Portal:Current events/2024 August 31

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • Gaza war hostage crisis
    • The Israeli military recovers the bodies of six hostages kidnapped by Hamas during the October 7 attack on Israel, including American citizen Hersh Goldberg-Polin, from an underground tunnel near Rafah, Gaza. (NBC News)
  • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
    • Israeli strikes kill at least 48 people across the Gaza Strip. (Reuters)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Five civilians are killed in Ukrainian missile strikes on Belgorod, Russia. (Reuters)
• Red Sea crisis
  • The Houthis claim they have attacked the Liberia-flagged container ship MV Groton for the second time in the Gulf of Aden. (Reuters)
• Somali Civil War
  • Al-Shabaab bombs several businesses in the Tabelaha Sheikh Ibrahim neighborhood of Mogadishu, Somalia, targeting shops that had complied with the government's directive to install CCTV cameras. (Idilnews)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Kamchatka Mil Mi-8 crash
  • A Russian Air Force Mil Mi-8T helicopter crashes over the Russian Kamchatka Peninsula with all 22 personnel onboard killed. (AP)
• 2024 Pacific typhoon season
  • The death toll from the effects of Typhoon Shanshan in Japan increases to six, with over 100 people injured. (Reuters)
• 2024 Yemen floods
  • The death toll from flooding in Al Mahwit Governorate, Yemen, increases to at least 97 people. (DW)
• Seven people are killed and dozens of others are injured in a bus crash near Vicksburg, Mississippi, United States. (CBS News)
• Three people are killed and two more injured after a Cessna 421C crashes in a row of townhouses near Troutdale Airport in Troutdale, Oregon, United States. (AP)

International relations

• Foreign relations of Algeria
  • The BRICS New Development Bank authorizes Algeria as a new bank member. (Reuters)

Science and technology

• Ford Motor Company announces it is recalling over 90,000 vehicles due to issues with the engine intake valves. (Reuters)

Sports

• 2024 Summer Paralympics
  • Poland at the 2024 Summer Paralympics
    • Polish F32 Paralympian Róża Kozakowska is disqualified one day after winning gold in the Women's club throw F32 event due to an irregularity with her equipment. (Polsatnews)