Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • 2024 Kharkiv offensive
    • Russian forces launch an attack on Ukraine's Kharkiv Oblast, near the town of Vovchansk, opening up a new front. (Reuters)
• Insurgency in Cabo Delgado
  • Hundreds of Islamic State-linked fighters attack the town of Macomia, Cabo Delgado Province, Mozambique. It is described as "the most serious attack in the area in some time". (Al Jazeera)
• Naxalite–Maoist insurgency
  • Indian security forces kill 12 Maoist rebels in Chhattisgarh. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Rio Grande do Sul floods
  • The death toll from the ongoing heavy flooding in southern Brazil increases to 113, with 146 still missing and more than 300,000 people displaced. (Reuters)
• At least 72 people are killed by floods in Baghlan, Afghanistan. (Al Jazeera) (VOA)
• Seven people are killed and six others are injured when a passenger bus plunges from the Potseluev Bridge into the Moyka river in Saint Petersburg, Russia. (The Moscow Times) (BBC News)
• At least 60 people are injured when a passenger train collides with a locomotive in Buenos Aires, Argentina. (Reuters)

Health and environment

• Amid record low birth rates and an aging population, Pope Francis urges Italians to have more children. The Italian government also expands a campaign to encourage at least 500,000 births annually by 2033. (AP)

International relations

• Palestine and the United Nations
  • Palestine 194
    • The United Nations General Assembly votes 143–9 with 25 abstentions to approve a resolution granting Palestine new rights and requests, and to reconsider Palestine's request to become a UN member. Countries that voted against the resolution included Israel, the U.S., Argentina, Papua New Guinea and the Czech Republic. (AP) (The National)

Law and crime

• Arrest of Arvind Kejriwal, 2024 Indian general election
  • The Supreme Court of India grants Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal interim bail for 21 days in connection with the Delhi liquor policy money laundering case, thereby permitting Kejriwal to campaign in the ongoing general election. (The Hindustan Times)
• A Pennsylvania jury orders ExxonMobil to pay $725.5 million to a former mechanic who claimed that the company's gasoline and solvents caused him to develop leukemia. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• Israel–Hamas war protests
  • 2024 pro-Palestinian protests on university campuses
    • Police dismantle encampments and arrest dozens of students protesting at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Reuters)
    • Academic staff of The New School in New York City hold the first faculty-led solidarity encampment in the United States. (The Guardian)
• 2024 United States presidential election
  • Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 2024 presidential campaign
    • Robert F. Kennedy Jr. qualifies to appear on the ballot in Oklahoma for the 2024 United States presidential election as an independent candidate. (Yahoo! News)
• 2024 Polish farmers' protests
  • Thousands of protesters march through Warsaw, Poland, against the European Union's environmental regulations. (Euronews)
• Emir of Kuwait Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah dissolves the National Assembly and suspends some articles of the Constitution. (Reuters)
• Eight hundred protesters storm the Tesla plant in Grünheide, Germany, in protest of the environmental impact of the company's expansion. (Reuters)

Science and technology

• Solar Cycle 25
  • A geomagnetic storm is predicted to hit Earth, reaching G4 intensity and likely causing widespread aurorae, with the NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center issuing its first G4-level storm watch since 2005. (NOAA)