Thursday, October 17th, 2024 

SpaceX launches NASA‘s Europa Clipper spacecraft from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, United States, to study Jupiter’s moon Europa, with the spacecraft expected to arrive in April 2030. (BBC News) 

Models Alex Consani and Valentina Sampaio become the first trans women to walk the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show. (Hindustan Times) 

The Israeli military announces that Yahya Sinwar, the de facto leader of Hamas and the mastermind of the October 7 attack, was killed along with two other militants in a shootout with Israeli forces in Rafah Governorate, Gaza. (AzerNews) (CNN) 

Hamas confirms that its leader, Yahya Sinwar, was killed in action during a shootout with Israeli soldiers two days ago in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip. (Al Jazeera) 

Five Israeli soldiers from the Golani Brigade are killed in fighting with Hezbollah forces in southern Lebanon. IDF Spokesman Daniel Hagari says several Hezbollah operatives have been captured during the clashes. (The Times of Israel) 

Two gunmen entering Israel from Jordan are killed during a shootout with border guards south of the Dead Sea region. (Al Jazeera) 

An Israeli airstrike on a school sheltering displaced Palestinians in Jabalia, northern Gaza, kills 28 people, including at least five children. (Sky News) (Al Jazeera) 

U.S. B-2 Spirit stealth bombers carry out raids on underground bunkers used by the Houthis in Sanaa Governorate, Yemen. U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says that five underground facilities were targeted in the strikes. (AP) 

FARC dissidents open fire against a prison convoy in Cauca Department, Colombia, killing two prison guards and serial killer Manuel Octavio Bermúdez. Six others are wounded. (Infobae) 

A suicide bombing at a restaurant in Mogadishu, Somalia, kills at least seven people and injures at least six others. Islamic terrorist group al-Shabaab claims responsibility for the attack. (AL24 News) 

The Government of South Africa orders Taiwan to relocate its representative office from the South African capital of Pretoria, allegedly due to pressure from China. (Focus Taiwan) 

The Senate of Kenya convicts Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua on 5 out of 11 charges, thereby removing him from office. (BBC News) 

A court in Bangladesh orders the arrest of former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and 45 others for crimes against humanity. Hasina is in exile in India. (AP) 

A court in Vietnam sentences tycoon Trương Mỹ Lan to life in prison for fraud, in addition to a death sentence that Lan received in April for embezzlement. (Radio Free Asia) 

Wednesday, October 16th, 2024 

At least 16 people, including the mayor are killed in an IAF airstrike on a municipal building of Nabatieh, southern Lebanon, with Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati condemning the attack. (BBC News) 

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says that North Korea has now become directly involved in the war in Ukraine, with a senior Ukrainian intelligence official saying that around 3,000 North Korean troops are currently in Russia and are training for deployment to Russian-occupied territories. (Politico) 

U.S. President Joe Biden announces a new $425 million military aid package for Ukraine, containing long-range weaponry. (The Kyiv Independent) 

Bodies of five Russian climbers that disappeared on October 6 while summiting Mount Dhaulagiri in Nepal are discovered near the peak and retrieved. (AP) 

An explosion at a house in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, kills at least two people and injures six others. An investigation to determine the cause of the explosion by the Health and Safety Executive is underway. (BBC News) 

The Supreme Court of Brazil determines the government must seek the extradition of Brazilian nationals accused of participating in the 2023 attack on government buildings in Brasília who are currently residing in Argentina. (Reuters) 

Attorney General of Spain Álvaro García Ortiz is charged by the Supreme Court for revealing secrets about a tax fraud case involving the boyfriend of the president of the Community of Madrid Isabel Díaz Ayuso. However, García Ortiz announces that he will not resign. (RTVE) 

At least 100 people are killed and 50 others are injured when a gasoline tanker overturns and explodes in Jigawa State, Nigeria. (AP) 

At least 10 Indian flights have received hoax bomb threats over the past 48 hours, leading to long delays and diversions. (BBC News) 

At least 100 people are killed and 50 others are injured when a gasoline tanker overturns and explodes in Jigawa State, Nigeria. (AP) 

At least 10 Indian flights have received hoax bomb threats over the past 48 hours, leading to long delays and diversions. (BBC News) 

