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Topics in the news

Iran's flag bearers at Paralympics

• The Summer Paralympics open (ceremony pictured) in Paris, France.
• More than four hundred people are killed in an Islamist militant attack in Barsalogho Department, Burkina Faso.
• The Islamic State claims responsibility for a mass stabbing that killed three people at a festival in Solingen, Germany.
• In cycling, Katarzyna Niewiadoma wins the Tour de France Femmes.

Ongoing:

• Israel–Hamas war
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• Russian invasion of Ukraine
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• Sudanese civil war
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Recent deaths:

• Leonard Riggio
• Joe D'Alessandris
• Sol Bamba
• Steve Silberman
• Sid Eudy
• Alexander Goehr

September 3, 2024 (2024-09-03) (Tuesday)

September 2, 2024 (2024-09-02) (Monday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Afghan conflict
  • Six people are killed and 13 others are injured in a suicide bombing in Kabul, Afghanistan. No group has claimed responsibility for the bombing. (AP)
• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • Two people, including an independent contractor working for UNIFIL, are killed in an Israeli airstrike on the Tyre-Naqoura road in Lebanon. (Al Jazeera)
• Red Sea crisis
  • Houthi militants strike two crude oil tankers located in the Red Sea with multiple missiles and drones. (Reuters)

Arts and culture

• Wreck of the Titanic
  • An expedition to the shipwreck of the RMS Titanic reveals considerable deterioration of the bow, as well as the rediscovery of a bronze Diana of Versailles replica last seen during the initial survey of the wreck in 1986. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Pacific typhoon season
  • At least fourteen people are killed in landslides and floods caused by Tropical Storm Yagi in the Philippines. (AP)
• Ten children are killed or injured when a bus crashes into a group of middle school students in Tai'an City, Shandong, China. (AP)

International relations

• Foreign relations of Ukraine, Mongolia–Russia relations
  • President of Russia Vladimir Putin arrives in Mongolia to discuss a China–Russia gas pipeline meant to recoup Russian losses from Western sanctions, despite Ukraine and the European Union urging Mongolia to arrest Putin under his International Criminal Court warrant. (Reuters) (Euronews)
  • Ukraine's Foreign Ministry states that Mongolia's refusal to arrest Vladimir Putin while on a state visit means that it shares "responsibility for the war crimes" committed by Russia, and vows to work with allies to enforce punitive measures towards Mongolia. (Reuters)
• Foreign relations of Turkey
  • Turkey formally applies to join the BRICS geopolitical bloc, citing the lack of progress in its accession to the European Union. (Bloomberg) (Daily Sabah)
• United States–Venezuela relations
  • The United States seizes a Dassault Falcon 900 jet used by Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro on accusations that the purchase of the jet violated U.S. sanctions against Venezuela, and flies the jet from the Dominican Republic to Florida. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• Brazilian investigation into Elon Musk
  • The Brazilian Supreme Court unanimously upholds justice Alexandre de Moraes' decision to block X, formerly known as Twitter, in the country. De Moraes also set a daily fine of R$50,000 (US$8,900) for people or companies using VPNs to access the site. (AP)
• Violence against homeless people
  • Four people are killed in a mass shooting targeting homeless people on a Chicago Transit Authority train in Forest Park, Illinois, United States. (WBBM-TV)
• Nth Room case, Gender inequality in South Korea
  • The South Korean National Police Agency announces an investigation into the messaging app Telegram for abetting and hosting chat rooms that distribute deepfake pornography, including of children. (DW)
• At least five people were shot, with two critically injured, at the West Indian Day Parade in Brooklyn, New York, United States. (AP)
• At least two inmates are killed in an attempted prison break at Makala Central Prison in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Al Jazeera)

Politics and elections

• Israel–Hamas war protests
  • Israel–Hamas war protests in the United States
    • Thousands of people gather in Manhattan, New York, United States, to protest against the Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip, rally for support of Palestinians, and call for New York institutions to divest from Israeli businesses. (CBS News)
  • September 2024 Israel ceasefire protests
    • Histadrut, Israel's national trade union center, begins a one-day general strike to protest against the Netanyahu government's failure to negotiate a ceasefire and hostage deal. The strike is later ordered to end prematurely by a Tel Aviv labor court, claiming the strike was illegally political in nature rather than economic. (BBC) (The Guardian)
• Over ten thousand hotel workers strike in cities across the U.S. to demand higher pay, as part of the Hotel Workers Rising campaign organized by the UNITE HERE labor union. (Reuters)

