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Revision as of 04:54, 31 August 2024
August 30, 2024 (2024-08-30) (Friday)Armed conflicts and attacks
- Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- 2024 Israeli military operation in the northern West Bank
- The Israeli military claims it assassinated Hamas leader Wissam Hazem and two militants in a drone strike at the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank. (Al Jazeera)
- An Israeli soldier is killed and several others are injured in an IED attack in Jenin, West Bank. (Palestine Chronicle)
- 2024 Israeli military operation in the northern West Bank
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Kharkiv strikes
- Seven people are killed when a Russian guided bomb strikes a residential building and playground in Kharkiv, Ukraine. (Reuters)
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy dismisses the commander of the Ukrainian Air Force Mykola Oleshchuk following the crash of an F-16 fighter jet and the death of its pilot while defending against Russian strikes. (Reuters)
- Kharkiv strikes
- Sudanese civil war
- Battle of Khartoum
- Seven people are killed and 25 others are injured in shelling near Khartoum, Sudan. (Sudan Tribune)
- Battle of Khartoum
- Islamic State insurgency in Iraq
- At least 15 Islamic State militants are killed and seven U.S. troops are injured in a joint United States–Iraq raid on Islamic State camps in Anbar Desert, Iraq. (AP)
Disasters and accidents
- 2024 Venezuelan blackouts
- A widespread power outage affects most of Venezuela with the communication and information minister blaming sabotage by the opposition without evidence. (DW)
- Four people are killed and one other is missing when a National Republican Guard helicopter crashes into the Douro river in Baião, Portugal. (DW)
International relations
- Afghanistan–Germany relations
- Germany deports 28 convicted Afghan criminals, marking the first such action since the Taliban regained control of Afghanistan in August 2021. (AP)
- Mongolia–Russia relations, Foreign relations of Ukraine
- President of Ukraine Volodomyr Zelenskyy urges Mongolia to arrest Russian President Vladimir Putin as he travels to Ulaanbaatar to make his first meeting to an International Criminal Court member state since the issue of his ICC arrest warrant. (France 24)
- Russia–NATO relations, Ukraine–NATO relations, August 2024 Kursk Oblast incursion
- Secretary General of NATO Jens Stoltenberg declares that Ukraine's incursion into Russian territory in Kursk Oblast is legitimate under Ukraine's right to self-defense. (Reuters)
Politics and elections
- Death of Tūheitia Paki
- Incumbent Māori King Tūheitia dies at the age of 69 while recovering from heart surgery. (New Zealand Herald)
Law and crime
- Censorship of Twitter
- Brazil blocks X after Elon Musk ignores court orders related to misinformation about the 2023 Brazilian Congress attack on the platform and his refusal to appoint a legal representative in the country. (The New York Times)
- Six people are wounded in a stabbing attack on a bus in Siegen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. (DW)