Portal:Current events/2024 May 10

Armed conflicts and attacks

• 2024 Iran–Israel conflict, Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • A Hezbollah and PIJ militant killed in Aedsheet and Blida, Marjeyoun District, two civilian cell tower repairers killed Tayr Harfa in Israeli airstrikes.(Al Arabiya)

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • 2024 Kharkiv offensive
    • Russian forces launch an attack on Ukraine's Kharkiv Oblast, near the town of Vovchansk, opening up a new front. (Reuters)
  • A Ukrainian strike against oil infrastructure kills three in Luhansk. (Reuters)
• M23 offensive
  • The death toll from rocket strikes on an IDP camp in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, increases to 35. (AP)
• Insurgency in Cabo Delgado
  • Hundreds of Islamic State-linked fighters attack the town of Macomia, Cabo Delgado Province, Mozambique. (Al Jazeera)
• Naxalite–Maoist insurgency
  • Indian security forces kill 12 Maoist rebels in Chhattisgarh. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Afghanistan–Pakistan floods
  • Over 200 people are killed by floods in Baghlan Province, Afghanistan. (NDTV)
• 2024 Rio Grande do Sul floods
  • The death toll from the ongoing heavy flooding in southern Brazil increases to 126, with 141 still missing and more than 300,000 people displaced. (Reuters)
• Seven people are killed and six others are injured when a passenger bus plunges from the Potseluev Bridge into the Moyka river in Saint Petersburg, Russia. (Reuters)
• At least 60 people are injured when a passenger train collides with a locomotive in Buenos Aires, Argentina. (Reuters)

Health and environment

• Demographics of Italy
  • Amid record low birth rates and an aging population, Pope Francis urges Italians to have more children. The Italian government also expands a campaign to encourage at least 500,000 births annually by 2033. (AP)

International relations

• Palestine and the United Nations
  • United Nations General Assembly Resolution ES-10/23
    • The United Nations General Assembly votes 143–9 with 25 abstentions to approve a resolution granting Palestine new rights and privileges, and to reconsider Palestine's request to become a UN member. The nine countries that opposed the resolution were Argentina, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Israel, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau, Papua New Guinea and the United States. (AP) (The National)

Law and crime

• Colombian conflict
  • Catatumbo campaign
    • A Colombian court in Bogota grants conditional release to former paramilitary leader Salvatore Mancuso. He was held at La Picota prison while being accused of war crimes and human rights violations. (Reuters)
• Arrest of Arvind Kejriwal, 2024 Indian general election
  • The Supreme Court of India grants Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal interim bail for 21 days in connection with the Delhi liquor policy money laundering case, thereby permitting Kejriwal to campaign in the ongoing general election. (The Hindustan Times)
• A Pennsylvania jury orders ExxonMobil to pay $725.5 million to a former mechanic who claimed that the company's gasoline and solvents caused him to develop leukemia. (Reuters)
• Peruvian authorities launch an investigation into President Dina Boluarte for disbanding a police force that was investigating her brother Nicanor Boluarte, who was arrested for alleged influence peddling. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• Israel–Hamas war protests
  • 2024 pro-Palestinian protests on university campuses
    • Police dismantle encampments and arrest dozens of students protesting at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Reuters)
    • Academic staff of The New School in New York City hold the first faculty-led solidarity encampment in the United States. (The Guardian)
• 2024 United States presidential election
  • Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 2024 presidential campaign
    • Robert F. Kennedy Jr. qualifies to appear on the ballot in Oklahoma for the 2024 United States presidential election as an independent candidate. (Yahoo! News)
• 2024 Polish farmers' protests
  • Thousands of protesters march through Warsaw, Poland, against the European Union's environmental regulations. (Euronews)
• Emir of Kuwait Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah dissolves the National Assembly and suspends some articles of the Constitution. (Reuters)
• Eight hundred protesters storm the Tesla plant in Grünheide, Germany, in protest of the environmental impact of the company's expansion. (Reuters)

Science and technology

• May 2024 solar storms
  • A geomagnetic storm hits Earth, reaching G5 intensity and causing widespread aurorae, with NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center issuing its first G4-level storm watch since 2005. (NOAA)