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Armed conflicts and attacks

• Haitian crisis
  • During the first six months of this year at least 3,661 have been killed in Haiti, including 100 children, amid the ongoing gang violence. (Al Jazeera)
• Israel's role in the Syrian civil war
  • Israel launches an airstrike against a military post in the countryside near Damascus, Syria, killing five soldiers and wounding another. (Al Arabiya)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Three people are killed and 14 others are injured when Russian drones hits Izmail in Odesa Oblast, Ukraine. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• Fifteen people are killed after the collapse of an illegal gold mine in Solok Regency, West Sumatra, Indonesia. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• 2024 Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) presidential election
  • Shigeru Ishiba defeats Sanae Takaichi in a runoff election to become the next president and prime minister designate. (kyodonews)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • September 2024 Lebanon strikes
    • Lebanese displacement during the Israel–Hezbollah conflict
      • Over 22,000 Lebanese residents have crossed into Syria in order to escape ongoing Israeli bombardment and a potential escalation of the conflict. (Barron's)
    • Two people, including Mohammad Hussein Srour, a senior commander in Hezbollah, are killed and 15 others are injured in an Israeli airstrike in Beirut, Lebanon. (Al Jazeera)
    • At least 92 people are killed and 153 others are injured in airstrikes across Lebanon, bringing the total death toll from the airstrikes to more than 700 people. (Al Jazeera)
  • Israel rejects proposals from the United States, Australia, and the European Union to initiate a temporary 21-day ceasefire with Hezbollah. (Reuters) (Reuters 2)
• Israel–Hamas war
  • United States support for Israel in the Israel–Hamas war
    • The United States grants Israel a $8.7 billion military aid package, with U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin stating that the U.S. will not change its commitment to providing military aid to Israel. (Reuters)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Eastern Ukraine campaign
    • The Russian Defense Ministry claims that Russian forces have taken the city of Ukrainsk in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. (The Moscow Times)
  • United States and the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Prior to a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, U.S. President Joe Biden announces a military aid package of more than $8 billion for Ukraine and directs The Pentagon to allocate all remaining security funds to Ukraine by the end of his presidential term in January 2025. (Reuters)
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • Eight Pakistani Taliban militants are killed in a shootout with soldiers in North Waziristan District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 India floods
  • 2024 Jivitputrika tragedy
    • At least 46 people, including 37 children, who were taking part in Jivitputrika festivities in Bihar, India, drown in rivers and bodies of water swollen by ongoing flooding across India. (Reuters)
  • Up to 275 mm (10.8 in) of rain falls across Mumbai, India, causing at least four deaths. (Al Arabiya)
• 2024 Atlantic hurricane season
  • Hurricane Helene makes landfall in Florida, United States, as a Category 4 hurricane, with sustained winds of 140 mph (230 km/h) and a minimum central pressure of 938 millibars. (National Hurricane Center)
  • Tropical storm conditions occur across western Florida, with an automated weather station recording sustained winds of 54 mph (87 km/h) with gusts up to 68 mph (109 km/h) near Tampa Bay. (National Hurricane Center)
• A bus crashes in to a river in Wolaita, Ethiopia, killing 28 people and wounding 19 more. (Barron's)
• A United States defence official claims that a Chinese nuclear attack submarine, the first of the new Zhou-class, likely sank during construction earlier this year. (ABC News)

International relations

• Algeria–Morocco relations
  • Algeria imposes visa requirements on Moroccans, accusing them of criminal activity in Algeria, including "espionage" and "drug and human trafficking". (Al Arabiya)

