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- Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- September 2024 Lebanon strikes
- 2024 Hezbollah headquarters strike
- Israel carries out at least fifteen airstrikes using bunker buster bombs on Beirut, Lebanon, killing six people and injuring 91 others. Israeli officials claim they have targeted Hezbollah's central headquarters, destroying six buildings in an attempt to kill Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. (L'Orient le Jour) (Al Jazeera)
- Israeli officials later claim that Nasrallah was in the headquarters at the time of the strike, along with several other high-ranking officials. (Ynet News)
- A second wave of airstrikes is carried out in Beirut, with three buildings hit. (Al Jazeera)
- 2024 Hezbollah headquarters strike
- September 2024 Lebanon strikes
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Eastern Ukraine campaign
- The Russian Ministry of Defense claims the full capture of Marynivka village in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. (Al Arabiya)
- Kryvyi Rih strikes
- At least one person is killed and five others are injured in a Russian missile strike on a police department in Kryvyi Rih, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine. (Reuters)
- Nuclear risk during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko warns that Belarus will use nuclear weapons if attacked by the West. (Anadolu Agency)
- Southern Ukraine campaign
- Three people are killed and 14 others are injured when Russian drones hit Izmail in Odesa Oblast, Ukraine. (Reuters)
- Eastern Ukraine campaign
- Syrian civil war
- Israel's role in the Syrian civil war
- Israel launches an airstrike against a Syrian military post in the countryside near Damascus, killing five soldiers and wounding another. (Al Arabiya)
- Israel's role in the Syrian civil war
- Haitian crisis
- At least 3,661 people have been killed, including 100 children, in the first six months of 2024 amid ongoing gang violence in Haiti. (Al Jazeera)
- Sudanese civil war
- At least 18 people are killed after the Rapid Support Forces attack a market in the city of Al-Fashir, Sudan. (Al Arabiya)
Disasters and accidents
- 2024 Atlantic hurricane season
- At least fifteen people are killed and over one million people are reported without power due to high winds and flooding caused by Hurricane Helene in Georgia, United States. A rare flash flood emergency is issued for the Atlanta metropolitan area. (WABE-TV)
- Cocke County, Tennessee Mayor Rob Mathis reports that the Waterville Dam suffered a catastrophic failure due to ongoing heavy rainfall, and orders the immediate evacuation of downtown Newport. (WVLT)
- Rutherford County, North Carolina's Emergency Management department issues a warning of the "imminent" failure of the Lake Lure Dam due to significant rainfall, and orders immediate evacuations. (USA Today)
- 2024 North America heat waves
- At least 664 deaths in Phoenix, Arizona and 342 in Las Vegas, Nevada, are linked to heat illnesses caused by prolonged temperatures above 100°F. (The Guardian))
- Fifteen people are killed after an illegal gold mine collapses in Solok Regency, West Sumatra, Indonesia. (Reuters)
- Five people, including a child, are killed in an explosion at a fuel station in Dagestan, Russia. (Al Arabiya)
International relations
- Iraq–United States relations
- Iraq and the United States agree to end the U.S.-led coalition mission in Iraq by September 2025, with all remaining American troops withdrawing by the end of 2026. (Reuters)
Law and crime
- Israel–Hamas war
- Humanitarian aid during the Israel–Hamas war
- An aid worker of a United States-based charity is shot and killed in her car by Palestinian gunmen near Khan Yunis in the Gaza Strip. Gazan government officials claim that the gunmen had mistakenly identified the vehicle. (Al Arabiya)
- Humanitarian aid during the Israel–Hamas war
Politics and elections
- 2024 Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) presidential election
- Shigeru Ishiba defeats Sanae Takaichi in a runoff election to become the next president of the Liberal Democratic Party and prime minister designate. (Kyodo News)
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