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Armed conflicts and attacks

• 2024 Iran–Israel conflict
  • Israeli retaliation leak, Israel–United States relations
    • The FBI announces an investigation into the leaking of classified U.S. intelligence documents regarding military plans for Israeli retaliation against Iran. (Reuters)
• Israel–Hamas war
  • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
    • An Israeli drone strike on Beit Lahia in the Gaza Strip, kills at least fifteen people, including several women and children. (Al Jazeera)
• Islamic State insurgency in Iraq
  • 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)

Health and environment

• 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)

Politics and elections

• 2024 United States presidential election
  • Foreign interference in the 2024 United States elections
    • 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)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Sudanese civil war
  • 2024 New Way Cargo Airlines Ilyushin Il-76 shootdown
    • 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 with a surface-to-air missile 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) (AP)
  • An RSF 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 Sudanese Armed Forces' top commander in the state to the RSF. (Sudan Tribune)
• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • Thirteen people are killed and 57 more wounded during Israeli airstrikes near Rafik Hariri University Hospital in Beirut, Lebanon. (Al Jazeera)
  • Israel launches airstrikes across Lebanon, including in Beirut and the Beqaa Valley, targeting financial institutions that are allegedly linked to Hezbollah. (AP)
• Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir
  • Seven people are killed and five others are injured in a mass shooting at a camp for construction workers near Sonamarg, Jammu and Kashmir, India. (Al Jazeera)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Talerddig collision
  • Two passenger trains collide head-on at Talerddig, Powys, UK, killing one passenger and injuring 15 others. (BBC News)

Health and environment

• The World Health Organization declares Egypt to be malaria-free. (BBC News)

International relations

• China–India relations
  • India and China reach a breakthrough in discussions on disengagement and border patrol along the disputed Line of Actual Control. (Zee News) (DW)

Law and crime

• 2000 Sipadan kidnappings
  • A trial court in Taguig, Philippines, convicts 17 leaders and members of Abu Sayyaf, including two top officials of the Rajah Sulaiman Movement who were on 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)
• 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)
• Former Albanian president Ilir Meta is arrested on accusations of corruption. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• The National Assembly of Vietnam appoints army general Lương Cường as the country's president, succeeding Communist Party General Secretary Tô Lâm. (VOA) (AP) (VnExpress)

Science and technology

• 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)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israel–Hamas war
  • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
    • October 2024 Beit Lahia attacks
      • Hamas reports that the number of dead and missing following an Israeli bombardment of residential areas in northern Gaza yesterday increases to 87, becoming among the highest single-incident death tolls in the past few months and also prompting condemnation from the United Nations. (Reuters)
    • Siege of Jabalia
      • 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 one of the most senior officers to have been killed in the fighting in Gaza. (The Times of Israel)
• 2024 Iran–Israel conflict
  • Israeli retaliation leak
    • Two confidential U.S. intelligence documents are leaked to a pro-Iranian Telegram channel. The documents contain military assessments describing the detailed preparation of Israel's retaliatory attacks against Iran for striking Israel. (NPR)
• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • 2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon
    • 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)
• Sudanese civil war
  • Battle of Khartoum, 2024 Sudan famine
    • The Sudan Tribune reports disease outbreaks and starvation in Khartoum North, Sudan, as a military offensive and fighting continues in the city. (Sudan Tribune)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Atlantic hurricane season
  • Hurricane Oscar makes landfall in Cuba amid a national electrical blackout. (USA Today)
• At least two people are killed and 309 others are rescued in flash flooding in Roswell, New Mexico, United States. (The New York Times) (NBC News)
• Four people are killed when a helicopter crashes into a radio tower in Houston, Texas, United States. (ABC News)

Politics and elections

• 2024 Moldovan presidential election, 2024 Moldovan European Union membership referendum
  • 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 between current president Maia Sandu and politician Alexandr Stoianoglo of the pro-Russian Party of Socialists. (BBC)
  • The European Union referendum is narrowly approved by voters, with president Maia Sandu alleging foreign electoral intervention from Russia. (Reuters)
• Inauguration of Prabowo Subianto
  • Prabowo Subianto and Gibran Rakabuming Raka are inaugurated as the 8th president and 14th vice president of Indonesia, respectively. (AP) (Reuters)

