Current events: 2024-08-13

Wikipedia Current Events · Aug 13, 2024

Armed conflicts and attacks

Russian invasion of Ukraine
- August 2024 Kursk Oblast incursion
  - Ukraine says that its troops are still advancing in Kursk Oblast and now control 74 settlements inside Russia. The Russian Defence Ministry says that its forces are fighting the Ukrainians about {{conv|28|km|mi|abbr=on}} from the border. (Reuters)
  - Akhmat special forces commander Apti Alaudinov says that the Ukrainian advance into Kursk Oblast is currently stopped due to Russian counter-attacks. (Reuters)
Israel–Hamas war
- United States support for Israel in the Israel–Hamas war
  - The United States government approves $20 billion in weapon sales to Israel, including fifty F-15 fighter jets and advanced upgrade kits for Israel's existing F-15 jets. (AP)
2024 Iran–Israel conflict, Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- Israel launches airstrikes on Hezbollah targets in villages in southern Lebanon, with two people killed in an airstrike in Baraachit. (Al Jazeera)

Disasters and accidents

2024 Attica wildfires
- At least one person is killed and dozens of others are injured in wildfires across Greece, with evacuations ordered for residents in at least one area near Athens. (CNN) (DW)
2024 Sudan floods
- At least 68 people are killed in Sudan's worst flooding since 2019, impacting several internally displaced person camps amid the ongoing Sudanese civil war. (Reuters)

Law and crime

Human rights in Austria, 2024 Vienna terrorism plot
- Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer announces a package of new anti-terrorism measures, including granting Austrian security services the ability to monitor private communications sent on messaging and social media apps and decrypt encrypted messages, and restricting the right to assembly of groups declared "hostile to democracy". (Reuters)
Leicester Square stabbing
- Ioan Pintaru, a 32-year-old homeless Romanian man, is charged with attempted murder and possession of a bladed article in relation to yesterday's stabbing of an 11-year-old girl in Leicester Square in London, England, United Kingdom. (BBC News)

Politics and elections

Thousands of doctors and university students participate in walkouts and protests against sexual violence in cities across India after the alleged rape and murder of a female medical trainee in Kolkata last week. (DW)