head of Hezbollah's logistical headquarters and a member of the Jihad Council in an airstrike in Beirut, Lebanon, yesterday. (Times of Israel)
• Syrian civil war
  • Israel's role in the Syrian civil war
    • Seven people are killed in an Israeli airstrike on a residential building in Damascus, Syria. (Reuters)
• Terrorism in Norway
  • The Norwegian Police Security Service upgrades the terror alert in the country from moderate to high due to threats to Israeli and Jewish locations. (Times of Israel)

Health and environment

• The Environmental Protection Agency sets a 10-year deadline to replace all lead water pipes in the United States. (AP)

Law and crime

• The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation announces the arrest of an Afghan national in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, for allegedly plotting an ISIS-related attack on Election Day in November. (AP)
• The Russian mass media agency bans social media platform Discord for violating the country's laws and to "prevent the use of messaging for terrorist and extremist purposes". (The Moscow Times)

Science and technology

• Nobel Prize in Physics
  • American physicist John Hopfield and British-Canadian computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton are awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Physics "for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks". (The Guardian)

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Ongoing events

Disasters

• European floods
• Gaza humanitarian crisis
• Haitian crisis
• Nepal floods
• Rwanda Marburg virus disease outbreak
• 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
• Sean Combs sexual misconduct allegations

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
• New Caledonia social unrest
• Venezuelan protests

Elections and referendums

Recent

• September

• 29: Austria, National Council

• October

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

Upcoming

• 20: Moldova, President, Constitutional referendum
• 24: Montserrat, Legislative Assembly
• 25: Kiribati, President
• 26: Georgia, Parliament
• 27: Japan, House of Representatives
• 27: Uzbekistan, Legislative Chamber
• 27: Bulgaria, National Assembly
• 27: Lithuania, Seimas (2nd)
• 27: Uruguay, President, General Assembly

Trials

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• United States:0Thomas Girardi

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

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October

• 12: Jackmaster
• 12: Tito Mboweni
• 12: Alex Salmond
• 12: Baba Siddique
• 10: Fleur Adcock
• 10: Ethel Kennedy
• 09: George Baldock
• 09: Lily Ebert
• 09: Lee Wei Ling
• 09: Ratan Tata
• 08: Tim Johnson
• 08: Luis Tiant
• 07: Cissy Houston
• 07: Arie L. Kopelman
• 07: Lore Segal
• 06: Johan Neeskens
• 05: Robert Coover
• 05: Ildar Dadin
• 04: Christopher Ciccone
• 04: Greg Landry
• 04: Billy Shaw
• 03: Mary O'Rourke
• 02: Susie Berning
• 01: Michael Ancram

September

• 30: Gavin Creel
• 30: Dikembe Mutombo
• 30: Humberto Ortega
• 30: Ken Page
• 30: Pete Rose
• 30: Robert Watts
• 29: Nobuyo Ōyama
• 29: Ozzie Virgil Sr.
• 28: Winfield Dunn
• 28: Drake Hogestyn
• 28: Kris Kristofferson
• 27: Hassan Nasrallah
• 27: Maggie Smith
• 26: John Ashton
• 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
• 20: Eduardo Xol
• 18: Kesaria Abramidze
• 18: Nick Gravenites
• 18: Salvatore Schillaci
• 17: Nelson DeMille
• 17: JD Souther
• 16: Song Binbin
• 15: Elias Khoury
• 15: Tito Jackson
• 14: Otis Davis
• 14: Jaber Mubarak Al-Sabah
• 13: Tommy Cash
• 13: Michaela DePrince
• 13: Pravin Gordhan
• 13: Mary McFadden

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• Democratic Republic of the Congo

• Kivu conflict

• Ethiopia

• Amhara conflict

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• Insurgency in Cabo Delgado

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• Boko Haram insurgency

• Sahel insurgency

• Mali War

• Burkina Faso
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• Somalia

• Civil war

• Sudan

• Civil war

Americas

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• Mexican drug war

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• 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

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