Current events: 2024-07-24

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Arts and culture

• Polish divers announce they have discovered a 19th-century shipwreck in the Baltic Sea off the coast of Sweden, with crates of champagne and porcelain inside. (France 24)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Pacific typhoon season
  • Metro Manila, Philippines, is placed under a state of calamity due to flash floods caused by Typhoon Gaemi. (Bloomberg)
• 2024 Nouakchott migrant boat disaster
  • Fifteen people are killed and more than 195 others are missing after a boat carrying migrants capsized near Nouakchott, Mauritania. (CNN)
• 2024 Saurya Airlines Bombardier CRJ200 crash
  • A Bombardier CRJ-200 crashes during takeoff at Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu, Nepal, killing eighteen on board and leaving the captain as the only survivor. (Reuters)
• Ten migrants are found drowned in a river near the Colombia–Panama border, according to Panamanian border police. (Al Jazeera)

International relations

• Israel–United States relations
  • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses a joint session of the United States Congress amid protests over Israel's conduct of the war in Gaza. (AP) (Reuters)

Law and crime

• Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care
  • A formal inquiry by New Zealand concludes that about 200,000 people were abused while in state and religious care since 1950, amounting to a third of all children, vulnerable adults, and Māori people in care suffering abuse such as rape, sterilization, and electric shocks. (Reuters)
• German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser shuts down the Islamic Centre Hamburg for allegedly propagating extremism. The Iranian Foreign Ministry summoned the German ambassador over the ban. (DW)

Science and technology

• Scientists find dark oxygen being produced from metals on the seafloor. Until now, it was thought that almost all the free oxygen ({{chem|O|2}}) on Earth was created through photosynthesis, which requires sunlight. (NPR)

Sports

• 142nd IOC Session, Olympic Games
  • At the International Olympic Committee session before the start of the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France, it is announced that the French Alps region has been conditionally approved to host the 2030 Winter Olympics and that Salt Lake City, Utah, United States, will host the 2034 Winter Olympics. (Fox News) (MSN)

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