October 12, 2024 (Saturday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

At least eleven people are killed and eight others are injured in tribal clashes in Kurram District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.

(AP)

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Israel's military orders the residents of 23 villages in southern Lebanon to evacuate to areas north of the Awali River.

(Reuters)

2024 Israeli invasion of LebanonIsrael–Hezbollah conflict

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The National Army of Colombia re-enters the corregimiento of El Plateado in Argelia, Cauca Department, Colombia, in an attempt to clear the corregimiento of FARC dissidents.

(El Tiempo)

Colombian conflict

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Local media outlets report that Ukrainian military recruitment officers raided shopping centers, bars, restaurants, and a large concert venue across several Ukrainian cities including Kyiv, Dnipro, and Kharkiv to detain men not in compliance with conscription orders.

(AP)

Ukrainian conscription crisisRusso-Ukrainian war

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The UNIFIL headquarters in Naqoura, Lebanon, is hit by an Israeli airstrike.

(CTV News), (BBC News)

2024 Israeli invasion of LebanonIsrael–Hezbollah conflict

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A family of eight is killed in an Israeli airstrike on a home at the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza Strip.

(Morning Star)

Israeli invasion of the Gaza StripIsrael–Hamas war

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Disasters and accidents

Four people are killed and five others are injured in a gas tank explosion and fire at a gas station in Grozny, Russia.

(Reuters)

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A speedboat explodes at a port in Taliabu Island Regency, North Maluku, Indonesia, killing six people, including Benny Laos [id], a candidate for Governor of North Maluku in the upcoming election, and Regional House of Representatives member Ester Tantri.

(CNN Indonesia), (CNBC Indonesia)

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Law and crime

The United States Justice Department sues the state of Virginia for removing voters from voter registration less than 90 days before Election Day on November 5.

(Al Jazeera)

2024 United States presidential election, Voter registration in the United States

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As a response to Germany tightening border controls and following a call for EU-wide solutions by its Interior Minister Nancy Faeser, Prime Minister of Poland Donald Tusk issues a request to the European Union to accept a provisional suspension of migrants' right to asylum in order to control irregular immigration from Belarus, which human rights activists condemn as unconstitutional.

(Reuters), (Euronews)

Belarus–European Union border crisis, Human rights in Poland

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A man is arrested outside former president Donald Trump's rally in Coachella, California, United States, with loaded firearms, a fake license plate, and several passports, in what is believed to have been an assassination attempt on Trump, according to the Riverside County sheriff.

(Reuters)

Security incidents involving Donald Trump2024 United States presidential election

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