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**[[Israel–Hezbollah conflict (2023–present)|Israel–Hezbollah conflict]] |
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***[[Israeli Defence Forces]] [[Shell (projectile)|shells]] [[Ayta ash Shab]], [[Aitaroun]] and [[Maroun al-Ras]] in [[southern Lebanon]]. [https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/hezbollah-says-it-carried-out-15-attacks-targeting-israeli-military-sites/3311558 (Andalou Ajansi)] |
***[[Israeli Defence Forces]] [[Shell (projectile)|shells]] [[Ayta ash Shab]], [[Aitaroun]] and [[Maroun al-Ras]] in [[southern Lebanon]]. [https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/hezbollah-says-it-carried-out-15-attacks-targeting-israeli-military-sites/3311558 (Andalou Ajansi)] |
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***Hezbollah launches 20 rockets, drone strikes and shelling on IDF sites |
***Hezbollah launches 20 rockets, drone strikes and shelling on IDF sites in [[northern Israel]] and the [[Golan Heights]]. [https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/hezbollah-says-it-carried-out-15-attacks-targeting-israeli-military-sites/3311558 (Andalou Ajansi)] |
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*[[Russian invasion of Ukraine]] |
*[[Russian invasion of Ukraine]] |
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**[[Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine]] |
**[[Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine]] |
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Latest revision as of 22:29, 26 August 2024
August 24, 2024 (Saturday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Israel–Hamas war
- Three-phase Israel–Hamas war ceasefire proposal
- Hamas states that it will refuse any ceasefire conditions that allow Israel to continue to control the Rafah Crossing and Philadelphi Corridor, and also accuses the United States of spreading false optimism to support Democratic nominee Kamala Harris's presidential campaign instead of implementing constructive diplomatic measures. (Al Jazeera)
- Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- Israeli Defence Forces shells Ayta ash Shab, Aitaroun and Maroun al-Ras in southern Lebanon. (Andalou Ajansi)
- Hezbollah launches 20 rockets, drone strikes and shelling on IDF sites in northern Israel and the Golan Heights. (Andalou Ajansi)
- Three-phase Israel–Hamas war ceasefire proposal
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Governor of Belgorod Oblast Vyacheslav Gladkov says that five civilians have been killed by Ukrainian shelling in Rakitnoye, Russia. (Reuters)
- Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- 2024 Solingen stabbing
- The Islamic State group claims responsibility for yesterday's mass stabbing in Solingen, Germany, that killed three people and injured eight others. (BBC News)
- Insurgency in Balochistan
- Three people, including two children, are killed and fifteen others are injured in a motorcycle bomb blast in Pishin District, Balochistan Province, Pakistan. (Al Jazeera) (The Washington Post)
- Somali Civil War
- A large fire breaks out at the Elasha-Biyaha market near Mogadishu, Somalia following an IED explosion linked to Al-Shabaab. No casualties are reported. (Idil News)
- Terrorism in France
- French police arrests a man suspected of attempted arson upon a synagogue in La Grande-Motte, Occitanie, France. The incident is being treated as an anti-semitic terrorist attack. (CNN)
Disasters and accidents
- 2024 Brazil wildfires, 2023–2024 South American drought
- At least two people are killed at an industrial plant in Urupês after trying to control widespread wildfires impacting at least 30 cities in São Paulo state, Brazil. (Reuters)
- At least three workers are missing at the construction site of the Bangkok–Nong Khai high-speed railway in Pak Chong, Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand after a tunnel collapses. (MCOT)
Health and environment
- 2024 Red Sea oil spill
- The European Union Operation Aspides task force warns of a likely significant and ongoing oil spill in the Red Sea following Houthi demolition of the Greek-flagged Sounion oil tanker carrying 150,000 tons of petroleum, with Houthi footage showing flaming oil leaking into the sea. (AP) (Financial Times)
International relations
- Foreign relations of Hungary, Hungary and the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Lukoil oil transit dispute
- Hungary accuses the European Union of being behind Ukraine-placed sanctions blocking Russian oil shipments to both Hungary and Slovakia essential for their fuel security as blackmail for anti-Ukraine acts, following the European Commission's refusal to mediate sanction negotiations while asserting that there was no oil shortage. (Reuters)
- Lukoil oil transit dispute
- Russia–Ukraine relations, Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Prisoners of war in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Russia and Ukraine complete a prisoner exchange mediated by the United Arab Emirates with 115 prisoners of war from each side. (Al Jazeera)
- Prisoners of war in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Law and crime
- Mexican drug war
- 2010 San Fernando massacre, 2011 San Fernando massacre
- Eleven Los Zetas gunmen are sentenced to 50 years in prison each for the 2010–2011 massacres of 122 men in Reynosa, Tamaulipas, Mexico, who were taken off passing buses and forced to fight each other to death with sledgehammers. (AP)
- 2010 San Fernando massacre, 2011 San Fernando massacre
- Arrest of Pavel Durov
- The owner and founder of the Telegram and VK social networks Pavel Durov is arrested at Paris–Le Bourget Airport in France shortly after arriving from Azerbaijan, in connection with alleged illegal activity on his Telegram app. (BBC News) (Reuters)
- Kidnapping in Nigeria
- Nigerian police announce that the 20 medical students who were kidnapped in Benue State, Nigeria, last week have been found without making any ransom payments. (Al Jazeera)