- 11 October 2024 – 'Politics and elections'
- This year's Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to Japanese atomic bomb survivors group Nihon Hidankyo for "its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again". (The Washington Post) (Nobel Prize)
- 10 October 2024 – Israel–Hamas war
- Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
- An Israeli strike on a school sheltering displaced people in Gaza kills 28 people and injures 54 others. (AP)
- Military aid to Israel during the Israel–Hamas war
- Chancellor of Germany Olaf Scholz announces plans for Germany to supply Israel with a new shipment of weapons, and that the German government has agreed to continue shipments for at least the near future. (Euro News)
- 10 October 2024 – Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- 2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon
- An Israeli Merkava tank opens fire on a UNIFIL checkpoint in southern Lebanon, injuring two peacekeepers. Israeli troops also open fire on two other UN positions near the Blue Line, although no casualties are reported. (BBC News)
- At least 22 people are killed in Israeli airstrikes on two different areas in central Beirut, Lebanon. (AP)
- 10 October 2024 – Sudanese civil war
- October 2024 Sudan airstrikes
- Sudanese human rights group Emergency Lawyers reports that over 500 Sudanese civilians have been killed in airstrikes conducted by the Sudanese Armed Forces on multiple civilian areas held by the Rapid Support Forces. (Reuters) (Dabanga Sudan)
- 10 October 2024 – Insurgency in Balochistan
- At least twenty miners are killed and seven others are injured in an attack by unknown armed militants on a private coal mine in Duki District, Balochistan, Pakistan. (Reuters)
- 10 October 2024 – Russo–Ukrainian war
- The World Bank approves a new financial intermediary fund consisting of grants from the United States, Japan, Canada, and other countries coupled with interest from frozen Russian assets to give to Ukraine as part of a $50 billion loan. (Reuters)
- Ukraine's Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War confirms the death of journalist Victoria Roshchyna who had been held prisoner by Russia since August 2023. (The Kyiv Independent)
- 10 October 2024 – Nobel Prize in Literature
- This year's Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to South Korean writer Han Kang "for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life”. (Nobel Prize)
- 10 October 2024 –
- One person is killed and twelve others are trapped when an elevator fails at the Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine in Cripple Creek, Colorado, United States. (Sky News)
- 10 October 2024 – 2024 Atlantic hurricane season
- At least ten people are killed in damages by tornadoes caused by Hurricane Milton in Florida, United States. (Reuters)
- 10 October 2024 –
- In its annual Living Planet report, the World Wildlife Fund estimates that wild populations of animal species have decreased over 70% since 1970, with some high-biodiversity areas seeing up to 95% declines. (DW)
- 10 October 2024 – Israel–Italy relations, Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni summons the Israeli ambassador to Italy after Israeli forces target bases manned by Italian peacekeepers in southern Lebanon. (CNN)
- 10 October 2024 – Capital punishment in Malaysia, Murder of Shaariibuugiin Altantuyaa
- The Federal Court of Malaysia commutes the death sentence of Azilah Hadri, one of Altantuyaa's murderers, to 40 years imprisonment. (CNA)
- 10 October 2024 –
- Multiple Palestinian, Dutch, and Jewish human rights organizations sue the Dutch government for exporting weapons and military goods to Israel, thereby allegedly failing to prevent violations of the Genocide Convention and other war crimes in the Gaza Strip. (Reuters)
- 10 October 2024 – War crimes in the Israel–Hamas war
- United Nations human rights investigators accuse Israel of crimes against humanity and the crime of extermination by deliberately targeting health facilities and medical personnel in Gaza. (Al Jazeera)
- 10 October 2024 – Tomb of Christopher Columbus
- Researchers from the University of Granada confirm that bones lying in the Seville Cathedral in Seville, Andalusia, Spain, belonged to Christopher Columbus. (ABC Spain)
- 10 October 2024 –
- The Internet Archive and the Wayback Machine are taken offline following a denial-of-service attack, with the hackers also stealing 31 million password hashes in a data breach. (Forbes)
- Erling Haaland becomes the all-time top goalscorer of the Norway national football team with 34 goals in the last 36 matches, beating Jørgen Juve's 1934 record of 33 goals. (ESPN)
