Thursday, October 3rd, 2024 

Pork barrel scam The Sandiganbayan in the Philippines acquits Chief Presidential Legal Counsel and former Senate president Juan Ponce Enrile, his former aide Gigi Reyes, and Janet Napoles of plunder in connection with the alleged misuse of Ponce Enrile’s Priority Development Assistance Fund during his senatorial term. (AFP via CNA) (Rappler) 

Fourteen people are killed during floods and landslides in Jablanica, Bosnia and Herzegovina. (Al Jazeera) 

At least one person is critically injured in a building fire at a three-story building in the Old Montreal neighbourhood of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. (CBC News) 

The Israel Defense Forces announces that they killed Rawhi Mushtaha, head of the Hamas government in Gaza, along with Sameh al-Siraj and Sami Oudeh, who were responsible for security in Hamas, in an airstrike 3 months ago in northern Gaza. (BBC News) 

An Israeli Air Force jet launches an airstrike against a bar in Tulkarm in the occupied West Bank, killing at least 18 people. (Al Jazeera) 

Israel launches multiple strikes using bunker buster bombs on Beirut, Lebanon, targeting Hezbollah official Hashem Safieddine. (Al Arabiya) 

The Lebanese Armed Forces open fire on Israeli troops near Bint Jbeil, Nabatieh Governorate, Lebanon, for the first time since the invasion began, after two Lebanese Army soldiers were killed earlier today in separate Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon. (The Times)

A Hellenic Air Force plane evacuates Greek and Cypriot nationals from Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport in Lebanon. (Ekathimerini) 

Armed gunmen from the Gran-Grif gang commit a mass shooting in the town of Pont-Sondé, Haiti, killing at least 20 people and injuring several others, with a local government prosecutor describing the incident as a massacre. (Rezo Nòdwes) 

United States Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas reports that the Federal Emergency Management Agency lacks the funding to provide necessary support for the remainder of the 2024 hurricane season. (Axios) 

Save the Children reports that 17% of all children in Haiti are currently suffering from emergency food insecurity primarily caused by national gang wars. (Reuters) 

Nine people are killed in a fire at the Antai Tian-Sheng Memorial Hospital in Pingtung County, Taiwan. (AP) 

Seven people are killed and 19 others are injured when a bus falls into a ravine in Balochistan, Pakistan. (Dawn) 

At least 78 people are killed when a boat capsizes in Lake Kivu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Al Jazeera) 

184 people are evacuated from Ryanair Flight FR8826, a Boeing 737-800 after it caught fire after a no.2 engine surge at the Brindisi Airport in southern Italy while taxiing the runway. (CTV News) (ASN) 

Ghana reports its first case of mpox this year. (Reuters) 

Officials in Rwanda report that the death toll from the Marburg virus outbreak in the country has increased to 11 people. (AP) 

The United Kingdom and Mauritius jointly announce that a deal has been made to resolve the dispute over the Chagos Archipelago, with sovereignty of the British Indian Ocean Territory being handed over to Mauritius in exchange for the United Kingdom and the United States retaining control of the military base on Diego Garcia for the next 99 years. (BBC News) (

Six migrants are killed and ten others are injured in a mass shooting after two soldiers open fire on a truck near the Guatemalan border in Mexico. (CTV News) 

The Georgian Parliament Speaker signs into law a wide-ranging bill that bans gender transitioning and gender-affirming care, same-sex marriage and adoption, and depictions of LGBTQ+ people in media after the President refused to sign it, which chief European Union diplomat Josep Borrell states could prevent the nation’s accession to the EU. (Politico) 

A Yazidi woman, who had been kidnapped at age 11 by the Islamic State in 2014 in Iraq and sold and trafficked to Gaza, is freed from captivity in Gaza following a secret operation involving the United States and Israel, with the woman’s captor believed to have previously been killed in an Israeli airstrike. (Reuters) 

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Thursday, October 3rd, 2024 

A thousand U.S. soldiers are deployed to western North Carolina — where over half of the 190 reported storm victims in the United States were located — to aid the North Carolina National Guard in humanitarian operations and in finding hundreds of missing residents. (NBC News) 

Nine medics are killed after an Israeli airstrike against an Islamic Health Authority’s office in Beirut, Lebanon, bringing the death toll of the medics killed in the country in the last two weeks to 97. (Al Jazeera)