Sports

• 2024 Summer Paralympics
  • Japan at the 2024 Summer Paralympics
    • Japan defeats the United States in the Wheelchair rugby final, winning its first ever gold medal in the sport. (Olympics)

September 1, 2024 (2024-09-01) (Sunday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • Israel–Hamas war
    • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
      • At least five Palestinians, including a child, are killed and several others are injured in Israeli strikes on the Jabalia refugee camp and the Shuja'iyya neighborhood of Gaza City. (Anadolu Agency) (Middle East Monitor)
  • 2024 Tarqumiyah shooting
    • Three Israeli police officers are killed in a drive-by shooting on a road near Tarqumiyah in the West Bank. (The Jerusalem Post)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Ukraine launches more than a hundred drones against targets in Russia, including the Konakovo Power Station in Konakovo, Tver Oblast, and the Moscow Refinery in Moscow. (Reuters)
  • Eastern Ukraine campaign
    • Russia reports that its forces have taken control of the settlements of Ptyche and Vyimka in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. (Reuters)
  • Kharkiv strikes
    • At least 47 people are injured when Russian missiles hit a shopping mall and events complex in Kharkiv, Ukraine. (Reuters)
• 2024 Bangladesh quota reform movement
  • The office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights announces that it will deploy a fact-finding team to investigate human rights abuses and violations committed by government forces during the quota reform movement, after being requested to do so by the interim government of Muhammad Yunus. (The New York Times)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Kamchatka Mil Mi-8 crash
  • The Mil Mi-8T helicopter which went missing yesterday over the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia is found crashed, with all 22 people on board dead. (Kommersant) (BBC News)

Health and environment

• 2024 Brazil wildfires
  • The number of wildfires in the Amazon rainforest reaches its highest number in fourteen years at 38,266 fire hotspots as a result of an ongoing drought in South America. (Reuters)
• A weather station near Qeshm International Airport in Dayrestan, Iran, records the highest unverified heat index on Earth of 82.2 °C (180.0 °F) and the highest dew point of 36.1 °C (97.0 °F). Climatologists will investigate to confirm the readings' accuracy. (The Economic Times) (Times of India)

Law and crime

• Eleven people are killed and more than 40 others are injured when a truck crashes into a bar in Azua, Dominican Republic. The driver subsequently flees the scene. (AP)
• Two people are killed and four more injured during a vehicle-ramming attack outside a restaurant in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. The perpetrator's motive is unknown. (AP)

Politics and elections

• Israel–Hamas war
  • September 2024 Israel ceasefire protests
    • Hundreds of thousands of Israelis, including approximately 300,000 in Tel Aviv, protest in cities across the country following the recovery of the bodies of six hostages from Gaza, with the national trade union center calling for a general strike on Monday and for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to resign after failing to negotiate a ceasefire. (The New York Times) (CNN)
    • At least 29 people are arrested in Tel Aviv on accusations of vandalism, disorderly conduct, and attacking police officers. (CNN)
• 2024 Saxony state election, 2024 Thuringian state election
  • Parliamentary elections in the German states of Saxony and Thuringia show large gains for the right-wing populist Alternative for Germany party and the left-wing populist Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht party as well as losses for the left-wing and liberal parties of the governing coalition and for the socialist The Left party. In Thuringia, a far-right party comes in first place in a state election for the first time since World War II. (DW)

