July 17, 2024 (Wednesday)

At least 42 Palestinians are killed and more than 70 others are injured in Israeli strikes on a United Nations-run school in the Nuseirat refugee camp and on a designated "safe zone" in al-Mawasi, Rafah.

Police fire tear gas and rubber bullets at students and professors occupying Dhaka University in Dhaka, Bangladesh, to protest against the ruling Awami League party and its government job quotas.

Archaeologists unearth remains of a medieval papal palace in the square outside the Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran in Rome, Italy.

The European Union General Court dismisses ByteDance's lawsuit against the European Commission's designation of the company as a "gatekeeper" under the Digital Markets Act, citing ByteDance's significant global market value.

At least six people are killed by storms in Brest, Gomel, and Mogilev Regions, Belarus.

At least 16 people are killed in a fire at a shopping mall in Zigong, Sichuan, China.

The confirmed death toll from Hurricane Beryl in Texas, United States, increases to 22, with several deaths in the Greater Houston area caused by heat illness due to prolonged power outages amid an ongoing heat wave.

Comoros-flagged oil tanker Prestige Falcon capsizes off the coast of Oman. The Indian Navy rescues nine crew members, with seven others missing.

Italian authorities place thirteen cities throughout the Italian Peninsula under rare severe heat warnings due to predicted heat indexes reaching as high as 44°C (111.2°F) throughout the week.

Germany issues plans to halve its military aid to Ukraine in 2025.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida formally apologizes to 130 victims of forced sterilization under the Eugenics Protection Law which was declared unconstitutional on July 3, and approves compensation measures for more than 25,000 affected victims and their relatives.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announces measures to reduce the spread of fake news and harmful content in all forms of media, which the People's Party claims is an act to censor and control critical media.

Israel's Knesset passes a resolution 68–9 stating that it opposes the establishment of a Palestinian state.

U.S. President Joe Biden temporarily suspends his re-election campaign to recover at his home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, after being diagnosed with COVID-19.

NASA cancels its lunar water-seeking rover mission with the VIPER rover, citing cost overruns and launch delays, after spending $450 million on the project.