Current events: 2024-05-10

Wikipedia Current Events · May 10, 2024

Armed conflicts and attacks

Russian invasion of Ukraine
- 2024 Kharkiv offensive
  - Russian forces launch an attack on Ukraine's Kharkiv Oblast, near the town of Vovchansk, opening up a new front. (Reuters)
Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- Israel–Hamas war
  - The United States finds Israel may have have breached international law using American weapons. (BBC News)
Insurgency in Cabo Delgado
- Hundreds of Islamic State-linked fighters attack the town of Macomia, Cabo Delgado Province, Mozambique. It is described as "the most serious attack in the area in some time". (Al Jazeera)
Indian security forces kill 12 Maoist rebels in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

2024 Rio Grande do Sul floods
- The death toll from the ongoing heavy flooding in southern Brazil increases to 113 people, with 146 still missing and over 300,000 people displaced.(Reuters)
At least 72 people are killed during floods in Baghlan, Afghanistan. (Al Jazeera) (VOA)
Seven people are killed and six others are injured when a passenger bus plunges into a river in Saint Petersburg, Russia. (The Moscow Times) (BBC News)
At least 60 people are injured when a seven-car passenger train collides with a locomotive in Buenos Aires, Argentina. (Reuters)

Health and environment

Demographics of Italy
- Amid record low birth rates and an aging population, Pope Francis urges Italians to have more children. The government of Premier Giorgia Meloni expanded a campaign to encourage at least 500,000 births annually by 2033. Italy is currently at 379,000 births annually. (AP)

International relations

Palestine and the United Nations
- Palestine 194
  - The United Nations General Assembly votes 143–9 with 25 abstentions to approve a resolution granting Palestine new rights and requests, and to reconsider its request to become a UN member. The US, Argentina, the Czech Republic and Hungary, along with four Pacific nations, align with Israel in voting against the resolution. (AP) (The National)

Law and crime

Arrest of Arvind Kejriwal, 2024 Indian general election
- The Supreme Court of India grants Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal interim bail for 21 days in connection with the Delhi liquor policy money laundering case, thus permitting him to campaign in the ongoing general election. (The Hindustan Times)
A Pennsylvania jury orders ExxonMobil to pay $725.5 million to a former mechanic who claimed the company's gasoline and solvents caused his cancer. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

2024 Polish farmers' protests
- Thousands of protesters march through Warsaw, Poland, against the European Union's environmental regulations. (Euronews)
2024 pro-Palestinian protests on university campuses
- Police dismantle encampments and arrest dozens of students protesting at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts and the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Reuters)
- Academic staff of The New School in New York City, New York, holds the first faculty-led solidarity encampment in the United States. (The Guardian)
The Emir of Kuwait Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah dissolves the National Assembly and suspends some articles of the Constitution. (Reuters)
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. qualifies to appear on the ballot in Oklahoma for the 2024 United States presidential election as an independent candidate. (Yahoo News)
Eight hundred protesters storm the Tesla plant in Grünheide, Germany, in protest of the company's expansion's impact on the environment. (Reuters)

Science and technology

Solar Cycle 25
- A geomagnetic storm is predicted to hit Earth, reaching G4 intensity and likely causing widespread aurorae, with NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center issuing its first G4-level storm watch since 2005. (NOAA)