Portal:Current events/2024 September 1

September 1, 2024 (Sunday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
  - Ukraine launches more than a hundred drones against targets in Russia, including the Konakovo Power Station in Konakovo, Tver Oblast, and the Moscow Refinery in Moscow. (Reuters)
- Eastern Ukraine campaign
  - Russia reports that its forces have taken control of the settlements of Ptyche and Vyimka in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. (Reuters)
- Kharkiv strikes
  - At least 47 people are injured when Russian missiles hit a shopping mall and events complex in Kharkiv, Ukraine. (Reuters)
2024 Bangladesh quota reform movement
- The office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights announces that it will deploy a fact-finding team to investigate human rights abuses and violations committed by government forces during the quota reform movement, after being requested to do so by the interim government of Muhammad Yunus. (The New York Times)

Disasters and accidents

Health and environment

2024 Brazil wildfires
- The number of wildfires in the Amazon rainforest reaches its highest number in fourteen years at 38,266 fire hotspots as a result of an ongoing drought in South America. (Reuters)
A weather station near Qeshm International Airport in Dayrestan, Iran, records the highest unverified heat index on Earth of 82.2 °C (180.0 °F) and the highest dew point of 36.1 °C (97.0 °F). Climatologists will investigate to confirm the readings' accuracy. (The Economic Times) (Times of India)

Law and crime

Eleven people are killed and more than 40 others are injured when a truck crashes into a bar in Azua, Dominican Republic. The driver subsequently flees the scene. (AP)
Two people are killed and four more injured during a vehicle-ramming attack outside a restaurant in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. The perpetrator's motive is unknown. (AP)

Politics and elections

Gaza war
- September 2024 Israel ceasefire protests
  - Hundreds of thousands of Israelis, including approximately 300,000 in Tel Aviv, protest in cities across the country following the recovery of the bodies of six hostages from Gaza, with the national trade union center calling for a general strike on Monday and for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to resign after failing to negotiate a ceasefire. (The New York Times) (CNN)
  - At least 29 people are arrested in Tel Aviv on accusations of vandalism, disorderly conduct, and attacking police officers. (CNN)
2024 Saxony state election, 2024 Thuringian state election
- Parliamentary elections in the German states of Saxony and Thuringia show large gains for the right-wing populist Alternative for Germany party and the left-wing populist Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht party as well as losses for the left-wing and liberal parties of the governing coalition and for the socialist The Left party. In Thuringia, a far-right party comes in first place in a state election for the first time since World War II. (DW)