August 31, 2024 (2024-08-31) (Saturday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israel–Hamas war
  • Israel–Hamas war hostage crisis
    • The Israeli military recovers the bodies of six hostages kidnapped by Hamas during the October 7 attack on Israel, including American citizen Hersh Goldberg-Polin, from an underground tunnel near Rafah, Gaza. (NBC News)
  • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
    • Israeli strikes kill at least 48 people across the Gaza Strip. (Reuters)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Five civilians are killed in Ukrainian missile strikes on Belgorod, Russia. (Reuters)
• Red Sea crisis
  • The Houthis claim they have attacked the Liberia-flagged container ship MV Groton for the second time in the Gulf of Aden. (Reuters)
• Somali Civil War
  • Al-Shabaab bombs several businesses in the Tabelaha Sheikh Ibrahim neighborhood of Mogadishu, Somalia, targeting shops that had complied with the government's directive to install CCTV cameras. (Idilnews)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Kamchatka Mil Mi-8 crash
  • A Mil Mi-8T helicopter with 22 people onboard goes missing over the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia. (AP)
• 2024 Pacific typhoon season
  • The death toll from the effects of Typhoon Shanshan in Japan increases to six, with over 100 people injured. (Reuters)
• 2024 Yemen floods
  • The death toll from flooding in Al Mahwit Governorate, Yemen, increases to at least 97 people. (DW)
• Seven people are killed and dozens of others are injured in a bus crash near Vicksburg, Mississippi, United States. (CBS News)
• Three people are killed and two more injured after a Cessna 421C crashes in a row of townhouses near Troutdale Airport in Troutdale, Oregon, United States. (AP)

International relations

• Foreign relations of Algeria
  • The BRICS New Development Bank authorizes Algeria as a new bank member. (Reuters)

Science and technology

• Ford Motor Company announces it is recalling over 90,000 vehicles due to issues with the engine intake valves. (Reuters)

Sports

• 2024 Summer Paralympics
  • Poland at the 2024 Summer Paralympics
    • Polish F32 Paralympian Róża Kozakowska is disqualified one day after winning gold in the Women's club throw F32 event due to an irregularity with her equipment. (Polsatnews)

August 30, 2024 (2024-08-30) (Friday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • 2024 Israeli military operation in the northern West Bank
    • Three Palestinian militants, including Hamas' leader in Jenin, Wissam Hazem, are killed in a drone strike at the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank. (Al Jazeera)
  • An Israeli soldier is killed and several others are injured in an IED attack in Jenin, West Bank. (Palestine Chronicle)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Kharkiv strikes
    • Seven people are killed when a Russian guided bomb strikes a residential building and playground in Kharkiv, Ukraine. (Reuters)
  • Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy dismisses the commander of the Ukrainian Air Force Mykola Oleshchuk following the crash of an F-16 fighter jet and the death of its pilot while defending against Russian strikes. (Reuters)
• Sudanese civil war
  • Battle of Khartoum
    • Seven people are killed and 25 others are injured in shelling near Khartoum, Sudan. (Sudan Tribune)
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • Twelve Pakistani Taliban members are killed during a raid by the Pakistani Army in the Tirah Valley of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, bringing the number of insurgents killed there to 37 since August 20. (AP)
• Islamic State insurgency in Iraq
  • At least 15 Islamic State militants are killed and seven U.S. troops are injured in a joint United States–Iraq raid on Islamic State camps in Anbar Desert, Iraq. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Venezuelan blackouts
  • A widespread power outage affects most of Venezuela with President Nicolás Maduro's government blaming it on sabotage by the opposition. (DW)
• Four people are killed and one other is missing when a National Republican Guard helicopter crashes into the Douro river in Lamego, Portugal. (DW)
• At least two people are killed and 20 others are injured when a roof of a church that was used for food distribution collapses in Recife, Brazil. (Reuters) (Yahoo! News)

International relations

• Afghanistan–Germany relations
  • Germany deports 28 convicted Afghan criminals, marking the first such action since the Taliban regained control of Afghanistan in August 2021. (AP)
• Mongolia–Russia relations, Foreign relations of Ukraine
  • President of Ukraine Volodomyr Zelenskyy urges Mongolia to arrest Russian President Vladimir Putin as he travels to Ulaanbaatar to make his first meeting to an International Criminal Court member state since the issue of his ICC arrest warrant. (France 24)
• Russia–NATO relations, Ukraine–NATO relations, August 2024 Kursk Oblast incursion
  • Secretary General of NATO Jens Stoltenberg declares that Ukraine's incursion into Russian territory in Kursk Oblast is legitimate under international law, as part of Ukraine's right to self-defense. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• Censorship of Twitter, Censorship in Brazil, Brazilian investigation into Elon Musk
  • Brazil blocks X after they ignore court orders relating to misinformation about the 2023 Brazilian Congress attack on the platform. (The New York Times)
• Six people are wounded in a stabbing attack on a bus in Siegen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. (DW)