Law and crime

• 2024 Lebanon pager explosions
  • Norwegian police issue an international search request for a Norwegian-Indian man linked to the sale of pagers to Hezbollah that exploded last week. (Times of Israel)
• Capital punishment in the United States
  • The U.S. state of Alabama executes a man via inert gas asphyxiation using nitrogen in the country's second ever execution by this method. (AP)
• Racism in football in Spain
  • A Mallorcan football fan is sentenced to one year in prison for yelling racist insults at football players Vinícius Júnior and Samuel Chukwueze. (Al Jazeera)
• Iwao Hakamada, the world's longest-serving death row inmate, is acquitted in Japan following a retrial. (BBC News)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • September 2024 Lebanon strikes
    • Hezbollah launches a ballistic missile targeting the Mossad headquarters in Tel Aviv, Israel, which is intercepted, while Israel conducts an additional 260 airstrikes across Lebanon, killing at least 72 people. (ABC News) (Al Jazeera)
  • The United States, the European Union, and several other countries call for an immediate 21-day ceasefire along the Blue Line on the Israel–Lebanon border, which has been rejected by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (Reuters)
• Sectarian violence in Pakistan, Shia–Sunni relations
  • At least 25 people are killed and dozens are injured in clashes between Shia and Sunni Muslim tribes in Kurram District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, since September 20. (AP)

Business and economy

• Pakistani economic crisis
  • The International Monetary Fund approves a $7 billion loan for Pakistan to help its economy, with $1 billion being disbursed immediately and the rest in instalments over 37 months. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Argentina wildfires
  • Intense and widespread wildfires in Córdoba Province, Argentina, destroy 40,000 hectares (400 km²) of forests and farmland, including several farm structures, and also kill large numbers of cattle. (Reuters)
• A blimp promoting Brazil soccer team São Paulo FC crashes into houses in the Brazilian municipality of Osasco, injuring the pilot. (Fox News)

International relations

• Brazil–Ukraine relations, China–Ukraine relations
  • Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accuses Brazil and China of using their proposed peace plan for ending the Russo-Ukrainian War to increase their geopolitical power "at Ukraine's expense" by urging developing nations to agree to the peace plan. (Reuters)
• Georgia–United States relations
  • The United States withdraws Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze's invitation to attend a summit of national leaders hosted by U.S. President Joe Biden during the ongoing United Nations General Assembly session, and refuses any further delegator meetings with Georgia, due to the "anti-democratic actions, disinformation, and negative rhetoric towards the U.S. and the West" resulting from Georgia's recently-passed foreign agents law. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• Crime in France, Immigration to France
  • The center-right Macron-appointed Barnier government expresses a willingness to work with the far-right National Rally's proposals to strengthen French immigration and crime laws following the murder of a 19-year-old woman in Paris last week. (Reuters)
• Criminal investigations into the Eric Adams administration
  • New York Mayor Eric Adams is indicted on federal charges following a corruption investigation, becoming the first mayor of New York City, United States, to face criminal charges while in office. (The New York Times)
• Four people are killed and two others are critically injured in a shooting spree in Nuoro, Sardinia, Italy. The perpetrator later commits suicide. (ANSA)
• A man hijacks a Los Angeles Metro Bus in South Los Angeles, California, United States, later killing one of the two passengers. The bus is driven at gunpoint for more than 7 miles (11 km) before the man surrenders to police. (AP)
• Six people are injured when a bomb explodes in a courthouse in Santa Maria, California, United States. A suspect is later arrested. (CNN)