Sports

• 2024 WNBA Finals
  • In basketball, the New York Liberty defeat the Minnesota Lynx in 5 games to win their first WNBA championship. (CTV News)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israel–Hamas war
  • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
    • October 2024 Beit Lahia attacks
      • Hamas claims that at least 73 Palestinians were killed in Israeli strikes on Beit Lahia in the Gaza Strip, although the Israel Defence Forces dispute this claim. (Al Ahram)
    • Refugee camp airstrikes in the Israel–Hamas war
      • Israeli forces strike the Gaza Strip, killing at least 50 people, including at least 33 people in an airstrike on the Jabalia refugee camp. (NPR) (BBC News)
• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • 2024 drone attack on Benjamin Netanyahu's residence
    • Hezbollah launches around 200 drones and other projectiles from Lebanon toward locations in northern Israel, killing one person and injuring thirteen others. One of the targets is Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's house in the resort town of Caesarea. (Star Tribune) (AP)
  • 2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon
    • Israeli strikes on a vehicle and an apartment building in Baaloul, Lebanon, and areas north of Beirut, Lebanon, kill seven people, including the mayor of the town of Sohmor. (Boston25 News)
  • The Israel Defense Forces says that the Israeli Air Force killed Hezbollah's deputy commander Naser Abed al-Aziz Rashid in Bint Jbeil, Lebanon, yesterday. (The Washington Times) (The Jerusalem Post)

Disasters and accidents

• Sapelo Island dock collapse
  • At least seven people are killed and several others are reported missing when a dock collapses on Sapelo Island in Georgia, United States. (AP)

Law and crime

• Protesters storm and damage the office of the Saudi-owned MBC TV channel in Baghdad, Iraq, after the channel aired a programme which called Hamas and Hezbollah leaders "terrorists". The Iraq Communications and Media Commission later suspends MBC's operations in Iraq in response to the incident. (New Arab) (Roya News)
• Three people are killed and eight others are injured in a mass shooting when at least two gunmen opened fire on people at a school's football homecoming win celebration in near Lexington, Mississippi, United States. (AP)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israel–Hamas war
  • Killing of Yahya Sinwar
    • Hamas confirms that its leader, Yahya Sinwar, was killed in action during a shootout with Israeli soldiers two days ago in Rafah, Gaza Strip, Palestine. (Al Jazeera)
• 2024 Neot HaKikar shooting
  • Two gunmen entering Israel from Jordan are killed in a shootout with border guards near the Dead Sea. (Al Jazeera)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Cuba blackout
  • A nationwide power outage occurs in Cuba following a critical failure at the Antonio Guiteras power station in Puerto Padre, Las Tunas Province. (CNN)

International relations

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Foreign involvement in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, North Korea–Ukraine relations
    • The South Korean National Intelligence Service says that North Korea has started sending troops to fight with Russia in Ukraine. South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol calls for a security meeting and says the international community must respond with "all available means". (BBC)
• Swiss neutrality
  • Switzerland joins the European Sky Shield Initiative to contribute to building a pan-European air and missile defense system, while also allowing the nation to train and purchase military systems with other European nations. (Reuters)
• Western Sahara conflict
  • Morocco rejects a proposal put forward by the UN envoy for Western Sahara Staffan de Mistura that would partition Western Sahara with the northern part being annexed by Morocco and the southern part forming an independent state controlled by the Polisario Front. (Atalayar)

Law and crime

• Four people, including the gunman, are killed in a school shooting in Heliópolis, Bahia, Brazil. (CNN Brazil)

Politics and elections

• Kenya's National Assembly unanimously approves Interior Secretary Kithure Kindiki as the new Deputy President following his nomination by President William Ruto. However, the High Court temporarily suspends the impeachment of former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua in order to hear challenges. (AP)
• Clashes between protestors and police break out over demonstrations of arrested activists in Nasiriyah, Iraq. (CityNews)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israel–Hamas war
  • Killing of Yahya Sinwar
    • 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)
  • Attacks on schools during the Israeli invasion of Gaza
    • 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)
• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • 2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon
    • 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)
• Red Sea crisis
  • 2024 missile strikes in Yemen
    • 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)
• Colombian conflict
  • 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)
• Somali Civil War
  • 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) (Daily Sabah)

International relations

• South Africa–Taiwan relations
  • 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)

Law and crime

• 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)
• 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)

Politics and elections

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