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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