Current events: 2024-09-26

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • September 2024 Lebanon strikes
    • Lebanese displacement during the Israel–Hezbollah conflict
      • Over 22,000 Lebanese residents have crossed into Syria to escape ongoing Israeli bombardment and potential escalation of conflict. (Barron's)
    • Two people are killed and 15 injured during an airstrike in Beirut, Lebanon. Among those killed is Mohammad Hussein Srour, a senior commander in Hezbollah. (Al Jazeera)
    • At least 92 people have been killed and 153 injured during airstrikes today across Lebanon, bringing the death toll from the airstikes in the last four days to over 700 people killed. (Al Jazeera)
  • Israel rejects proposals from the United States, Australia, and the European Union to initiate a temporary 21-day ceasefire with Hezbollah, and continues its bombardment of Lebanon. (Reuters) (Reuters 2)
  • The United States grants Israel a $8.7 billion military aid package. U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin states that the U.S. will not change its commitment to giving military aid to Israel regardless of a reporter's question regarding U.S. "red lines". (Reuters)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • United States and the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • United States President Joe Biden announces a military aid package of over $8 billion for Ukraine and directs The Pentagon to allocate all remaining security funds to Ukraine by his term's end in January 2025, prior to a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office. (Reuters)
  • The Russian Defense Ministry claims that Russian forces took the settlement of Ukrainsk in Donetsk Oblast. (The Moscow Times)
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • Eight Pakistani Taliban militants are killed during a shootout with soldiers in North Waziristan District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 India floods
  • 2024 Jivitputrika tragedy
    • At least 46 people, including 37 children, in Bihar taking part in Jivitputrika festivities drown in rivers and bodies of water swollen by ongoing flooding across India. (Reuters)
  • Up to {{conv|275|mm|in|abbr=on}} of rain falls across Mumbai, India, causing at least four deaths. (Al Arabiya)
• 2024 Atlantic hurricane season
  • Hurricane Helene approaches Florida, United States, as a Category 4 hurricane, with sustained winds of {{cvt|120|mph|km/h}} and an estimated minimum central pressure of 945 millibars. (National Hurricane Center)
  • Tropical storm conditions occur across western Florida. An automated weather station records sustained winds of {{cvt|54|mph|km/h}} with gusts up to {{cvt|68|mph|km/h}} near the entrance of Tampa Bay. (National Hurricane Center)
• A United States defence official claims that a Chinese nuclear attack submarine, the first of the new Zhou-class, sank during construction likely between May and June. (ABC News)

International relations

• Algeria–Morocco relations
  • Algeria imposes visa requirements on Moroccans, accusing them of criminal activity in its territory, including "Zionist espionage" and "drug and human trafficking". (Al Arabiya)

Law and crime

• 2024 Lebanon pager explosions
  • Norwegian police issues an international search request for a Norwegian-Indian man linked to the sale of pagers to Hezbollah that exploded last week. (Times of Israel)
• Iwao Hakamada, the world's longest-serving death row inmate, who has waited his potential execution for 56 years, is acquitted in Japan after a retrial. (BBC News)

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