An Israeli airstrike kills Aziz Salha, known for his role in the 2000 Ramallah lynching, in central Gaza. (Jerusalem Post) 

Former Singapore Transport Minister S. Iswaran, who pleaded guilty to four charges of obtaining valuable items as a public servant and one charge of obstruction of justice last week, is sentenced to a year in jail beginning October 7. (CNA) (Straits Times) 

Wednesday, October 2nd, 2024 

Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs Israel Katz bans UN Secretary-General António Guterres from entering Israel and declares him persona non grata for not “unequivocally” condemning yesterday’s Iranian missile attack. (Reuters)

Hamas military wing Al-Qassam Brigades claims responsibility for yesterday’s mass shooting and stabbing attack in Jaffa, Israel, that killed seven people and injured 17 others. (Al Jazeera) 

Humanitarian aid groups tell Reuters that Israel introduced new customs regulations and restrictions on humanitarian aid deliveries into the Gaza Strip in mid-August, which are significantly delaying the delivery of food and essential supplies via the Jordan route. (Reuters) 

The Gaza Health Ministry reports that at least 51 people (including 7 women and 12 children, as young as 22 months old) were killed in coordinated Israeli strikes in southern Gaza. (Guardian) 

Eight Israeli soldiers are killed in ambushes by Hezbollah militants in southern Lebanon. (AP) 

At least ten people are injured when a Russian guided bomb hits an apartment building in Kharkiv, Ukraine. (Reuters) 

The United Nations International Organization for Migration reports that over 700,000 Haitians are internally displaced in the country due to gang violence, with more than half being children. (Al Jazeera) 

Four Iraqi soldiers are killed and three others are injured in an ambush by Islamic State militants near Kirkuk, Iraq. (Reuters) 

Danish police arrest three Swedes in connection with two explosions that occurred near the Israeli embassy in Copenhagen, Denmark. (Reuters) 

Unexploded ordnance from World War II detonates under a taxiway at Miyazaki Airport in Miyazaki, Japan, causing more than 80 flights to be cancelled. (The Guardian) 

More than 100 people, mostly women and children, are missing after a wooden boat carrying 300 people sinks in the Niger River near Mokwa, Niger State, Nigeria. At least 150 people are rescued and 16 bodies are recovered. (DW)

Two men and a pregnant woman are shot and killed by unidentified assailants in a barbershop in Lisbon, Portugal. The three suspects fled the scene on foot. (Reuters) 

The Mexican Armed Forces announces its soldiers opened fire on a truck carrying migrants and killed six people near Huixtla, Chiapas, Mexico. (Al Jazeera) 

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation announces an investigation into a plastic factory after six workers have died or went missing from flooding by Hurricane Helene. (ABC News) 

Two NASCAR teams, including one owned by former basketball player Michael Jordan, file an antitrust lawsuit against NASCAR, alleging “anticompetitive and exclusionary practices”. (The Athletic) 

United States Navy destroyers USS Bulkeley and USS Cole successfully shoot down several Iranian missiles heading towards Israel. (UK Defence Journal) 

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Wednesday, October 2nd, 2024 

CNN begins to roll out a paywall to view its news website. (Reuters) 

The last coal-fired power station in the United Kingdom shuts down in Ratcliffe-on-Soar, Nottinghamshire, England, ending the 142-year history of coal-fired electricity in the UK. (The Guardian) 

Tuvalu‘s climate minister denounces the Australian Labor government’s decision to expand three coal mines as an existential threat to the nation, due to the role of the mines in causing rising sea levels that have forced mass displacement across Tuvalu‘s low-lying islands. (The Guardian) 

The death toll from Hurricane Helene surpasses 160 people, with most of the deaths occurring in North Carolina, making it the second-deadliest hurricane to strike the contiguous United States in the past fifty years, behind only Hurricane Katrina. (CNN) 

Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, celebrates his 100th birthday, becoming the first centenarian former U.S. president. (BBC News) 

Claudia Sheinbaum is inaugurated as the 66th president of Mexico, becoming the first female Mexican president. (USA Today) 

The U.S. Vice President debate is held between Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and U.S. Senator JD Vance. (Business Insider) 

Russian forces capture the town of Vuhledar in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, after Ukrainian forces retreat from the town. (The Daily Telegraph) 

