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An opening is seen in the fuselage of an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737-9 MAX on January 7, 2024 in Portland, Oregon. A door-sized section near the rear of the plane blew off 10 minutes after Flight ...
Five journalists of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad-affiliated Al Quds Today TV are killed in their vehicle by an Israeli airstrike near the Al-Awda Hospital in Deir al-Balah Governorate, Gaza. (The Jerusalem Post) Winter of 2024–25 in the Gaza Strip, Gaza Strip evacuations
A court in Kolkata, India, sentences a 33-year-old police volunteer to life in prison for raping and murdering a medical trainee in August 2024. 2024 Southport stabbing. Axel Rudakubana pleads guilty to all 16 charges, including three charges of murder in relation to a mass stabbing in Southport, Merseyside, England, in July 2024. Rudakubana is ...
2024 French political crisis, French anti-Barnier government protests. October 2024 French vote of no confidence. The left-wing New Popular Front coalition files a motion of no confidence against the new right-wing Barnier government amid ongoing political protests in France.
Armed conflicts and attacks. Russian invasion of Ukraine. Ukraine lowers the age of conscription from 27 years to 25. (The Guardian) (The New York Times)Business and economy. The United States Army Corps of Engineers begins dredging the San Juan Bay in Puerto Rico to open space for a new natural gas terminal that is expected to add $400 million to the local economy.
Armed conflicts and attacks. Israel–Hamas war; 2024 Iran–Israel conflict, Israel–Hezbollah conflict. Assassination of Saleh al-Arouri. Four people and Saleh al-Arouri, the deputy chairman of Hamas' political bureau with two other senior Hamas military officials killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Dahieh neighborhood of Beirut, Lebanon.
(Türkiye Today) Politics and elections. 2024 Icelandic parliamentary election. The Social Democratic Alliance, led by Kristrún Frostadóttir, forms a coalition government in Iceland's Althing with the Liberal Reform Party and the People's Party. Frostadóttir becomes Iceland's youngest prime minister at 36 years old.
2024 New Caledonia unrest Riots erupt in New Caledonia as France plans to change the constitution, allowing more recent white French settlers to vote in the island's provincial elections, which protesters claim would marginalise the Indigenous Kanak people .