Tuesday,  October 15th, 2024 

A police officer is killed and four others are injured in a mass shooting on Highway 4 near Ashdod, Israel. The gunman is killed by a passing armed civilian. (Al Jazeera) 

Governor of Kharkiv Oblast Oleh Syniehubov orders the mandatory evacuation of all civilians from Kupiansk and Borova in Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine. (Reuters) 

The United States Department of Transportation fines the German airline Lufthansa $4 million for its mistreatment of Orthodox Jewish passengers during a flight from New York to Hungary through Germany in 2022. (AP) 

The World Food Programme says that millions of people in southern African countries are facing a food crisis, with more than 21 million children currently malnourished. (Reuters) 

The Biden administration sends a letter to the Israeli government, urging it to take action to improve the humanitarian crisis in Gaza within 30 days. (CNN) 

The European Union sanctions fourteen Iranian individuals and firms, including Iran Air and several high-ranking members of the Quds Force, for allegedly transferring missiles and drones to Moscow in order to help Russia in its invasion of Ukraine. (Al Jazeera) 

North Korea announces that they have destroyed portions of an unused road that linked North Korea with South Korea. (AP) 

Following a phone call with Emirati president Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed, Philippine president Bongbong Marcos confirms that 143 Filipinos in the United Arab Emirates have been pardoned by the Emirati government. (Philippine News Agency) 

The Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network is designated as a terrorist group by the Canadian government and is sanctioned by the U.S. government, due to the group’s alleged ties to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. (CTV News) 

Monday,  October 14th, 2024 

This year’s Nobel Prize in economics is awarded to Turkish-American economist Daron Acemoglu, British-American economist Simon Johnson, and British economist James A. Robinson for their studies “of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity”. (The New York Times) (Nobel Prize) 

Over 200 anti-Zionist protesters are arrested outside of the New York Stock Exchange for attempting to block it. (Reuters) 

The Israel Defense Forces say that they killed Muhammad Kamel Naim, the head of the anti-tank missile array of Hezbollah’s elite Redwan Force, in an airstrike in Nabatieh, Lebanon. (Times of Israel) 

At least four people are killed and dozens of others are severely injured when an Israeli airstrike hits a tent camp at a hospital in Deir al-Balah in the Gaza Strip, causing the tents to catch fire. (Al Jazeera) 

At least ten people are killed by Israeli artillery fire at a food distribution centre in the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza. (BBC News) 

At least 21 people are killed and eight others are injured when an Israeli airstrike hits an apartment building in the village of Aitou in northern Lebanon. (CTV News) 

Twelve people are killed and 33 others are injured when a bus carrying students from Galala University overturns in Al Galala, Suez Governorate, Egypt. (AP) 

Russian forces claim that they took the village of Levadne in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Ukraine. (Voice of America) 

One person is killed and 23 others are injured when an NJ Transit commuter rail train collides with a tree that had fallen onto the tracks in Mansfield Township, New Jersey, United States. (CTV News) 

The Papua New Guinea Defence Force shoot six people, killing one, during an operation against illegal mining near Porgera Gold Mine in Enga Province, Papua New Guinea. (BenarNews) 

Mexican National Guard finds the decapitated bodies of five men on a road in Ojuelos de Jalisco, Jalisco, Mexico. (Al Jazeera) 

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Friday,  October 11th, 2024 

The Internet Archive and the Wayback Machine are taken offline following a denial-of-service attack, with the hackers also stealing 31 million password hashes in a data breach. (Forbes) 

Chancellor of Germany Olaf Scholz announces plans for Germany to supply Israel with a new shipment of weapons, and that the German government has agreed to continue shipments for at least the near future. (Euro News) 

Multiple Palestinian, Dutch, and Jewish human rights organizations sue the Dutch government for exporting weapons and military goods to Israel, thereby allegedly failing to prevent violations of the Genocide Convention and other war crimes in the Gaza Strip. (Reuters) 

United Nations human rights investigators accuse Israel of crimes against humanity and the crime of extermination by deliberately targeting health facilities and medical personnel in Gaza. (Al Jazeera) 

