Portal:Current events/2024 October 14

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • 2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon
    • October 2024 Aitou airstrike
      • At least 21 people are killed and eight others are injured when an Israeli airstrike hits an apartment building in the village of Aitou in northern Lebanon. (CTV News)
    • The Israel Defense Forces say that they killed Muhammad Kamel Naim, the head of the anti-tank missile array of Hezbollah's elite Redwan Force, in an airstrike in Nabatieh, Lebanon. (Times of Israel)
• Israel–Hamas war
  • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
    • At least four people are killed and dozens of others are severely injured when an Israeli airstrike hits a tent camp at a hospital in Deir al-Balah in the Gaza Strip, causing the tents to catch fire. (Al Jazeera)
    • At least ten people are killed by Israeli artillery fire at a food distribution centre in the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza. (BBC News)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Southern Ukraine campaign
    • Russian forces claim that they took the village of Levadne in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Ukraine. (Voice of America)

Business and economy

• Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
  • This year's Nobel Prize in economics is awarded to Turkish-American economist Daron Acemoglu, British-American economist Simon Johnson, and British economist James A. Robinson for their studies "of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity". (The New York Times) (Nobel Prize)

Disasters and accidents

• Twelve people are killed and 33 others are injured when a bus carrying students from Galala University overturns in Al Galala, Suez Governorate, Egypt. (AP)
• One person is killed and 23 others are injured when an NJ Transit River Line train collides with a tree that had fallen onto the tracks in Mansfield Township, New Jersey, United States. (CTV News)

Law and crime

• Israel–Hamas war protests in the United States
  • Over 200 pro-Palestinian demonstrators against American involvement in Israeli attacks on civilians in the Gaza Strip, many from Jewish Voice for Peace, are arrested outside of the New York Stock Exchange for attempting to block it. (Reuters)
• The Papua New Guinea Defence Force shoot six people, killing one, during an operation against illegal mining near Porgera Gold Mine in Enga Province, Papua New Guinea. (BenarNews)
• Mexican National Guard finds the decapitated bodies of five men on a road in Ojuelos de Jalisco, Jalisco, Mexico. (Al Jazeera)

Science and technology

• SpaceX launches NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, United States, to study Jupiter's moon Europa, with the spacecraft expected to arrive in April 2030. (BBC News)