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August 29, 2024 (Thursday)
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Armed conflicts and attacks
Israel and Hamas agree to three separate three-day humanitarian pauses to allow the World Health Organization to vaccinate more than 600,000 children against polio in the Gaza Strip.
Mohammed "Abu Shujaa" Jaber, leader of the Tulkarm Brigade, and four other fighters are killed in an Israeli attack on the Nur Shams refugee camp in Tulkarm in the West Bank.
The number of Palestinians killed since the beginning of the operation in the West Bank two days ago increases to 18, including eight in Jenin, six in Tulkarm, and four in Tubas. Dozens of others are wounded and at least 20 others have been arrested.
The Russian defence ministry claims that its forces have captured the settlements of Mykolaivka in Donetsk Oblast and Stelmakhivka in Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine.
The Israel Defence Forces carry out an airstrike on a humanitarian aid convoy in Gaza that kills five workers.
Bangladeshi interim health minister Nurjahan Begum says that more than 1,000 people were killed during last month's anti-government protests, making it the bloodiest period in the country's history since the 1971 independence movement.
Hezbollah launches four rocket and drone strikes on the outpost of the IDF 210th Golan Division in Nafah, Golan Heights.
Business and economy
It is announced that the abandoned Six Flags New Orleans amusement park, which has been closed since Hurricane Katrina struck the park and New Orleans, will be demolished beginning next month. Bayou Phoenix is expected to rebuild the area as a $500 million complex with youth sports fields, hotels, shops, a movie studio and a waterpark.
Disasters and accidents
More than 250,000 households are affected by power outages and dozens of people are reportedly injured as Typhoon Shanshan makes landfall over Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan.
Two people are killed and ten others are injured in a gas leak at an Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps training center in Isfahan province, Iran.
Pope Francis strongly condemns European mistreatment of migrants crossing from the Mediterranean Sea and refusal to offer aid as means to reject them from entering European nations as "a grave sin", and requests the expansion of migrant access routes to the continent.
Three people are killed and 17 are injured when a car crashes into a group of migrants in Oaxaca, Mexico.
Health and environment
One hundred tons of dead freshwater fish wash up in and around the port of Volos in Greece as a result of severe flooding followed by a prolonged drought in Lake Karla caused by "extreme climate fluctuations".
International relations
Serbia and French aerospace manufacturer Dassault Aviation sign an agreement for the purchase of twelve Dassault Rafale warplanes.
Law and crime
The interior ministry of Hamburg, Germany, expels the Iranian leader of the Islamic Centre Hamburg Mohammad Hadi Mofatteh, giving Mofatteh a September 11 deadline to either leave the country or face deportation.
Sports
The Taliban government bans mixed martial arts, saying that the sport is too violent and has a risk of death and that it is incompatible with Islamic law.
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