Current events: 2024-02-07

Wikipedia Current Events · Feb 7, 2024

Armed conflicts and attacks

Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure
  - Russian forces launch a wave of missile and drone strikes across Ukraine, killing at least three civilians and wounding 11 others, including two in Kyiv. Cruise missiles are reported over Lviv, Ternopil and Ivano-Frankivsk. (BBC News)
Insurgency in Balochistan
- 2024 Balochistan bombings
  - Twin bombings outside electoral offices kill at least 30 people and injure dozens more in Balochistan, Pakistan, ahead of tomorrow's general election. No group has claimed responsibility for the attacks. (AP)
Southern Thailand insurgency
- The Government of Thailand and Muslim separatists in the country's south agree to start a Malaysian-brokered peace process to end an insurgency which began in 2004. (AP)
Spillover of the Israel–Hamas war
- Attacks on U.S. bases in Iraq, Jordan, and Syria
  - February 2024 United States airstrikes in Iraq and Syria
    - A US drone strike kills three Kata'ib Hezbollah fighters, including a high ranking commander, in Baghdad. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

Disasters and accidents

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- Former Chilean president Sebastián Piñera will receive a state funeral with the wake lasting untill 9 February. (emol)
Five United States Marines are missing after a Sikorsky CH-53E Super Stallion crashes in San Diego County, California, United States. (NBC)

Law and crime

Science and technology

A team of astronomers discover that Mimas, a moon of Saturn, may harbor a liquid ocean beneath its icy shell and may thus have the conditions for habitability. (Space.com)