Current events: 2024-02-09

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Myanmar civil war
  • Operation 1027
    • At least 340 members of Myanmar's Border Guard Police flee into neighboring Bangladesh and are disarmed and detained by Border Guard Bangladesh in the past week amidst continued fighting against the Arakan Army. (ABC News)
• Israel–Hamas War
  • Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu orders the Israel Defense Forces to plan evacuations of the city of Rafah. (BBC News)

Law and crime

• The Federal Court of Malaysia in a landmark ruling declares several instances of Islamic legislation passed by the State Government of Kelantan as unconstitutional. (CNA)
• Four people are killed and one is injured during a mass shooting at a market in Rustavi, Kvemo Kartli, Georgia. The gunman is arrested. (Reuters)

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