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February 6, 2024
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2024-02-06
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Armed conflicts and attacks
DHKP/C insurgency in Turkey
2024 Istanbul Palace of Justice shooting
Two
Revolutionary People's Liberation Party/Front
shooters
open fire
outside the
Istanbul Justice Palace
in
Turkey
, killing one person and injuring five others, before being killed in a
shootout
with police.
(Al Jazeera)
Somali civil war
2024 Mogadishu market bombing
Ten people are killed and about 20 others are injured in a quadruple
bombing
at a market in
Mogadishu
,
Somalia
.
(Al Jazeera)
The
Greek island
of
Aegina
is left without
drinking water
after an
explosion
disables a 12-kilometer-long (7.5-mile) undersea fresh water pipeline.
Greater Athens
governor Nikos Hardalias calls it an act of
sabotage
.
(AP)
Business and economy
The
Dutch
owner of
Yandex
, a
Russian
multinational
technology company
and
search engine
, announces the sale of the company to a "fully Russian-owned entity" for 475 billion
rubles
(
US$
5.2 billion).
(BBC News)
Disasters and accidents
Death and state funeral of Sebastián Piñera
Former
Chilean
president
Sebastián Piñera
dies in a
helicopter crash
in
Ranco Lake
, Chile.
(Reuters)
Eleven people are killed and 150 others are injured in a fire at a
fireworks
factory in
Harda
,
Madhya Pradesh
,
India
.
(AP)
2024 Maco landslide
At least seven people are killed in a
landslide
in
Maco, Davao de Oro
,
Philippines
.
Search and rescue
operations are ongoing for 48 others missing, which include
mine workers
.
(AFP via
The Philippine Star
)
Politics and elections
2024 United States presidential election
2024 Republican Party presidential primaries
2024 Nevada Republican presidential nominating contests
Nevada
holds its
Republican Party
presidential primary
. However, the
Republican Party
boycotts
the primary and will award no
delegates
to the winner. The party plans to hold a
presidential caucus
on February 8 to award its delegates.
(Al Jazeera)
Attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election
,
Federal prosecution of Donald Trump
The
U.S. Court of Appeals
in
Washington, D.C.
rules that former
President
Donald Trump
does not have
presidential immunity
and can therefore be prosecuted for allegedly attempting to overturn the results of the
2020 presidential election
.
(BBC News)
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