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August 8, 2024 (2024-08-08) (Thursday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

Disasters and accidents

Politics and elections

2024 Bangladesh quota reform movement
- Non-cooperation movement
  - Muhammad Yunus returns to Bangladesh to lead the interim government. (Reuters)
2024 Catalan regional election
- Socialists' Party candidate Salvador Illa is elected as the new Catalan government president by the Parliament of Catalonia, becoming the first non-separatist president in over a decade. (Al Jazeera)
2017–18 Spanish constitutional crisis
- Former Catalan government president Carles Puigdemont returns to Barcelona after seven years of "self-exile", defying the arrest warrant issued by the Supreme Court. Catalan regional police subsequently institute tight controls on traffic in and out of the city, in an attempt to catch him. (The New York Times) (Cadena SER)
- A Mossos d'Esquadra officer is arrested for collaborating in the escape of Puigdemont, following his public appearance in Barcelona. (Antena 3)

Sports