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Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • 2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon
    • Nine medics are killed after an Israeli airstrike against an Islamic Health Authority's office in Beirut, Lebanon, bringing the death toll of the medics killed in the country in the last two weeks to 97. (Al Jazeera) (Al Jazeera 2)
    • The Lebanese Armed Forces open fire on Israeli troops near Bint Jbeil, Nabatieh Governorate, for the first time since the invasion began, after two Lebanese Army soldiers were killed earlier today in separate Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon. (The Times) (Al Arabiya)
    • A Hellenic Air Force plane evacuates Greek and Cypriot nationals from Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport. (Ekathimerini)
• Israel–Hamas war
  • Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip
    • An Israeli airstrike kills Aziz Salha, known for his role in the 2000 Ramallah lynching, in central Gaza. (Jerusalem Post)
    • The Israel Defense Forces announces that they killed Rawhi Mushtaha, head of the Hamas government in Gaza, along with Sameh al-Siraj and Sami Oudeh, who were responsible for security in Hamas in an airstrike 3 months ago. (BBC)
  • West Bank during the Israel–Hamas war
    • An Israeli Air Force jet launches an airstrike on Tulkarm in the West Bank, reportedly killing at least 16 people. (The Times of Israel)
• Haitian crisis
  • Armed gunmen from the Gran-Grif gang commit a mass shooting in the town of Pont-Sondé, Haiti, killing at least 20 people and injuring several others. A local government prosecutor has described the incident as a massacre. (Rezo Nòdwes)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Atlantic hurricane season
  • Effects of Hurricane Helene in North Carolina
    • A thousand U.S. soldiers are deployed to western North Carolina — where over half of the 190 reported storm victims in the United States were located — to aid the North Carolina National Guard in humanitarian operations and in finding hundreds of missing residents. (NBC News)
• Nine people are killed during a fire at a hospital in Pingtung County, Taiwan. (AP)
• Seven people are killed and 19 others are injured after their bus fell into a ravine in Balochistan, Pakistan. (Dawn)
• At least 78 people killed after boat capsizes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Al Jazeera)

Health and environment

• 2023–2024 mpox epidemic
  • Ghana reports its first case of mpox in 2024. The patient is described as a young male who is showing symptoms of the virus. (Reuters)
• Rwanda Marburg virus disease outbreak
  • Rwanda reports further deaths from the Marburg virus outbreak in the country, bringing the total death toll to eleven. (AP)

International relations

• Chagos Archipelago sovereignty dispute
  • The United Kingdom and Mauritius jointly announce that a deal has been made to resolve the dispute, with sovereignty of the British Indian Ocean Territory being handed over to Mauritius in exchange for the UK and United States retaining control for the next 99 years of the military base on Diego Garcia, the territory's largest island. (BBC News) (Reuters)

Law and crime

• Prosecution of S. Iswaran
  • Former Singapore Transport Minister S. Iswaran, who pleaded guilty to four charges of obtaining valuable items as a public servant and one charge of obstruction of justice last week, is sentenced to a year in jail beginning October 7. (CNA) (Straits Times)
• A Yazidi woman, who had been kidnapped at age 11 by the Islamic State in 2014 in Iraq and sold and trafficked to Gaza, is freed from captivity in Gaza following a secret operation involving the United States and Israel, with her captor believed to have been killed in a previous Israeli airstrike. (Reuters)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israel–Hamas war
  • 2024 Jaffa shooting
    • Hamas military wing Al-Qassam Brigades claims responsibility for yesterday's mass shooting and stabbing attack in Jaffa, Israel, that killed seven people and injured 17 others. (Al Jazeera)
  • Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip, Gaza Strip famine
    • Humanitarian aid groups tell Reuters that Israel introduced new customs regulations and restrictions on humanitarian aid deliveries into the Gaza Strip in mid-August, which are significantly delaying the delivery of food and essential supplies via the Jordan route. (Reuters)
  • Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip
    • The Gaza Health Ministry reports that at least 51 people – including 7 women and 12 children – were killed in coordinated Israeli strikes in southern Gaza. (AP) (Guardian)
    • Israeli airstrike on a school housing displaced people killed 30. (Reuters)
• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • 2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon
    • Eight Israeli soldiers are killed in ambushes by Hezbollah militants in southern Lebanon. (AP)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Kharkiv strikes
    • At least ten people are injured when a Russian guided bomb hits an apartment building in Kharkiv, Ukraine. (Reuters)
• Haitian crisis
  • The United Nations International Organization for Migration reports that over 700,000 Haitians are internally displaced in the country due to gang violence, with more than half being children. (Al Jazeera)
• Islamic State insurgency in Iraq
  • Four Iraqi soldiers are killed and three others are injured in an ambush by Islamic State militants near Kirkuk, Iraq. (Iraqi News Agency) (Reuters)
• Terrorism in Denmark, Attacks against Israeli embassies
  • Danish police arrest three Swedes in connection with two explosions that occurred near the Israeli embassy in Copenhagen, Denmark. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• An unexploded ordnance from World War II detonates under a taxiway at Miyazaki Airport in Miyazaki, Japan, causing more than 80 flights to be cancelled. (NHK) (The Guardian)
• More than 100 people, mostly women and children, are missing after a wooden boat carrying 300 people sinks in the Niger River near Mokwa, Niger State, Nigeria. At least 150 people are rescued and 16 bodies are recovered. (DW) (Al Jazeera)

