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Hurricane Milton path
- Hurricane Milton (pictured), one of the fastest-intensifying and most intense Atlantic hurricanes on record, approaches Florida.
- John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton receive the Nobel Prize in Physics for their research in machine learning with artificial neural networks.
- A gang attack on the Haitian town of Pont-Sondé leaves seventy people dead and fifty others injured.
- More than twenty people die in flooding and landslides in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
October 10, 2024 (Thursday)
October 9, 2024 (Wednesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- Two people are killed by a Hezbollah rocket fired at Kiryat Shmona, Israel. (BBC News) (MDA Israel)
- Sudanese civil war
- The head of the Rapid Support Forces, Hemedti, accuses Egypt of being involved in airstrikes on the group's troops during the ongoing civil war in Sudan. (Reuters)
Disasters and accidents
- 2024 Atlantic hurricane season
- Hurricane Milton
- More than 5.5 million people in Florida, United States, are currently under evacuation orders as Hurricane Milton weakens into a category 4 hurricane ahead of its expected landfall in the early hours of Thursday. (The New York Times) (CBS News)
- Several tornadoes are reported in Florida, including along Interstate 75, ahead of Hurricane Milton's landfall. (BBC News)
- Hurricane Milton
- Five people are killed when a Beechcraft Baron aircraft crashes shortly after takeoff from the Catalina Airport in Avalon, California, United States. (CTV News)
Law and crime
- 2024 Hadera stabbing attack
- Six people are injured, two critically, in a stabbing attack in Hadera, Israel. The attacker is shot dead by Israel Police. (Times of Israel)
- Japan's former longest-serving death row prisoner Iwao Hakamada is confirmed innocent after the prosecution waives Hakamada's right to appeal. (NHK)
Science and technology
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- This year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry is jointly awarded to British computer scientist Demis Hassabis and American chemist John M. Jumper for their work on protein structure prediction, and to American biochemist and computational biologist David Baker for his work on computational protein design. (The New York Times) (Nobel Prize)
October 8, 2024 (Tuesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- 2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon
- The 146th Division of the Israel Defense Forces advances into southwestern Lebanon, opening up another front against Hezbollah. The Israeli Navy also announces a naval blockade extending for 60 kilometres (37 mi) along the Lebanese coast. (DW)
- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calls on the Lebanese people to "rise up" against Hezbollah and to "take back" their country with the help of Israeli forces, warning that failing to do so could turn Lebanon into another Gaza. (The Telegraph)
- The village of Yaroun in Nabatieh Governorate, Lebanon, is reported to be mostly destroyed following days of heavy fighting between Hezbollah and Israeli forces. (CNN)
- Around 105 Hezbollah rockets hit the northern Israeli city of Haifa in the heaviest barrage fired at the city since the start of the war. (The Telegraph)
- The Israel Defense Forces say that they killed Suhail Hussein Husseini, the head of Hezbollah's logistical headquarters and a member of the Jihad Council in an airstrike in Beirut, Lebanon, yesterday. (Times of Israel)
- 2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon
- Syrian civil war
- Terrorism in Europe
- Terrorism in Norway
- Norwegian PST heightens the terror alert from moderate to high, mostly because of the Israel–Hezbollah conflict. (Times of Israel)
- Terrorism in Norway
Health and environment
- The Environmental Protection Agency sets a 10-year deadline to replace all lead water pipes in the United States. (AP)
Law and crime
- The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation announces the arrest of an Afghan national in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, for allegedly plotting an ISIS-related attack on Election Day in November. (AP)
Science and technology
- Nobel Prize in Physics
- American physicist John Hopfield and British-Canadian computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton are awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Physics "for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks". (The Guardian)
October 7, 2024 (Monday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Crimea attacks
- An oil terminal in Feodosia, the largest oil facility in Russian-occupied Crimea, catches fire following an overnight drone attack by Ukrainian forces. Russian state media reports that a state of emergency has been declared in Feodosia due to a "human-made disaster". (Ukrainska Pravda)
- Eastern Ukraine campaign
- One person is killed and six others, including two children, are injured in Russian shelling that hit several apartment buildings in Sloviansk, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. (Reuters)
- Southern Ukraine campaign
