Seven people are killed and five others are injured in a mass shooting at a camp for construction workers near Sonamarg, Jammu and Kashmir, India.
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October 21, 2024 (Monday)
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Armed conflicts and attacks
Thirteen people are killed and 57 more wounded during Israeli airstrikes near Rafik Hariri University Hospital in Beirut, Lebanon.
Israel launches airstrikes across Lebanon, including in Beirut and the Beqaa Valley, targeting financial institutions that are allegedly linked to Hezbollah.
An Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane crashes in North Darfur, Sudan, killing its crew of two Russians and three Sudanese nationals. The Rapid Support Forces claim that they shot down the aircraft with a surface-to-air missile and say that they have recovered the airplane's flight recorder. Russia says that its diplomats in Sudan are currently investigating the crash.
A Sudanese Armed Forces jet bombs a mosque in Wad Madani, Gezira State, killing at least 31 people. The attack coincides with the RSF launching an assault across the state following the defection of the Rapid Support Forces' top commander in the state to the SAF.
Disasters and accidents
Health and environment
International relations
India and China reach a breakthrough in discussions on disengagement and border patrol along the disputed Line of Actual Control.
Law and crime
A trial court in Taguig, Philippines, convicts 17 leaders and members of Abu Sayyaf, including two top officials of the Rajah Sulaiman Movement who were on the United Nations Security Council's Sanctions List, of the kidnapping of 21 tourists from Sipadan, Malaysia, in 2000. The convicts are sentenced to reclusión perpetua.
A court in Peru sentences former president Alejandro Toledo to 20 years and six months in prison for receiving bribes.
Five members of a family, including three teenagers, are killed in a mass shooting in Fall City, Washington, United States.
Politics and elections
The National Assembly of Vietnam appoints army general Lương Cường as the country's president, succeeding Communist Party General Secretary Tô Lâm.
Fethullah Gülen, Turkish Muslim cleric, Erdoğan
rival, and founder of the Gülen movement, died at a hospital in Pennsylvania, US. He was being treated for heart and kidney failure at the time of his death.
Science and technology
A 52nd Mersenne prime is discovered by a participant of the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search, six years after the last new Mersenne prime was discovered in 2018. The prime number is 41,024,320 digits in length, making it the largest known prime number.
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