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

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
- The Parliament of Catalonia, in Spain, elects socialist candidate Salvador Illa as the new Catalan government president, ending the more than a decade separatist ruling. (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 activates the operation "Gàbia" to arrest him with controls in the main roads. (The New York Times) (Cadena SER)
- A Mossos d'Esquadra agent is arrested for collaborating in the escape of Puigdemont after reappearing in Barcelona. (Antena 3)

Sports