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- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Eastern Ukraine campaign
- Ukrainian forces retreat from Urozhaine in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. (The Independent)
- Russia's defence ministry announce that its troops captured the village of Yuryivka in Donetsk Oblast. (Al Arabiya)
- Eastern Ukraine campaign
- 2024 Bangladesh quota reform movement
- Police in Dhaka, Bangladesh, ban all public rallies and protests in the city and impose a nationwide curfew, one day after protestors set fire to government buildings in the city. (Al Jazeera) (Reuters)
- Red Sea crisis
- At least one person is killed and ten others are injured when a kamikaze drone strikes central Tel Aviv, Israel, near the United States embassy. The Houthis claim responsibility for the attack, and also issue an announcement that that they will be providing details on a planned military operation on Tel Aviv soon. (The Times of Israel) (Axios)
Business and economy
- Jadar mining project
- The European Union and Serbia sign a deal to develop a lithium mining project and production chains for batteries for electric vehicles. (DW)
Disasters and accidents
- Haitian crisis
- At least 40 Haitians are killed and several others are injured when a boat travelling to the Turks and Caicos Islands catches fire. (Al Arabiya)
International relations
- Israeli allegations against UNRWA
- The United Kingdom announces the resumption of funding to the United Nations UNRWA agency. (Al Jazeera)
- Palestine–European Union relations
- The European Commission announces loans and grants totalling €400 million (US$435.5 million) to the Palestinian Authority to prevent the government's financial collapse. (Reuters)
Law and crime
- Capital punishment in Belarus
- Gaza humanitarian crisis, Societal breakdown in the Gaza Strip during the Israel–Hamas war
- The United Nations reports that "anarchy" and societal breakdown is expanding across the Gaza Strip due to Israeli military destabilization, citing an increase in looting and extrajudicial killings of police and humanitarian workers. (Reuters)
- ICJ case on Israel's occupation of the Palestinian territories, Israel and apartheid
- The International Court of Justice rules that Israel's land annexation and settlement construction in East Jerusalem and the West Bank is unlawful, and demands an end to these practices "as soon as possible". The Court also rules that Israel's occupation in the West Bank amounts to apartheid. (AP) (Middle East Eye)
- A court in Yekaterinburg, Russia, convicts American journalist Evan Gershkovich of spying and sentences him to 16 years in prison. (CNN)
- Pakistani counter-terrorism authorities arrest Amin al-Haq, a high-ranking member of Al-Qaeda and a close confidant of Osama bin Laden. (Times Of India)
- A Tunisian court sentences opposition party leader Lotfi Mraihi, a potential presidential candidate, to eight months in prison on a charge of vote buying, and also bans Mraihi from running in presidential elections. (Reuters)
- Ukrainian linguist, nationalist politician, and former People's Deputy Iryna Farion is shot and killed in Lviv by an unknown assailant. (Reuters)
Science and technology
- 2024 CrowdStrike incident
- Numerous organizations worldwide experience service disruptions due to a faulty CrowdStrike update resulting in blue screens of death on Microsoft Windows computers. (The Verge)
- American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, and United Airlines order a temporary global ground stop of many of their flights in response to the widespread computer outages. (ABC News)
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