Current events: 2024-08-17

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • August 2024 Kursk Oblast incursion
      • Rockets launched by the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroy a Russian bridge over the Seym river in Glushkovo, Kursk Oblast. Russia's foreign ministry claims that the missiles were launched using Western-made rocket launchers and that the missiles killed volunteers who were evacuating Russian civilians. (Reuters)
  • Military aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War, Budget of Germany
    • Germany issues an indefinite ban on requesting or providing new military aid to Ukraine not already approved of in order to reduce federal budget spending. The moratorium results in a "tangible dispute" within the Scholz coalition government. (Politico) (The Kyiv Independent)
  • Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant crisis
    • An explosive drone strike targets a perimeter access road of the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, leading to the International Atomic Energy Agency investigating the damage and declaring that the nuclear plant's safety is deteriorating. (Reuters)
• Israel–Hamas war
  • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
    • August 2024 Deir el-Balah attacks
      • Eighteen people from the same family are killed in an airstrike in the town of Az-Zawayda in the Gaza Strip. (AP)
  • Three-phase Israel–Hamas war ceasefire proposal
    • Israeli officials state that they are attempting to "lower expectations" of a ceasefire deal due to significant gaps between Israel and Hamas demands, after United States president Joe Biden stated that he was "optimistic" about US-mediated negotiation progress in Qatar. (Al Jazeera)
• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • Nabatieh attack
    • Ten Syrian workers are killed in an Israeli airstrike on a factory in Nabatieh, Lebanon. (Al Jazeera)
• Somali Civil War
  • 2024 Mogadishu tea shop bombing
    • At least 20 people are killed and ten others are injured in a bombing at a tea shop in Daynile District, Mogadishu, Somalia. (Aussiedlerbote) (IDil News)
• Sudanese civil war
  • Galgani massacre
    • At least 85 people are killed in arson and looting attacks amid a rampage by Rapid Support Forces in the village of Galgani in Sennar State, Sudan. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Kamchatka Krai earthquake
  • A 7.2-magnitude earthquake strikes off the coast of Russia with a tsunami warning being issued. (Sky News)
• The state electricity company of Lebanon Électricité du Liban runs out of fuel reserves and announces that it can no longer supply power to the country, leading to a complete nationwide blackout. (The National) (Iraqi News Agency)

Law and crime

• Six people are arrested in connection to a mass shooting due to feuds that occurred last week in Clarendon Parish, Jamaica, which killed eight people and injured nine others. (AP)

Politics and elections

• For the first time in history, the Indonesian Independence Day ceremony is held simultaneously in Jakarta and Nusantara due to the relocation of the country's capital. (Detik)

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