Portal:Current events/2024 September 22

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • 2024 Lebanon pager explosions
    • The death toll from the pager explosions across Lebanon last week increases to 42 people, with more than 3,500 others injured. (The Guardian)
  • Assassination of Ibrahim Aqil
    • The death toll from the Israeli airstrikes two days ago in Dahieh, Beirut, Lebanon, increases to at least 45 militants and civilians. (Al Jazeera)
  • Hezbollah launches a barrage of rockets and Fadi 1 and Wadi 2 missiles at the Israeli Air Force Ramat David Airbase in Haifa, Israel, in retaliation for the assassination of Ibrahim Aqil with three Israeli civilians injured in Krayot and Lower Galilee and one lightly injured by an Iron Dome interception. (CTV News) (AP)
  • Two Hezbollah militants and a civilian killed in Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon. (Al Jazeera)
• Gaza war
  • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
    • At least seven people are killed in an Israeli airstrike on the Kafr Qasim school on the Al-Shati refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. (Al Jazeera)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Zaporizhzhia strikes
    • At least 16 people are injured in Russian airstrikes in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine. (Reuters)
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • A police officer is killed and four others are injured in an IED attack on a multinational diplomatic convoy in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (AP)
• Mexican drug war
  • The death toll from the ongoing shootouts between rival factions of the Sinaloa Cartel in Sinaloa, Mexico, increases to 70 people with 51 others missing. (Al Jazeera)

Disasters and accidents

• Six people are killed and eight others are missing in floods and landslides caused by record rainfall in the Noto Peninsula of Japan. (Al Jazeera)
• Three people are killed, three others are injured, and a person is missing when a two-story building collapses in Naples, Italy. (CTV News)

Law and crime

• Censorship in Israel
  • Israeli forces carry out a raid and order the closure of the offices of Al Jazeera Arabic in Ramallah in the West Bank. (AP)
• Iran–Israel relations
  • The Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp arrests twelve people in six different provinces accused of being foreign operatives for Israel and "planning acts against Iran's security". (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• 2024 Sri Lankan presidential election
  • For the first time in Sri Lanka's history, election officials begin a second round of vote counting. In the first round, National People's Power candidate Anura Kumara Dissanayake led with 42.31% of the vote counted, while opposition leader and United People's Power candidate Sajith Premadasa took second place with 32.76%. Incumbent President Ranil Wickremesinghe came in third place with 17% of the vote. Following the counting of second and third preferences, Dissanayake is declared president-elect by the election commission. (AP) (BBC News)
• The United Nations adopts the "Pact for the Future", aiming for multilateral cooperative work towards peace and security, global governance, climate change, sustainable development, human rights, and more. (Reuters)

Science and technology

• Researchers from the University of Cape Town and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology announce they have reconstructed the oldest human genome ever found, belonging to a man and a woman who lived about 10,000 years ago in the Mesolithic period. The prior oldest decoded genome was from about 2,000 years ago. (DW)