- 9 October 2024 – Israel–Hamas war
- Israeli incursions in the West Bank during the Israel–Hamas war
- At least four Palestinians are killed and one other is wounded when Israeli forces open fire on a vehicle in Nablus in the occupied West Bank. Palestinian factions call for a general strike on Thursday in response to the attack. (Al Jazeera)
- 9 October 2024 – 2024 Hadera stabbing attack
- Six people are injured, two critically, in a mass stabbing in Hadera, Haifa District, Israel. The attacker is shot dead by police. (Times of Israel)
- 9 October 2024 – Insurgency in Balochistan
- One Frontier Corps official and two terrorists are killed and thirteen others are injured by a suicide bombing and gun attack on a Frontier Corps post in Zhob, Balochistan, Pakistan. (Daily Ausaf)
- 9 October 2024 – Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- Two people are killed by a Hezbollah rocket fired at Kiryat Shmona, Israel. (BBC News) (MDA Israel)
- 9 October 2024 – Sudanese civil war
- The head of the Rapid Support Forces, Hemedti, accuses Egypt of being involved in airstrikes on the group's troops during the ongoing civil war in Sudan. (Reuters)
- 9 October 2024 – Nansen Refugee Award
- Scalabrinian nun sister Rosita Milesi is awarded the Nansen Refugee Award by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees for her work with refugees and internally displaced people in Brazil for over 40 years. (DW)
- 9 October 2024 – 2024 Atlantic hurricane season
- Hurricane Milton
- More than 5.5 million people in Florida, United States, are currently under evacuation orders as Hurricane Milton weakens into a category 4 hurricane ahead of its expected landfall in the early hours of Thursday. (The New York Times) (CBS News)
- Several tornadoes are reported in Florida, including along Interstate 75, ahead of Hurricane Milton's landfall. (BBC News)
- Milton makes landfall as a category 3 hurricane near Siesta Key on Florida's Western Coast. (CBS News)
- The Tropicana Field roof in St. Petersburg is damaged by winds caused from Hurricane Milton. (Tampa Bay Times)
- 9 October 2024 –
- Five people are killed when a Beechcraft Baron aircraft crashes shortly after takeoff from Catalina Airport in Avalon, California, United States. (CTV News)
- 9 October 2024 – Ecuador–United States relations
- The U.S. State Department bans former Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa and former vice president Jorge Glas from entering the United States on accusations of corruption. (Reuters)
- 9 October 2024 – Capital punishment in Japan
- Japan's former longest-serving death row prisoner, Iwao Hakamada, is confirmed innocent after the prosecution waives their right to appeal the September 26 "not guilty" verdict from his retrial. (NHK)
- 9 October 2024 – Censorship in Turkey
- Turkey bans the social media platform Discord after it allegedly refused to give government officials information related to "child sexual abuse and obscenity" and the murder of two women in Istanbul last week. (DW)
- 9 October 2024 – South Africa's genocide case against Israel
- Bolivia formally joins South Africa's case in the International Court of Justice regarding Israel's conduct in the Gaza Strip as genocide, stating it "has a responsibility to condemn the crime of genocide". (Al Jazeera)
- 9 October 2024 – Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- This year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry is jointly awarded to British computer scientist Demis Hassabis and American chemist John M. Jumper for their work on protein structure prediction, and to American biochemist and computational biologist David Baker for his work on computational protein design. (The New York Times) (Nobel Prize)
- 9 October 2024 –
- In tennis, the Wimbledon Championships announces it will replace line judges with an electronic line judge system starting in the 2025 Wimbledon Championships, ending the tradition after 147 years. (Reuters)
- 8 October 2024 – Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- 2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon
- The 146th Division of the Israel Defense Forces advances into southwestern Lebanon, opening up another front against Hezbollah. The Israeli Navy also announces a naval blockade extending for 60 kilometres (37 mi) along the Lebanese coast. (DW)
- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calls on the Lebanese people to "rise up" against Hezbollah and to "take back" their country with the help of Israeli forces, warning that failing to do so could turn Lebanon into another Gaza. (The Telegraph)
