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Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israel-Hamas war
  • An Israeli strike on a school sheltering displaced people in Gaza kills 27 people. (AP)
• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • At least 22 people are killed in Israeli airstrikes that hit two different areas in central Beirut, Lebanon. (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)

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 alleged violations of the Genocide Convention and other alleged war crimes in the Gaza Strip. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• 2024 Argentina protests
  • University activists strike nationwide to denounce funding cuts by the Argentine government. (Yahoo! news)

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)

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