Armed conflicts and attacks
Disasters and accidents
Health and environment
International relations
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- Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- Israel–Hamas war
- Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
- Israel and Hamas agree to three separate three-day humanitarian pauses to allow the World Health Organization to vaccinate over 600,000 children against polio in the Gaza Strip. (Reuters)
- Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
- 2024 Israeli military operation in the northern West Bank
- Mohammed "Abu Shujaa" Jaber, leader of the Tulkarm Brigade, and four other fighters are killed during an Israeli attack at the Nur Shams refugee camp in Tulkarm, West Bank. (Al Jazeera)
- The number of Palestinians killed since the beginning of the operation two days ago increases to 18, including eight in Jenin, six in Tulkarm and four in Tubas. Dozens are wounded and at least 20 more arrested. (Al Jazeera)
- Israel–Hamas war
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Eastern Ukraine campaign
- The Russian defence ministry announces its forces have captured the settlements of Mykolaivka in Donetsk Oblast and Stelmakhivka in Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine. (Al Arabiya)
- An F-16 fighter jet crashes in Ukraine after shooting down several missiles fired from Russia, killing the Ukrainian pilot on board. (CNN)
- Eastern Ukraine campaign
- 2024 Bangladesh quota reform movement
- The Bangladeshi interim health ministry chief Nurjahan Begum says that more than 1,000 people were killed during last month’s anti-government protests, making it the bloodiest period in the country’s history since its 1971 independence movement. (Al Arabiya)
- 2024 Red Sea oil spill
- The Houthis release footage showing their fighters boarding and placing explosives on the Greek-flagged MT Sounion oil tanker, setting off explosions that put the tanker at risk of a major oil spill in the Red Sea. (AP) (Al Jazeera Arabic on YouTube)
- Kurdistan Workers' Party insurgency
- Iraq shoots down a Turkish TAI Aksungur drone over Kirkuk Governorate. (Middle East Eye)
Disasters and accidents
- 2024 Pacific typhoon season
- More than 250,000 households are hit by power outages and dozens of people are reportedly injured as Typhoon Shanshan makes landfall over Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. (Reuters)
- Three people are killed, one person is missing, and seven others are injured in Kyushu due to Typhoon Shanshan. Major automakers including Toyota and Nissan suspend their domestic factories. (Reuters)
- 2024 Yemen floods
- The death toll from the floods in Al Mahwit Governorate, Yemen, increases to 33. (ABC News)
- Two people are killed and ten others are injured by a gas leak at an Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps training center in Isfahan province, Iran. (AP)
Health and environment
- 100 tons of dead freshwater fish wash up in and around the Greek port of Volos as a result of severe flooding followed by prolonged drought in Lake Karla caused by "extreme climate fluctuations". (AP)
International relations
- France–Serbia relations
- Serbia and French aerospace manufacturer Dassault Aviation sign a landmark agreement during a state visit by French President Emmanuel Macron, for the purchase of 12 Rafale warplanes. (Le Monde)
Law and crime
- Germany–Iran relations
- The government of Hamburg, Germany, expels the Iranian leader of the Islamic Centre Hamburg Mohammad Hadi Mofatteh, giving him a September 11 deadline to leave the country or face deportation. (Reuters)
Sports
- The Taliban government bans mixed martial arts, saying it is too violent and has a risk of death and that it is incompatible with Islamic law. (BBC News)
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