Portal:Current events/2024 August 31

August 31, 2024 (Saturday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

Israel–Hamas war
- Israel–Hamas war hostage crisis
  - The Israeli military recovers the bodies of six hostages kidnapped by Hamas during the October 7 attack on Israel, including American citizen Hersh Goldberg-Polin, from an underground tunnel near Rafah, Gaza. (NBC News)
- Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
  - Israeli strikes kill at least 48 people across the Gaza Strip. (Reuters)
Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
  - Five civilians are killed in Ukrainian missile strikes on Belgorod, Russia. (Reuters)
Red Sea crisis
- The Houthis claim they have attacked the Liberia-flagged container ship MV Groton for the second time in the Gulf of Aden. (Reuters)
Somali Civil War
- Al-Shabaab bombs several businesses in the Tabelaha Sheikh Ibrahim neighborhood of Mogadishu, Somalia, targeting shops that had complied with the government's directive to install CCTV cameras. (Idilnews)

Disasters and accidents

2024 Kamchatka Mil Mi-8 crash
- A Mil Mi-8T helicopter with 22 people onboard goes missing over the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia. (AP)
2024 Pacific typhoon season
- The death toll from the effects of Typhoon Shanshan in Japan increases to six, with over 100 people injured. (Reuters)
2024 Yemen floods
- The death toll from flooding in Al Mahwit Governorate, Yemen, increases to at least 97 people. (DW)
Seven people are killed and dozens of others are injured in a bus crash near Vicksburg, Mississippi, United States. (CBS News)
Three people are killed and two more injured after a Cessna 421C crashes in a row of townhouses near Troutdale Airport in Troutdale, Oregon, United States. (AP)

International relations

Science and technology

Ford Motor Company announces it is recalling over 90,000 vehicles due to issues with the engine intake valves. (Reuters)

Sports