Politics and elections

• Death of Tūheitia Paki
  • Incumbent Māori King Tūheitia dies at the age of 69 while recovering from heart surgery. (New Zealand Herald)

Sports

• 2024 ATP Tour
  • 2024 US Open – Men's singles
    • Defending men's champion Novak Djokovic is defeated in the third round by Alexei Popyrin, 6-4, 6-4, 2-6, 6-4, making 2024 the first tennis season since 2002 in which no Grand Slam tournaments were won by one of Djokovic, Roger Federer, or Rafael Nadal, collectively known as the "big three." (AP News)

August 29, 2024 (2024-08-29) (Thursday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • Israel–Hamas war
    • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
      • 2024 Gaza Strip polio epidemic
        • Israel and Hamas agree to three separate three-day humanitarian pauses to allow the World Health Organization to vaccinate more than 600,000 children against polio in the Gaza Strip. (Reuters)
      • The Israel Defence Forces carry out an airstrike on a humanitarian aid convoy in Gaza that kills five workers. (The Guardian)
  • 2024 Israeli military operation in the northern West Bank
    • Mohammed "Abu Shujaa" Jaber, leader of the Tulkarm Brigade, and four other fighters are killed in an Israeli attack on the Nur Shams refugee camp in Tulkarm in the West Bank. (Al Jazeera)
    • The number of Palestinians killed since the beginning of the operation in the West Bank two days ago increases to 18, including eight in Jenin, six in Tulkarm, and four in Tubas. Dozens of others are wounded and at least 20 others have been arrested. (Al Jazeera)
• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • IDF launches air strikes on Hezbollah targets in Kafr Kila and Yarine in southern Lebanon. (Al Jazeera)
  • Hezbollah launches four rocket and drone strikes on the outpost of the IDF 210th Golan Division in Nafah, Golan Heights. (Al Jazeera)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Eastern Ukraine campaign
    • The Russian defence ministry claims that its forces have captured the settlements of Mykolaivka in Donetsk Oblast and Stelmakhivka in Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine. (Al Arabiya)
• 2024 Bangladesh quota reform movement
  • Bangladeshi interim health minister Nurjahan Begum says that more than 1,000 people were killed during last month's anti-government protests, making it the bloodiest period in the country's history since the 1971 independence movement. (Al Arabiya)
• 2024 Red Sea oil spill
  • The Houthis release footage showing their fighters boarding and placing explosives on the Greek-flagged MT Sounion oil tanker, causing explosions that put the tanker at risk of causing a major oil spill in the Red Sea. (AP)
• Kurdistan Workers' Party insurgency
  • Iraq shoots down a Turkish TAI Aksungur drone over Kirkuk Governorate. (Middle East Eye)

Business and economy

• Effects of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans
  • It is announced that the abandoned Six Flags New Orleans amusement park, which has been closed since Hurricane Katrina struck the park and New Orleans, will be demolished beginning next month. Bayou Phoenix is expected to rebuild the area as a $500 million complex with youth sports fields, hotels, shops, a movie studio and a waterpark. (Axios)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Pacific typhoon season
  • More than 250,000 households are affected by power outages and dozens of people are reportedly injured as Typhoon Shanshan makes landfall over Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. (Reuters)
  • Three people are killed, seven are injured, and one person is reported missing in Kyushu due to Typhoon Shanshan. (Reuters)
• 2024 Yemen floods
  • The death toll from the floods in Al Mahwit Governorate, Yemen, increases to 33. (ABC News)
• Migrant vessel incidents on the Mediterranean Sea
  • Pope Francis strongly condemns European mistreatment of migrants crossing from the Mediterranean Sea and refusal to offer aid as means to reject them from entering European nations as "a grave sin", and requests the expansion of migrant access routes to the continent. (The Hill) (Reuters)
• Two people are killed and ten others are injured in a gas leak at an Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps training center in Isfahan province, Iran. (AP)
• Three people are killed and 17 are injured when a car crashes into a group of migrants in Oaxaca, Mexico. (AP)

