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Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • 23 September 2024 Lebanon strikes
    • The toll from the ongoing Israeli airstrikes across Lebanon since yesterday increases to 558 people killed, including 50 children, and 1,835 others injured. (Al Jazeera)
    • The Israeli government declares a nationwide state of emergency through September 30. (Anadolu Agency)
    • The Israel Defense Forces announce that they killed Ibrahim Qubaisi, Hezbollah's missiles and rocket force commander, in an airstrike in Beirut, Lebanon. (Reuters) (Times of Israel)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Kharkiv strikes
    • At least three people are killed and 22 others are injured in a Russian guided bomb attack on an apartment building in Kharkiv, Ukraine. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Atlantic hurricane season
  • Tropical Storm Helene forms in the Gulf of Mexico. It is expected to become a major hurricane before making landfall on the Gulf Coast of the United States on Thursday, September 26. (National Hurricane Center)
• 2024 South American wildfires
  • 2024 Brazil wildfires
    • Over thirty environmental organizations condemn Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's actions that contradict his calls for further global action against climate change, such as requests for tapping oil reserves by the Amazon River and paving the BR-319 roadway through the Amazon that they state contribute to ongoing wildfires. (AP)

Law and crime

• Human rights in Belarus
  • Belarusian independent news outlet Reform.news reports that Jörg Dornau, an Alternative for Germany member of the Saxony parliament, has allegedly used political prisoners as labor on an Belarusian onion plantation owned by his agricultural firm. (Politico)

Science and technology

• The University of Waterloo and Lakehead University in Canada announce that they have positively identified bones found on King William Island in 1982 as those of James Fitzjames, captain of HMS Erebus during Franklin's lost expedition. (University of Waterloo)

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