Friday,  September 27th, 2024 

Iwao Hakamada, the world’s longest-serving death row inmate, who has waited his potential execution for 56 years, is acquitted in Japan after a retrial. (BBC News) 

The U.S. state of Alabama executes a man via inert gas asphyxiation using nitrogen in the country’s second ever execution by this method. (AP) 

A United States defence official claims that a Chinese nuclear attack submarine, the first of the new Zhou-class, likely sank during construction earlier this year. (ABC News) 

A Mallorcan football fan is sentenced to one year in prison for yelling racist insults at football players Vinícius Júnior and Samuel Chukwueze. (Al Jazeera) 

Norwegian police issue an international search request for a Norwegian-Indian man linked to the sale of pagers to Hezbollah that exploded last week. (Times of Israel) 

At least fifteen airstrikes are carried out against Beirut, Lebanon, in what is described as the worst attack in the city so far. Israel claims they have targeted Hezbollah’s central headquarters. Four buildings are destroyed. (Al Jazeera) 

Israel launches an airstrike against a military post in the countryside near Damascus, Syria, killing five soldiers and wounding another. (Al Arabiya) 

During the first six months of this year at least 3,661 have been killed in Haiti, including 100 children, amid the ongoing gang violence. (Al Jazeera) 

Russian Ministry of Defense claims full occupation of Marynivka village in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. (Al Arabiya) 

At least one person is killed and five others are injured in a Russian missile strike on a police department in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine. (Reuters) 

Three people are killed and 14 others are injured when Russian drones hit Izmail in Odesa Oblast, Ukraine. (Reuters) 

Fifteen people are killed after the collapse of an illegal gold mine in Solok Regency, West Sumatra, Indonesia. (Reuters) 

Shigeru Ishiba defeats Sanae Takaichi in a runoff election to become the next president and prime minister designate. (kyodonews) 

One million power outages are reported in Georgia, United States due to wind and flooding caused by Hurricane Helene. A rare flash flood emergency is issued for Metro Atlanta. (WABE-TV) 

Thursday, September 26th, 2024 

Prior to a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, U.S. President Joe Biden announces a military aid package of more than $8 billion for Ukraine and directs The Pentagon to allocate all remaining security funds to Ukraine by the end of his presidential term in January 2025. (Reuters) 

The United States grants Israel a $8.7 billion military aid package, with U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin stating that the U.S. will not change its commitment to providing military aid to Israel. (Reuters) 

Israel rejects proposals from the United States, Australia, and the European Union to initiate a temporary 21-day ceasefire with Hezbollah. (Reuters) 

Two people, including Mohammad Hussein Srour, a senior commander in Hezbollah, are killed and 15 others are injured in an Israeli airstrike in Beirut, Lebanon. (Al Jazeera) 

At least 92 people are killed and 153 others are injured in airstrikes across Lebanon, bringing the total death toll from the airstrikes to more than 700 people. (Al Jazeera) 

Algeria imposes visa requirements on Moroccans, accusing them of criminal activity in Algeria, including “espionage” and “drug and human trafficking”. (Al Arabiya) 

At least 46 people, including 37 children, who were taking part in Jivitputrika festivities in Bihar, India, drown in rivers and bodies of water swollen by ongoing flooding across India. (Reuters) 

Hurricane Helene makes landfall in Florida, United States, as a Category 4 hurricane, with sustained winds of 140 mph (230 km/h) and a minimum central pressure of 938 millibars. (National Hurricane Center) 

Tropical storm conditions occur across western Florida, with an automated weather station recording sustained winds of 54 mph (87 km/h) with gusts up to 68 mph (109 km/h) near Tampa Bay. (National Hurricane Center) 

A bus crashes in to a river in Wolaita, Ethiopia, killing 28 people and wounding 19 more. (Barron’s) 

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Tuesday,  September 24th, 2024 

The Israeli military advises Lebanese civilians in southern Lebanon to evacuate north. (Associated Press) 

The United States deploys additional military forces to the Middle East following significantly escalating conflict between Israel and Hezbollah and a potential wider regional conflict, adding to the 40,000 U.S. troops already present in the region. (AP) 

German police announce that they found 95 kg (209 lb) of cocaine worth €7 million ($7.8 million) hidden inside banana crates in supermarkets across North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. (DW) 

Climate researchers report that since 1985, deforestation in the Amazon has caused the loss of an area of rainforest equal to the combined area of France and Germany. (France 24) 

The United Nations adopts the “Pact for the Future“, aiming for multilateral cooperative work towards peace and security, global governance, climate change, sustainable development, human rights, and more. (Reuters) 

Researchers from the University of Cape Town and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology announce they have reconstructed the oldest human genome ever found, belonging to a man and a woman who lived about 10,000 years ago in the Mesolithic period. The prior oldest decoded genome was from about 2,000 years ago. (DW) 

Swedish lithium-ion technology developer Northvolt announces revised company operational scopes and its intention to layoff 1,600 workers in the country. (CBC) 

The Israeli government declares a nationwide state of emergency through September 30. (Anadolu Agency) 

The Israel Defense Forces announce that they killed Ibrahim Qubaisi, Hezbollah’s missiles and rocket force commander, in an airstrike in Beirut, Lebanon. (Reuters) 

