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Revision as of 01:06, 10 October 2024 by 190.246.98.97 (talk)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff) October 9, 2024 (2024-10-09) (Wednesday)Armed conflicts and attacks
- Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- Two people are killed by a Hezbollah rocket fired at Kiryat Shmona, Israel. (BBC News) (MDA Israel)
- Sudanese civil war
- The head of the Rapid Support Forces, Hemedti, accuses Egypt of being involved in airstrikes on the group's troops during the ongoing civil war in Sudan. (Reuters)
Disasters and accidents
- 2024 Atlantic hurricane season
- Hurricane Milton
- More than 5.5 million people in Florida, United States, are currently under evacuation orders as Hurricane Milton weakens into a category 4 hurricane ahead of its expected landfall in the early hours of Thursday. (The New York Times) (CBS News)
- Several tornadoes are reported in Florida, including along Interstate 75, ahead of Hurricane Milton's landfall. (BBC News)
- Hurricane Milton
- Five people are killed when a Beechcraft Baron aircraft crashes shortly after takeoff from the Catalina Airport in Avalon, California, United States. (CTV News)
Law and crime
- 2024 Hadera stabbing attack
- Six people are injured, two critically, in a stabbing attack in Hadera, Israel. The attacker is shot dead by Israel Police. (Times of Israel)
- Japan's former longest-serving death row prisoner Iwao Hakamada is confirmed innocent after the prosecution waives Hakamada's right to appeal. (NHK)
- The US State Department bars former president of Ecuador Rafael Correa and former vice president Jorge Glas from entering the United States on accusations of corruption. (Reuters)
Science and technology
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- This year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry is jointly awarded to British computer scientist Demis Hassabis and American chemist John M. Jumper for their work on protein structure prediction, and to American biochemist and computational biologist David Baker for his work on computational protein design. (The New York Times) (Nobel Prize)