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni summons the Israeli ambassador to Italy after Israeli forces target bases manned by Italian peacekeepers in southern Lebanon. (CNN) 

Israeli forces fire at a watchtower used by U.N. peacekeepers in southern Lebanon injuring two. (Euronews) 

This year’s Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to Japanese atomic bomb survivors group Nihon Hidankyo for “its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again”. (The Washington Post) (Nobel Prize) 

One person is killed and twelve others are trapped when an elevator fails at the Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine in Cripple Creek, Colorado, United States. (Sky News) 

At least twenty miners are killed and seven others are injured in an attack by unknown armed militants on a private coal mine in Duki District, Balochistan, Pakistan. (Reuters) 

Thursday, October 10th, 2024 

Researchers from the University of Granada confirm that bones lying in the Seville Cathedral in Seville, Andalusia, Spain, belonged to Christopher Columbus. (ABC Spain) 

An Israeli strike on a school sheltering displaced people in Gaza kills 28 people and injures 54 others. (AP) 

An Israeli Merkava tank opens fire on a UNIFIL checkpoint in southern Lebanon, injuring two peacekeepers. Israeli troops also open fire on two other UN positions near the Blue Line, although no casualties are reported. (BBC News) 

At least 22 people are killed in Israeli airstrikes on two different areas in central Beirut, Lebanon. (AP) 

Sudanese human rights group Emergency Lawyers reports that over 500 Sudanese civilians have been killed in airstrikes conducted by the Sudanese Armed Forces on multiple civilian areas held by the Rapid Support Forces. (Reuters) 

The World Bank approves a new financial intermediary fund consisting of grants from the United States, Japan, Canada, and other countries coupled with interest from frozen Russian assets to give to Ukraine as part of a $50 billion loan. (Reuters) 

Ukraine’s Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War confirms the death of journalist Victoria Roshchyna who had been held prisoner by Russia since August 2023. (The Kyiv Independent) 

This year’s Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to South Korean writer Han Kang “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life”. (Nobel Prize) 

At least ten people are killed in damages by tornadoes caused by Hurricane Milton in Florida, United States. (Reuters) 

In its annual Living Planet report, the World Wildlife Fund estimates that wild populations of animal species have decreased over 70% since 1970, with some high-biodiversity areas seeing up to 95% declines. (DW) 

Erling Haaland becomes the all-time top goalscorer of the Norway national football team with 34 goals in the last 36 matches, beating Jørgen Juve‘s 1934 record of 33 goals. (ESPN) 

The Federal Court of Malaysia commutes the death sentence of Azilah Hadri, one of Altantuyaa’s murderers, to 40 years imprisonment. (CNA) 

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Wednesday, October 9th, 2024 

British computer scientist Demis Hassabis and American chemist John M. Jumper are awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work on protein structure prediction, and American biochemist and computational biologist David Baker, for his work on computational protein design.  (Nobel Prize) 

American physicist John Hopfield and British-Canadian computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton are awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks“. (The Guardian) 

A couple is killed by a Hezbollah rocket fired at Kiryat Shmona, Israel. (BBC)

The head of the Rapid Support Forces, Hemedti, accuses Egypt of being involved in airstrikes on the group’s troops. (Reuters) 

More than 5.5 million people remain under evacuation orders as Hurricane Milton is set to make landfall over Florida, United States, as one of the strongest ever storms to hit the state. (The New York Times) 

More than 5.5 million people are told to evacuate as Hurricane Milton is set to make landfall over Florida, United States, as one of the strongest ever storms to hit the state. (The New York Times) 

Hurricane Milton weakens into a category 4 hurricane as it is expected to make landfall in Florida in the early hours of Thursday. (CBS News) 

Tornadoes break out in several areas, including across Interstate 75, ahead of Hurricane Milton’s arrival. (BBC News) 

Five people are killed when a Beechcraft 95-B55 Baron crashes shortly after takeoff from Catalina Airport in Avalon, California, United States. (CTV News)

Six people are injured, two of them in a critical condition, after a stabbing attack in Hadera, Israel. The attacker is shot dead by Israel Police. (Times of Israel) 

Japan’s former longest-serving death row prisoner, Iwao Hakamada, is confirmed innocent after the prosecution waives his right to appeal. (NHK) 

