Current events: 2024-09-08

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • The Israeli military claims Hezbollah militants were killed in airstrikes on Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon. (Al Jazeera)
• Sudanese civil war
  • The World Health Organization reports that the death toll from the ongoing civil war in Sudan has increased to more than 20,000 people. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• Wildfires in the United States during 2024
  • Over 5,000 people are evacuated in San Bernardino County, California, United States, as the Line Fire quadruples in size. (The New York Times)
• Forty-eight people and 50 cattle are killed in an explosion caused by a collision between a fuel tanker and a truck in Agaie, Niger State, Nigeria. (AP)
• Fourteen people are killed and one other person is wounded when a bus crashes on a highway between Aden and Taiz in Yemen. (AP)

Law and crime

• 2024 Allenby Bridge shooting
  • Three Israeli border guards are killed in a mass shooting at the Allenby Bridge, on the Israel–Jordan border. (Reuters)
• Kingdom of Jesus Christ compound standoff
  • Kingdom of Jesus Christ pastor Apollo Quiboloy, who is charged for sex trafficking, is arrested amidst a standoff between the police and church members at the religious organization's headquarters in Davao City, Philippines. (Al Jazeera)

Politics and elections

• 2024 Venezuelan political crisis
  • Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo González flees Venezuela to seek political asylum in Spain. The Spanish government says González departed Venezuela on a Spanish Air Force plane at his own request. (BBC News)

Sports

• 2024 Summer Paralympics
  • Thailand at the 2024 Summer Paralympics, Wheelchair fencing at the Summer Paralympics
    • Thai wheelchair fencer Saysunee Jana becomes the first female wheelchair fencer, and the second overall, to win gold medals in all three fencing disciplines, épée, foil, and sabre. (Bangkok Post)

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