Tropical Storm Helene forms in the Gulf of Mexico. It is expected to become a major hurricane before making landfall on the Gulf Coast of the United States on Thursday, September 26. (National Hurricane Center) 

The University of Waterloo and Lakehead University in Canada announce that they have positively identified bones found on King William Island in 1982 as those of James Fitzjames, captain of HMS Erebus during Franklin’s lost expedition. (University of Waterloo) 

The toll from the ongoing Israeli airstrikes against southern Lebanon since yesterday increases to 558 people killed, including 50 children, and 1,835 injured. (Al Jazeera) 

At least three people are killed and 22 others are injured in a Russian guided bomb attack on an apartment building in Kharkiv, Ukraine. (Reuters) 

Ahmad Alissa, the gunman responsible for killing ten people at a supermarket in Boulder, Colorado, United States, in 2021, is convicted of ten counts of first-degree murder and sentenced to ten consecutive life sentences. (AP) 

Monday,  September 23rd, 2024 

Hezbollah launches a barrage of rockets and Fadi 1 and Wadi 2 missiles at the Israeli Air Force Ramat David Airbase in Haifa, Israel, in retaliation for the assassination of Ibrahim Aqil with three Israeli civilians injured in Krayot and Lower Galilee and one lightly injured by an Iron Dome interception.  (AP) 

The Israeli Air Force conducts over 1,400 airstrikes in southern Lebanon and Beirut, killing at least 274 people and wounding over 1,024 others. (Al Jazeera) 

Over 492 people are killed and 1,645 others are injured when the Israeli Air Force conducts over 1,400 airstrikes in Lebanon targeting Hezbollah, the deadliest day of conflict since the 2006 Lebanon War.  (Al Jazeera) 

Hezbollah launches dozens of rockets and drones at Israel in retaliation for the airstrikes. (CBS News) 

The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon advises all posted civilian employees to evacuate southern Lebanon. (The Jerusalem Post) 

The Israeli military advises Lebanese civilians in southern Lebanon to evacuate north. (AP) 

The Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp arrests twelve people in six different provinces accused of being foreign operatives for Israel and “planning acts against Iran’s security”. (Reuters) 

Japanese fighter jets fire warning flares at a Russian aircraft that violated Japanese airspace off Rebun Island, the first time such flares had been fired by Japan Air Self-Defense Force aircraft. (Reuters) 

The Russian Foreign Ministry reports that at least 56 Russian civilians were killed and 266 others were injured by the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Kursk Oblast, Russia, which the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry denies as Russian propaganda. (Reuters) 

A court in Argentina orders the arrest of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro and interior minister Diosdado Cabello, accusing them of crimes against humanity. (Infobae) 

The Supreme Court of Venezuela ordered the arrest of Argentinian President Javier Milei after Argentina detained a Venezuelan aircraft. (AP) 

The United Nations adopts the “Pact for the Future“, aiming for multilateral cooperative work towards peace and security, global governance, climate change, sustainable development, human rights, and more. (Reuters) 

The Government of France sends the Companies for Republican Security elite riot police to Martinique for the first time in over 65 years, following resistance from cost-of-living and social inequality protesters against France-issued bans on demonstrations. (AP) 

At least 30 decomposing bodies are found in a boat off the coast of Dakar, Senegal. (Reuters) 

At least four people are found dead after a small boat carrying migrants sinks off the coast of Samos, Greece. (AP) 

In Australian football, Patrick Cripps wins his second Brownlow Medal with 45 votes, the most votes since the current voting system was introduced, and also becomes the seventeenth player to win the award more than once. (ABC News Australia) 

Sunday, September 22nd, 2024 

The death toll from the pager explosions across Lebanon last week increases to 42 people, with more than 3,500 others injured. (The Guardian) 

The death toll from the Israeli airstrikes two days ago in Dahieh, Beirut, Lebanon, increases to at least 45 militants and civilians. (Al Jazeera) 

Hezbollah launches a barrage of rockets at an Israel Defense Forces base in Haifa, Israel, in retaliation for the assassination of Ibrahim Aqil. An Israeli civilian is lightly injured by an Iron Dome interception. (CTV News) (AP) 

At least seven people are killed in an Israeli airstrike on the Kafr Qasim school on the Al-Shati refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. (Al Jazeera) 

Israeli forces carry out a raid and order the closure of the offices of Al Jazeera Arabic in Ramallah in the West Bank. (AP) 

The Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp arrests twelve people in six different provinces accused of being foreign operatives for Israel and “planning acts against Iran’s security”. (Reuters) 

A police officer is killed and four others are injured in an IED attack on a multinational diplomatic convoy in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (AP) 

The death toll from the ongoing shootouts between rival factions of the Sinaloa Cartel in Sinaloa, Mexico, increases to 70 people with 51 others missing. (Al Jazeera) 

At least 16 people are injured in Russian airstrikes in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine. (Reuters) 

Three people are killed, three others are injured, and a person is missing when a two-story building collapses in Naples, Italy. (CTV News) 

Six people are killed and eight others are missing in floods and landslides caused by record rainfall in the Noto Peninsula of Japan. (Al Jazeera) 

For the first time in Sri Lanka’s history, election officials begin 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 came in third place with 17% of the vote. Following the counting of second and third preferences, Dissanayake is declared president-elect by the election commission. (BBC News) 

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