International relations

• Israel and the United Nations
  • Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs Israel Katz bans UN Secretary-General António Guterres from entering Israel and declares him persona non grata for not "unequivocally" condemning yesterday's Iranian missile attack. (Reuters) (DW)

Law and crime

• Two men and a pregnant woman are shot and killed by unidentified assailants in a barbershop in Lisbon, Portugal. The three suspects fled the scene on foot. (Reuters)
• The Mexican Armed Forces announces its soldiers opened fire on a truck after "hearing detonations" while pursuing it near Huixtla, Chiapas, Mexico. The vehicle was carrying migrants, six out of thirty-one of whom are killed. (Al Jazeera) (AP)
• The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation announces an investigation into a plastic factory after six workers have died or went missing from flooding by Hurricane Helene. (ABC News)

Sports

• Two NASCAR teams, including one owned by former basketball player Michael Jordan, file an antitrust lawsuit against NASCAR, alleging "anticompetitive and exclusionary practices". (The Athletic)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Eastern Ukraine campaign
    • Battle of Vuhledar
      • Russian forces capture the town of Vuhledar in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, after Ukrainian forces retreat from the town. (The Daily Telegraph)
  • Southern Ukraine campaign
    • Seven people are killed and 12 others are injured in Russian strikes in Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine. (Reuters)
• 2024 Iran–Israel conflict
  • October 2024 Iranian strikes against Israel
    • Iran launches a wave of ballistic missile attacks against Israel in retaliation for the 2024 Hezbollah headquarters strike, killing a Palestinian civilian and injuring two others. The U.S. State Department had previously warned of an imminent Iranian attack, saying that such an attack would carry "severe consequences for Iran". (The Guardian) (CBS News) (CNN)
    • United States Navy destroyers USS Bulkeley and USS Cole successfully shoot down several Iranian missiles heading towards Israel. (UK Defence Journal)
  • Iran–Israel conflict during the Syrian civil war
    • The Syrian military intercepts several drones or missiles over Damascus. Several of them explode in the Mezzeh neighborhood, killing three people and injuring nine others. (Al Jazeera) (AFP via Barron's) (Jerusalem Post) (Reuters)
• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • 2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon
    • Israeli forces invade southern Lebanon and begin a ground operation against Hezbollah. (Al Jazeera) (Jerusalem Post)
  • A rocket explosion is reported in Tel Aviv, Israel, with the debris severely injuring a man. Separately, a drone is intercepted by Israeli forces over the Mediterranean Sea. (Al Jazeera)
  • Israel launches an airstrike in the Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp in Sidon, Lebanon, in order to target Munir al-Maqdah, an official of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades. (Al Jazeera)
• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • 2024 Jaffa shooting
    • Two Palestinian gunmen open fire on pedestrians in Jaffa, Israel, killing at least seven people and injuring at least 17 others. The gunmen are subsequently shot and killed by armed civilians and police. (Reuters) (Times of Israel)

Business and economy

• 2024 United States port strike
  • Over 45,000 dockworkers of the International Longshoremen's Association operating at thirty-six United States ports, primarily along the East Coast and the Gulf Coast, begin a labor strike, following the failure of the ports to reach a deal for worker compensation and a ban on automation. (AP)
• CNN begins to roll out a paywall to view its news website. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Atlantic hurricane season
  • The death toll from Hurricane Helene surpasses 160 people, with most of the deaths occurring in North Carolina, making it the second-deadliest hurricane to strike the contiguous United States in the past fifty years, behind only Hurricane Katrina. (CNN)
• 2024 famine in Haiti
  • An Integrated Food Security Phase Classification report declares famine conditions in Haiti, with nearly 48% of Haitians suffering from Stage 4 "crisis" levels of food insecurity and nearly 6,000 in starvation. (Al Jazeera) (AP)
• 2024 Lam Luk Ka bus crash
  • A bus crashes and catches fire in Lam Luk Ka District, Pathum Thani Province, Thailand, killing 23 people. (BBC News)
• Rwanda Marburg virus disease outbreak
  • Rwanda reports eight deaths from Marburg virus. (AP News) (US News)
• At least 45 people are killed and dozens are missing after two boats carrying migrants capsizes off the coast of Djibouti. (Al Jazeera)

