Portal:Current events/2024 October 26

Armed conflicts and attacks

• 2024 Iran–Israel conflict
  • October 2024 Israeli strikes on Iran
    • Israel launches airstrikes against Iran, with explosions reported in Tehran and Karaj according to Iranian state media. Four soldiers are killed. (Sky News) (Reuters) (Axios)
    • The Israel Defense Forces says that it is carrying out "precise strikes on military targets in Iran" in response to recent ballistic missile attacks launched from Iran. (The Telegraph)
• Sudanese Civil War
  • 2024 eastern Gezira State massacres
    • At least 300 people are killed when the Rapid Support Forces attack several villages in Gezira State, Sudan. (Al Arabiya)
• Sistan and Baluchestan insurgency
  • Ten police officers are killed by Jaish ul-Adl gunmen in a mass shooting on a police convoy in Sistan and Baluchestan province, Iran. (AP)
• Somali Civil War
  • An IED planted by Al-Shabaab in a restaurant in Karan district, Mogadishu, Somalia, kills at least five people and injures at least five others. (The Somali Digest) (Hiiraan Online)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Pacific typhoon season
  • The death toll from the flooding and landslides caused by Tropical Storm Trami in the Philippines increases to at least 126. (UPI)
• Nineteen people are killed and five others are injured when a bus crashes on a highway in Zacatecas, Mexico, while heading from Nayarit to Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• Killing of Odair Moniz
  • Portuguese police activate special security protocols in response to two large demonstrations in Lisbon following the fatal shooting of a Cape Verdean immigrant by a police officer in Amadora on Monday, which resulted in widespread riots. (RTP News)
• A Russian soldier throws a grenade and shoots at other soldiers, killing ten people near Novopokrovka, Ukraine. (News Week)

Politics and elections

• 2024 Georgian parliamentary election
  • Georgians vote for the 150 seats of the parliament. (BBC News)
  • Opposition parties refuse to accept early results indicating the ruling Georgian Dream party's victory, and accuse it of election fraud. Exit polls published by pro-government and pro-opposition TV channels show each camp leading respectively. (DW News)