- The village of Yaroun in Nabatieh Governorate, Lebanon, is reported to be mostly destroyed following days of heavy fighting between Hezbollah and Israeli forces. (CNN)
- Around 105 Hezbollah rockets hit the northern Israeli city of Haifa in the heaviest barrage fired at the city since the start of the war. (The Telegraph)
- The Israel Defense Forces say that they killed Suhail Hussein Husseini, the head of Hezbollah's logistical headquarters and a member of the Jihad Council in an airstrike in Beirut, Lebanon, yesterday. (Times of Israel)
- 8 October 2024 – Syrian civil war
- Israel's role in the Syrian civil war
- Seven people are killed in an Israeli airstrike on a residential building in Damascus, Syria. (Reuters)
- 8 October 2024 – Terrorism in Norway
- The Norwegian Police Security Service upgrades the terror alert in the country from moderate to high due to threats to Israeli and Jewish locations. (Times of Israel)
- 8 October 2024 –
- The Environmental Protection Agency sets a 10-year deadline to replace all lead water pipes in the United States. (AP)
- The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation announces the arrest of an Afghan national in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, for allegedly plotting an ISIS-related attack on Election Day in November. (AP)
- The Russian mass media agency bans social media platform Discord for violating the country's laws and to "prevent the use of messaging for terrorist and extremist purposes". (The Moscow Times)
- 8 October 2024 – Nobel Prize in Physics
- American physicist John Hopfield and British-Canadian computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton are awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Physics "for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks". (The Guardian)
- 7 October 2024 – Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Crimea attacks
- An oil terminal in Feodosia, the largest oil facility in Russian-occupied Crimea, catches fire following an overnight drone attack by Ukrainian forces. Russian state media reports that a state of emergency has been declared in Feodosia due to a "human-made disaster". (Ukrainska Pravda)
- Eastern Ukraine campaign
- One person is killed and six others, including two children, are injured in Russian shelling that hit several apartment buildings in Sloviansk, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. (Reuters)
- Southern Ukraine campaign
- Russian missiles strike two cargo ships in the Port of Odesa, including a Palau-flagged ship carrying grain, killing a port worker and injuring five crew members. (Reuters)
- 7 October 2024 – Israel–Hamas war
- Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis launch rockets and missiles towards Tel Aviv, Haifa, and Tiberias, Israel, on the anniversary of the Hamas-led attack on Israel. Twelve people are injured. (The Times of Israel) (Reuters)
- 7 October 2024 – 2024 Atlantic hurricane season
- Hurricane Milton
- Hurricane Milton intensifies into a Category 5 hurricane with a minimum central pressure of 897 millibars. (National Hurricane Center)
- Pasco, Hillsborough, and Pinellas counties in Florida, United States, close schools and order evacuations of residential healthcare facilities in advance of Hurricane Milton's arrival. (Tampa Bay Times)
- 7 October 2024 –
- Ten people are killed and an unknown number of others are missing when a mine collapses in Central Province, Zambia. (AP)
- The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control reports more than 350 deaths from cholera in Nigeria this year, which is more than twice as many than in the same period last year. (DW)
- 7 October 2024 – Philippines–South Korea relations
- During a state visit by South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol to the Philippines, the Philippines and South Korea agree to upgrade their relations to a strategic partnership. (ABC News)
- 7 October 2024 – Israel–Hamas war protests
- 2024 Israeli protests
- Israelis, including hostage families, protest outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's official residence in Jerusalem. (NBC News) (ABC News)
- Thousands of pro-Palestinian protests are held worldwide to mark the first anniversary of the Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip. (Reuters)
- 7 October 2024 – 2024 Georgian parliamentary election
- The Parliament of Georgia initiates a motion to impeach pro-Western President Salome Zourabichvili over accusations of unauthorized overseas visits, ahead of the parliamentary election on October 26. (Reuters)