Law and crime

• Three people are killed and fifteen others are injured in a mass stabbing at a supermarket in Songjiang district, Shanghai, China. Police arrest a 37-year-old man at the scene, adding that the man had come to Shanghai in order to "vent his anger due to a personal economic dispute". (Reuters) (BBC News)

Politics and elections

• 2024 Japanese general election
  • Shigeru Ishiba is sworn in as the 65th prime minister of Japan, succeeding Fumio Kishida. (Mainichi) (AP)
• 2024 Mexican general election
  • Claudia Sheinbaum is inaugurated as the 66th president of Mexico, becoming the first female Mexican president. (USA Today)
• 2024 United States presidential debates
  • The U.S. Vice President debate is held between Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and U.S. Senator JD Vance. (Business Insider) (CBS News)
• Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, celebrates his 100th birthday, becoming the first centenarian former U.S. president. (BBC News)
• Former Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte is installed as the 14th Secretary General of NATO, succeeding Jens Stoltenberg. (DW)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • September 2024 Lebanon strikes
    • At least 95 people are killed and 172 others are injured in Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon. (Al Jazeera)
    • Five children belonging to the Imam al-Mahdi Scouts are killed in an Israeli airstrike in Charkiyeh in southern Lebanon. (Anadolu Agency)
    • Three militants of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine are killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Kola District of Beirut, Lebanon. Separately, Hamas's commander in Lebanon, Fatah Sharif, is killed alongside his family in Tyre. (Al Jazeera)
    • A Lebanese Army soldier is killed in an Israeli drone strike in Wazzani, Lebanon. (The Times of Israel)
  • 2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon
    • Israel informs the U.S. State Department that it will launch an imminent ground invasion of southern Lebanon in order to clear out Hezbollah infrastructure near Israeli border communities. (The Washington Post)
    • Lebanese troops withdraw from the Israeli border ahead of an Israeli ground offensive. (Reuters)
  • Lebanese displacement during the Israel–Hezbollah conflict
    • The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees reports that at least 100,000 people have crossed from Lebanon into Syria in order to flee from Israeli strikes. (Al Jazeera)

Business and economy

• Coal phase-out
  • The last coal-fired power station in the United Kingdom shuts down in Ratcliffe-on-Soar, Nottinghamshire, England, ending the 142-year history of coal-fired electricity in the UK. (The Guardian)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Nepal floods
  • The death toll from the floods and landslides in Nepal increases to 204 people, with 30 others missing. This is the highest recorded monsoon rainfall in Nepal in the past two decades. (The Guardian)
• Two people are killed in wildfires in Peloponnese, Greece, as several villages are evacuated due to the fires. (ITV News)
• Twelve people are killed, 29 others are rescued, and ten others are missing after a boat capsizes off the coast of Djerba, Tunisia. (Al Jazeera)

International relations

• Australia–Tuvalu relations, Climate change in Tuvalu
  • Tuvalu's climate minister denounces the Australian Labor government's decision to expand three coal mines as an existential threat to the nation, due to the role of the mines in causing rising sea levels that have forced mass displacement across Tuvalu's low-lying islands. (The Guardian)

