September 11, 2024 (Wednesday)

An Israeli Air Force UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter crashes in Rafah during a mission to evacuate an injured combat engineer, killing two personnel on board.

The United Kingdom reportedly approves the use of Storm Shadow cruise missiles to strike targets inside Russian territory.

Russian forces reportedly recapture 10 settlements in Kursk Oblast.

At least six Palestinians are killed by an Israeli drone strike on Tubas in the West Bank.

Eighteen people, including six UNRWA staffers, are killed in Israeli airstrikes on a school in central Gaza.

One Hezbollah militant is killed and one militant and two civilians are injured in Israeli drone strikes in southern Lebanon.

A new wave of shootouts erupts in Haiti over a football match leaving at least one gang leader dead. Reports admit being unable to determine the total death toll.

Hundreds of workers at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, Kenya, go on strike to protest against a planned deal to lease the airport to the Indian conglomerate Adani Group for 30 years.

Hurricane Francine makes landfall in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, United States, as a category 2 hurricane.

The National Weather Service issues a flash flood emergency for New Orleans and municipalities west of it, due to the eye wall of Hurricane Francine stalling over the region.

The death toll from Typhoon Yagi in northern Vietnam increases to 179 people, with 145 others still missing. The majority of the victims were killed by floods and landslides in Lào Cai, Yên Bái, and Cao Bằng provinces.

Due to the Alau Dam collapse by heavy floods more than 80% of the animals in the Sanda Kyarimi Park Zoo in Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria have been killed.

Malaysian police rescue 400 minors suspected of being sexually abused at Islamic charity homes linked to Al-Arqam.

Victoria Police arrest 39 people and fire stun grenades, rubber bullets, and pepper spray at anti-war and pro-Palestinian protestors picketing outside a military weapons expo in Melbourne, Australia.

An All Afghan Women's Summit is held in Tirana, Albania, where more than 130 Afghan women gathered to protest the crackdown on women's rights by the Taliban.

Following the launch of the Russian Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, there is a record 19 people in outer space at the same time. The previous record was set in 2023 with 17 people.