Portal:Current events/2024 October 24

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • 2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon
    • Five Israeli soldiers are killed and seven others are injured in gun battles with Hezbollah militants in southern Lebanon. (Reuters)
  • Assassination of Hashem Safieddine
    • Hezbollah confirms that Hossein Ali Hazimeh, head of its intelligence headquarters, was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Beirut, Lebanon, on October 3. (Webangah) (Mehr News Agency)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Eastern Ukraine campaign
    • The Armed Forces of Ukraine reports that Russian Armed Forces have made significant advances in the strategic city of Selydove, predicting that it could be captured in a few days. (Euronews)
• Gaza war
  • At least 17 Palestinians, including children, are killed in an Israeli airstrike on a school in Nuseirat refugee camp. (Reuters)
  • Israel says that it killed Muhammad Abu Attawi, a commander in Hamas' Nukhba forces who participated in the Nova music festival massacre, in an airstrike in Gaza yesterday. (Reuters) (The Times of Israel)
• Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir
  • Islamist insurgents target an Indian Army vehicle with small arms fire near Gulmarg, Jammu and Kashmir, India, killing two soldiers and two civilian porters and injuring three other soldiers. (The Indian Express)
• Mexican drug war
  • Two car bombs explode outside police stations in Acámbaro and Jerécuaro, Guanajuato, Mexico, injuring three police officers in Acámbaro. (AP)

Business and economy

• Regulation of electronic cigarettes, Smoking bans in the United Kingdom
  • The British government announces that single-use vapes will be banned in England and Wales beginning on 1 June 2025. (BBC News)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Pacific typhoon season
  • Tropical Storm Trami makes landfall in northeastern Luzon, Philippines, killing at least 26 people. (BBC News) (Reuters)
• Eight people are killed when a NNPC Limited Sikorsky S-76C+ helicopter crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Bonny Island, Rivers State, Nigeria. (Daily Maverick) (BBC News Pidgin)
• Four people are killed and one other is seriously injured when a Tesla car crashes into a guardrail and struck a concrete pillar at high speed after losing control causing a fire in Toronto, Canada. (CTV News Toronto)

International relations

• North Korea–South Korea relations
  • Balloon propaganda campaigns in Korea
    • North Korea sends a wave of trash balloons over South Korea, with one balloon falling on the presidential compound in central Seoul. The balloon reportedly contained leaflets criticizing South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and his wife Kim Keon-hee. (ABC News)

Law and crime

• Four people, including the perpetrator, are killed in a mass stabbing in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. (WLWT-TV)

Politics and elections

• 2024 Montserratian general election
  • Residents of Montserrat vote to elect nine of the eleven members of the Legislative Assembly under plurality block voting. (Loop News)
  • Former Premier of Montserrat Reuben Meade and his newly established party United Alliance wins five seats in the general election, establishing a majority and the ability to form a new government. The People's Democratic Movement party wins three seats and the Movement for Change and Prosperity party wins one seat. (St. Vincent Times) (Loop News)
• The European Parliament awards the Sakharov Prize to Venezuelan opposition leaders María Corina Machado and Edmundo González for their activism. (Reuters)