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February 10, 2024
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2024-02-10
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Armed conflicts and attacks
Israel–Hamas war
Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
The
IDF
claims to have discovered a
Hamas
data center
under
UNRWA
's
Gaza Strip
headquarters.
(Times of Israel)
Spillover of the Israel–Hamas war
Red Sea crisis
Seventeen
Houthi
fighters are killed during
airstrikes
launched by the
United States
and the
United Kingdom
in
Yemen
.
(Al Jazeera)
Kivu conflict
M23 offensive
Tens of thousands of people flee to
Goma
, the capital of the
DR Congo
's
North Kivu
province, as
M23 rebels
advance towards the city.
(BBC News)
Somali civil war
Four
Emirati soldiers
and a
Bahraini military officer
are killed, while ten other people are injured, when a soldier
opens fire
at a
military base
in
Mogadishu
,
Somalia
, before being killed in the ensuing
shootout
.
Al-Shabaab
claims responsibility.
(AP)
Disasters and accidents
France
's
EDF
shuts down two
nuclear reactors
due to a fire at the
Chinon Nuclear Power Plant
.
(Reuters)
A
Eurocopter EC130
helicopter
crashes near
Nipton
,
California
,
United States
, killing all the six people on board, including
Nigerian
banker
Herbert Wigwe
.
(CBS News)
Politics and elections
2023–2024 Senegalese protests
Violent protests occur in
Senegal
following an announcement by President
Macky Sall
that
presidential elections
have been delayed from February 25 to December 15.
(Sky News)
2024 Pakistani general election
Despite
Imran Khan
's lead,
Nawaz Sharif
claims victory amid allegations of
military
-led rigging of the election.
(
Time
)
President of Hungary
Katalin Novák
resigns one week after news media revealed that she had pardoned a person who had been convicted of aiding in
child sex abuse
.
(Reuters)
Sports
2023 AFC Asian Cup
In
association football
, hosts
Qatar
win their second consecutive
Asian Cup
title after defeating
Jordan
3–1 in
the final
.
Akram Afif
earns a
hat-trick
—all scored from
penalty kicks
.
(Reuters via
The Guardian
)
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