In an attack on IDF soldiers who crossed over into Lebanon, Hezbollah kills 2 and wounds 18 others. (Al Jazeera) 

Israeli strikes kill 51 people in southern Gaza, including women and children. (AP) 

Danish police arrest three Swedes in connection with two explosions 100 meters away from the Israeli embassy in Copenhagen. (Reuters) 

4 Iraqi Soldiers were killed and 3 injured in an ambush by Islamic State terrorists near Kirkuk in Kirkuk Governorate, Iraq. (Reuters) 

Tuesday,  October 1st, 2024 

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) 

Shigeru Ishiba is sworn in as the 65th prime minister of Japan, succeeding Fumio Kishida. (Mainichi) (AP) 

The Syrian military intercepts several drones or missiles over Damascus. Several of them explode in the Mezzeh neighbourhood, killing three people and injuring nine others.  (Reuters) 

Iran launches a wave of ballistic missile attacks against Israel in retaliation for the 2024 Hezbollah headquarters strike, killing a Palestinian civilian and injuring two others. The U.S. State Department had previously warned of an imminent Iranian attack, saying that such an attack would carry “severe consequences for Iran”. (The Guardian) 

Israeli forces invade southern Lebanon and begin a ground operation against Hezbollah. (Al Jazeera) 

A rocket explosion is reported in Tel Aviv, Israel, with the debris severely injuring a man. Separately, a drone is intercepted by Israeli forces over the Mediterranean Sea. (Al Jazeera) 

Israel launches an airstrike in the Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp in Sidon, Lebanon, in order to target Munir al-Maqdah, an official of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades. (Al Jazeera) 

Two Palestinian gunmen open fire on pedestrians in Jaffa, Israel, killing at least seven people and injuring at least 17 others. The gunmen are subsequently shot and killed by armed civilians and police. (Reuters) 

Seven people are killed and 12 others are injured in Russian strikes in Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine. (Reuters) 

An Integrated Food Security Phase Classification report declares famine conditions in Haiti, with nearly 48% of Haitians suffering from Stage 4 “crisis” levels of food insecurity and nearly 6,000 in starvation. (Al Jazeera) 

A bus crashes and catches fire in Lam Luk Ka District, Pathum Thani Province, Thailand, killing 23 people. (BBC News) 

Rwanda reports eight deaths from Marburg virus.  (US News) 

At least 45 people are killed and dozens are missing after two boats carrying migrants capsized off the coast of Djibouti. (Al Jazeera) 

Three people are killed and fifteen others are injured in a mass stabbing at a supermarket in Songjiang district, Shanghai, China. Police arrest a 37-year-old man at the scene, adding that the man had come to Shanghai in order to “vent his anger due to a personal economic dispute”. (BBC News) 

Former Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte is installed as the 14th Secretary General of NATO, succeeding Jens Stoltenberg. (DW) 

Monday,  September 30th, 2024 

Israel informs the U.S. State Department that it will launch an imminent ground invasion of southern Lebanon in order to clear out Hezbollah infrastructure near Israeli border communities. (The Washington Post) 

Three militants of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine are killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Kola District of Beirut, Lebanon. Separately, Hamas’s commander in Lebanon, Fatah Sharif, is killed alongside his family in Tyre. (Al Jazeera) 

A Lebanese Army soldier is killed in an Israeli drone strike in Wazzani, Lebanon. (The Times of Israel) 

At least 95 people are killed and 172 others are injured in Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon. (Al Jazeera) 

Five children belonging to the Imam al-Mahdi Scouts are killed in an Israeli airstrike in Charkiyeh in southern Lebanon. (Anadolu Agency) 

Lebanese troops withdraw from the Israeli border ahead of an Israeli ground offensive. (Reuters) 

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees reports that at least 100,000 people have crossed from Lebanon into Syria in order to flee from Israeli strikes. (Al Jazeera) 

The death toll from the floods and landslides in Nepal increases to 204 people, with 30 others missing. This is the highest recorded monsoon rainfall in Nepal in the past two decades. (The Guardian) 

Twelve people are killed, 29 others are rescued, and ten others are missing after a boat capsizes off the coast of Djerba, Tunisia. (Al Jazeera) 

Lithuania announces that it has referred Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, the Belarusian government, military officers, and other security officials to the International Criminal Court at The Hague, accusing them of committing crimes against humanity and causing people to flee the country. (AP) 

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