Armed conflicts and attacks
Israel–Hezbollah conflict
2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon
The Israel Defense Forces say that they killed Muhammad Kamel Naim, the head of the anti-tank missile array of Hezbollah's elite Redwan Force, in an airstrike in Nabatieh, Lebanon. (Times of Israel)
Israel–Hamas war
Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
At least four people are killed and dozens of others are severely injured when an Israeli airstrike hits a tent camp at a hospital in Deir al-Balah in the Gaza Strip, causing the tents to catch fire. (Al Jazeera)
At least ten people are killed by Israeli artillery fire at a food distribution centre in the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza. (BBC News)
Russian invasion of Ukraine
Russian forces claim that they took the village of Levadne in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Ukraine. (Voice of America)
Business and economy
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
This year's Nobel Prize in economics is awarded to Turkish-American economist Daron Acemoglu, British-American economist Simon Johnson, and British economist James A. Robinson for their studies "of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity". (The New York Times) (Nobel Prize)