Armed conflicts and attacks

At least three people are killed and 22 others are injured in a Russian guided bomb attack on an apartment building in Kharkiv, Ukraine. (Reuters)

• https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-strikes-apartment-block-ukraines-kharkiv-least-5-injured-deaths-likely-2024-09-24/

Disasters and accidents

Over thirty environmental organizations condemn Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's actions that contradict his calls for further global action against climate change, such as requests for drilling oil reserves near the Amazon River and paving the BR-319 roadway through the Amazon that they state contribute to ongoing wildfires. (AP)

• https://apnews.com/article/lula-brazil-climate-speech-united-nations-b38f19baa05cce7e5296608f57422208

Disasters and accidents

Tropical Storm Helene forms in the Gulf of Mexico and is expected to become a major hurricane before making landfall on the U.S. Gulf Coast on September 26. (National Hurricane Center)

• https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2024/al09/al092024.discus.005.shtml?

Disasters and accidents

Three people are killed in flooding caused by remnants of Hurricane John in Mexico. (Reuters)

• https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/john-weakens-into-tropical-storm-nhc-says-2024-09-24/

Law and crime

Ryan Wesley Routh is formally charged for attempting to assassinate former U.S. President and Republican Party nominee Donald Trump at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, United States. (NBC News)

• https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/ryan-routh-arrested-trumps-florida-golf-course-charged-attempted-assas-rcna172571

Law and crime

Belarusian independent news outlet Reform.news reports that Jörg Dornau, an Alternative for Germany member of the Saxony parliament, has allegedly used political prisoners as labor on a Belarusian onion plantation owned by his agricultural firm. (Politico)

• https://www.politico.eu/article/far-right-german-lawmaker-alexander-lukashenko-prisoner-work-belarus-onion-farm-jorg-dornau-afd/

Law and crime

Thailand passes the marriage equality law allowing same-sex couples to be legally wed starting in January 2025. (AP)

• https://apnews.com/article/thailand-marriage-equality-law-e0df9fa2d38afc81c53dda81ce489be5

Politics and elections

Newly-elected Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake dissolves the Parliament and calls for snap elections on November 14. (Reuters) (AP)

• https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/sri-lanka-president-dissolves-parliament-make-way-nov-14-polls-2024-09-24/
• https://apnews.com/article/sri-lanka-prime-minister-election-66fd3b9e7f42a0ec7fb3f37e60ad0ca6

Science and technology

Scientists from the University of Waterloo announce that they have positively identified bones found on King William Island in Nunavut, Canada, as those of James Fitzjames, captain of HMS Erebus during Franklin's lost expedition. (CBC News)

• https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/scientists-identify-frankine-expedition-sailor-1.7332217

Science and technology

A Monash University-led study on the Ordovician meteor event provides evidence that rings may have existed around Earth approximately 446 million years ago. (Forbes)

• https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidbressan/2024/09/23/earth-may-once-have-had-a-ring-system/

Sports

The Lebanese Football Association suspends all football matches indefinitely amid Israeli airstrikes on the country. (Al Jazeera)

• https://www.aljazeera.com/sports/2024/9/24/lebanon-indefinitely-postpones-all-football-matches-amid-israels-attacks