Portal:Current events/2024 September 17

September 17, 2024 (Tuesday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- 2024 Lebanon pager explosions
  - At least eleven people are killed and around 4,000 others are injured, including Hezbollah members and the Iranian ambassador to Lebanon, when their pagers explode across Lebanon and Syria. Hezbollah accuses Israel of being behind the explosions. (The Times of Israel) (Al Jazeera) (AP) (The New York Times)
- Three Hezbollah militants are killed and two others are injured in Israeli airstrikes on Blida in southern Lebanon. (Al Jazeera)
Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Southern Ukraine campaign
  - Russian artillery targets the town of Komyshuvakha in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Ukraine, killing two people and injuring five others. (Reuters)
Israel–Hamas war
- A poll by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research finds that, for the first time during the war, a majority of the Gazan public does not support Hamas' October 7 attack on Israel. (Reuters)
Ituri conflict
- CODECO militants kill ten civilians in an overnight attack on a Hema village in Ituri Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Some of the victims were beheaded, according to local authorities. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

2024 European floods
- 2024 Central European floods
  - Four people are found dead after floods in Austria, while another is killed in Poland, bringing the death toll from the ongoing floods in Central and Eastern Europe to 21. (Al Jazeera) (Al Jazeera 2)
2024 Pacific typhoon season
- The death toll from Typhoon Yagi in Myanmar increases to 236 people, with more than 77 people still missing. (Al Jazeera)
2024 Portugal wildfires
- Three Portuguese firefighters die while fighting wildfires in the country's central and northern regions, bringing the death toll from the wildfires to seven people. (Reuters)
At least 25 children are killed when a bus carrying Muslims celebrating the birth of prophet Muhammad crashes in Kaduna State, Nigeria. (Al Arabiya)
Six people are killed in a landslide caused by heavy rains in Naucalpan, Mexico. (AP)

International relations

Law and crime

Bangladesh quota reform movement
- Ekattorer Ghatak Dalal Nirmul Committee President Shahriar Kabir is arrested in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on charges of crimes against humanity, mass killing, and murder for his involvement with Sheikh Hasina's government during the quota reform movement. (Dhaka Tribune)
LGBT rights in Georgia
- The Parliament of Georgia approves a law on "family values and the protection of minors" that would restrict LGBTQ+ rights in the country. (DW)
Mazan rapes
- Dominique Pélicot, the 71-year-old man accused of drugging his wife to sleep and recruiting dozens of men to rape her for more than ten years, admits to all of the charges against him in his first testimony since the trial opened on September 2. (BBC News)

Science and technology

Meta Platforms bans Russian state media from Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp, including RT and Rossiya Segodnya, citing alleged deceptive tactics used by the networks to carry out "influence operations" while evading detection. (CBC News)

Sports