Portal:Current events/2024 September 21

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • Assassination of Ibrahim Aqil
    • Hezbollah confirms that Ahmed Wahbi, a top commander who oversaw the military operations of the Redwan special forces during the Gaza war until early 2024, was killed in the Israeli airstrikes yesterday in Beirut, Lebanon. (TRT World)
    • The death toll from yesterday's airstrikes in Beirut increases to 38 people, including sixteen Hezbollah militants and twenty-two civilians, with 17 others still missing. (Al Jazeera)
• Gaza war
  • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
    • At least 22 people are killed and 30 others are injured in an Israeli airstrike on a school in the Zeitoun area of Gaza City. (CTV News)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Kharkiv strikes
    • Twenty-one people are injured when a Russian guided bomb hits an apartment building in Kharkiv, Ukraine. (Reuters)
• Nduga hostage crisis
  • Papuan separatists release Philip Mehrtens, a New Zealander pilot, after holding him hostage for over 19 months. (BBC)
• Mexican drug war
  • Two gunmen and a civilian are killed, and a paramedic is wounded, during a Mexican Army operation in the Tres Ríos sector of Culiacán. (Noreste)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Tabas coal mine explosion
  • At least 51 miners are killed, several are trapped and twenty-one are injured after a coal mine explodes in Tabas, Iran, caused by a methane gas leak. (Al Jazeera)

Law and crime

• September 2024 Birmingham shooting
  • Four people are killed and seventeen others are injured following a mass shooting in Birmingham, Alabama, United States. (ABC News) (AP)

Politics and elections

• 2024 French political crisis
  • Newly appointed Prime Minister of France Michel Barnier announces a centre-right coalition government, and adds ten conservative Republican members to his cabinet. (Reuters)
• 2024 Sri Lankan presidential election
  • Sri Lankan voters head to the polls to elect a new president between 39 candidates. The main frontrunners are Anura Kumara Dissanayake of the socialist National People's Power and current Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa of the progressive United People's Power Party. (BBC)
• Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama announces plans to create a 27-acre sovereign enclave for the Bektashi Order in Tirana modeled after the Vatican City, which would be called the "Sovereign State of the Bektashi Order". (The New York Times)

Sports

• 2024 Chicago White Sox season, Worst Major League Baseball season win–loss records
  • In professional baseball, the Chicago White Sox earn their 119th loss of the 2024 MLB season, tying the American League loss record set by the 2003 Detroit Tigers while now being one loss away from tying the post-1900 MLB loss record of the expansion 1962 New York Mets. (AP)