Politics and elections

• 2024 United States presidential election, United States and the Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson demands that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy dismiss Ukrainian ambassador to the United States Oksana Markarova after Zelenskyy visited an ammunition factory in Pennsylvania with several Democratic politicians, which Johnson claims represented foreign electoral intervention. (Reuters)
• Cross-strait relations
  • The Japanese Navy sends a warship into the Taiwan Strait for the first time to reportedly "convey a message" to China, according to Japanese newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun. (DW)
• German Green Party leaders Omid Nouripour and Ricarda Lang state that they will step down following significant defeats in recent elections including the 2024 Brandenburg state election. (The Guardian)
• Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau survives a no-confidence vote by a vote of 211–119. (BBC News)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • September 2024 Lebanon strikes
    • The death toll from the ongoing Israeli airstrikes across Lebanon increases to 558 people, including 50 children, with 1,835 others injured. (Al Jazeera)
    • The Israeli government declares a nationwide state of emergency until September 30. (Anadolu Agency)
    • Ibrahim Qubaisi, Hezbollah's missiles and rocket force commander, is killed after an airstrike in Beirut, Lebanon. Five other people are also killed in the attack. (The Guardian)
    • The United Kingdom deploys 700 troops to Cyprus ahead of a planned evacuation of thousands of British nationals from Lebanon. The UK has advised all of its citizens to leave Lebanon immediately if they can. (Reuters)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Kharkiv strikes
    • At least three people are killed and 22 others are injured in a Russian guided bomb attack on an apartment building in Kharkiv, Ukraine. (Reuters)
• Mexican Drug War
  • The death toll from the ongoing shootouts between rival factions of the Sinaloa Cartel increases to at least 77 people, with the finding of two corpses on a highway today. (Infobae)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 South American wildfires
  • 2024 Brazil wildfires
    • Over thirty environmental organizations condemn Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's actions that contradict his calls for further global action against climate change, such as requests for drilling oil reserves near the Amazon River and paving the BR-319 roadway through the Amazon that they state contribute to ongoing wildfires. (AP)
• 2024 Atlantic hurricane season
  • Tropical Storm Helene forms in the Gulf of Mexico and is expected to become a major hurricane before making landfall on the U.S. Gulf Coast on September 26. (National Hurricane Center)
• 2024 Pacific hurricane season
  • Three people are killed in flooding caused by remnants of Hurricane John in Mexico. (Reuters)
• The USNS Big Horn of the United States Navy runs aground and is damaged off the coast of Oman while operating in the Middle East after replenishing the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group. (AP)

Law and crime

• Attempted assassination of Donald Trump in Florida
  • Ryan Wesley Routh is formally charged for attempting to assassinate former U.S. President and Republican Party nominee Donald Trump at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, United States. (NBC News)
• Human rights in Belarus
  • Belarusian independent news outlet Reform.news reports that Jörg Dornau, an Alternative for Germany member of the Saxony parliament, has allegedly used political prisoners as labor on a Belarusian onion plantation owned by his agricultural firm. (Politico)
• Murder of Felicia Gayle
  • Marcellus Williams is executed by the state of Missouri shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court denies a request to delay the execution. (CBS News)
• Recognition of same-sex unions in Thailand
  • Thailand passes the marriage equality law allowing same-sex couples to be legally wed starting in January 2025. (AP)

Politics and elections

• Argentine President Javier Milei proposes an "agenda of freedom" with economic, social, and foreign policies that directly contradict the United Nations' "Pact for the Future", which he calls a model to "repress, restrict and curtail" humanity's freedom and ineffective at preventing conflicts. (Reuters)
• Newly-elected Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake dissolves the Parliament and calls for snap elections on November 14. (Reuters) (AP)

Science and technology

• Scientists from the University of Waterloo announce that they have positively identified bones found on King William Island in Nunavut, Canada, as those of James Fitzjames, captain of HMS Erebus during Franklin's lost expedition. (CBC News)
• A Monash University-led study on the Ordovician meteor event provides evidence that rings may have existed around Earth approximately 446 million years ago. (Forbes)

Sports

• The Lebanese Football Association suspends all football matches indefinitely amid Israeli airstrikes on the country. (Al Jazeera)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • September 2024 Lebanon strikes
    • Over 492 people are killed and 1,645 others are injured when the Israeli Air Force conducts over 1,400 airstrikes in Lebanon targeting Hezbollah, the deadliest day of conflict since the 2006 Lebanon War. (New York Times) (Al Jazeera) (AP)
    • 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. (AP)
  • 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)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • August 2024 Kursk Oblast incursion
    • The Russian Foreign Ministry reports that at least 56 Russian civilians were killed and 266 others were injured by the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Kursk Oblast, Russia, which the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry denies as Russian propaganda. (Reuters)

