July 24, 2024 (Wednesday)

Seven security forces and five rangers are killed during an ambush by Islamic extremists at the W National Park in Benin. The park is overrun by the militants.

Polish divers announce that they have discovered a 19th-century shipwreck in the Baltic Sea off the coast of Sweden, containing crates of champagne and porcelain.

The Nasdaq Composite drops 654.94 points (-3.64%) on 24 July, marking its third-largest one-day point loss. The S&P 500 drops 128.61 points (-2.31%) on the same day, marking its fifteenth-largest one-day point loss.

Metro Manila, Philippines, is placed under a state of calamity due to flash floods caused by Typhoon Gaemi.

Ten migrants are found drowned in a river near the Colombia–Panama border, according to Panamanian border police.

Fifteen people are killed and more than 195 others are missing after a boat carrying migrants capsizes near Nouakchott, Mauritania.

A Bombardier CRJ-200 crashes during takeoff at Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu, Nepal, killing eighteen people on board, with only the captain surviving.

Two people are killed and 266 others are injured by Typhoon Gaemi in northern Taiwan as the typhoon passes through Fujian province, China, and heads inland.

Air quality in Calgary and the surrounding areas are raised to "high risk" as winds blow smoke into the region.

Two wildfires burning in Jasper National Park reach the Jasper townsite in Alberta, causing several structure fires, with over 25,000 residents evacuating their homes since Monday.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses a joint session of the United States Congress amid protests over Israel's conduct of the war in Gaza.

Polish Defense Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz states that Poland will block Ukraine's bid to join the European Union if it doesn't resolve issues regarding Ukrainian nationalists' massacre of Poles during WWII, including finding and burying all victims killed on current Ukrainian territory.

A series of protests occur across Washington, D.C., to protest a speech given by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to a joint session of the United States Congress.

The North American Aerospace Defense Command intercepts two Russian and two Chinese bomber aircraft flying together near Alaska, marking the first record of Chinese H-6 aircraft entering Alaska's Air Defense Identification Zone, and marking the first time both countries were intercepted operating together.

A formal inquiry by the New Zealand government concludes that since 1950, about 200,000 people in state and religious care were abused, experiencing abuses such as rape, sterilization, and electric shocks.

German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser closes the Islamic Centre Hamburg for allegedly propagating extremism and being a direct representative of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. The Iranian Foreign Ministry summons the German ambassador following the closure.

Three Ukrainian soldiers are killed and four others are injured in a mass shooting after a dispute in Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine.

Researchers from the Scottish Association for Marine Science report evidence of dark oxygen being produced from metals on the seafloor. It was previously assumed that almost all the free oxygen (O
₂) on Earth was created through photosynthesis, which requires sunlight.

At the International Olympic Committee's meeting in Paris, France, it is announced that the French Alps region has been conditionally approved to host the 2030 Winter Olympics and that Salt Lake City, Utah, United States, will host the 2034 Winter Olympics.

The Canadian Olympic Committee expels two members of the women's soccer team coaching staff from the Olympics following a spying incident involving a drone disrupting New Zealand's training session. FIFA initiates disciplinary proceedings.