Portal:Current events/2024 August 7

August 7, 2024 (Wednesday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

Gaza war
- 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel
  - The Israel Defense Forces confirms the death of Bilha Yinon, the last person missing in Israel following the attack by Hamas on October 7, 2023. (Newsweek)
- Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
  - Six Palestinians are killed in an Israeli raid on the Maghazi refugee camp and in Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip. (Saba News Agency) (Al Jazeera)
2024 Iran–Israel conflict, Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- Egypt and the United Kingdom issue NOTAM alerts and order their airlines to avoid Iranian and Lebanese airspaces. (Reuters)
- Three killed and ten injured in Israeli airstrikes on Jwaya, Lebanon. (Al Jazeera)
- Hezbollah launches rockets on the Israeli-occuped Syrian Golan Heights and shelled an IDF outpost in Jal al-Allam, Israel. (Al Jazeera)
Russian invasion of Ukraine
- 2024 Kursk offensive
  - Russian Chief of General Staff Valery Gerasimov says that the Ukrainian advance into Kursk Oblast has been stopped as reports emerge of continued heavy fighting in the vicinity of Sudzha. (BBC News)
  - Acting Governor of Kursk Oblast Alexei Smirnov declares a state of emergency in the region. (DW)

Disasters and accidents

Thirty people are killed, five are missing and hundreds are displaced after days of floods in Hodeidah and Hajjah, Yemen. (AP)
Five people, including four Chinese nationals, are killed in a helicopter crash in Nuwakot District, Bagmati Province, Nepal. (AP)

Health and environment

Deforestation of the Amazon Rainforest
- The Government of Brazil reports that deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest is at its lowest level since 2016. (AP)
Environmental threats to the Great Barrier Reef
- The water temperature around the Great Barrier Reef is reported to have reached a 400-year record high, which is causing more mass bleaching events. (DW)

Law and crime

2023 Thai general election
- Lèse-majesté in Thailand
  - The Constitutional Court of Thailand orders the dissolution of the Move Forward Party, which won the most seats and votes in last year's election, but was blocked from forming a government, over the party's campaigning on Lèse-majesté decriminalization. (BBC News) (Al Jazeera)
End Bad Governance protests
- Nigeria arrests seven Polish nationals for raising Russian flags during anti-government protests this week. (Reuters)
South Africa's genocide case against Israel
- Turkey submits a bid to join South Africa's side in the International Court of Justice case against Israel's conduct in the Gaza Strip. (Al Jazeera)
Police in Berlin, Germany, arrest a palliative care nurse for allegedly killing four elderly patients. (DW)
Russian-American Ksenia Karelina pleads guilty in a Russian court to a charge of treason. (CNN)
2024 Vienna terrorism plot
- Police in Austria arrest two men affiliated with the Islamic State for allegedly planning to commit a terrorist attack at American singer Taylor Swift's upcoming concerts at the Ernst-Happel-Stadion in Vienna, which are subsequently cancelled. (The Guardian)

Politics and elections

2024 United States House of Representatives elections
- Missouri Democratic congresswoman Cori Bush loses her primary election to St. Louis County prosecutor Wesley Bell, becoming the second member of the Squad to lose a primary. (BBC News)
Comorian president Azali Assoumani grants extensive powers to his son and alleged successor Nour El Fath, allowing El Fath to intervene in multiple stages of government decision-making. (Reuters)

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