Health and environment

• One hundred tons of dead freshwater fish wash up in and around the port of Volos in Greece as a result of severe flooding followed by a prolonged drought in Lake Karla caused by "extreme climate fluctuations". (AP)

International relations

• France–Serbia relations
  • Serbia and French aerospace manufacturer Dassault Aviation sign an agreement for the purchase of twelve Dassault Rafale warplanes. (Le Monde)

Law and crime

• Germany–Iran relations
  • The interior ministry of Hamburg, Germany, expels the Iranian leader of the Islamic Centre Hamburg Mohammad Hadi Mofatteh, giving Mofatteh a September 11 deadline to either leave the country or face deportation. (Reuters)

Sports

• The Taliban government bans mixed martial arts, saying that the sport is too violent and has a risk of death and that it is incompatible with Islamic law. (BBC News)

August 28, 2024 (2024-08-28) (Wednesday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israel–Hamas war
  • Israeli incursions in the West Bank during the Israel–Hamas war
    • 2024 Israeli military operation in the northern West Bank
      • The Israel Defense Forces launch a major military operation in the West Bank, primarily in the cities of Jenin and Tulkarm, with at least ten Palestinians killed and several others injured. The Al-Israa Specialised Hospital and the Thabet Thabet Governmental Hospital are surrounded, and ambulances are blocked from entering the hospitals. (Al Jazeera)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Ukrainian drones strike an oil terminal in Kamensky District, Rostov Oblast, Russia, causing a large fire. Ukraine also launches drone attacks on Kirov Oblast for the first time, striking an oil depot in Kotelnich. The Russian Defence Ministry says that air defences have shot down eight drones over Voronezh Oblast. (Reuters)
• Somali Civil War
  • Las Anod conflict
    • At least nine people are killed in fighting between SSC-Khatumo forces and Somaliland troops near Erigavo, Sanaag, Somaliland. (Garowe Online) (BBC News Somali)
• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • Three Islamic Jihad Palestinian fighters and a Hezbollah militant are killed in an Israeli drone strike on a vehicle at a checkpoint on the Lebanon–Syria border. (Al Jazeera)

• Myanmar civil war
  • Tatmadaw forces launch a major counteroffensive against rebels in Kachin State, Myanmar, following the fall of Momauk to the Kachin Independence Army. (Myanmar Now)
  • A UN official says that the Arakan Army has begun indiscriminately attacking the Muslim Rohingya minority in Rakhine State after capturing much of the state, forcing thousands of people to flee. The rebel group is reportedly "rounding up groups" of Rohingya men and shelling Rohingya villages. (The Guardian)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Sudan floods
  • Arbaat Dam collapse
    • The death toll from flooding across Sudan including the collapse of the Arbaat Dam near Port Sudan, Sudan, increases to 148 people. (Sudan Tribune)
• 2024 Pacific typhoon season
  • Hundreds of flights are cancelled and the Japan Meteorological Agency issues an alert in Kagoshima Prefecture as Typhoon Shanshan is expected to make landfall over southwestern Japan. (Reuters)
  • Three people are injured and three others are reported missing due to heavy rains and landslides in Kyushu, according to the Fire and Disaster Management Agency. (MSN)
• 2024 Afghanistan–Pakistan floods
  • The death toll from flooding in Pakistan increases to 245 people. (Dunya News)
• 2024 Yemen floods
  • At least 33 people are killed by landslides and heavy rainfall in Al Mahwit, Yemen. (NOS)

International relations

• Israel–United States relations, Israeli settler violence
  • The United States Department of State imposes sanctions on Israeli settler group Hashomer Yosh and a civilian security coordinator for the Yitzhar settlement for extremist settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank. (Al Jazeera)