- 7 October 2024 – 2024 Tunisian presidential election
- Incumbent Tunisian President Kais Saied wins a second term with 90.7% of the vote in the presidential election. The Independent High Authority for Elections reports a voter turnout of 28.8%, the lowest since the 2011 Tunisian revolution. (Al Jazeera)
- 7 October 2024 – Human rights in Pakistan
- The Pakistani government bans the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement, a social movement for Pashtun human rights, calling the movement a "proscribed organization". (Al Jazeera)
- 7 October 2024 – Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- American biologists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun are awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation". (CNN)
- 7 October 2024 –
- The European Space Agency spacecraft Hera is successfully launched on a Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket by SpaceX from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, United States. The spacecraft will study the asteroid 65803 Didymos and evaluate the impact of the earlier Double Asteroid Redirection Test. (Space News)
- 6 October 2024 – Israel–Hamas war
- 2024 Beersheba bus station shooting
- A police officer is killed and thirteen other people are injured in Beersheba, Israel, in an incident described as a terrorist attack. The perpetrator is shot dead by security forces. (The Jerusalem Post)
- Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
- At least 26 people are killed in Israeli airstrikes allegedly targeting Hamas militants that hit a mosque and a school housing displaced Palestinians in Deir al-Balah in the Gaza Strip. (BBC News)
- 6 October 2024 – Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- 2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon
- Hezbollah claims that its attacks on Israeli soldiers trying to infiltrate Blida, Lebanon, forced the soldiers to retreat. (AFP via Barron's)
- The Israeli military establishes a forward operating base near a United Nations peacekeeping force in Lebanon, putting peacekeepers at risk. UNIFIL has refused the Israeli military's request to move its positions. (Al Jazeera)
- A rocket fired from Lebanon strikes a restaurant in Haifa, Israel, injuring at least six people. (The Jerusalem Post)
- 6 October 2024 – Insurgency in Sindh
- At least two people, both Chinese nationals, are killed and ten others are injured when an oil tanker truck exploded near Jinnah International Airport in Karachi, Pakistan. The separatist group Balochistan Liberation Army claims responsibility for the explosion, stating they targeted a convoy of Chinese workers of the Port Qasim Electric Power Company. (Crisis24) (Reuters)
- 6 October 2024 – 2024 Godini shooting
- Six people are killed and four others are injured in a mass shooting after eight gunmen open fire on a group of community patrollers in Godini village near Qumbu, Eastern Cape, South Africa. The shooting took place on the day of the memorial service for the victims of the Lusikisiki shootings, which also occurred in the Eastern Cape. (News24)
- 6 October 2024 – Europa Clipper
- Due to Hurricane Milton, NASA cancels the launch of the Europa Clipper scheduled for October 10. (CBS News)
- 5 October 2024 – Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Eastern Ukraine campaign
- Russian forces claim that they captured the village of Bazhane Druhe in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. (The Economic Times)
- Ukrainian forces say that they have shot down a Russian aircraft near Kostiantynivka. The aircraft crashed into a house, causing it to catch fire. No casualties are reported. The aircraft is later reported to be a S-70 Okhotnik-B and was reportedly shot down by a Russian Su-57 jet to prevent its capture by Ukraine. (Defence Blog) (Forbes) (AP)
- 5 October 2024 – Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- September 2024 Lebanon strikes
- Hamas says that an Israeli strike killed Saeed Atallah, a leader in the Al-Qassam Brigades, along with three family members in a Palestinian refugee camp in Tripoli, Lebanon. (Reuters)
- 5 October 2024 – Naxalite–Maoist insurgency
- Indian police claim that 31 Naxalite rebels were killed in a shootout with Indian soldiers in the Abujhmad forest in Chhattisgarh, India. (Al Jazeera)
- 5 October 2024 – English Channel migrant crossings
- Four people, including a child, are killed in two separate incidents while attempting to cross the English Channel in boats. (BBC News)
- 5 October 2024 –
