Thursday, October 24th, 2024 

Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre announces that his government will raise the minimum age limit to use social media from 13 to 15 in order to protect children from the “power of the algorithms”. (The Guardian) 

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North Korea sends a wave of trash balloons over South Korea with a balloon falling on the Blue House presidential compound in central Seoul. The balloon reportedly contained leaflets criticizing South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and his wife Kim Keon-hee. (ABC News) 

The U.S. State Department reports that it has confirmed evidence that North Korean troops are now present in Russia and are preparing to travel to the battlefield in Ukraine. South Korea says that Pyongyang has promised to send up to 10,000 troops to support the war effort. (The Guardian) 

Hezbollah confirms that Hashem Safieddine, head of their executive council, was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Beirut, Lebanon, on October 3. (BBC News) 

Peaceful Protesters with automatic weapons target police and firefighters in Martinique, where protests over the high cost of living have prompted France to deploy forces to the island. (AP) 

Tropical Storm Trami (Kristine) makes landfall on northeastern Luzon, Philippines, killing at least 26 people. (BBC) 

The European Parliament awards the Sakharov Prize to Venezuelan opposition leaders María Corina Machado and Edmundo González for their activism in Venezuela. (Reuters) 

Wednesday, October 23rd, 2024 

Five people are killed and 22 more injured during a bombing–shooting attack at the Turkish Aerospace Industries headquarters in Kahramankazan, Ankara Province, Turkey. The perpetrators are later killed during a shootout with security forces. The Turkish government suspects the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) to be behind the attack. (Reuters) 

The Turkish Air Force launches airstrikes on PKK targets across northern Syria and Iraqi Kurdistan in response to the attack, with Turkish drone strikes in Kobani, Syria, injuring three Asayish officers. (Reuters) 

The Russian Defense Ministry claims that Russian forces have captured the villages of Mykolaivka and Serebrianka in Donetsk Oblast, while Ukrainian military newspage DeepState reports heavy conflict surrounding Selydove. (Reuters) 

The U.S. Defense Department finalizes a US$20 billion loan to Ukraine for military and economic support as part of a collective US$50 billion loan between G7 members. (Reuters) 

Israeli airstrikes across Gaza kill 42 people. (Reuters) 

Nineteen suspected cartel members are killed and one local cartel leader is arrested in a shootout between gunmen and police officers in Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico. (Reuters) 

Two people are killed and 11 injured after an explosion at a Toyota Material Handling factory in Bologna, Italy. (Stato Quotidiano) 

Three people are found deceased and seven are hospitalized due to carbon monoxide poisoning at a care home in Swanage, Dorset, England. (Sky News) 

The Ifo Institute for Economic Research reports that Germany experienced a 13% birth rate decline nationally and up to a 17.5% birth rate decline in eastern Germany between 2021 and 2023, with the institute attributing the decline to several reasons including the COVID-19 pandemic, the Russo-Ukrainian war, and high inflation. (DW) 

A court in Munich, Germany, charges a Russian man for stabbing two Ukrainian soldiers at a shopping center in Murnau am Staffelsee, Bavaria, Germany, in April. (DW) 

China and the Holy See agree to extend their 2018 provisional agreement on the appointment of Catholic bishops in China for a further four years. (Vatican News) 

Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi holds a bilateral meeting with President of China Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the 16th BRICS summit in Kazan, Russia. This is the first bilateral meeting between India and China in five years and comes in the aftermath of the 2020 border skirmishes between Indian and Chinese troops. (India Today) 

Four people, including the shooter, are killed and nine others are injured in a mass shooting and standoff when a man opens fire on police and his family in Novo Hamburgo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. (The Brazilian Report) 

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Wednesday, October 23rd, 2024 

The U.S. Center for Disease Control announces that one person has died and at least 48 others have become ill in an E. coli outbreak linked to McDonald’s Quarter Pounder hamburgers. (BBC News) 

A 52nd Mersenne prime is discovered by a participant of the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search, six years after the last new Mersenne prime was discovered in 2018. The prime number is 41,024,320 digits in length, making it the largest known prime number. (Mersenne.org) 

The presidential campaign of former U.S. President Donald Trump files a formal complaint to the Federal Election Commission against the United Kingdom’s Labour Party, accusing the Labour Party of “blatant foreign interference” in the election to support the Kamala Harris presidential campaign. (BBC News) 

The FBI announces an investigation into the leaking of classified U.S. intelligence documents regarding military plans for Israeli retaliation against Iran. (Reuters) 

