Current events: 2024-02-08

Wikipedia Current Events · Feb 8, 2024

Armed conflicts and attacks

Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy dismisses Valerii Zaluzhnyi from the post of Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The dismissal was preceded by months of rumors about a conflict between Zelenskyy and Zaluzhnyi. Ground Forces commander Oleksandr Syrskyi was appointed Commander-in-Chief to replace Zaluzhny. (BBC)
Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Insurgency in Balochistan
- Mobile phone services are temporarily suspended and thousands of troops are deployed to protect polling stations. Five policemen and two children are killed during two separate bombings, targeting a patrol and a polling station respectively. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

2023–2024 Sundhnúkur eruptions
- Icelandic officials declare a state of emergency after a new volcanic eruption cuts off hot water for approximately 20,000 people south of Reykjavik. (NU)
Search operations are concluded in Baghdati, Imereti, Georgia, with the recovery of a body of the last individual killed in a landslide, bringing the toll to nine. (RFE/RL) (Agenda.ge)
Five United States Marines are confirmed dead after a Sikorsky CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter which crashed yesterday in San Diego County, California, United States, is located. (NBC News)

Politics and elections

Trump v. Anderson
- The US Supreme Court hears arguments on whether former US President Donald Trump is ineligible to run for a second term as president, for allegedly violating Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. (CBS News)

Science and technology

Meta removes the Instagram accounts of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei for violating its "Dangerous Organizations & Individuals policy". (Middle East Eye)
NASA's PACE mission is launched aboard a Falcon 9 rocket to study Earth's ocean and atmosphere. (Ars Technica)