Law and crime

• Lithuania announces that it has referred Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, the Belarusian government, military officers, and other security officials to the International Criminal Court at The Hague, accusing them of committing crimes against humanity and causing people to flee the country. (AP)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • September 2024 Lebanon strikes
    • 2024 Hezbollah headquarters strike
      • United States senator Mark Kelly confirms that it was U.S. produced and provided 2,000-pound bunker buster BLU-109 bombs that were used by Israel to assassinate Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut. (Reuters)
    • A total of 105 people are killed by Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon, including 32 in Ain El Delb and 21 in Baalbek-Hermel, and at least 359 people are injured. (Al Jazeera)
    • Hezbollah confirms that Nabil Qaouk, the group's senior official, and Ali Karaki, a senior commander, were killed in Israeli airstrikes in Dahieh, Lebanon. (AP) (Al Arabiya)
• Spillover of the Israel–Hamas war
  • Red Sea crisis
    • 29 September 2024 Israeli attacks on Yemen
      • Following the Houthis' launch of a ballistic missile from Yemen towards Ben Gurion Airport prompting air raid sirens in Tel Aviv, the Israeli Air Force launches airstrikes against seaports and power stations operated by the Houthis in Al Hudaydah Governorate, Yemen, killing four people and injuring 29 others. (Al Jazeera) (Al Arabiya)
• Syrian civil war
  • Twelve pro-Iranian militiamen are killed in airstrikes of unknown origin in Deir ez-Zor Governorate, Syria. (Al Arabiya)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Atlantic hurricane season
  • Hurricane Helene
    • The death toll from Hurricane Helene rises to at least 116 people, including 46 in North Carolina, 27 in South Carolina, 25 in Georgia, and 13 in Florida. (CBS News)
• 2024 Conyers Biolab fire
  • Approximately 17,000 people are ordered to evacuate their homes and more are ordered to shelter in place after a fire, potentially causing hazardous chlorine contamination, occurs at a BioLab facility in Conyers, Georgia, United States. (CNN)
• Seven people are killed and 85 others are injured after a head-on collision between a bus and a private vehicle in Majayjay, Laguna, Philippines. (Manila Bulletin)

Law and crime

• Thirty-one people are injured in a double arson and vehicle-ramming attack in Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The perpetrator, a 41-year-old Syrian national, is arrested shortly after the attacks. (DW)

Politics and elections

• 2024 Austrian legislative election
  • Austrians vote for the 183 members of the 26th National Council. (Reuters)
  • The far-right Freedom Party of Austria wins the most seats with 58 but falls short of a majority, with other parties expressing an unwillingness to form a coalition government with them. (BBC)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • September 2024 Lebanon strikes
    • 2024 Hezbollah headquarters strike
      • Hezbollah announces the death of its leader Hassan Nasrallah in yesterday's Israeli airstrikes in Beirut, Lebanon. (Reuters)
      • Interim Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati announces the country will have a national mourning period of three days for Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, starting on Monday. (Al Jazeera)
      • Iran confirms that Abbas Nilforoushan, an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps deputy commander, was killed in yesterday's airstrikes in Beirut. (Al Arabiya)
    • The Israel Defense Forces begin a blockade of Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport in order to prevent the shipment of Iranian weapons to Lebanon. The blockade will not affect the operation of civilian flights at the airport. (The Jerusalem Post)
• Iran–Israel proxy conflict
  • Red Sea crisis
    • The Houthis launch a ballistic missile from Yemen towards Ben Gurion Airport in Israel, prompting air raid sirens in Tel Aviv and most of Central Israel. (Reuters)
• Insurgency in Balochistan
  • Seven workers from Punjab Province are killed and another injured during a mass shooting at a rented house in Panjgur District, Balochistan Province, Pakistan. (AP)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Ten people are killed and 22 others are injured in a Russian double tap strike on a medical facility in Sumy, Ukraine. (Reuters)
• Somali Civil War
  • At least six people are killed and ten others are injured when a car bomb explodes outside a restaurant in Mogadishu, Somalia. (Reuters) (VOA Somali)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Atlantic hurricane season
  • Hurricane Helene
    • The death toll from Hurricane Helene in the United States increases to at least 64 people, including 21 in South Carolina and 18 in Georgia. (AP)
• 2024 Mari Petroleum Mil Mi-8 crash
  • A Mil Mi-8 helicopter carrying Mari Petroleum employees crashes in North Waziristan District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, killing six people and injuring eight others. (AP)
• 2024 Nepal floods
  • At least 170 people are killed and 59 others are missing in floods and landslides in Nepal. (The Journal)
• Nine people are killed, 27 others are rescued, and 48 others are missing when a boat carrying migrants capsizes off the coast of El Hierro in the Canary Islands, Spain. (AP)

Health and environment

• United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres declares a warning at the UN General Assembly for nearly a billion people living in low-lying coastal areas due to the risk of rising sea levels caused by climate change potentially resulting in catastrophic flooding, coastal erosion, and climate migration. (Al Jazeera)

Law and crime

• 2024 Lusikisiki shootings
  • Seventeen people are killed in two mass shootings at homes in Lusikisiki, Eastern Cape, South Africa. (Reuters)

