Current events: 2024-05-07

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israel–Hamas war
  • Rafah offensive
    • Israeli forces enter Rafah in a "limited" operation, taking control of the Rafah Border Crossing on the Egypt–Gaza border. (Haaretz) (AP) (Reuters)
    • At least 27 people are killed by Israeli airstrikes in Rafah. (Al Jazeera) (AP)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Assassination attempts on Volodymyr Zelenskyy
    • The Security Service of Ukraine says that it detained two Ukrainian government protection unit colonels recruited by Russia's Federal Security Service who were plotting an assassination of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other top Ukrainian officials. (Reuters)
  • Battle of Donbas
    • Ukrainian forces launch a missile strike on a oil terminal in Luhansk, sparking a large fire and injuring at least five workers. (Reuters)
• M23 offensive (2022–present)
  • The death toll from rocket strikes on an IDP camp in Democratic Republic of the Congo rises to 18. (Reuters)

Arts and culture

• The Boy Scouts of America announces the renaming of the organization to Scouting America on February 8th, 2025, in an effort to make youth members feel more welcome. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Rio Grande do Sul floods
  • The death toll from the ongoing heavy flooding in southern Brazil increases to 90, leaving over 150,000 people homeless. (Reuters) (Reuters2)
• tornadoes of 2024
  • a FedEx warehouse in Portage, Michigan is destroyed by a tornado causing a "mass casualty event" as local emergency agencies put it https://www.timesnownews.com/world/...es-after-twister-hits-video-article-109929168

Law and crime

• Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act
  • TikTok and its parent company ByteDance sue the United States over the PAFACA Act law, alleging that the law is unconstitutional. (AP)
• Two people are killed and 21 more injured during a mass stabbing at a hospital in Yunnan province, China. A suspect has been detained. (AP)
• Russia declares U.S. nonprofit organization Freedom House an "undesirable organization", effectively outlawing the group, after accusing it of "discrediting the Russian Army" and advocating sanctions against Russia. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• Israel–Hamas war protests
  • 2024 pro-Palestinian protests on university campuses
    • Dutch police end a pro-Palestinian occupation at the University of Amsterdam. (Reuters)
• Fifth inauguration of Vladimir Putin
  • Russian President Vladimir Putin is inaugurated for a fifth six-year term. (Reuters)

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