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- Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- 23 September 2024 Lebanon strikes
- Hezbollah launches a ballistic missile targeting the Mossad headquarters in Tel Aviv, Israel, which is intercepted, while Israel conducts an additional 260 airstrikes across Lebanon. (ABC News)
- 23 September 2024 Lebanon strikes
Disasters and accidents
- 2024 Argentina wildfires
- Intense and widespread wildfires in Córdoba Province, Argentina, destroy {{conv|40000|ha|sqkm}} of forests and farmland, including several farm structures, and also kill large numbers of cattle. (Reuters)
- Four Emirati soldiers are killed and nine others are injured in an unspecified accident in the United Arab Emirates. (AP)
International relations
- Brazil–Ukraine relations, China–Ukraine relations
- President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy accuses Brazil and China of using their proposed peace plan for ending the Russo–Ukrainian War to increase their geopolitical power "at Ukraine's expense" by urging developing nations to agree to the peace plan. (Reuters)
- Georgia–United States relations
- The United States withdraws Prime Minister of Georgia Irakli Kobakhidze's invitation to attend a summit of national leaders hosted by U.S. President Joe Biden during the ongoing United Nations General Assembly session, and refuses any further delegator meetings with Georgia, due to the "anti-democratic actions, disinformation, and negative rhetoric towards the U.S. and the West" resulting from Georgia's recently-passed foreign agents law. (Reuters)
Law and crime
- Immigration to France
- The center-right Macron-appointed Barnier government expresses a willingness to work with the far-right National Rally's proposals to strengthen French immigration and crime laws following the murder of a 19-year-old woman in Paris last week. (Reuters)
- Four people are killed and two others are critically injured in a shooting spree in Nuoro, Sardinia, Italy. The perpetrator later commits suicide. (ANSA)
- A man hijacks a Los Angeles Metro Bus in South Los Angeles, California, United States, later killing one of the two passengers. The bus is driven at gunpoint for more than {{conv|7|mi|km}} before the man surrenders to police. (AP)
- Five people are injured when a bomb explodes in a courthouse in Santa Maria, California, United States. A suspect is later arrested. (CNN)
Politics and elections
- 2024 United States presidential election, United States and the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson demands that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy dismiss Ukrainian ambassador to the United States Oksana Markarova after Zelenskyy visited a ammunition factory in Pennsylvania with several Democratic politicians, which Johnson claims represented foreign electoral intervention. (Reuters)
- German Green Party leaders Omid Nouripour and Ricarda Lang state that they will step down following significant defeats in recent elections including the 2024 Brandenburg state election. (The Guardian)
- Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau survives a no-confidence vote. (BBC News)
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