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Armed conflicts and attacks

• 2024 Iran–Israel conflict
  • October 2024 Iranian strikes against Israel
    • Iran launches a series of missile attacks against Israel. The U.S. State Department had previously warned of an imminent Iranian ballistic missile attack on Israel, with a U.S. official saying such an attack would carry "severe consequences for Iran." (The Guardian)
• Israel–Hamas war
  • Israel–Hezbollah conflict (2023–present)
    • 2024 Jaffa shooting
      • Israeli police said gunmen opened fire in Israel's commercial capital Tel Aviv on the boundary with Jaffa. Ten people were critically wounded; eight of them are now dead. The two suspected terrorists were killed. (Reuters)
    • Red Sea crisis
      • A rocket explosion is reported in Tel Aviv, wounding a 50-year-old man who was severely injured from rocket debris, while a drone is intercepted by Israel over the Mediterranean Sea. (Al Jazeera)
  • Israel–Hezbollah conflict
    • 2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon
      • Israeli forces enter southern Lebanon as a ground operation against Hezbollah begins. (Al Jazeera) (Jerusalem Post)
    • Israel launches an airstrike in the Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp in Sidon to target Munir al-Maqdah, an official with the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades in Lebanon. (Al Jazeera)
  • Iran–Israel conflict during the Syrian civil war
    • The Syrian military intercepts several drones or missiles in Damascus. Some explode in the Mezzeh neighbourhood, killing three people and wounding nine more. (Al Jazeera) (AFP via Barron's) (Jerusalem Post) (Reuters)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Battle of Vuhledar
    • Russian forces reach the center of Vuhledar in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, with Ukrainian forces reportedly retreating from the town after being outgunned and outnumbered. (Reuters)
  • Kherson strikes, Zaporizhzhia strikes
    • Seven people are killed and 12 others are injured in Russian strikes in Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine. (Reuters)

Business and economy

• 2024 United States port strike
  • Over 45,000 dockworkers of the International Longshoremen's Association operating at thirty-six United States ports, primarily along the East Coast and the Gulf Coast, begin a labor strike, following the failure of the ports to reach a deal for worker compensation and a ban on automation. (AP)
  • A dump truck driver drives towards picketing workers at the Port of Baltimore, leading to workers dragging the driver out of the truck and violently confronting him. (CNN)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Lam Luk Ka bus crash
  • A student bus crashes and catches fire on Vibhavadi Rangsit Road in Lam Luk Ka District, Pathum Thani Province, Thailand, killing 23 people. (BBC)
• Rwanda reports 8 deaths from Marburg virus. (AP News) (US News)

Law and crime

• Three people are killed and fifteen are injured after a mass stabbing at a supermarket in the Songjiang suburb of Shanghai. Police arrest a 37-year-old man at the scene, adding that he had come to Shanghai to "vent his anger due to a personal economic dispute". (Reuters) (BBC)

Politics and elections

• Mark Rutte is installed as 14th Secretary General of NATO, succeeding Jens Stoltenberg. (Deutsche Welle)
• Shigeru Ishiba is sworn in as the 102nd prime minister of Japan. (Mainichi) (AP News)
• Claudia Sheinbaum becomes the 66th President of Mexico, becoming the first woman to become president in Mexico. (USA Today)
• The 39th President of the United States, Jimmy Carter, turns 100 years old, becoming the first centenarian former President in US history. (BBC)

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