Business and economy

• Swedish lithium-ion technology developer Northvolt announces revised company operational scopes and its intention to layoff 1,600 workers in the country. (CBC)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Pacific hurricane season
  • Hurricane John makes landfall near Marquelia, Guerrero, Mexico, as a Category 3 hurricane. (AP) (NHC)
• Mediterranean Sea migrant smuggling
  • At least four people are found dead after a small boat carrying migrants sinks off the coast of Samos, Greece. (AP)
• At least 30 decomposing bodies are found in a boat off the coast of Dakar, Senegal. (Reuters)

Health and environment

• 2023–2024 mpox epidemic
  • The World Health Organization announces that nearly 30,000 suspected mpox cases have been reported in Africa so far this year, primarily in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as the death toll from mpox surpasses 800 people. (Reuters)
• Deforestation of the Amazon rainforest
  • Climate researchers report that since 1985, deforestation in the Amazon has caused the loss of an area of rainforest equal to the combined area of France and Germany. (France 24)

International relations

• Argentina–Venezuela relations
  • A court in Argentina orders the arrest of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro and interior minister Diosdado Cabello, accusing them of crimes against humanity. (Infobae)
  • The Supreme Court of Venezuela orders the arrest of Argentinian President Javier Milei after Argentina detains a Venezuelan aircraft. (AP)
• Japan–Russia relations
  • Japanese fighter jets fire warning flares at a Russian aircraft that violated Japanese airspace off Rebun Island. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• 2021 Boulder shooting
  • Ahmad Alissa, the gunman responsible for killing ten people at a supermarket in Boulder, Colorado, United States, in 2021, is convicted of ten counts of first-degree murder and sentenced to ten consecutive life sentences. (AP)
• 2024 social unrest in Martinique
  • The Government of France sends the Companies for Republican Security riot police unit to Martinique, following resistance from cost of living and social inequality protesters against French-issued bans on demonstrations. (AP)
• German police announce that they found 95 kg (209 lb) of cocaine worth €7 million ($7.8 million) hidden inside banana crates in supermarkets across North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. (DW)

Sports

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

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • 2024 Lebanon pager explosions
    • The death toll from the pager explosions across Lebanon last week increases to 42 people, with more than 3,500 others injured. (The Guardian)
  • Assassination of Ibrahim Aqil
    • The death toll from the Israeli airstrikes two days ago in Dahieh, Beirut, Lebanon, increases to at least 45 militants and civilians. (Al Jazeera)
  • Hezbollah launches a barrage of rockets and Fadi 1 and Wadi 2 missiles at the Israeli Air Force Ramat David Airbase in Haifa, Israel, in retaliation for the assassination of Ibrahim Aqil with three Israeli civilians injured in Krayot and Lower Galilee and one lightly injured by an Iron Dome interception. (CTV News) (AP)
  • Two Hezbollah militants and a civilian killed in Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon. (Al Jazeera)
• Israel–Hamas war
  • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
    • At least seven people are killed in an Israeli airstrike on the Kafr Qasim school on the Al-Shati refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. (Al Jazeera)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Zaporizhzhia strikes
    • At least 16 people are injured in Russian airstrikes in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine. (Reuters)
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • A police officer is killed and four others are injured in an IED attack on a multinational diplomatic convoy in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (AP)
• Mexican drug war
  • The death toll from the ongoing shootouts between rival factions of the Sinaloa Cartel in Sinaloa, Mexico, increases to 70 people with 51 others missing. (Al Jazeera)

Disasters and accidents

• Six people are killed and eight others are missing in floods and landslides caused by record rainfall in the Noto Peninsula of Japan. (Al Jazeera)
• Three people are killed, three others are injured, and a person is missing when a two-story building collapses in Naples, Italy. (CTV News)

