Armed conflicts and attacks
Business and economy
Disasters and accidents
Health and environment
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- Israel–Hamas war
- Israeli incursions in Tulkarm
- An Israeli drone strike kills three Palestinians in Tulkarm in the West Bank, during a raid where IDF soldiers set fire to civilian homes and used bulldozers to destroy residential areas. (Al Jazeera)
- Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
- Eleven Palestinians are killed and six others are injured in an Israeli strike on a residential building in Beit Lahiya in the Gaza Strip. (DW)
- Israeli incursions in Tulkarm
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- A ferry carrying 30 fuel tanks sinks in the port of Kavkaz, in Krasnodar Krai, Russia, following a Ukrainian attack. (Reuters)
- The International Atomic Energy Agency announces an investigation of the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant following accusations from Russia that a Ukrainian drone targeted the power plant. (Reuters)
- Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Boko Haram insurgency
- Thirteen farmers are killed in Shiroro, Niger State, Nigeria, with authorities blaming Boko Haram for the attack. (Barrons)
- At least eleven police officers are killed in an ambush on a convoy by armed attackers near Rahim Yar Khan, Punjab, Pakistan. (Sky News)
Business and economy
- 2024 Canada railway shutdown
- Canadian National Railway and Canadian Pacific Kansas City lock out roughly 10,000 unionized railroad workers in Canada, leading to an "unprecedented" railway stoppage impacting many North American supply chains which is estimated to cost the Canadian economy C$341 million per day. (Reuters) (Reuters 2)
- In response to the railway stoppage, Labour Minister Steven MacKinnon refers the two disputes to binding arbitration. (CBC News)
Disasters and accidents
- Thai Flying Service Flight 209
- Nine people are killed when a Cessna 208 Caravan crashes into a mangrove forest in Chachoengsao shortly after taking off from Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok, Thailand. (AP) (The Nation Thailand)
- Three South Korean skiers are killed and two other people are injured when a van collides with another vehicle on a highway near Geraldine on the South Island of New Zealand. (DW)
Health and environment
Law and crime
- Treatment of women by the Taliban
- The Taliban bans women from singing, reciting poetry, or reading aloud in public and mandates that women must wear a veil in public under new laws approved by the Supreme Leader as part of efforts to combat "vice" and promote "virtue". (Al Arabiya)
Politics and elections
- Indonesia 2024 regional head election law revision demonstration, 2024 Indonesian local elections
- Thousands of people gather outside the House of Representatives in Jakarta, Indonesia, as well as in other major cities across the country, to protest attempted changes to local elections law that would benefit the ruling coalition, in defiance of two recent Constitutional Court decisions. (BBC News)
- Police fire tear gas and water cannons at protesters attempting to storm the House of Representatives, prompting the Parliament to delay and eventually cancel the vote on the proposed changes. (AP)
- 2024 Venezuelan presidential election
- The Supreme Court of Venezuela certifies the results of the 2024 Venezuelan presidential election, denying claims that opposition candidate Edmundo González Urrutia won the election. (AP)
- Human rights in Afghanistan, Afghanistan and the United Nations
- The Taliban prohibits United Nations special rapporteur on human rights Richard Bennett from entering Afghanistan, accusing him of spreading propaganda in the country. (DW)
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