Law and crime

• Haitian crisis
  • Gang war in Haiti
    • Haitian National Police and Kenya Police, along with other foreign police forces as part of the Multinational Security Support Mission in Haiti, launch a joint operation to oust violent gangs from parts of the Haitian capital city Port-au-Prince. (AP)
• 1Malaysia Development Berhad scandal
  • The Swiss Federal Criminal Court convicts two PetroSaudi executives to six and seven years in prison respectively for embezzling more than US$1.8 billion from the Malaysian strategic development firm 1Malaysia Development Berhad. (Al Jazeera)
• 2023 Quran burnings in Sweden
  • Swedish prosecutors charge Salwan Momika and Salwan Najem with four counts of "offences of agitation against an ethnic or national group" after the two desecrated the Quran and made derogatory remarks about Muslims in Stockholm last year. (Al Jazeera)
• Arrest of Pavel Durov
  • French prosecutors formally indict Telegram CEO Pavel Durov with complicity in distribution of child exploitation media and drug trafficking and ban him from leaving France. (Bloomberg)

Politics and elections

• LXVI Legislature of the Mexican Congress
  • Two senators elected from the defunct Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) in Mexico defect to the ruling Morena party, leaving Morena and its allies one seat short of a supermajority in both chambers of Congress. (AP)

Science and technology

• NASA announces discovery of Earth's subtle electric field, which contributes to the polar wind phenomenon. Its significance as to the emergence of life and complex organisms on Earth, and the planet's physical and chemical properties, are to be analyzed. (NASA Science) (MSN, Newsweek)
• The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration temporarily grounds all SpaceX Falcon 9 launches and orders an investigation following a booster rocket fire incident at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, United States. (AP)

Sports

• 2024 Summer Paralympics
  • The opening ceremony for the 2024 Summer Paralympics is held at Place de la Concorde in Paris, France. (Axios)

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Ongoing events

Disasters

• Gaza humanitarian crisis
• Haitian crisis
• Iceland volcanic eruptions
• Mpox outbreak
• Sudanese famine and refugee crisis
• United States opioid epidemic

Economics

• Argentine monetary crisis
• Chinese property sector crisis
• South African energy crisis
• United Kingdom cost-of-living crisis
• Video game industry layoffs

Politics

• Mexico–United States border crisis
• South China Sea territorial disputes

Protests and strikes

• Israel–Hamas war protests

• University campus protests

• New Caledonia social unrest
• Venezuelan protests

Elections and referendums

Recent

• August

• 19: Kiribati, House of Assembly (2nd)
• 19: Sint Maarten, Parliament

• September

• 01: Azerbaijan, National Assembly

Upcoming

• 07: Algeria, President
• 10: Jordan, House of Representatives

Trials

Recently concluded

• Guinea:0Moussa Dadis Camara
• United States:0Thomas Girardi  •  Bob Menendez  •  Bill Hwang

Ongoing

• Argentina:0Fernando Sabag Montiel
• Israel:0Benjamin Netanyahu
• Kosovo:0Specialist Chambers
• United States:0YSL Records
• ICC:0Ali Kushayb  •  Mahamat Said Abdel Kani

Upcoming

• United States:0Hunter Biden

Sports

• Athletics

• 2024 Diamond League

• American football

• 2024 NCAA Division I FBS season

• Association football

• 2024–25 UEFA Champions League
• 2024–25 UEFA Europa League
• 2024–25 UEFA Conference League
• 2024–25 Premier League
• 2024–25 Serie A
• 2024–25 La Liga
• 2024–25 Bundesliga
• 2024–25 Ligue 1
• 2024 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A
• 2024 Argentine Primera División
• 2024 Major League Soccer season
• 2024 National Women's Soccer League season

• Australian rules football

• 2024 AFL season

• Baseball

• 2024 MLB season

• Basketball

• 2024 WNBA season

• Canadian football

• 2024 CFL season

• International cricket

• 2023–25 ICC World Test Championship

• Golf

• 2024 PGA Tour
• 2024 LPGA Tour

• Motorsport

• 2024 Formula One World Championship
• 2024 MotoGP World Championship
• 2024 NASCAR Cup Series
• 2024 IndyCar Series