The innocence of Japan’s former longest-serving death row prisoner, Iwao Hakamada, is confirmed after the prosecution waives its right to appeal. (NHK) 

American biologists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun are awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine “for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation“. (CNN) 

Tuesday,  October 8th, 2024 

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calls on the Lebanese people to “rise up” against Hezbollah and to “take back” their country with the help of Israeli forces, warning that failing to do so could turn Lebanon into another Gaza. (The Telegraph) 

The 146th Division of the Israel Defense Forces advances into southwestern Lebanon, opening up another front against Hezbollah. The Israeli Navy also announces a naval blockade extending for 60 kilometres (37 mi) along the Lebanese coast. (DW) 

The village of Yaroun in Nabatieh Governorate, Lebanon, is reported to be mostly destroyed following days of heavy fighting between Hezbollah and Israeli forces. (CNN) 

Around 105 Hezbollah rockets hit the northern Israeli city of Haifa in the heaviest barrage fired at the city since the start of the war. (The Telegraph) 

The Israel Defense Forces say that they killed Suhail Hussein Husseini, the head of Hezbollah’s logistical headquarters and a member of the Jihad Council in an airstrike in Beirut, Lebanon, yesterday. (Times of Israel) 

Seven people are killed in an Israeli airstrike on a residential building in Damascus, Syria. (Reuters) 

The Environmental Protection Agency sets a 10-year deadline to replace all lead water pipes in the United States. (AP) 

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation announces the arrest of an Afghan national in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, for allegedly plotting an ISIS-related attack on Election Day in November. (AP) 

Monday,  October 7th, 2024 

Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis launch rockets and missiles towards Tel Aviv, Haifa, and Tiberias, Israel, on the anniversary of the Hamas-led attack on Israel. Twelve people are injured. (The Times of Israel) (Reuters) 

Hamas fires rockets at Tel Aviv on the anniversary of the 7 October attacks. (The Times of Israel) 

The European Space Agency spacecraft Hera is successfully launched on a Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket by SpaceX from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, United States. The spacecraft will study the asteroid 65803 Didymos and evaluate the impact of the earlier Double Asteroid Redirection Test. (Space News) 

An oil terminal in Feodosia, the largest oil facility in Russian-occupied Crimea, catches fire following an overnight drone attack by Ukrainian forces. Russian state media reports that a state of emergency has been declared in Feodosia due to a “human-made disaster”. (Ukrainska Pravda) 

One person is killed and six others, including two children, are injured in Russian shelling that hit several apartment buildings in Sloviansk, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. (Reuters) 

Russian missiles strike two cargo ships in the Port of Odesa, including a Palau-flagged ship carrying grain, killing a port worker and injuring five crew members. (Reuters) 

Hurricane Milton intensifies into a Category 5 hurricane with a minimum central pressure of 897 millibars. (National Hurricane Center) 

Pasco, Hillsborough, and Pinellas counties in Florida, United States, close schools and order evacuations of residential healthcare facilities in advance of Hurricane Milton’s arrival. (Tampa Bay Times) 

Ten people are killed and an unknown number of others are missing when a mine collapses in Central Province, Zambia. (AP) 

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control reports more than 350 deaths from cholera in Nigeria this year, which is more than twice as many than in the same period last year. (DW) 

During a state visit by South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol to the Philippines, the Philippines and South Korea agree to upgrade their relations to a strategic partnership. (ABC News) 

Israelis, including hostage families, protest outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s official residence in Jerusalem. (NBC News)

Thousands of pro-Palestinian protests are held worldwide to mark the first anniversary of the Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip. (Reuters) 

The Parliament of Georgia initiates a motion to impeach pro-Western President Salome Zourabichvili over accusations of unauthorized overseas visits, ahead of the parliamentary election on October 26. (Reuters) 

Incumbent Tunisian President Kais Saied wins a second term with 90.7% of the vote in the presidential election. The Independent High Authority for Elections reports a voter turnout of 28.8%, the lowest since the 2011 Tunisian revolution. (Al Jazeera) 

The Pakistani government bans the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement, a social movement for Pashtun human rights, calling the movement a “proscribed organization“. (Al Jazeera) 

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