Portal:Current events/2024 September 22

September 22, 2024 (Sunday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- Hezbollah launches a barrage of rockets from Lebanon against a military base near Haifa, Israel, in retaliation for the assassination of Ibrahim Aqil. A civilian is lightly wounded by shrapnel from an intercepted projectile. (CTV News) (AP News)
- Israeli assassination airstrikes of Ibrahim Aqil and Ahmed Wehbe
  - The death toll from the Israeli assassination airstrikes in two days ago in Dahieh, Beirut, Lebanon, increases to 45 people. (Al Jazeera)
- 2024 Lebanon pager explosions
  - The death toll from the pager explosions targeting Hezbollah members increases to 42, while the injuries increase to over 3,500 (The Guardian)
Mexican drug war
- The toll from the shootouts since September 9 between rival factions of the Sinaloa Cartel in Sinaloa, Mexico, increases to 70 people killed and 51 missing. (Al Jazeera)

Law and crime

Politics and elections

2024 Sri Lankan presidential election
- For the first time in Sri Lanka's history, election officials began a second round of vote counting. In the first round, National People's Power candidate Anura Kumara Dissanayake led with 42.31% of the vote counted, while Opposition Leader and United People's Power candidate Sajith Premadasa took second place with 32.76%. Incumbent President Ranil Wickremesinghe comes in third place with 17% of the vote. (AP)
- Following the counting of second and third preferences, Anura Kumara Dissanayake is declared president-elect by the election commission. (BBC)

Sports