Portal:Current events/2024 August 2

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Somali civil war
  • 2024 Lido Beach attack
    • Thirty-eight people are killed and 212 others are injured in a mass shooting and suicide bombing by al-Shabaab militants near the Beach View Hotel on Lido Beach in Mogadishu, Somalia. (Hiiraan Online) (Reuters)
• Iran–Israel proxy conflict
  • 2024 Iran–Israel conflict, Israel–Hezbollah conflict
    • Five Syrian migrant workers are killed in IDF airstrikes and shelling of Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon. (Al Jazeera)
  • Assassination of Ismail Haniyeh
    • United States President Joe Biden deploys multiple U.S. military warships, troops, and other military assets to the Middle East to support Israel against potential attacks from Iran and its proxies. (Financial Times) (The Washington Post)

Business and economy

• Unemployment in the United States
  • Several global financial markets fall significantly, with the Dow Jones falling by 610 points after the United States Department of Labor reported that the unemployment rate increased to 4.3% in July, the highest since October 2021. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• At least 11 people are killed in a fire in a residential-commercial building in Manila, Philippines. (The Star)

International relations

• 2024 Venezuelan presidential election, Argentina–Venezuela relations
  • Argentina recognizes Edmundo González as President-elect of Venezuela, becoming the third country to do so after the United States and Peru. (AFP via Barron's)

Law and crime

• 2024 United Kingdom riots
  • Rioting occurs in Sunderland, England, United Kingdom, as hundreds of far-right protesters attempt to march on a mosque and clash with riot police in the city centre. A police station and Citizens Advice bureau is set on fire by rioters. (BBC News)
• Censorship in Turkey
  • Turkey blocks internet access to Instagram, following comments made by Turkish communications director Fahrettin Altun that condemned Meta Platforms for taking down Instagram posts offering condolences or expressing sorrow towards the assassination of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh. (Reuters)
• Mass surveillance in the United Kingdom
  • Several civil rights groups denounce proposals made by British Prime Minister Keir Starmer to grant British police nationalized live facial recognition technology and surveillance to charge people police consider significantly likely to participate in far-right riots, condemning the opportunism of the proposals, their potential racial and gender inaccuracy, and their possible use to target future legal protests. (The Guardian)
• A man is arrested by national police in Dublin, Ireland, following attacks on Government Buildings, The Custom House, and Áras an Uachtaráin. (RTÉ)
• Four men, including a police officer, are found shot to death near Cancún, Quintana Roo, Mexico. (AP)
• The United States Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission file a joint lawsuit against TikTok and its parent company ByteDance for violating a law prohibiting companies to collect and use personal information of children under the age of 13. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• End Bad Governance protests
  • Protests against President Bola Tinubu's economic reforms continue across Nigeria, as security forces fire tear gas at protestors and the government orders curfews across several northern states. (Al Jazeera)

Sports

• 2024 Summer Olympics
  • Tennis at the 2024 Summer Olympics
    • Novak Djokovic defeats Lorenzo Musetti to advance to the finals of the Men's singles tournament, becoming the only player to reach the finals four times, and the oldest finalist in Olympic tennis history. (ESPN)
    • Carlos Alcaraz defeats Félix Auger-Aliassime to advance to the finals of the Men's singles tournament, becoming the youngest finalist in Olympic tennis history at 21 years old. (CBS News)
  • Individual Neutral Athletes at the 2024 Summer Olympics
    • Belarusian gymnast Ivan Litvinovich wins a gold medal in trampoline gymnastics, making him the first male neutral athlete to win a gold medal at the Summer Olympics. (CBS News)