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- Iran–Israel proxy conflict, Assassination of Ismail Haniyeh
- United States President Joe Biden deploys multiple U.S. military warships, troops, and other military assets to the Middle East to support Israel against potential attacks from Iran and its proxies. (Financial Times) (Washington Post)
- 2024 Lido Beach attack
- At least 20 people are killed after heavy gunfire and a suicide bombing by Al-Shabaab militants near the Beach View Hotel on Lido Beach in Mogadishu, Somalia. (Hiiraan Online)
Business and economy
- Unemployment in the United States
- Several global financial markets fall drastically with the Dow Jones falling by 900 points following United States unemployment rising to 4.3%, the highest since October 2021. (AP)
Disasters and accidents
- At least 11 people are killed in a fire in a residential-commercial building in Manila, Philippines. (The Star)
International relations
- 2024 Venezuelan presidential election, Argentina–Venezuela relations
- Argentina recognizes Edmundo González as President-elect of Venezuela, joining Peru and the United States. (AFP via Barron's)
Law and crime
- 2024 England riots
- Rioting takes place in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom as hundreds of far-right protesters attempt to march on a mosque and clash with riot police in the city centre. A police station is set on fire by rioters. (BBC News)
- Mass surveillance in the United Kingdom
- Several civil rights groups denounce proposals made by British Prime Minister Keir Starmer to grant British police nationalized live facial recognition technology and surveillance to charge people police deem significantly likely to participate in far-right riots, condemning its opportunism, its potential racial and gender inaccuracy, and its possible use to target future legal protests. (The Guardian)
- Censorship in Turkey
- Turkey blocks internet access to Instagram, following comments made by Turkish communications director Fahrettin Altun that condemned Meta Platforms for taking down Instagram posts offering condolences or expressing sorrow towards the assassination of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh. (Reuters)
- A man is arrested in Dublin by national police in connection with attacks on Government Buildings, The Custom House and Áras an Uachtaráin. (RTÉ)
- Four men, including a police officer, are found shot to death near Cancún, Quintana Roo, Mexico. (AP)
- The United States Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission file a joint lawsuit against TikTok and its parent company ByteDance for violating a law prohibiting companies to collect and use personal information of children under 13. (Reuters)
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