Armed conflicts and attacks

Five Israeli soldiers are killed and seven others are injured in gun battles with Hezbollah militants in southern Lebanon. (Reuters)

• https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-military-says-five-soldiers-were-killed-during-combat-southern-lebanon-2024-10-24/

Armed conflicts and attacks

The Armed Forces of Ukraine reports that Russian Armed Forces have made significant advances in the strategic city of Selydove, predicting that it could be captured in a few days. (Euronews)

• https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2024/10/24/russian-forces-on-verge-of-capturing-selydove-in-eastern-ukraine-isw-says

Armed conflicts and attacks

Israel says that it killed Muhammad Abu Attawi, a commander in Hamas' Nukhba forces who participated in the Nova music festival massacre, in an airstrike in Gaza yesterday. (Reuters) (The Times of Israel)

• https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-says-it-killed-hamas-commander-who-doubled-un-aid-worker-2024-10-24/
• https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-says-it-killed-hamas-man-who-led-massacre-at-reim-shelter-an-unrwa-worker/

Armed conflicts and attacks

Islamist insurgents target an Indian Army vehicle with small arms fire near Gulmarg, Jammu and Kashmir, India, killing two soldiers and two civilian porters and injuring three other soldiers. (The Indian Express)

• https://indianexpress.com/article/india/kashmir-gulmarg-army-vehicle-attack-9637151/

Armed conflicts and attacks

Two car bombs explode outside police stations in Acámbaro and Jerécuaro, Guanajuato, Mexico, injuring three police officers in Acámbaro. (AP)

• https://apnews.com/article/mexico-drugs-war-car-bomb-guanajato-sheinbaum-2af81dc58b803db44c167cdf14e0f7fb

Business and economy

The British government announces that single-use vapes will be banned in England and Wales beginning on 1 June 2025. (BBC News)

• https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd7n3zyp114o

Disasters and accidents

Tropical Storm Trami makes landfall in northeastern Luzon, Philippines, killing at least 26 people. (BBC News) (Reuters)

• https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz0m7exe53do
• https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/tropical-storm-trami-makes-landfall-floods-northern-philippine-provinces-2024-10-24/

Disasters and accidents

Four people are killed and one other is seriously injured when a Tesla car crashes into a guardrail and struck a concrete pillar at high speed after losing control causing a fire in Toronto, Canada. (CTV News Toronto)

• https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/horrific-four-people-dead-after-tesla-slams-into-pillar-and-catches-fire-on-lake-shore-boulevard-in-toronto-1.7085263

International relations

North Korea sends a wave of trash balloons over South Korea, with one balloon falling on the presidential compound in central Seoul. The balloon reportedly contained leaflets criticizing South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and his wife Kim Keon-hee. (ABC News)

• https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/trash-carried-north-korean-balloon-falls-presidential-compound-115088815

Law and crime

Four people, including the perpetrator, are killed in a mass stabbing in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. (WLWT-TV)

• https://www.wlwt.com/article/3-dead-swat-situation-college-hill-springbrook-drive/62707141