Wikipedia Current Events Real Joined Dec 7, 2022 Messages 663 Reaction score 0 BC ฿2 Dividends 0 Jun 24, 2024 #1 Armed conflicts and attacks Israel–Hamas war Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip Gaza humanitarian crisis Eleven Palestinians, including the director of Gaza's Ambulance and Emergency Department, are killed in Israeli airstrikes on the al-Shati refugee camp, Bani Suhaila, and Gaza City. (Reuters) Russian invasion of Ukraine Eastern Ukraine campaign At least four people are killed and 40 others are injured when Russian Iskander-M ballistic missiles hit Pokrovsk in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. (The Kyiv Independent) (Reuters) 2024 Dagestan attack The death toll from the attack on a synagogue and Orthodox church in Derbent and Makhachkala, Dagestan, Russia, yesterday, increases to 20, with 46 others injured. (Reuters) Disasters and accidents Aricell battery factory fire Twenty-two people are killed and two others are injured in a fire at a lithium battery factory in Hwaseong, Gyeonggi, South Korea. (Reuters) Eight people are killed in a fire in an office building in Fryazino, Moscow Oblast, Russia. (BBC News) Officials in Blue Earth County, Minnesota, issue an evacuation warning due to flooding on the Blue Earth River breaching the Rapidan Dam, pushing it into an "imminent failure condition" upstream of several cities. Flooding also collapses a railroad bridge connecting South Dakota and Iowa and kills one person in South Dakota. (CBS News) (AP) Health and environment The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland reports that Scottish wildcat kittens have been born in the Cairngorms National Park, in a "major milestone" for the conservation of the critically endangered cat. (The Guardian) Law and crime Philippine drug war A trial court in Muntinlupa, Philippines, dismisses the last of the three charges of conspiracy to commit illegal drug trading, filed against former senator Leila de Lima during the presidency of Rodrigo Duterte, citing insufficient evidence. (AFP via Barron's) (Rappler) WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange enters a plea deal with the U.S. Justice Department, in which he will be found guilty on one federal charge in exchange for bring released back to Australia. (ABC News) Politics and elections 2024 New Caledonia unrest Violence and riots resume in New Caledonia after seven pro-independence activists were flown to France for pre-trial detention yesterday. Protesters burn police vehicles, block roads, and set fire to the town hall in Koumac. (Al Jazeera) Continue reading...
Armed conflicts and attacks Israel–Hamas war Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip Gaza humanitarian crisis Eleven Palestinians, including the director of Gaza's Ambulance and Emergency Department, are killed in Israeli airstrikes on the al-Shati refugee camp, Bani Suhaila, and Gaza City. (Reuters) Russian invasion of Ukraine Eastern Ukraine campaign At least four people are killed and 40 others are injured when Russian Iskander-M ballistic missiles hit Pokrovsk in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. (The Kyiv Independent) (Reuters) 2024 Dagestan attack The death toll from the attack on a synagogue and Orthodox church in Derbent and Makhachkala, Dagestan, Russia, yesterday, increases to 20, with 46 others injured. (Reuters) Disasters and accidents Aricell battery factory fire Twenty-two people are killed and two others are injured in a fire at a lithium battery factory in Hwaseong, Gyeonggi, South Korea. (Reuters) Eight people are killed in a fire in an office building in Fryazino, Moscow Oblast, Russia. (BBC News) Officials in Blue Earth County, Minnesota, issue an evacuation warning due to flooding on the Blue Earth River breaching the Rapidan Dam, pushing it into an "imminent failure condition" upstream of several cities. Flooding also collapses a railroad bridge connecting South Dakota and Iowa and kills one person in South Dakota. (CBS News) (AP) Health and environment The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland reports that Scottish wildcat kittens have been born in the Cairngorms National Park, in a "major milestone" for the conservation of the critically endangered cat. (The Guardian) Law and crime Philippine drug war A trial court in Muntinlupa, Philippines, dismisses the last of the three charges of conspiracy to commit illegal drug trading, filed against former senator Leila de Lima during the presidency of Rodrigo Duterte, citing insufficient evidence. (AFP via Barron's) (Rappler) WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange enters a plea deal with the U.S. Justice Department, in which he will be found guilty on one federal charge in exchange for bring released back to Australia. (ABC News) Politics and elections 2024 New Caledonia unrest Violence and riots resume in New Caledonia after seven pro-independence activists were flown to France for pre-trial detention yesterday. Protesters burn police vehicles, block roads, and set fire to the town hall in Koumac. (Al Jazeera) Continue reading...