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- In baseball, the Los Angeles Dodgers defeat the New York Yankees to win the World Series (MVP Freddie Freeman pictured).
- Flooding in Spain kills more than 160 people.
- The Social Democrats, led by Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, win the Lithuanian parliamentary election after the second voting round.
- In the Japanese general election, the LDP-led ruling coalition loses its majority in the House of Representatives.
November 1, 2024 (Friday)
October 31, 2024 (Thursday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- A Hezbollah missile barrage kills at least seven people and critically injures another near Metula in northern Israel. Four of the victims are foreign agricultural workers and two are Israeli Arabs. (The Times of Israel)
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy strongly condemns the United States and European nations for having "zero" response towards Russian deployment of North Korean soldiers against Ukraine. (Reuters)
Disasters and accidents
- 2024 European floods
- October 2024 Spain floods
- The death toll from the floods in Spain, primarily in the Valencian Community, increases to 161, with dozens of others still missing. (Infobae) (BBC News)
- October 2024 Spain floods
International relations
- Germany–Iran relations, Capital punishment in Iran
- Germany orders all three Iranian consulates in the country to close in response to the execution of Iranian-German prisoner Jamshid Sharmahd, who was kidnapped by Iranian agents in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, in 2020. (The Independent)
Science and technology
- North Korean missile tests
- North Korea launches an intercontinental ballistic missile on a "lofted trajectory" toward the Sea of Japan. Japanese Defense Minister Gen Nakatani says that this was the longest-ever launch of a North Korean ICBM, lasting 87 minutes. (Al Jazeera)
October 30, 2024 (Wednesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- October 2024 Beqaa Valley airstrikes
- Israeli airstrikes on two villages in Baalbek, Lebanon, kill at least nineteen people. (Reuters)
- The Israeli army says that it killed the deputy head of Hezbollah's Redwan Force Mustafa Ahmad Shahadi in a strike in Nabatieh, Lebanon. (Al Arabiya)
- October 2024 Beqaa Valley airstrikes
- Moro conflict
- Nineteen people are killed and five are injured after a shootout triggered by a land dispute between two rival factions of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front in Pagalungan, Maguindanao del Sur, Philippines. (PNA) (Xinhua)
- War against the Islamic State
- The United States military announces that American airstrikes in Syria earlier this week killed as many as 35 Islamic State members. (Al Arabiya)
Disasters and accidents
- 2024 European floods
- October 2024 Spain floods
- At least 140 people are killed and many others are missing after severe floods in the Valencian Community, Spain, that damaged rail lines and highways. (BBC) (AP)
- October 2024 Spain floods
- At least twelve workers are killed and another is injured in an explosion at a steel plant in Xaloztoc, Tlaxcala, Mexico. (Reuters) (Milenio)
Law and crime
- 2024 Mozambican general election
- It is reported that at least ten people were killed and 63 others were injured by gunfire in post-election protests in Mozambique last week. (Reuters)
- English Channel migrant crossings
- One person is killed while attempting to cross the English Channel in a dinghy. Three other bodies are found on beaches near Neufchâtel-Hardelot and Équihen-Plage, France. (Reuters)
- Eight people are killed and eight others are injured in a stabbing spree in Kagadi, Uganda, by members of an unknown cult. Two attackers are killed by police. (Reuters)
- The United Nations Security Council votes 15–0 to make changes to the United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia, forming a new mission called the United Nations Transitional Mission in Somalia, which is expected to begin operating on November 1. (Mirage News)
Politics and elections
- 2024 Botswana general election
- Citizens of Botswana vote for the 61 seats of the National Assembly. (AP)
Sports
- 2024 Major League Baseball season
- 2024 World Series
- In baseball, the Los Angeles Dodgers win the World Series, defeating the New York Yankees in 5 games including a comeback victory in Game 5 at Yankee Stadium. (Los Angeles Times)
- 2024 World Series
October 29, 2024 (Tuesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Israel–Hamas war
- Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
- 29 October 2024 Beit Lahia airstrike
- At least 93 Palestinians are killed and 40 others are missing in Israeli strikes on a residential building in Beit Lahia in northern Gaza. (Al Jazeera)
