| Revision as of 00:31, 11 October 2024 view sourceCryptic (talk | contribs)Administrators41,604 edits Cited source says all Irish peacekeepers are accounted for and well; the liveblog at says the two injured ones were Indonesian, though liveblogs are awful for citing and the article linked from it gives no nationality. Just removing it unless we get something better.← Previous edit | Revision as of 00:37, 11 October 2024 view source Johnj1995 (talk | contribs)Extended confirmed users77,461 edits Even occurred on WednesdayNext edit → | ||
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Revision as of 00:37, 11 October 2024
October 10, 2024 (2024-10-10) (Thursday)Armed conflicts and attacks
- Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- 2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon
- An Israeli Merkava tank opens fire on a UNIFIL checkpoint in southern Lebanon, injuring two peacekeepers. Israeli troops also open fire on two other UN positions near the Blue Line, though no casualties are reported. (BBC News)
- At least 22 people are killed in Israeli airstrikes on two different areas in central Beirut, Lebanon. (AP)
- 2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon
- Israel–Hamas war
- An Israeli strike on a school sheltering displaced people in Gaza kills 27 people. (AP)
- Russo–Ukrainian war
- The World Bank approves a new financial intermediary fund made of grants from the United States, Japan, Canada, and other countries coupled with interest from frozen Russian assets to give to Ukraine as part of a 50 billion USD loan. (Reuters)
- Ukraine's Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War confirms the death of Ukrainian journalist Victoria Roshchyna who was being being held prisoner by Russia since August 2023. (The Kyiv Independent)
Disasters and accidents
- One person is killed and 12 others are trapped as a lift fails inside a former gold mine in Cripple Creek, Colorado, United States. (Sky News)
International relations
- Israel–Italy relations, Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni summons the Israeli ambassador in Rome after Israeli forces target bases manned by Italian peacekeepers in southern Lebanon. (CNN)
Law and crime
- Multiple Palestinian, Dutch, and Jewish human rights organizations sue the Dutch government for exporting weapons and military goods to Israel, thus allegedly failing to prevent violations of the Genocide Convention and other war crimes in the Gaza Strip. (Reuters)
Science and technology
- Nobel Prize in Literature
- This year's Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to South Korean writer Han Kang "for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life”. (Nobel Prize)
- Tomb of Christopher Columbus
- Researchers from the University of Granada confirm that bones lying in the Seville Cathedral in Seville, Andalusia, Spain, belonged to Christopher Columbus. (ABC Spain)
- A denial-of-service attack takes down the Internet Archive and the Wayback Machine, used by millions. A data breach by the same hackers also steals 31 million passwords. (Forbes)
Sports
- Footballer Erling Haaland becomes the all-time top goalscorer of the Norway national football team with 34 goals in 36 matches, beating the 90-year-old record of 33 goals held by Jørgen Juve from June 1934. (Verdens Gang)