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- Sudanese civil war
- Wad Al-Noora massacre
- The Rapid Support Forces storm the village of Wad Al-Noora in Gezira State and massacre nearly 100 villagers. (Sudan Tribune)
- Battle of El Fasher
- Over 27,000 people from El Fasher take refuge in Jebel Marra. (Dabanga Sudan)
- Wad Al-Noora massacre
- 2021–2024 Democratic Republic of the Congo attacks
- At least 16 people are killed by the suspected Allied Democratic Forces in Beni, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Reuters)
- 2024 Beirut US embassy shooting
- A Syrian man fires several shots at the U.S. Embassy in Lebanon and is fatally shot by security forces. (Reuters)
Health and environment
- A panel of the United States Food and Drug Administration rejects MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for PTSD. (NPR)
- The World Health Organization confirms that a person in Mexico has died from the H5N2 bird flu. (Reuters)
International relations
- Burkina Faso–Russia relations
- Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov announces that Russia will dispatch additional military supplies and instructors to Burkina Faso to help them boost its defense capabilities. (Reuters)
Law and crime
- Mexico–United States border crisis
- US President Joe Biden institutes a broad asylum ban on migrants illegally crossing the Mexico–United States border, with actions to deport or turn people back to Mexico, with exceptions for unaccompanied children, people with serious medical or safety threats, and victims of trafficking. (Reuters)
- A court in Florence, Italy, convicts American journalist Amanda Knox and sentences her to a three-year imprisonment over her accusations related to the murder of Meredith Kercher in Perugia in 2007. (NBC News) (NPR)
Politics and elections
- Israel–Hamas war protests
- Israel–Hamas war protests in Israel
- Thousands of Israeli ultranationalists march through East Jerusalem on Jerusalem Day chanting anti-Arab slogans. (AP)
- Israel–Hamas war protests in Israel
- Governor of New York Kathy Hochul announces an indefinite delay in implementing motor vehicle congestion pricing in Manhattan, New York City, New York, U.S. (CNN)
Science and technology
- 2024 in spaceflight
- Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko becomes the first human to spend 1,000 days in outer space. (AP)
- Boeing's Starliner capsule launches its first astronaut-crewed flight into space to the International Space Station after several delays. (ABC News)
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