- 29 October 2024 Beit Lahia airstrike
- Siege of North Gaza, Gaza Strip famine, Israeli generals' plan
- The World Food Programme warns of intensifying famine conditions in northern Gaza caused by ongoing Israeli aid blockades. (Al Jazeera)
- Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Eastern Ukraine campaign
- Russia claims that it has taken the cities of Selydove and Hirnyk in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, with open-source data indicating that Russian forces are advancing at their fastest pace in at least one year amid signs of North Korean involvement in the war. (Reuters)
- Kyiv strikes, Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov vows to retaliate harshly against Ukraine after a drone strike targeted a Special Forces University in Gudermes, Chechnya, Russia, representing the first known drone attack in Chechnya by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. (Reuters), (The Kyiv Independent)
- Eastern Ukraine campaign
- Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- Sixteen people are killed in airstrikes in southern Lebanon, including ten in the village of Sarafand. (Al Jazeera)
- Eight Austrian Army soldiers and peacekeepers are injured when a rocket, likely fired by Hezbollah, hits the UNIFIL headquarters in Naqoura, Lebanon. (Al Jazeera) (Al Arabiya)
- Somali Civil War
- Al-Shabaab claims responsibility for the killing of six businessmen over the installation of CCTV cameras in Yaaqshiid District, Mogadishu, Somalia. (The Somali Digest)
Disasters and accidents
- 2024 European floods
- A ten-story hotel collapses in Villa Gesell, Argentina, killing one person and leaving at least seven others trapped. (BBC News)
- Four people are injured after a derailed tram crashes into a phone and computer shop in central Oslo, Norway. (Euronews)
Politics and elections
- German economic crisis
- German metalworkers union IG Metall begins a labor strike over the working conditions and wages of 3.9 million workers in the country. (DW)
- Naim Qassem is elected as secretary-general of Hezbollah following the assassination of Hassan Nasrallah. (Al Jazeera)
October 28, 2024 (Monday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- 2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon
- 2024 Tyre airstrikes
- At least seven people are killed in an Israeli raid and airstrikes on Tyre, Lebanon, which targeted neighborhoods adjacent to a UNESCO World Heritage site. (Al Jazeera)
- October 2024 Beqaa Valley airstrikes
- Israeli airstrikes kill at least 60 people and injure 58 others in the Beqaa Valley, Lebanon. (BBC)
- 2024 Tyre airstrikes
- 2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Kharkiv strikes
- At least 21 people are injured when Russian guided bombs and rocket artillery hit Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine. (Reuters)
- Kharkiv strikes
- Mexican Drug War
- In the last four days, at least 34 people have been killed in Tecpan de Galeana, Guerrero, Mexico, in cartel ambushes and clashes. Mexican police arrest 21 people, including sixteen Guatemalan and Salvadoran nationals. (Revista Proceso) (El Debate)
Arts and culture
- A team of archaeologists announce the discovery of more than 6,000 ancient Mayan structures hidden by vegetation in the southeastern Mexican state of Campeche, including a city of pyramids they dubbed Valeriana. (DW)
Law and crime
- 2024 United Kingdom riots
- British anti-Islam far-right activist Tommy Robinson is sentenced to eighteen months imprisonment for contempt of court and repeating false allegations about a Syrian refugee. (Reuters)
- The Iranian government executes the Iranian dissident holding German citizenship Jamshid Sharmahd. (BBC)
Politics and elections
- Gaza humanitarian crisis
- Israel's Knesset votes 92–10 to ban the UNRWA from operating within Israel and the State of Palestine. (Al Jazeera)
- October 2024 Bulgarian parliamentary election
- The GERB-SDS coalition wins the most seats in the parliamentary election with 69 seats, with PP-DB coming in second and Revival in third. GERB's leader Boyko Borisov promises to work with everyone except Revival to form a coalition government. (Reuters)
Sports
- 2024 Ballon d'Or
- In association football, Spanish players Rodri and Aitana Bonmatí win the Ballon d'Or and the Ballon d'Or Féminin, respectively. (CNN)
October 27, 2024 (Sunday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Arab–Israeli conflict
- 2024 Tel Aviv truck attack
- A man is killed and thirty others are injured in a vehicle-ramming attack when an Arab Israeli man rams his truck into a bus stop north of Tel Aviv, Israel, before being fatally shot by an armed civilian. Authorities are investigating the incident as a suspected terrorist attack. (BBC News)
- 2024 Tel Aviv truck attack
- Israel–Hamas war
- Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
- Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi proposes a temporary two-day ceasefire in Gaza to exchange four Israeli hostages for several Palestinian prisoners. (Reuters)
- Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
- Sudanese Civil War
- 2024 eastern Gezira State massacres
- The United Nations condemns the Rapid Support Forces' targeted mass killing of civilians in Gezira State, Sudan, comparing it to earlier mass killings in Darfur. (BBC News)
- 2024 eastern Gezira State massacres
- 2024 Bolivian protest
- Former Bolivian president Evo Morales claims that he survived an assassination attempt. (Reuters)
- Boko Haram insurgency
- At least 40 Chadian soldiers are killed during a mass shooting by Boko Haram gunmen against a military base near Ngouboua, Chad. (Rfi)
Disasters and accidents
- 2024 Pacific typhoon season
- The death toll from Tropical Storm Trami in the Philippines increases to 136 people killed and missing. (Al Jazeera)
- A man steals an SUV and rams passers-by and a group of protesters from the National Front for the Family, in front of Guadalajara Cathedral, causing 16 injuries. The authorities are still investigating the incident to determine the motivations and circumstances of the attack.(La Jornada)
Politics and elections
- 2024 Japanese general election
- Japanese citizens vote for the 465 seats in the House of Representatives. (NHK)
- The ruling coalition of the Liberal Democratic Party and Komeito loses its majority. (Reuters)
- 2024 Georgian parliamentary election
- President of Georgia Salome Zourabichvili announces that she does not recognize the official results of the election, alleging that the country has been the victim of a "Russian special operation". (Radio Free Europe) (Civil.ge)
- 2024 Liechtenstein referendums
- Voters in Liechtenstein approve a referendum to privatize Radio Liechtenstein, the country's state-owned radio station. (AP)
- 2024 Lithuanian parliamentary election
- The Social Democratic Party of Lithuania wins 52 seats in the Seimas election, forming a majority with its coalition partners "For Lithuania" and the Farmers and Greens Union. (DW) (Reuters)
- 2024 Uruguayan general election
- October 2024 Bulgarian parliamentary election
- Bulgarian citizens vote for a new National Assembly in the country's seventh election in the past four years. (Euronews)
October 26, 2024 (Saturday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- 2024 Iran–Israel conflict
- October 2024 Israeli strikes on Iran
- Israel launches airstrikes against Iran, with explosions reported in Tehran and Karaj according to Iranian state media. Four soldiers are killed. (Sky News) (Reuters) (Axios)
- The Israel Defense Forces says that it is carrying out "precise strikes on military targets in Iran" in response to recent ballistic missile attacks launched from Iran. (The Telegraph)
- October 2024 Israeli strikes on Iran
- Sudanese Civil War
- 2024 eastern Gezira State massacres
- At least 300 people are killed when the Rapid Support Forces attack several villages in Gezira State, Sudan. (Al Arabiya)
- 2024 eastern Gezira State massacres
- Sistan and Baluchestan insurgency
- Ten police officers are killed by Jaish ul-Adl gunmen in a mass shooting on a police convoy in Sistan and Baluchestan province, Iran. (AP)
- Somali Civil War
- An IED planted by Al-Shabaab in a restaurant in Karan district, Mogadishu, Somalia, kills at least five people and injures at least five others. (The Somali Digest) (Hiiraan Online)
Disasters and accidents
- 2024 Pacific typhoon season
- The death toll from the flooding and landslides caused by Tropical Storm Trami in the Philippines increases to at least 126. (UPI)
- Nineteen people are killed and five others are injured when a bus crashes on a highway in Zacatecas, Mexico, while heading from Nayarit to Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua. (Reuters)
Law and crime
- Killing of Odair Moniz
- Portuguese police activate special security protocols in response to two large demonstrations in Lisbon following the fatal shooting of a Cape Verdean immigrant by a police officer in Amadora on Monday, which resulted in widespread riots. (RTP News)
- A Russian soldier throws a grenade and shoots at other soldiers, killing ten people near Novopokrovka, Ukraine. (News Week)
Politics and elections
- 2024 Georgian parliamentary election
- Georgians vote for the 150 seats of the parliament. (BBC News)
- Opposition parties refuse to accept early results indicating the ruling Georgian Dream party's victory, and accuse it of election fraud. Exit polls published by pro-government and pro-opposition TV channels show each camp leading respectively. (DW News)
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