• Rugby league

• 2024 NRL season

• Tennis

• 2024 US Open
• 2024 ATP Tour
• 2024 WTA Tour

More details – current sports events

Recent deaths

September / August

• 02: Rodolfo Hernández
• 01: Linda Deutsch
• 31: Sol Bamba
• 31: Obi Ndefo
• 30: Fatman Scoop
• 30: Tūheitia Paki
• 29: Johnny Gaudreau
• 28: Steve Silberman
• 27: Juan Izquierdo
• 27: Charlotte Kretschmann
• 27: Leonard Riggio
• 26: Frank Coppa
• 26: Sven-Göran Eriksson
• 26: Sid Eudy
• 25: Salim Al-Huss
• 24: Christoph Daum
• 25: Alexander Goehr
• 24: Betty Halbreich
• 23: Peter Lundgren
• 23: Russell Malone
• 23: Catherine Ribeiro
• 22: Arthur J. Gregg
• 21: Nell McCafferty
• 21: Bill Pascrell
• 20: Al Attles
• 20: Atsuko Tanaka
• 19: Maria Branyas
• 19: Michel Guérard
• 19: Mike Lynch
• 18: Ruth Johnson Colvin
• 18: Alain Delon
• 18: Phil Donahue
• 17: Virginia Ogilvy
• 17: Silvio Santos
• 16: Afa Anoaʻi
• 15: Peter Marshall
• 15: Jack Russell
• 14: John Lansing
• 14: Gena Rowlands
• 13: Wally Amos
• 13: Greg Kihn
• 13: Frank Selvy
• 12: Kim Kahana
• 11: Daniela Larreal
• 11: Ángel Salazar
• 11: Noël Treanor
• 10: Rachael Lillis
• 10: Peggy Moffitt
• 09: Kevin Sullivan
• 09: Susan Wojcicki
• 08: Issa Hayatou
• 08: Mitzi McCall
• 08: Chi-Chi Rodríguez
• 08: Steve Symms
• 07: Jon McBride
• 06: Billy Bean
• 06: Connie Chiume
• 05: John Aprea
• 05: Graham Thorpe
• 04: Charles Cyphers
• 04: Tsung-Dao Lee
• 04: Duane Thomas
• 03: Yamini Krishnamurthy
• 03: Antônio Meneses

Ongoing conflicts

Global

• War against the Islamic State

Africa

• Cameroon

• Anglophone Crisis

• Central African Republic

• Civil war

• Democratic Republic of the Congo

• Kivu conflict

• Ethiopia

• Amhara conflict

• Mozambique

• Insurgency in Cabo Delgado

• Nigeria

• Boko Haram insurgency

• Sahel insurgency

• Mali War

• Burkina Faso
• Niger

• Somalia

• Civil war

• Sudan

• Civil war

Americas

• Mexico

• Mexican drug war

Asia−Pacific

• Afghanistan

• Islamic State–Taliban conflict
• Republican insurgency

• India

• Naxalite–Maoist insurgency

• Indonesia

• Papua conflict

• Myanmar

• Civil war

• Pakistan

• Insurgency in Balochistan
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

• Philippines

• NPA rebellion

Europe

• Russia and Ukraine

• Russian invasion of Ukraine

Middle East

• Iraq

• Islamic State insurgency

• Israel–Hamas

• Israel–Hezbollah conflict

• Red Sea crisis

• Syria

• Iran–Israel conflict
• Turkish intervention
• U.S.−led intervention

• Turkey

• PKK insurgency

• Yemen

• US–UK intervention

See also – List of ongoing proxy wars

2024 events and developments by topic

Arts

• Animation (Anime)
• Architecture
• Comics
• Film (Horror, Science fiction)
• Literature (Poetry)
• Music (Classical, Country, Hip hop, Jazz, Latin, Metal, Rock, UK, US, Korea)
• Radio
• Television (Australia, Canada, Ireland, UK, Scotland, US)
• Video games

Politics and government

• Elections
• International leaders
• Sovereign states
• Sovereign state leaders
• Territorial governors

Science and technology

• Archaeology
• Biotechnology
• Computing
• Palaeontology
• Quantum computing and communication
• Senescence research
• Space/Astronomy
• Spaceflight
• Sustainable energy research

Environment and environmental sciences

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