Portal:Current events/2024 September 10

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Ukraine launches drone attacks on multiple Oblasts of Russia, including Moscow, prompting all flights to be suspended at Vnukovo International Airport and Moscow Domodedovo Airport. Bryansk Governor Alexander Bogomaz says that at least 59 Ukrainian drones have been shot down over the region. Russia also reports that two people were killed in the Ukrainian drone attack on Moscow. (Reuters) (Times of Israel)
  • Iran and the Russian invasion of Ukraine, International sanctions against Iran
    • U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says that Russia has received a shipment of Fath 360 tactical ballistic missiles from Iran, and expects their deployment "within weeks". Iran denies the claim, calling it "psychological warfare". In response, the United Kingdom, France, and Germany announce new sanctions on Iran for supplying Russia with ballistic missiles. (BBC News) (The Telegraph)
  • Military aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War
    • The Netherlands lifts all of its weapons restrictions on military equipment that it provided to Ukraine, allowing the Ukrainian military to target Russia with long-range weapons, while also urging NATO allies to lift their own weapons restrictions. (Kyiv Post)
• Gaza war
  • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
    • At least 40 people are killed and more than 60 others are injured in an Israeli airstrike on the Al-Mawasi refugee camp in Rafah in the Gaza Strip. Twenty tents housing displaced people are destroyed during the attack. (Al Jazeera)
    • The Israeli military says the strike targeted senior Hamas commanders operating in a command center embedded inside a designated humanitarian area whom the Israel Defense Forces says were all involved in the October 7 attacks. (Al Arabiya) (Times of Israel)
• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • A Redwan Force commander is killed and fourteen civilians are injured in Israeli airstrikes on Saghbine and Rachaf in southern Lebanon. (Al Jazeera)

Disasters and accidents

• The death toll from the capsizing of a migrant boat off the coast of Senegal over the weekend increases to 26 after the discovery of 17 more bodies. (Reuters)

International relations

• Belarus–European Union border crisis, Germany–Poland relations
  • Prime Minister of Poland Donald Tusk condemns Germany's new land border restrictions due to Germany's previous lack of support for other European Union nations impacted by irregular migration. (Reuters) (TVN24)

Law and crime

• The Court of Justice of the European Union rules that Apple Inc. must pay €13 billion (US$14.3 billion) to the government of the Republic of Ireland as compensation for extraordinarily low taxes levied by Ireland against Apple. (Euronews)
• Google is fined €2.4 billion (US$2.7 billion) by the Court of Justice of the European Union for favoring its own shopping search results over those of its competitors. (Politico)
• His Majesty's Prison Service begins releasing thousands of prisoners in England and Wales early amid a record high prison population and a shortage of prison cells for new inmates. (BBC News)
• A Swiss appeals court convicts Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan of rape and sexual coercion, sentencing Ramadan to three years in prison, with two years suspension. (Al Jazeera) (BBC News)

Politics and elections

• 2024 Jordanian general election
  • Jordanians go to the polls to elect all 138 members of the House of Representatives. (NPR)
• 2024 Mexican judicial reform
  • Protesters opposed to the ruling Morena party's reform package storm the Senate of Mexico and force an interruption of the bill's first reading in the upper house. The session reconvenes later at an alternative venue and passes the bill by an 86–41 vote. (The Guardian) (CNN)
• 2021–present United Kingdom cost-of-living crisis
  • The House of Commons of the United Kingdom votes 348–228 to end the Winter Fuel Payment for 10 million pensioners in England and Wales after Prime Minister Keir Starmer warned that the scheme was no longer affordable to be applied universally. (Sky News)
• 2024 United States presidential election
  • A presidential debate hosted by ABC News between U.S. vice president and Democratic nominee Kamala Harris and former president and Republican nominee Donald Trump takes place at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (CNN)