- Royal New Zealand Navy vessel HMNZS Manawanui runs aground off the coast of Samoa before catching fire and later capsizing. All 75 crew members are evacuated onto lifeboats and rescued. It is the first loss of a New Zealand naval ship at sea since World War II. (BBC News)
- 5 October 2024 – 2024 NCAA Division I FBS football season
- 2024 Alabama vs. Vanderbilt football game
- The unranked Vanderbilt Commodores upset the undefeated, AP No. 1 ranked Alabama Crimson Tide 40–35, marking the first time Vanderbilt won against a top-five ranked team in its program's history. (CNN)
- 4 October 2024 – Israel–Hamas war
- Israeli incursions in the West Bank during the Israel–Hamas war
- Hamas' armed wing Al-Qassam Brigades confirms the death of commander Zahi Yaser Oufi in an Israeli strike in Tulkarm in the West Bank yesterday. (Reuters)
- 4 October 2024 – Red Sea crisis
- 2024 missile strikes in Yemen
- The United States launches airstrikes against Houthi locations in Yemen, including in the capital Sanaa, and the port city of Al Hudaydah. (Al Jazeera)
- 4 October 2024 – Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Pokrovsk offensive
- The head of military administration of Pokrovsk, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, Serhiy Dobriak reports that Russian forces are now about 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) from the city, and have destroyed or damaged 80% of the city's critical infrastructure. (Reuters)
- 4 October 2024 –
- The European Union votes 10–5 with 12 abstentions to institute tariffs of up to 45% on electric vehicles manufactured in China. (Reuters)
- 4 October 2024 – 2024 European floods
- 2024 Bosnia and Herzegovina floods
- Sixteen people are killed in floods and landslides in Jablanica, Bosnia and Herzegovina. (Al Jazeera)
- 4 October 2024 – 2023–2024 South American drought
- Extreme drought in the Amazon rainforest of Brazil causes the river banks of the city of Manaus to fall to their lowest levels since 1902, severely impacting trade in the region. (Reuters)
- 4 October 2024 – Georgia–European Union relations, Accession of Georgia to the European Union
- The European Union threatens sanctions and a suspension of relations with Georgia if Georgia becomes a "one-party state" with no political opposition following the next parliamentary elections on October 26. (Reuters)
- 4 October 2024 – Parole for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans
- The United States Department of Homeland Security reports that the Biden administration will not renew the legal status of 530,000 migrants who entered the U.S. as part of a provisional humanitarian program beginning in 2022. (Reuters)
- 4 October 2024 – Pork barrel scam
- The Sandiganbayan court in the Philippines acquits Chief Presidential Legal Counsel and former Senate president Juan Ponce Enrile, his former aide Gigi Reyes, and Janet Napoles of plunder in connection with the alleged misuse of Ponce Enrile's Priority Development Assistance Fund during his senatorial term. (AFP via CNA) (Rappler)
- 4 October 2024 – Women's rights in Afghanistan
- The European Court of Justice rules that all Afghan women are eligible for asylum in the European Union. (The Guardian)
- 4 October 2024 –
- At least two people are killed and three others are injured, including one critically, in a suspected arson at a 100-year-old three-story building in the Old Montreal neighbourhood of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. (CBC News) (CFCF-TV)
- A woman from Toronto, Ontario, Canada, is arrested and charged with murder following a stabbing spree that killed three people in Toronto, Niagara Falls and Hamilton between Tuesday and Thursday. (CFTO-TV)
- 4 October 2024 – 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. (Reuters)
- 3 October 2024 – Israel–Hamas war
- Israeli incursions in the West Bank during the Israel–Hamas war
- 2024 Tulkarm Camp airstrike
- An Israeli Air Force jet launches an airstrike on a refugee camp in Tulkarm in the occupied West Bank, killing at least 20 people. (Al Jazeera)
- Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip
- An Israeli airstrike in central Gaza kills Aziz Salha, known for his role in the 2000 Ramallah lynching. (Jerusalem Post)
- The Israel Defense Forces announces that they killed Rawhi Mushtaha, head of the Hamas government in Gaza, along with Sameh al-Siraj and Sami Oudeh, who were responsible for security in Hamas, in an airstrike three months ago in northern Gaza. (BBC News)
- 3 October 2024 – Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- 2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon
- Israel launches multiple strikes using bunker buster bombs on Beirut, Lebanon, targeting Hezbollah official Hashem Safieddine. (Al Arabiya)
- Nine medics are killed in an Israeli airstrike against an Islamic Health Authority office in Beirut, Lebanon, bringing the death toll of medics killed in Lebanon in the past two weeks to 97. (Al Jazeera) (Al Jazeera 2)
- The Lebanese Armed Forces open fire on Israeli troops near Bint Jbeil, Nabatieh Governorate, Lebanon, for the first time since the invasion began, after two Lebanese Army soldiers were killed earlier today in separate Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon. (The Times) (Al Arabiya)
- A Hellenic Air Force plane evacuates Greek and Cypriot nationals from Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport in Lebanon. (Ekathimerini)
- Spillover of the Israel–Hamas war
- The Islamic Resistance in Iraq launch a kamikaze drone attack on a military base in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, killing two IDF soldiers and injuring 24 others. (Times of Israel)
- 3 October 2024 – Haitian crisis
- Pont-Sondé attack
- Armed gunmen from the Gran Grif gang commit a mass shooting with automatic rifles and a series of arson attacks in the town of Pont-Sondé, Haiti, killing at least 70 people and seriously injuring 16 others, with a local government prosecutor describing the incident as a massacre. (CTV News)
- 3 October 2024 – 2024 Atlantic hurricane season
- Effects of Hurricane Helene in North Carolina
- One thousand U.S. soldiers are deployed to western North Carolina to aid the North Carolina National Guard in humanitarian operations and to help find hundreds of missing people. (NBC News)
- United States Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas reports that the Federal Emergency Management Agency lacks the funding to provide necessary support for the remainder of the 2024 hurricane season. (Axios)
- 3 October 2024 – 2024 famine in Haiti
- Save the Children reports that 17% of all children in Haiti are currently suffering from emergency food insecurity primarily caused by national gang wars. (Reuters)
- 3 October 2024 –
- Nine people are killed in a fire at a hospital in Pingtung County, Taiwan. (AP)
- Seven people are killed and 19 others are injured when a bus falls into a ravine in Balochistan, Pakistan. (Dawn)
- At least 78 people are killed when a boat capsizes in Lake Kivu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Al Jazeera)
- An engine surge causes a fire in a Ryanair Boeing 737-800 while taxiing at Brindisi Airport in southern Italy, prompting the evacuation of the 184 passengers and crew on board. (CTV News) (ASN)
- 3 October 2024 – 2023–2024 mpox epidemic
- Ghana reports its first case of mpox this year. (Reuters)
- 3 October 2024 – Rwanda Marburg virus disease outbreak
- Officials in Rwanda report that the death toll from the Marburg virus outbreak in the country has increased to 11 people. (AP)
- 3 October 2024 – Chagos Archipelago sovereignty dispute
- The United Kingdom and Mauritius jointly announce that a deal has been made to resolve the dispute over the Chagos Archipelago, with sovereignty of the British Indian Ocean Territory being handed over to Mauritius in exchange for the United Kingdom and the United States retaining control of the military base on Diego Garcia for the next 99 years. (BBC News) (Reuters)
- 3 October 2024 – LGBT rights in Georgia
- Georgian LGBT propaganda law
- The Georgian Parliament Speaker signs into law a wide-ranging bill that bans gender transitioning and gender-affirming care, same-sex marriage and adoption, and depictions of LGBTQ+ people in media after the President refused to sign it, which chief European Union diplomat Josep Borrell states could prevent the nation's accession to the EU. (Politico)
- 3 October 2024 – Prosecution of S. Iswaran
- Former Singapore Transport Minister S. Iswaran, who pleaded guilty to four charges of obtaining valuable items as a public servant and one charge of obstruction of justice last week, is sentenced to one year in jail. (CNA) (Straits Times)
- 3 October 2024 –
- Fawzia Amin Sido, a Yazidi woman who had been kidnapped at age 11 by the Islamic State in 2014 in Iraq and sold and trafficked to Gaza, is freed from captivity in Gaza following a secret operation involving the United States and Israel. The woman's captor is believed to have previously been killed in an Israeli airstrike. (Reuters)
- 2 October 2024 – Israel–Hamas war
- 2024 Jaffa shooting
- Hamas military wing Al-Qassam Brigades claims responsibility for yesterday's mass shooting and stabbing attack in Jaffa, Israel, that killed seven people and injured 17 others. (Al Jazeera)
- Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip, Gaza Strip famine
- Humanitarian aid groups tell Reuters that Israel introduced new customs regulations and restrictions on humanitarian aid deliveries into the Gaza Strip in mid-August, which are significantly delaying the delivery of food and essential supplies via the Jordan route. (Reuters)
- Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip
- The Gaza Health Ministry reports that at least 51 people, including seven women and twelve children, are killed in coordinated Israeli strikes in southern Gaza. (AP) (Guardian)
- An Israeli airstrike on a school housing displaced people kills 30 Palestinians in Gaza. (Reuters)
- 2 October 2024 – Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- 2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon
- Eight Israeli soldiers are killed in ambushes by Hezbollah militants in southern Lebanon. (AP)
- 2 October 2024 – Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Kharkiv strikes
- At least ten people are injured when a Russian guided bomb hits an apartment building in Kharkiv, Ukraine. (Reuters)
- 2 October 2024 – Haitian crisis
- The United Nations International Organization for Migration reports that over 700,000 Haitians are internally displaced in the country due to gang violence, with more than half being children. (Al Jazeera)
- 2 October 2024 – Islamic State insurgency in Iraq
- Four Iraqi soldiers are killed and three others are injured in an ambush by Islamic State militants near Kirkuk, Iraq. (Iraqi News Agency) (Reuters)
- 2 October 2024 – Terrorism in Denmark, Attacks against Israeli embassies and diplomats
- Danish police arrest three Swedes in connection with two explosions that occurred near the Israeli embassy in Copenhagen, Denmark. (Reuters)
- 2 October 2024 –
- An unexploded ordnance from World War II detonates under a taxiway at Miyazaki Airport in Miyazaki, Japan, causing more than 80 flights to be cancelled. (NHK) (The Guardian)
- More than 100 people, mostly women and children, are missing after a wooden boat carrying 300 people sinks in the Niger River near Mokwa, Niger State, Nigeria. At least 150 people are rescued and 16 bodies are recovered. (DW) (Al Jazeera)
- 2 October 2024 – Israel and the United Nations
- Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs Israel Katz bans UN Secretary-General António Guterres from entering Israel and declares him persona non grata for not "unequivocally" condemning yesterday's Iranian missile attack. (Reuters) (DW)
- 2 October 2024 –
- Two men and a pregnant woman are shot and killed by unidentified assailants in a barbershop in Lisbon, Portugal. The three suspects fled the scene on foot. (Reuters)
- The Mexican Armed Forces announces its soldiers opened fire on a truck after "hearing detonations" while pursuing it near Huixtla, Chiapas, Mexico. The vehicle was carrying migrants, six out of thirty-one of whom are killed. (Al Jazeera) (AP)
- The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation announces an investigation into a plastic factory after six workers have died or went missing from flooding by Hurricane Helene. (ABC News)
- Two NASCAR teams, 23XI Racing owned by former basketball player Michael Jordan, and Front Row Motorsports, file an antitrust lawsuit against NASCAR, alleging "anticompetitive and exclusionary practices". (The Athletic)
- 1 October 2024 – Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Eastern Ukraine campaign
- Battle of Vuhledar
- Russian forces capture the town of Vuhledar in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, after Ukrainian forces retreat from the town. (The Daily Telegraph)
- Southern Ukraine campaign
- Seven people are killed and 12 others are injured in Russian strikes in Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine. (Reuters)
- 1 October 2024 – 2024 Iran–Israel conflict
- October 2024 Iranian strikes against Israel
- Iran launches a wave of ballistic missile attacks against Israel in retaliation for the 2024 Hezbollah headquarters strike, killing a Palestinian civilian and injuring two others. The U.S. State Department had previously warned of an imminent Iranian attack, saying that such an attack would carry "severe consequences for Iran". (The Guardian) (CBS News) (CNN)
- United States Navy destroyers USS Bulkeley and USS Cole successfully shoot down several Iranian missiles heading towards Israel. (UK Defence Journal)
- Iran–Israel conflict during the Syrian civil war
