Current events: 2024-10-08

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • 2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon
    • The 146th Division of the Israel Defense Forces advance into southwestern Lebanon, opening up another front against Hezbollah. The Israeli Navy also announces a naval blockade stretching 60 kilometers (37 miles) along the Lebanese coast. (DW)
    • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calls on the Lebanese people to "rise up" against Hezbollah and to "take back" their country with the help of Israeli forces, warning that failing to do so could turn Lebanon into Gaza. (''The Telegraph)
    • The village of Yaroun, Nabatieh Governorate, appears to be mostly destroyed following days of heavy fighting between Hezbollah and Israeli forces. (CNN)
  • Around 105 Hezbollah rockets hit the northern Israeli city of Haifa in the heaviest barrage fired at the city since the start of the war. (The Telegraph)
  • The Israel Defense Forces say that they killed Suhail Hussein Husseini, the head of Hezbollah's logistical headquarters and a member of the Jihad Council. (Times of Israel)
• Syrian civil war
  • Israel's role in the Syrian civil war
    • Seven people are killed in an Israeli airstrike on a residential building in Damascus, Syria. (Reuters)

Health and environment

• The Environmental Protection Agency sets a 10-year deadline to replace all lead water pipes in the United States. (AP)

Law and crime

• The Federal Bureau of Investigation arrests a national from Afghanistan for plotting a ISIS-related attack on Election Day. (AP)

Science and technology

• Nobel Prize in Physics
  • American physicist John Hopfield and computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton are awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Physics "for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks". (The Guardian)

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