Law and crime

• Censorship in Israel
  • Israeli forces carry out a raid and order the closure of the offices of Al Jazeera Arabic in Ramallah in the West Bank. (AP)
• Iran–Israel relations
  • The Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp arrests twelve people in six different provinces accused of being foreign operatives for Israel and "planning acts against Iran's security". (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• 2024 Sri Lankan presidential election
  • For the first time in Sri Lanka's history, election officials begin a second round of vote counting. In the first round, National People's Power candidate Anura Kumara Dissanayake led with 42.31% of the vote counted, while opposition leader and United People's Power candidate Sajith Premadasa took second place with 32.76%. Incumbent President Ranil Wickremesinghe came in third place with 17% of the vote. Following the counting of second and third preferences, Dissanayake is declared president-elect by the election commission. (AP) (BBC News)
• The United Nations adopts the "Pact for the Future", aiming for multilateral cooperative work towards peace and security, global governance, climate change, sustainable development, human rights, and more. (Reuters)

Science and technology

• Researchers from the University of Cape Town and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology announce they have reconstructed the oldest human genome ever found, belonging to a man and a woman who lived about 10,000 years ago in the Mesolithic period. The prior oldest decoded genome was from about 2,000 years ago. (DW)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • Assassination of Ibrahim Aqil
    • Hezbollah confirms that Ahmed Wahbi, a top commander who oversaw the military operations of the Redwan special forces during the Gaza war until early 2024, was killed in the Israeli airstrikes yesterday in Beirut, Lebanon. (TRT World)
    • The death toll from yesterday's airstrikes in Beirut increases to 38 people, including sixteen Hezbollah militants and twenty-two civilians, with 17 others still missing. (Al Jazeera)
• Israel–Hamas war
  • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
    • At least 22 people are killed and 30 others are injured in an Israeli airstrike on a school in the Zeitoun area of Gaza City. (CTV News)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Kharkiv strikes
    • Twenty-one people are injured when a Russian guided bomb hits an apartment building in Kharkiv, Ukraine. (Reuters)
• Nduga hostage crisis
  • Papuan separatists release Philip Mehrtens, a New Zealander pilot, after holding him hostage for over 19 months. (BBC)
• Mexican drug war
  • Two gunmen and a civilian were killed, and a paramedic was wounded, during an operative of the Mexican Army occurred in the neighbor Tres Ríos, Culiacán. (Noreste)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Tabas coal mine explosion
  • At least 51 miners are killed, several are trapped and twenty-one are injured after a coal mine explodes in Tabas, Iran, caused by a methane gas leak. (Al Jazeera)

Law and crime

• September 2024 Birmingham shooting
  • Four people are killed and seventeen others are injured following a mass shooting in Birmingham, Alabama, United States. (ABC News) (AP)

Politics and elections

• 2024 French political crisis
  • Newly appointed Prime Minister of France Michel Barnier announces a centre-right coalition government, and adds ten conservative Republican members to his cabinet. (Reuters)
• 2024 Sri Lankan presidential election
  • Sri Lankan voters head to the polls to elect a new president between 39 candidates. The main frontrunners are Anura Kumara Dissanayake of the socialist National People's Power and current Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa of the progressive United People's Power Party. (BBC)
• Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama announces plans to create a 27-acre sovereign enclave for the Bektashi Order in Tirana modeled after the Vatican City, which would be called the "Sovereign State of the Bektashi Order". (The New York Times)

Sports

• 2024 Chicago White Sox season, Worst Major League Baseball season win–loss records
  • In professional baseball, the Chicago White Sox earn their 119th loss of the 2024 MLB season, tying the American League loss record set by the 2003 Detroit Tigers while now being one loss away from tying the post-1900 MLB loss record of the expansion 1962 New York Mets. (AP)