Portal:Current events/2024 September 8

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Pokrovsk offensive
    • Russia formally claims control of Novohrodivka, Donetsk Oblast, twelve kilometers (seven miles) from the strategically important Ukrainian logistical hub city Pokrovsk. (Reuters)
• War in Afghanistan
  • Fall of Kabul, 2020–2021 U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan
    • Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee release a report criticizing U.S. President Joe Biden for his handling of the withdrawal of American forces from Afghanistan. (The Hill)
• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • The Israeli military says that several Hezbollah militants were killed in airstrikes on Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon. (Al Jazeera)
• Syrian civil war
  • Israel launches several airstrikes in central Syria, targeting the Tartus and Hama governorates. (CNN)
• Sudanese civil war
  • The World Health Organization reports that the death toll from the civil war in Sudan has increased to more than 20,000 people. (AP)

Arts and culture

• 76th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards
  • American historical drama television series Shōgun wins a record 14 Emmys at the 2024 Creative Arts Emmy Awards, the most won for any single season. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• Wildfires in the United States during 2024
  • Over 11,000 people are evacuated in San Bernardino County, California, United States, as the Line Fire quadruples in size to over 27 sq mi (17,000 acres). (The New York Times) (BBC News)
• Forty-eight people and 50 cattle are killed in an explosion caused by a collision between a fuel tanker and a truck in Agaie, Niger State, Nigeria. (AP)
• Fourteen people are killed and another person is injured when a bus crashes on a highway between Aden and Taiz in Yemen. (AP)

Law and crime

• 2024 Allenby Bridge shooting
  • Three Israeli civilians are killed in a shooting at the Allenby Bridge on the Israel–Jordan border. (Reuters)
• Kingdom of Jesus Christ compound standoff
  • Kingdom of Jesus Christ pastor Apollo Quiboloy, who is charged with sex trafficking, is arrested amid a standoff between the police and members of the church at the church's headquarters in Davao City, Philippines. (Al Jazeera)
• 2024 Pasaquina Bell UH-1 crash
  • Nine people, including El Salvador's National Civil Police chief Mauricio Arriaza Chicas and a fraud suspect, are killed during a helicopter crash while en route to San Salvador. The crash is considered to be intentional. All flags on government buildings will be flown half-mast for three days. (BBC)

Politics and elections

• 2024 Algerian presidential election
  • Incumbent President of Algeria Abdelmadjid Tebboune is re-elected for his second term with 95% of the vote. (Al Jazeera)
• 2024 Venezuelan political crisis
  • Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo González flees Venezuela to seek political asylum in Spain. The Spanish government says that González left Venezuela on a Spanish Air Force plane at his own request. (BBC News)

Sports

• 2024 Summer Paralympics
  • Thailand at the 2024 Summer Paralympics, Wheelchair fencing at the Summer Paralympics
    • Thai wheelchair fencer Saysunee Jana becomes the first female wheelchair fencer, and the second overall, to win gold medals in all three fencing disciplines, épée, foil, and sabre. (Bangkok Post)
• 2024 US Open
  • In tennis, Jannik Sinner defeats Taylor Fritz in the final of the US Open Men's singles tournament to win his first US Open title ever and his second Grand Slam title overall. Sinner is also the first Italian man to ever win the US Open. (CNN)