Portal:Current events/2024 October 4

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • Israeli incursions in the West Bank during the Israel–Hamas war
    • Hamas' armed wing Al-Qassam Brigades confirms the death of commander Zahi Yaser Oufi in an Israeli strike in Tulkarm in the West Bank yesterday. (Reuters)
• Red Sea crisis
  • 2024 missile strikes in Yemen
    • The United States launches airstrikes against Houthi locations in Yemen, including in the capital Sanaa, and the port city of Al Hudaydah. (Al Jazeera)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Pokrovsk offensive
    • The head of military administration of Pokrovsk, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, Serhiy Dobriak reports that Russian forces are now about 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) from the city, and have destroyed or damaged 80% of the city's critical infrastructure. (Reuters)

Business and economy

• The European Union votes 10–5 with 12 abstentions to institute tariffs of up to 45% on electric vehicles manufactured in China. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 European floods
  • 2024 Bosnia and Herzegovina floods
    • Sixteen people are killed in floods and landslides in Jablanica, Bosnia and Herzegovina. (Al Jazeera)
• 2023–2024 South American drought
  • Extreme drought in the Amazon rainforest of Brazil causes the river banks of the city of Manaus to fall to their lowest levels since 1902, severely impacting trade in the region. (Reuters)

International relations

• Georgia–European Union relations, Accession of Georgia to the European Union
  • The European Union threatens sanctions and a suspension of relations with Georgia if Georgia becomes a "one-party state" with no political opposition following the next parliamentary elections on October 26. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• Parole for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans
  • The United States Department of Homeland Security reports that the Biden administration will not renew the legal status of 530,000 migrants who entered the U.S. as part of a provisional humanitarian program beginning in 2022. (Reuters)
• Pork barrel scam
  • The Sandiganbayan court in the Philippines acquits Chief Presidential Legal Counsel and former Senate president Juan Ponce Enrile, his former aide Gigi Reyes, and Janet Napoles of plunder in connection with the alleged misuse of Ponce Enrile's Priority Development Assistance Fund during his senatorial term. (AFP via CNA) (Rappler)
• Women's rights in Afghanistan
  • The European Court of Justice rules that all Afghan women are eligible for asylum in the European Union. (The Guardian)
• At least two people are killed and three others are injured, including one critically, in a suspected arson at a 100-year-old three-story building in the Old Montreal neighbourhood of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. (CBC News) (CFCF-TV)
• A woman from Toronto, Ontario, Canada, is arrested and charged with murder following a stabbing spree that killed three people in Toronto, Niagara Falls and Hamilton between Tuesday and Thursday. (CFTO-TV)

Politics and elections

• 2024 French political crisis, French anti-Barnier government protests
  • October 2024 French vote of no confidence
    • The left-wing New Popular Front coalition files a motion of no confidence against the new right-wing Barnier government amid ongoing political protests in France. (Reuters)