Current events: 2024-08-28

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israel–Hamas war
  • Israeli incursions in the West Bank during the Israel–Hamas war
    • 2024 Israeli military operation in the northern West Bank
      • The Israel Defense Forces launch a major military operation in the West Bank, primarily in the cities of Jenin and Tulkarm, with at least ten Palestinians killed and several others injured. The Al-Israa Specialised Hospital and the Thabet Thabet Governmental Hospital are surrounded, with ambulances are blocked from entering the hospitals. (Al Jazeera)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Ukrainian drones strike an oil terminal in Kamensky District, Rostov Oblast, Russia, causing a large fire. Ukraine also launches drone attacks on Kirov Oblast for the first time, striking an oil depot in Kotelnich. The Russian Defence Ministry says that air defences have shot down eight drones over Voronezh Oblast. (Reuters)
• Somali Civil War
  • Puntland–Somaliland dispute
    • At least nine people are killed in fighting between SSC-Khatumo forces and Somaliland troops near Erigavo, Sanaag, Somaliland. (Garowe Online) (BBC News Somali)
• Myanmar civil war
  • Junta forces launch a major counteroffensive against rebels in Kachin State, Myanmar, following the fall of Momauk to the Kachin Independence Army. (Myanmar Now)
  • A UN official says that the Arakan Army has begun indiscriminately attacking the Muslim Rohingya minority in Rakhine State after capturing much of the state, forcing thousands of people to flee. The rebel group is reportedly "rounding up groups" of Rohingya men and shelling Rohingya villages. (The Guardian)
• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • Three Palestinian fighters and a Hezbollah militant are killed in an Israeli drone strike on a vehicle at a checkpoint on the Lebanon–Syria border. (Al Jazeera)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Sudan floods
  • Arbaat Dam collapse
    • The death toll from the flooding caused by the collapse of the Arbaat Dam near Port Sudan, Sudan, increases to 148 people. (Sudan Tribune)
• 2024 Pacific typhoon season
  • Hundreds of flights are cancelled and the Japan Meteorological Agency issues an alert in Kagoshima Prefecture as Typhoon Shanshan is expected to make landfall over southwestern Japan. (Reuters)
  • Three people are injured and three others are reported missing due to heavy rains and landslides in Kyushu, according to the Fire and Disaster Management Agency. (MSN)
• 2024 Afghanistan–Pakistan floods
  • The death toll from flooding in Pakistan increases to 245 people. (Dunya News)
• 2024 Yemen floods
  • At least 33 people are killed by landslides and heavy rainfall in Al Mahwit, Yemen. (NOS)

Law and crime

• Arrest of Pavel Durov
  • French prosecutors formally indict Telegram CEO Pavel Durov with complicity in distribution of child exploitation media and drug trafficking and ban him from leaving France. (Bloomberg)

Politics and elections

• LXVI Legislature of the Mexican Congress
  • Defections by the two senators elected for the defunct Party of the Democratic Revolution leave the ruling Morena party and its allies one seat short of supermajorities in both chambers of Congress. (AP)

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