Portal:Current events/2024 April 10

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Kharkiv strikes
    • Russian airstrikes in Kharkiv Oblast kill at least three people and injure four others. (Reuters)
  • Odesa strikes
    • Four people are killed and seven others are injured in a Russian missile strike in Odesa. (Reuters)
• Israel–Hamas war
  • An Israeli attack in Gaza kills three civilians related to Ismail Haniyeh. (Haaretz)

Business and economy

• 2023–2024 video game industry layoffs
  • American video game company Epic Games announces that it will lay-off around 870 employees, roughly one-sixth of its workforce, due to slower growth than expected. (CBC via Yahoo! News)

Disasters and accidents

• A bus carrying Eid Al-Fitr pilgrims collides and plunges into a ditch in Balochistan, Pakistan, killing seventeen people and injuring 16 others. (AP)
• Five people are killed and 35 others are injured in a fire at the New Lucky House in Kowloon, Hong Kong. (Reuters)
• A person is killed by flooding in Mississippi, United States, as severe weather hits the Southern United States. (CBS News)

Politics and elections

• 2024 South Korean legislative election
  • South Koreans vote for members of the National Assembly. The opposition, primarily consisting of the Democratic Party, its alliance and the Rebuilding Korea Party, wins the election in a landslide, increasing their legislative majority but falling short of the two-thirds supermajority needed to pass constitutional amendments or override the veto of President Yoon Suk Yeol. (Reuters)
• 2024 United States presidential election
  • Cornel West names Melina Abdullah as his VP pick as part of his presidential campaign. (Politico)