France summons the Israeli ambassador over the latest attacks against UN peacekeepers, calling it a violation of international law and asking Israel to explain itself. (Le Monde)
The Global Wildfire Information System reports that 10,400 wildfires in Peru were started in 2024, representing over double the prior record amount in 2020, and with nearly 2.5 times the total area burned. (Reuters)
This year's Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to Japanese atomic bomb survivors group Nihon Hidankyo for "its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again". (The Washington Post)(Nobel Prize)