- Russian missiles strike two cargo ships in the Port of Odesa, including a Palau-flagged ship carrying grain, killing a port worker and injuring five crew members. (Reuters)
- Crimea attacks
- Israel–Hamas war
Disasters and accidents
- 2024 Atlantic hurricane season
- Hurricane Milton
- Hurricane Milton intensifies into a Category 5 hurricane with a minimum central pressure of 897 millibars. (National Hurricane Center)
- Pasco, Hillsborough, and Pinellas counties in Florida, United States, close schools and order evacuations of residential healthcare facilities in advance of Hurricane Milton's arrival. (Tampa Bay Times)
- Hurricane Milton
- Ten people are killed and an unknown number of others are missing when a mine collapses in Central Province, Zambia. (AP)
Health and environment
- The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control reports more than 350 deaths from cholera in Nigeria this year, which is more than twice as many than in the same period last year. (DW)
International relations
- Philippines–South Korea relations
- During a state visit by South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol to the Philippines, the Philippines and South Korea agree to upgrade their relations to a strategic partnership. (ABC News)
Politics and elections
- Israel–Hamas war protests
- 2024 Israeli protests
- Israelis, including hostage families, protest outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's official residence in Jerusalem. (NBC News) (ABC News)
- Thousands of pro-Palestinian protests are held worldwide to mark the first anniversary of the Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip. (Reuters)
- 2024 Israeli protests
- 2024 Georgian parliamentary election
- The Parliament of Georgia initiates a motion to impeach pro-Western President Salome Zourabichvili over accusations of unauthorized overseas visits, ahead of the parliamentary election on October 26. (Reuters)
- 2024 Tunisian presidential election
- Incumbent Tunisian President Kais Saied wins a second term with 90.7% of the vote in the presidential election. The Independent High Authority for Elections reports a voter turnout of 28.8%, the lowest since the 2011 Tunisian revolution. (Al Jazeera)
- Human rights in Pakistan
- The Pakistani government bans the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement, a social movement for Pashtun human rights, calling the movement a "proscribed organization". (Al Jazeera)
Science and technology
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- American biologists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun are awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation". (CNN)
- The European Space Agency spacecraft Hera is successfully launched on a Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket by SpaceX from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, United States. The spacecraft will study the asteroid 65803 Didymos and evaluate the impact of the earlier Double Asteroid Redirection Test. (Space News)
October 6, 2024 (Sunday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Israel–Hamas war
- 2024 Beersheba bus station shooting
- A police officer is killed and thirteen other people are injured in Beersheba, Israel, in an incident described as a terrorist attack. The perpetrator is shot dead by security forces. (The Jerusalem Post)
- Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
- At least 26 people are killed in Israeli airstrikes allegedly targeting Hamas militants that hit a mosque and a school housing displaced Palestinians in Deir al-Balah in the Gaza Strip. (BBC News)
- 2024 Beersheba bus station shooting
- Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- 2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon
- Hezbollah claims that its attacks on Israeli soldiers trying to infiltrate Blida, Lebanon, forced the soldiers to retreat. (AFP via Barron's)
- The Israeli military establishes a forward operating base near a United Nations peacekeeping force in Lebanon, putting peacekeepers at risk. UNIFIL has refused the Israeli military's request to move its positions. (Al Jazeera)
- A rocket fired from Lebanon strikes a restaurant in Haifa, Israel, injuring at least six people. (The Jerusalem Post)
- 2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon
- Insurgency in Sindh
- At least two people, both Chinese nationals, are killed and ten others are injured when an oil tanker truck exploded near Jinnah International Airport in Karachi, Pakistan. The separatist group Balochistan Liberation Army claims responsibility for the explosion, stating they targeted a convoy of Chinese workers of the Port Qasim Electric Power Company. (Crisis24) (Reuters)
Law and crime
- 2024 Godini shooting
- Six people are killed and four others are injured in a mass shooting after eight gunmen open fire on a group of community patrollers in Godini village near Qumbu, Eastern Cape, South Africa. The shooting took place on the day of the memorial service for the victims of the Lusikisiki shootings, which also occurred in the Eastern Cape. (News24)
Science and technology
- Europa Clipper
- Due to Hurricane Milton, NASA cancels the launch of the Europa Clipper scheduled for October 10. (CBS News)
