Armed conflicts and attacks
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- Israel–Hamas war
- Red Sea crisis
- 2024 missile strikes in Yemen
- The US military launches strikes against 18 Houthi targets. (Politico)
- 2024 missile strikes in Yemen
- Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- Two Hezbollah members are killed by an Israeli strike in al-Qusayr, Syria. (Times of Israel)
- Israel–Hamas war protests
- A United States Air Force veteran sets himself on fire next to the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C. and is in critical condition. (The Washington Post)
- Red Sea crisis
- Kurdish–Turkish conflict
- Turkey launches an airstrike in northern Iraq killing 4 alleged PKK members. (Hürriyet Daily)
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Ukraine's military takes out 16 out of 18 Russian HESA Shahed 136 type drone attacks. (Kyiv Independent)
- Jihadist insurgency in Burkina Faso
- At least 15 people are killed in an attack on a Catholic Church in the village of Essakane in Oudalan Province, Burkina Faso. (MSN)
Disasters and accidents
- Nine people are killed and 17 others are injured in a bus crash near Paulpietersburg, South Africa. (AP)
Politics and elections
- 2024 Belarusian parliamentary election
- Voting begins in elections to the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus, the All-Belarusian People's Assembly, and local councils, with only four pro-government parties permitted to run. Opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya urges Belarusians to boycott the elections, pledging to hold elections to the Coordination Council in May of this year. (Politico)
- Incumbent President Alexander Lukashenko pledges to run in the next Belarusian presidential election during voting. (Reuters)
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