Sports

• 2024 AFL premiership season
  • The Brisbane Lions defeat the Sydney Swans 120–60 in the Australian Football League Grand Final to win their fourth AFL premiership title. (The Guardian Australia)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Eastern Ukraine campaign
    • The Russian Ministry of Defense claims soldiers captured the village of Marynivka in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. (Al Arabiya)
  • Kryvyi Rih strikes
    • At least one person is killed and five others are injured in a Russian missile strike on a police department in Kryvyi Rih, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine. (Reuters)
  • Nuclear risk during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Belarusian involvement in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko warns that Belarus will use Russian nuclear weapons if the country is attacked by NATO. (Anadolu Agency)
  • Southern Ukraine campaign
    • Russian loitering munitions hit the city of Izmail in Odesa Oblast, Ukraine, killing three people and wounding fourteen. (Reuters)
• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • September 2024 Lebanon strikes
    • Israel carries out several airstrikes using bunker buster bombs on Beirut, Lebanon, killing six people, injuring about a hundred and destroying six buildings. These also targeted Hezbollah's central headquarters to assassinate its leader, Hassan Nasrallah. (L'Orient le Jour) (Al Jazeera) (Ynet News)
    • A second wave of airstrikes hits three buildings in Beirut. (Al Jazeera)
  • Israel launches an airstrike against a Syrian military post in the countryside near Damascus, killing five soldiers and injuring another. (Al Arabiya)
• Israel–Hamas war
  • An aid worker of a United States-based charity is shot and killed in her car by Palestinian gunmen near Khan Yunis in the Gaza Strip. Gazan government officials claim that the gunmen had mistakenly identified the vehicle. (Al Arabiya)
• Haitian crisis
  • The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights reports that at least 3,661 people, including 100 children, have been killed in the first six months of the year by ongoing gang violence in Haiti. (Al Jazeera)
• Sudanese civil war
  • At least 18 people are killed when the Rapid Support Forces attack a market in Al-Fashir, Sudan. (Al Arabiya)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Atlantic hurricane season
  • Hurricane Helene
    • At least 17 people are killed and more than 900,000 people are reported to be without power due to high winds and flooding caused by Hurricane Helene in Georgia, United States. A rare flash flood emergency is also issued for the Atlanta metropolitan area. (CNN)
    • The Walters Dam in Tennessee was reported to have suffered a catastrophic failure due to ongoing heavy rainfall, with Cocke County Mayor Rob Mathis ordering the immediate evacuation of parts of the nearby city of Newport. (WVLT-TV). The reports were later confirmed to have been false. (Knoxville News Sentinel)
    • The Emergency Management department of Rutherford County, North Carolina, issues a warning for the "imminent" failure of the Lake Lure Dam due to significant rainfall, and orders immediate evacuations. (USA Today)
• 2024 Pacific hurricane season
  • Hurricane John
    • Tropical Storm John brings over 950 mm (37 inches) of rainfall to southern Guerrero, Mexico, twice eclipsing the amount of rainfall dropped by Hurricane Otis on the same area in 2023. (Reuters)
• Fifteen people are killed when an illegal gold mine collapses in Solok Regency, West Sumatra, Indonesia. (Reuters)
• Thirteen people are killed and 23 are injured after an explosion at a fuel station near Makhachkala, Dagestan, Russia. (AP)

International relations

• Iran–United States relations, Iran–Israel relations
  • The Iranian Foreign Ministry accuses Israel of using United States-produced and gifted 5,000 lbs bunker buster munitions to strike Hezbollah targets in residential areas in and around Beirut, Lebanon. (Reuters)
• Iraq–United States relations, Operation Inherent Resolve
  • Iraq and the United States agree to end the U.S.-led coalition mission in Iraq by September 2025, with all remaining American troops withdrawing by the end of 2026. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• Iran–United States relations
  • The United States Justice Department charges three members of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps for hacking Republican candidate Donald Trump's presidential campaign and "trying to disrupt the 2024 presidential election". (Reuters)
• Hamburg Police seize two tons of cocaine worth €100 million ($112 million) and arrest twelve suspects in Hamburg, Germany, including several foreigners. (DW)

Politics and elections

• 2024 Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) presidential election
  • Shigeru Ishiba defeats Sanae Takaichi in a runoff election to become the next president of the Liberal Democratic Party and prime minister designate. (Kyodo News)

Sports

• 2024 Chicago White Sox's 121st loss, Worst Major League Baseball season win–loss records
  • The 2024 Chicago White Sox earn their 121st loss against the Detroit Tigers, breaking the Major League Baseball record for the most amount of losses in a post-1900 season. (AP)