Portal:Current events/2024 August 27

August 27, 2024 (Tuesday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

Gaza war
- Israeli incursions in the West Bank during the Israel–Hamas war
  - Israeli incursions in Tulkarm
    - Palestinian parties declare a general strike in Tulkarm Governorate in protest of the recent killings by the Israel Defense Forces. (Al Jazeera)
  - Five Palestinians are killed in an Israeli airstrike on the Nur Shams refugee camp in the West Bank. Separately, a Palestinian man is killed and six other people are injured in an attack by Israeli settlers in the Wadi Rahal village. (Al Jazeera)
- Israel–Hamas war hostage crisis
  - The Israeli military and Shin Bet announce they have rescued Qaid Farhan Al-Qadi, a Bedouin Arab hostage who was kidnapped by Hamas during the October 7 attack on Israel, from an underground tunnel in Gaza. (BBC News)
Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure
  - 26 August 2024 Russian strikes on Ukraine
    - Russian missile and drone attacks resume across Ukraine, killing at least six people and injuring five others in Kryvyi Rih and Zaporizhzhia. (The Independent) (Kyiv Independent)
- 2024 Kursk offensive
  - The Ukrainian military says it has captured 594 Russian troops and 100 settlements in Kursk Oblast since the start of the incursion. (DW)
- Ukrainian conscription crisis, Poland–Ukraine relations
  - President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy announces that Poland will cooperate with Ukraine to return "Ukrainians who violated the law", traitors, and collaborators who illegally crossed the Poland–Ukraine border in order to evade conscription in the Russo-Ukrainian War. (UNN)
- United States and the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russia–NATO relations
  - Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov warns the United States and other NATO members against giving Ukraine approval to use long-range missiles to target Russia. (Reuters)
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announces that Ukraine has successfully tested a domestically-produced ballistic missile for the first time. (Ukrainska Pravda)
Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- Four civilians are injured in IDF airstrikes on Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon. (Deccan Herald)
- One IDF soldier injured in Hezbollah drone strikes on IDF targets in Beit Hillet in Upper Galilee, Israel. (Deccan Herald)
Libyan crisis
- United States Africa Command General Michael Langley meets with top Libyan National Army officials, including Khalifa Haftar, in Benghazi, Libya, to help mediate an end to the political crisis. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

2024 Brazil wildfires
- Forty-eight cities in Brazil issue red alerts for prolonged heavy and hazardous smog originating from extensive wildfires. (AP)
Two workers are killed and one other is injured in a aircraft tire explosion at a Delta Air Lines maintenance facility near the Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. (AP)

Health and environment

2024 Red Sea oil spill
- The Pentagon reports that the MT Sounion appears to be leaking its 150,000 ton supply of oil into the Red Sea, and is still on fire since Houthi attacks on August 22. Efforts to salvage the tanker have been repelled by Houthi threats. (Reuters)
The Namibian environment ministry announces a plan to cull 723 wild animals, including 83 elephants, and to distribute the meat to people who have been affected by a severe nationwide drought. (Reuters)

International relations

Canada–Mexico relations, Mexico–United States relations
- Mexico suspends all interactions with the Canadian and American embassies in Mexico City due to claimed interference with its independence and internal affairs after both ambassadors criticized reform plans for members of the judiciary, up to and including Supreme Court justices, to be elected by popular vote. (Reuters)
Egypt–Somalia relations
- Following a defense pact signed by Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi earlier this month, Egypt deploys two C-130 aircraft carrying military officers and equipment to Mogadishu, Somalia, as the initial phase of a significant deployment that will see up to 10,000 Egyptian soldiers stationed in Somalia. (Garowa Online)
France–Russia relations
- Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov states that bilateral relations between France and Russia have "reached a nadir" following the arrest and captivity extension of Russian-born Telegram CEO Pavel Durov. (Reuters)

Law and crime

Indictments against Donald Trump
- Federal prosecution of Donald Trump
  - U.S. Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith files a superseding indictment against former U.S. President Donald Trump for his attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election. (Politico)
Arrest of Pavel Durov
- French prosecutors publicly accuse Telegram CEO Pavel Durov of twelve charges including violations associated with drug trafficking, child exploitation, and money laundering. (Kyiv Independent)
Australian Police and New Zealand Police announce they have concluded a joint illicit drug operation that resulted in 1,611 arrests and 2,962 charges nationwide. The police also confiscated almost 1,400 kilograms (3,100 lb) of illicit drugs and over 2,500 cannabis plants, worth 93 million AUD (US$63 million). (DW)
German police shoot a 26-year-old man dead in Moers, Germany, after the man attacked two officers with a knife. (AP)
Malaysia charges opposition leader and former Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin for allegedly insulting the former King Al-Sultan Abdullah in 2022, under the Sedition Act. (DW)

Politics and elections

2024 French legislative election
- France's New Popular Front (NFP) party suspends future talks with President Emmanuel Macron to break a political deadlock after Macron refused to implement a leftist-led coalition government despite the NFP receiving the second-most votes in the legislative election, and also calls for nationwide protests against Macron's "parody of democracy". (Reuters)
2024 Kolkata rape and murder incident
- West Bengal Police fire tear gas and water cannons at protesting university students and medical professionals demanding the resignation of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for her handling in the rape and murder case of a medic in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. (Al Jazeera)