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- Kurdish–Turkish conflict
- 2024 Turkish Aerospace Industries headquarters attack
- Five people are killed and 22 others are injured in a bombing at the Turkish Aerospace Industries headquarters in Kahramankazan, Ankara Province, Turkey. The perpetrators are "neutralized" according to Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya. The Turkish government suspects the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) to be behind the attack due to its style. (Al-Monitor) (Reuters) (DW)
- The Turkish Air Force launches airstrikes on PKK targets across northern Syria and Iraqi Kurdistan in response to the attack, while Turkish drone strikes in the centre of Kobani, injure three Asayish officers. (Reuters) (ANHA)
- 2024 Turkish Aerospace Industries headquarters attack
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Foreign involvement in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- The United States says it has seen evidence that North Korean troops are now in Russia and are preparing to join the battlefield in Ukraine. South Korea says that Pyongyang has promised to send up to 10,000 troops to support the war effort. (The Guardian)
- Foreign involvement in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- Hezbollah confirms that Hashem Safieddine was killed in an Israeli attack. (France 24)
Health and environment
- Demographics of Germany
- The Ifo Institute for Economic Research reports that Germany experienced a 13% birth rate decline nationally and up to a 17.5% decline in eastern Germany from 2021 to 2023. The institute attributes the decline to several reasons including the COVID-19 pandemic, the Russo-Ukrainian war, and high inflation. (DW)
International relations
- China–Holy See relations
- China and the Holy See agree to extend again the 2018 provisional agreement on the appointment of Catholic bishops in China for a period of four years. (Vatican News)
- China–India relations
- Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi holds a bilateral meeting with President of China Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the 16th BRICS summit in Kazan, Russia, the first bilateral meeting in five years and in the aftermath of the 2020 border skirmishes between Indian and Chinese troops. (India Today)
Law and crime
- A court in Munich, Germany, charges a Russian man for stabbing two Ukrainian soldiers at a shopping center in Murnau am Staffelsee, Bavaria, Germany. (DW)
- Four people, including the shooter, are killed and nine others are injured in a mass shooting and standoff when a gunman opens fire on police and his family in Novo Hamburgo, Brazil. (The Brazilian Report)
- Protesters with automatic weapons target police and firefighters in Martinique, where protests over high cost of living have prompted France to deploy forces to the island. (AP)
Science and technology
- Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre announces that his government will raise the age limit to use social media from 13 to 15 to protect children from the "power of the algorithms". (The Guardian)
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