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Armed conflicts and attacks

Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- 23 September 2024 Lebanon strikes
  - Over 492 people are killed and 1,645 others are wounded as the Israeli Air Force conducts over 1,400 airstrikes in Lebanon, targeting Hezbollah. (New York Times) (Al Jazeera)
  - Hezbollah launches dozens of rockets and drones at Israel in retaliation for the airstrikes. (CBS News)
  - The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon advises all posted civilian employees to evacuate southern Lebanon. (The Jerusalem Post)
  - The Israeli military advises Lebanese civilians in southern Lebanon to evacuate north. (Associated Press)
- The United States deploys additional military forces to the Middle East following significantly escalating conflict between Israel and Hezbollah and a potential wider regional conflict, adding to the 40,000 U.S. troops already present in the region. (AP)
Russo–Ukrainian war
- August 2024 Kursk Oblast incursion
  - The Russian Foreign Ministry reports that at least 56 Russian civilians were killed and 266 more were wounded by the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Kursk Oblast, which the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry denies as Russian propaganda. (Reuters)

International relations

Japan–Russia relations
- Japanese fighter jets fire warning flares at a Russian aircraft that violated Japanese airspace off Rebun Island, the first time such flares had been fired by Japan Air Self-Defense Force aircraft. (Reuters)

Law and crime

2024 social unrest in Martinique
- The Government of France sends the Companies for Republican Security elite riot police to Martinique for the first time in over 65 years, following resistance from cost of living and social inequality protesters against France-issued bans on demonstrations. (AP)

Sports

2024 AFL season
- 2024 Brownlow Medal
  - In Australian football, Patrick Cripps wins his second Brownlow Medal with 45 votes, the most since the current voting system was introduced. He also becomes the seventeenth player to win the award more than once. (ABC News Australia)