Current events: 2024-10-14

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israel–Hamas war
  • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
    • At least four people are killed and more than two dozen others are severely injured when an Israeli airstrike hits a hospital and causes a fire among tents in the hospital courtyard in the Gaza Strip. (CP24)
    • At least ten people are killed by Israeli artillery fire at a food distribution centre in the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza. (BBC News)
• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • 2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon
    • At least 21 people are killed and eight others are injured when an Israeli airstrike hits an apartment building in Aito, Northern Lebanon. (CTV News)
    • The Israel Defense Forces say that they killed Muhammad Kamel Naim, the head of the anti-tank missile array of Hezbollah’s elite Redwan Force. (Times of Israel)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Southern Ukraine campaign
    • Russian forces claim to have taken the village of Levadne in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Ukraine. (Voice of America)

Business and economy

• Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
  • This year's Nobel Prize in economics is awarded to Turkish-American economist Daron Acemoğlu, British-American economist Simon Johnson, and British economist James A. Robinson for their studies "of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity". (The New York Times) (Nobel Prize)

Disasters and accidents

• Twelve people are killed and 33 others injured when a bus carrying students from Galala University overturns in Al Galala, Suez Governorate, Egypt. (AP)
• One person is killed and 23 others are injured when a River Line train struck a piece of a tree in Mansfield Township, New Jersey, United States. (CTV News)

Science and technology

• NASA launches the Europa Clipper spacecraft to Europa, a moon orbiting the planet Jupiter, where it will arrive in April 2030. (BBC)

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