Current events: 2024-09-05

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • 2024 Israeli military operation in the northern West Bank
    • Six Palestinian gunmen are killed and another is wounded by an Israeli airstrike against a vehicle in Tubas in the West Bank. Separately, a teenager is shot dead in the city by Israeli soldiers. (Reuters)

• Kurdish–Turkish conflict
  • Kurdistan Workers' Party insurgency
    • A Turkish drone strike kills three people, including a child, in Iraq's northern autonomous Kurdistan Region, a day after a similar attack on a car in the region killed three people of the same family. (Barron's)

Law and crime

• Domestic violence in Kenya
  • Ugandan marathoner Rebecca Cheptegei dies after sustaining burns from a petrol attack by her former partner almost a month after her participation in the women's marathon at the 2024 Summer Olympics. (BBC)
• Weiss special counsel investigation
  • Hunter Biden pleads guilty to federal tax evasion shortly before his trial was set to begin in California. (NBC News)
• An Austrian man is killed in a shootout with police in Munich, Germany, near the Munich Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism and the Israeli Consulate. (TIME)
• The European Union, the United States, the United Kingdom and seven other countries sign the first international legally binding treaty on the use of artificial intelligence systems. (DW) (Council of Europe)

Politics and elections

• Reform of the House of Lords
  • The ruling Labour Party in the United Kingdom announces a bill to remove the right of all hereditary peers to sit in the House of Lords. (BBC News)
• Michel Barnier is named the prime minister of France, two months after the July legislative elections. (The Washington Post)

Sports

• 2024–25 UEFA Nations League
  • San Marino, the lowest-ranked FIFA-affiliated national team, defeats Liechtenstein 1-0 in Serravalle to win the first competitive victory in their 36-year history.

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