- The Syrian military intercepts several drones or missiles over Damascus. Several of them explode in the Mezzeh neighborhood, killing three people and injuring nine others. (Al Jazeera) (AFP via Barron's) (Jerusalem Post) (Reuters)
- 1 October 2024 – Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- 2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon
- Israeli forces invade southern Lebanon and begin a ground operation against Hezbollah. (Al Jazeera) (Jerusalem Post)
- A rocket explosion is reported in Tel Aviv, Israel, with the debris severely injuring a man. Separately, a drone is intercepted by Israeli forces over the Mediterranean Sea. (Al Jazeera)
- Israel launches an airstrike in the Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp in Sidon, Lebanon, in order to target Munir al-Maqdah, an official of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades. (Al Jazeera)
- 1 October 2024 – Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- 2024 Jaffa shooting
- Two Palestinian gunmen open fire on pedestrians in Jaffa, Israel, killing at least seven people and injuring at least 17 others. The gunmen are subsequently shot and killed by armed civilians and police. (Reuters) (Times of Israel)
- 1 October 2024 – 2024 United States port strike
- Over 45,000 dockworkers of the International Longshoremen's Association operating at thirty-six United States ports, primarily along the East Coast and the Gulf Coast, begin a labor strike, following the failure of the ports to reach a deal for worker compensation and a ban on automation. (AP)
- 1 October 2024 –
- CNN begins to roll out a paywall to view its news website. (Reuters)
- 1 October 2024 – 2024 Atlantic hurricane season
- The death toll from Hurricane Helene surpasses 160 people, with most of the deaths occurring in North Carolina, making it the second-deadliest hurricane to strike the contiguous United States in the past fifty years, behind only Hurricane Katrina. (CNN)
- 1 October 2024 – 2024 famine in Haiti
- An Integrated Food Security Phase Classification report declares famine conditions in Haiti, with nearly 48% of Haitians suffering from Stage 4 "crisis" levels of food insecurity and nearly 6,000 in starvation. (Al Jazeera) (AP)
- 1 October 2024 – 2024 Lam Luk Ka bus crash
- A bus carrying school students and teachers crashes and catches fire in Lam Luk Ka District, Pathum Thani Province, Thailand, killing 25 people, including 22 children, and injuring 19 others. (Khmer Times)
- 1 October 2024 – Rwanda Marburg virus disease outbreak
- Rwanda reports eight deaths from Marburg virus. (AP News) (US News)
- 1 October 2024 –
- At least 45 people are killed and dozens are missing after two boats carrying migrants capsizes off the coast of Djibouti. (Al Jazeera)
- Three people are killed and fifteen others are injured in a mass stabbing at a supermarket in Songjiang district, Shanghai, China. Police arrest a 37-year-old man at the scene, adding that the man had come to Shanghai in order to "vent his anger due to a personal economic dispute". (Reuters) (BBC News)
- 1 October 2024 – 2024 Japanese general election
- Shigeru Ishiba is sworn in as the 65th prime minister of Japan, succeeding Fumio Kishida. (Mainichi) (AP)
- 1 October 2024 – 2024 Mexican general election
- Claudia Sheinbaum is inaugurated as the 66th president of Mexico, becoming the first female Mexican president. (USA Today)
- 1 October 2024 – 2024 United States presidential debates
- The U.S. Vice President debate is held between Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and U.S. Senator JD Vance. (Business Insider) (CBS News)
- 1 October 2024 –
- Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, celebrates his 100th birthday, becoming the first centenarian former U.S. president. (BBC News)
- Former Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte is installed as the 14th Secretary General of NATO, succeeding Jens Stoltenberg. (DW)
- 30 September 2024 – Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- September 2024 Lebanon strikes
- At least 95 people are killed and 172 others are injured in Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon. (Al Jazeera)
- Five children belonging to the Imam al-Mahdi Scouts are killed in an Israeli airstrike in Charkiyeh in southern Lebanon. (Anadolu Agency)
- Three militants of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine are killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Kola District of Beirut, Lebanon. Separately, Hamas's commander in Lebanon, Fatah Sharif, is killed alongside his family in Tyre. (Al Jazeera)
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