The United Nations condemns the Rapid Support Forces' targeted mass killing of civilians in Gezira State, Sudan, comparing it to earlier mass killings in Darfur.
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October 27, 2024 (Sunday)
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Armed conflicts and attacks
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi proposes a temporary two-day ceasefire in Gaza to exchange four Israeli hostages for several Palestinian prisoners.
A man is killed and thirty others are injured in a vehicle-ramming attack when an Arab Israeli man rams his truck into a bus stop north of Tel Aviv, Israel, before being fatally shot by an armed civilian. Authorities are investigating the incident as a suspected terrorist attack.
At least 40 Chadian soldiers are killed during a mass shooting by Boko Haram gunmen against a military base near Ngouboua, Chad.
Disasters and accidents
The death toll from Tropical Storm Trami in the Philippines increases to 136 people killed and missing.
A man steals an SUV and rams passers-by and a group of protesters from the National Front for the Family, in front of Guadalajara Cathedral, causing 16 injuries. The authorities are still investigating the incident to determine the motivations and circumstances of the attack.
Politics and elections
President of Georgia Salome Zourabichvili announces that she does not recognize the official results of the election, alleging that the country has been the victim of a "Russian special operation".
Bulgarian citizens vote for a new National Assembly in the country's seventh election in the past four years.
The Social Democratic Party of Lithuania wins 52 seats in the Seimas election, forming a majority with its coalition partners "For Lithuania" and the Farmers and Greens Union.
Voters in Liechtenstein approve a referendum to privatize Radio Liechtenstein, the country's state-owned radio station.
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