Portal:Current events
Topics in the news
- Former president of Peru Alberto Fujimori (pictured) dies at the age of 86.
- Flooding following a dam collapse in Borno State, Nigeria, leaves at least 30 people dead.
- Typhoon Yagi leaves more than 840 people dead across six Asian countries.
- Abdelmadjid Tebboune is declared the winner of the Algerian presidential election amid a dispute over the election's turnout.
Disasters and accidents
- 2024 European floods
- Four people in Poland, three in Czech Republic and one in Romania are killed by floods, bringing the death toll from the ongoing floods in Central and Eastern Europe to 16. (AP)
- Portugal asks the European Union for help to fight large wildfires in the northern and central region of the country. (Reuters)
International relations
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- August 2024 Kursk Oblast incursion
- The Ukrainian ministry of foreign affairs invites the UN and the ICRC to join humanitarian efforts in Russia's Kursk Oblast. (Reuters)
- August 2024 Kursk Oblast incursion
- 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 Azov brigade and regularly calling for international support and troops for Ukraine against Russia. (Reuters) (Reuters 2)
Law and crime
- Immigration to Germany
- Germany initiates rigorous temporary border checks on all its borders to reduce irregular migration, prompting criticism from European Union member nations stating that it contradicts the bloc's foundations of free movement and solidarity. (Reuters)
- Trump International Golf Club shooting
- Ryan Wesley Routh is initially charged with two gun-related crimes in federal court after being suspected of attempting to assassinate United States presidential candidate Donald Trump. (Reuters)
Politics and elections
- North Korea announces that it will revise its constitution on October 7, with changes including designating South Korea as a separate country and its primary enemy. This comes in wake of the announcement in January when North Korea's leader Kim Jong-Un announced that he (and therefore the country) had given up on peaceful Korean reunification and if any reunification did take place, it will be by North Korean military conquest and annexation of the South. (NHK World Japan)
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)
- Spillover of the Israel–Hamas war
- 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)
- Kharkiv strikes
Disasters and accidents
- 2024 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 undocumented immigrants 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)
- Borno State flooding
- 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)
- 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)
Politics and elections
- 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)
- 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)
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)
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)
- Russia–NATO relations
- 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 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)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- 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)
- Ecuadorian security crisis
- 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 30,000 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
- 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)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Eastern Ukraine campaign
- 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)
- 2024 Israeli military operation in the West Bank
- 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)
- 2024 Afghanistan bus shooting
- 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)
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)
- September 2024 Al-Jawni School attack
- 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)
- Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
- 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)
- August 2024 Kursk Oblast incursion
- 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 soccer 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. (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
- Human presence in space
- Following the launch of the Russian Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, there is a record 19 people in outer space at the same time. The previous record was set in 2023 with 17 people. (USA Today)(CollectSPACE)
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)
- Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- 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)
- Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
- 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)