China and the Holy See agree to extend the 2018 provisional agreement on the appointment of Catholic bishops in China for a period of four years. (Vatican News) 

Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi holds bilateral meeting with President of China Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the 16th BRICS summit in Kazan, Russia, the first bilateral meeting since five years and in aftermath of the 2020 border skirmishes between Indian and Chinese troops. (India Today) 

Tuesday,  October 22nd, 2024 

Prime Minister of Iraq Mohammed Shia’ Al Sudani announces the death of several Islamic State senior members, including the group’s leader in Iraq, in a military operation in Saladin Governorate, Iraq. (The Washington Post) 

A SAF jet bombs a mosque in Wad Madani, Gezira State, killing at least 31 people. The attack coincides with the RSF launching an assault across the state following the defection of the Rapid Support Forces’ top commander in the state to the SAF. (Sudan Tribune) 

Israel launches airstrikes across Lebanon, including in Beirut and the Beqaa Valley, targeting financial institutions that are allegedly linked to Hezbollah. (AP) 

Thirteen people are killed and 57 more wounded during Israeli airstrikes near Rafik Hariri University Hospital in Beirut, Lebanon. (Al Jazeera) 

Monday,  October 21st, 2024 

India and China reach a breakthrough agreement on disengagement and border patrol along the Line of Actual Control. (Zee News) (DW) 

Former Albanian president Ilir Meta is arrested on accusations of corruption. (Reuters) 

The Israel Defense Forces announce that Colonel Ehsan Daxa, the commander of the 401st Armored Brigade, was killed by an IED in Jabalia in northern Gaza, becoming the most senior officer to have been killed in the fighting in Gaza. (The Times of Israel) 

An Israeli drone strike on Beit Lahia, North Gaza Governorate, kills at least fifteen people, including women and children. (Al Jazeera) 

Israeli troops open fire on a truck belonging to the Lebanese Armed Forces near Hanine, killing three soldiers. Israel later issues a formal apology for the attack, stating that its forces mistakenly believed they were targeting a vehicle used by Hezbollah to transport rockets. (The Times of Israel) 

An Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane crashes in North Darfur, Sudan, killing its crew of two Russians and three Sudanese nationals. The Rapid Support Forces claim that they shot down the aircraft and say that they have recovered the airplane’s flight recorder. Russia says that its diplomats in Sudan are currently investigating the crash. (Sudan Tribune) 

Two passenger trains suffer a head-on collsion at Talerddig, Powys, United Kingdom, killing one person and injuring 15 others. (BBC News Online) 

Operation Car Wash A court in Peru sentences former president Alejandro Toledo to 20 years and six months in prison for receiving bribes. (Reuters) 

Five members of a family, including three teenagers, are killed in a mass shooting in Fall City, Washington, United States. (USA Today) 

The National Assembly of Vietnam appoints Vietnamese Army general Lương Cường as the President of Vietnam, succeeding Communist Party General Secretary Tô Lâm. (VOA) 

Four people are killed when a helicopter crashes into a radio tower in Houston, Texas, United States. (ABC News) 

Hurricane Oscar makes landfall in Cuba amid a national electrical blackout. (USA Today) 

Seven people are killed and five injured during a mass shooting at a camp for construction workers near Sonamarg, in India-controlled Jammu and Kashmir. (Al Jazeera) 

The Department of Justice of the Philippines reports that a trial court in Taguig has convicted 17 leaders and members of Abu Sayyaf, including two top officials of the Rajah Sulaiman Movement who have been in the United Nations Security Council’s Sanctions List, of the kidnapping of 21 tourists from Sipadan, Malaysia, in 2000. The convicts are sentenced to reclusión perpetua. (AFP via SCMP) (PNA) 

The World Health Organization declares Egypt malaria-free after a 100-year effort. (BBC) 

Moldovans vote for a president and also vote in a referendum that would amend the constitution to include a commitment for Moldova to join the European Union. (Le Monde) 

The presidential election goes to a second-round with current president Maia Sandu and Alexandr Stoianoglo of the pro-Russian Party of Socialists. (BBC) 

The results of the European Union referendum is deemed too close to call with president Maia Sandu alleging election interference from Russia. (BBC) 

In basketball, the New York Liberty defeat the Minnesota Lynx in 5 games to win their first WNBA championship. (CTV News) 

Prabowo Subianto and Gibran Rakabuming Raka are inaugurated as the 8th president and 14th vice president of Indonesia, respectively. (Reuters) 

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