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- Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- 23 September 2024 Lebanon strikes
- Over 492 people are killed and 1,645 others are wounded as the Israeli Air Force conducts over 1,400 airstrikes in Lebanon, targeting Hezbollah, the deadliest day of conflict since the 2006 Lebanon War. (New York Times) (Al Jazeera) (AP)
- Hezbollah launches dozens of rockets and drones at Israel in retaliation for the airstrikes. (CBS News)
- The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon advises all posted civilian employees to evacuate southern Lebanon. (The Jerusalem Post)
- The Israeli military advises Lebanese civilians in southern Lebanon to evacuate north. (Associated Press)
- The United States deploys additional military forces to the Middle East following significantly escalating conflict between Israel and Hezbollah and a potential wider regional conflict, adding to the 40,000 U.S. troops already present in the region. (AP)
- 23 September 2024 Lebanon strikes
- Russo–Ukrainian war
- August 2024 Kursk Oblast incursion
- The Russian Foreign Ministry reports that at least 56 Russian civilians were killed and 266 more were wounded by the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Kursk Oblast, which the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry denies as Russian propaganda. (Reuters)
- August 2024 Kursk Oblast incursion
Disasters and accidents
- 2024 South American wildfires
- 2024 Brazil wildfires, 2024 Peru wildfires
- Climate researchers report that colossal wildfires across the Amazon have, since 1985, destroyed an area of rainforest the size of France and Germany combined. (France 24)
- 2024 Brazil wildfires, 2024 Peru wildfires
- At least 30 decomposing bodies are found in a boat off the coast of Dakar, Senegal. (Reuters)
Health and environment
- 2023–2024 mpox epidemic
- The World Health Organization reports nearly 30,000 suspected mpox cases have been found in Africa, with most of them in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as the death toll passes 800 people. (Reuters)
International relations
- Japan–Russia relations
- Japanese fighter jets fire warning flares at a Russian aircraft that violated Japanese airspace off Rebun Island, the first time such flares had been fired by Japan Air Self-Defense Force aircraft. (Reuters)
Law and crime
- 2024 social unrest in Martinique
- The Government of France sends the Companies for Republican Security riot police unit to Martinique for the first time in over 65 years, following resistance from cost of living and social inequality protesters against French-issued bans on demonstrations. (AP)
- Ahmad Alissa, the perpetrator of the 2021 Boulder shooting, is convicted of murder and is found guilty. (Reuters)
- German police announces they have found {{conv|95|kg|lb|abbr=on}} of cocaine worth €7 million ($7.8 million) hidden inside banana crates in supermarkets across North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. (DW)
Sports
- 2024 AFL season
- 2024 Brownlow Medal
- In Australian football, Patrick Cripps wins his second Brownlow Medal with 45 votes, the most since the current voting system was introduced. He also becomes the seventeenth player to win the award more than once. (ABC News Australia)
- 2024 Brownlow Medal
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