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 by an Iron Dome interception. (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)
Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
- A bomb explode near a convoy carrying foreign diplomats from multiple countries in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. A police officer is killed and four wounded. (AP)

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)

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