October 5, 2024 (Saturday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Eastern Ukraine campaign
- Russian forces claim that they captured the village of Bazhane Druhe in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. (The Economic Times)
- Ukrainian forces say that they have shot down a Russian aircraft near Kostiantynivka. The aircraft crashed into a house, causing it to catch fire. No casualties are reported. The aircraft is later reported to be a S-70 Okhotnik-B and was reportedly shot down by a Russian Su-57 jet to prevent its capture by Ukraine. (Defence Blog) (Forbes) (AP)
- Eastern Ukraine campaign
- Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- September 2024 Lebanon strikes
- Hamas says that an Israeli strike killed Saeed Atallah, a leader in the Al-Qassam Brigades, along with three family members in a Palestinian refugee camp in Tripoli, Lebanon. (Reuters)
- September 2024 Lebanon strikes
- Naxalite–Maoist insurgency
- Indian police claim that 31 Naxalite rebels were killed in a shootout with Indian soldiers in the Abujhmad forest in Chhattisgarh, India. (Al Jazeera)
Disasters and accidents
- English Channel migrant crossings
- Four people, including a child, are killed in two separate incidents while attempting to cross the English Channel in boats. (BBC News)
- Royal New Zealand Navy vessel HMNZS Manawanui runs aground off the coast of Samoa before catching fire and later capsizing. All 75 crew members are evacuated onto lifeboats and rescued. It is the first loss of a New Zealand naval ship at sea since World War II. (BBC News)
Sports
- 2024 NCAA Division I FBS football season
- 2024 Alabama vs. Vanderbilt football game
- The unranked Vanderbilt Commodores upset the undefeated, AP No. 1 ranked Alabama Crimson Tide 40–35, marking the first time Vanderbilt won against a top-five ranked team in its program's history. (CNN)
- 2024 Alabama vs. Vanderbilt football game
October 4, 2024 (Friday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Israel–Hamas war
- Red Sea crisis
- 2024 missile strikes in Yemen
- The United States launches airstrikes against Houthi locations in Yemen, including in the capital Sanaa, and the port city of Al Hudaydah. (Al Jazeera)
- 2024 missile strikes in Yemen
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Pokrovsk offensive
- The head of military administration of Pokrovsk, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, Serhiy Dobriak reports that Russian forces are now about 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) from the city, and have destroyed or damaged 80% of the city's critical infrastructure. (Reuters)
- Pokrovsk offensive
Business and economy
- The European Union votes 10–5 with 12 abstentions to institute tariffs of up to 45% on electric vehicles manufactured in China. (Reuters)
Disasters and accidents
- 2024 European floods
- 2024 Bosnia and Herzegovina floods
- Sixteen people are killed in floods and landslides in Jablanica, Bosnia and Herzegovina. (Al Jazeera)
- 2024 Bosnia and Herzegovina floods
- 2023–2024 South American drought
- Extreme drought in the Amazon rainforest of Brazil causes the river banks of the city of Manaus to fall to their lowest levels since 1902, severely impacting trade in the region. (Reuters)
International relations
- Georgia–European Union relations, Accession of Georgia to the European Union
- The European Union threatens sanctions and a suspension of relations with Georgia if Georgia becomes a "one-party state" with no political opposition following the next parliamentary elections on October 26. (Reuters)
Law and crime
- Parole for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans
- The United States Department of Homeland Security reports that the Biden administration will not renew the legal status of 530,000 migrants who entered the U.S. as part of a provisional humanitarian program beginning in 2022. (Reuters)
- Pork barrel scam
- The Sandiganbayan court in the Philippines acquits Chief Presidential Legal Counsel and former Senate president Juan Ponce Enrile, his former aide Gigi Reyes, and Janet Napoles of plunder in connection with the alleged misuse of Ponce Enrile's Priority Development Assistance Fund during his senatorial term. (AFP via CNA) (Rappler)
- Women's rights in Afghanistan
- The European Court of Justice rules that all Afghan women are eligible for asylum in the European Union. (The Guardian)
- At least two people are killed and three others are injured, including one critically, in a suspected arson at a 100-year-old three-story building in the Old Montreal neighbourhood of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. (CBC News) (CFCF-TV)
- A woman from Toronto, Ontario, Canada, is arrested and charged with murder following a stabbing spree that killed three people in Toronto, Niagara Falls and Hamilton between Tuesday and Thursday. (CFTO-TV)
Politics and elections
- 2024 French political crisis, French anti-Barnier government protests
- October 2024 French vote of no confidence
- The left-wing New Popular Front coalition files a motion of no confidence against the new right-wing Barnier government amid ongoing political protests in France. (Reuters)
- October 2024 French vote of no confidence
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