Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israel–Hamas war
  • The Islamic Resistance in Iraq launched three drones at Eilat, Israel, damaging a building, but not causing injuries. (The Times of Israel)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• 2024 Ecuadorian conflict
  • Eight people are killed and at least ten others are injured by armed gangs in Guayaquil, Ecuador. (NOS)
• Haitian crisis
  • Canada deploys 70 members of its armed forces to Jamaica to train peacekeepers for a future intervention in Haiti. (CBC News)
• Russian President Vladimir Putin signs a decree for a larger than normal spring conscription campaign, calling up 150,000 citizens for military service. (CNBC) (Reuters)

Business and economy

• The New York Times reports that private records for millions of AT&T customers have been affected by a data breach and leaked onto the dark web. (The New York Times)

Disasters and accidents

• Ongoing severe drought in southern Africa causes around 20 million people to experience hunger. (AP) (The Independent)

Politics and elections

• 2024 Turkish local elections
  • Voters in Turkey go to the polls for their local elections. (France 24)
  • 2024 Istanbul mayoral election
    • Ekrem İmamoğlu is re-elected as mayor of Istanbul. (The New York Times)
• Visa policy of the Schengen Area
  • Bulgaria and Romania partially join the Schengen Area, allowing travel by air and sea without border checks, Austria vetoed travel by land without border checks over fears that non-EU citizens could get easier access to the European Union. (France 24)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israel–Hezbollah conflict, Iran–Israel conflict during the Syrian civil war
  • Three UN observers and a translator are injured by a shell in southern Lebanon. (Reuters)
• Haitian crisis
  • Gang leader Jimmy "Barbecue" Chérizier says that if armed groups under his command are included in talks for a future transitional government, then they would consider ceasing hostilities. (BBC)
• Syrian civil war
  • At least seven people are killed and 30 others are injured by a car bombing in Azaz, Aleppo Governorate, Syria, near the Turkish border. (Reuters)

Business and economy

• Japanese officials search a Kobayashi Pharmaceutical factory in Osaka after five deaths possibly linked to its dietary supplements. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• Over 150 people are evacuated after a man holds four people hostage in a nightclub in Ede, Gelderland, Netherlands, for six hours and threatens to blow himself up. Police arrest the man at the scene. (BBC News)

Politics and elections

• Peruvian political crisis
  • Peruvian President Dina Boluarte says that she will not resign following accusations of illicit enrichment after her residence was raided by police. (Reuters)

Sports

• 2024 UFL season
  • In American football, the Michigan Panthers win the inaugural game against the St. Louis Battlehawks for the United Football League, which was merged from the XFL and USFL. (Detroit Free Press)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Eastern Ukraine campaign
    • The Telegraph reports Russia has captured approximately 195 square miles (510 km²) and is taking around 1,000 casualties per day since the start of the Second Russian winter campaign in October 2023. (The Telegraph)
  • Russia strikes several power plants in Ukraine. (The Washington Post)
• Israel–Hezbollah conflict, Iran–Israel conflict during the Syrian civil war
  • An Israeli airstrike targeting Aleppo International Airport in Syria kills 38 Syrian soldiers, seven Hezbollah fighters and seven Iran-backed militiamen. The incident marks the deadliest Israeli attack on Syria since 2021. (SOHR)

Arts and culture

• Harvard University removes the binding of human skin from the 19th-century book Des destinées de l'âme by Arsène Houssaye, which has been kept in its library since 1934. (BBC News)

International relations

• Japan–North Korea relations
  • North Korean foreign minister Choe Son Hui says that North Korea will not hold any talks with Japan on any issue, including the issue of Japanese abductees in North Korea. This follows an announcement by Japanese prime minister Fumio Kishida in which he stated his desire to meet with North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong Un "without any preconditions". (Reuters)
• North Korea–Russia relations, North Korea and weapons of mass destruction
  • Russia vetoes the continued monitoring of United Nations sanctions on the North Korean nuclear weapons program. (AP)

Law and crime

• Polish President Andrzej Duda signs a law suspending the country's participation in the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe. (TVP World)
• Pouria Zeraati, an Iranian dissident journalist working for IITV, is injured in a stabbing in London. He is hospitalized in stable condition. (BBC News)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Myanmar civil war
  • Operation 0307
    • The Kachin Independence Army captures the town of Lweje and its nearby border crossings in Kachin State, Myanmar, after junta forces abandoned their posts and fled across the border into China. (Irrawaddy)

Business and economy

• Coal phase-out
  • Slovakia's Slovenské elektrárne shuts down operations at its Vojany Power Station, the last coal-fired power plant in the country. (Euronews)

Disasters and accidents

• 2023–24 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season
  • Cyclone Gamane makes landfall in Madagascar, killing at least eleven people and causing widespread flooding, according to local officials. (AP)
• Mamatlakala highway accident
  • A bus carrying Christian pilgrims from Botswana crashes in Limpopo, South Africa, killing 45 people. (Reuters)
• A Russian Sukhoi Su-35 crashes into the Black Sea off Sevastopol, Crimea. The pilot is reported to have safely ejected. (Reuters)

International relations

• Israel–Hamas war
  • South Africa v. Israel
    • The International Court of Justice, in a unanimous decision, orders Israel to allow humanitarian aid to enter the Gaza Strip unimpeded, warning that famine is already occurring. (Reuters) (The Guardian)

Law and crime

• United States v. Bankman-Fried
  • A federal court in the United States sentences Sam Bankman-Fried to 25 years in prison for stealing $8 billion in a cryptocurrency fraud. (Reuters)
• Russian interference in European politics
  • The Czech information service reveals that Russia paid hundreds of thousands of euros through its "Voice of Europe" website to European politicians in order to influence European elections. (Parool)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Bombing of Kharkiv
    • One person is killed, and sixteen others are injured, by Russian guided bomb strikes on Kharkiv, Ukraine. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• Leipzig FlixBus highway accident
  • Four people are killed and 35 others are injured after a double-decker FlixBus overturns and crashes on the Bundesautobahn 9 near Leipzig, Saxony, Germany. (BBC News)
• At least four people are killed by several wildfires across the State of Mexico, Mexico. (Reuters)

International relations

• Argentina–Venezuela relations
  • Argentina orders the deployment of at least two gendarmerie to the Argentine embassy in Venezuela, where allies of opposition leader María Corina Machado have taken refuge amid increased tensions between the two countries. (Infobae)

Law and crime

• 2024 Rockford stabbings
  • Four people are killed and seven others are injured during a stabbing spree in Rockford, Illinois, United States. (AP)
• Capital punishment in Tunisia
  • A court in Tunisia sentences four people to death and two others to life in prison for the 2013 murder of politician Chokri Belaid. (Al Jazeera)
• First Liberian Civil War
  • The French judiciary sentences the former leader of the United Liberation Movement of Liberia for Democracy Kunti Kamara to 30 years in prison on charges of committing "crimes against humanity". (Barron's)
• Recognition of same-sex unions in Thailand
  • The Thai House of Representatives approves a bill to legalize same-sex marriage by a vote of 400–10, with five abstentions. (AP via MSN News)

Politics and elections

• 2024 Lithuanian presidential election
  • A Special Investigative committee of the Seimas releases its findings, accusing President Gitanas Nausėda of receiving illegal support from the head of the State Security Department and for recruiting members of the Belarusian and Russian security services for his election campaign. Nauseda rejects the findings, accusing them of being politically motivated. (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Belarusian Service)
• Elections in Malta
  • Myriam Spiteri Debono is unanimously elected by the Maltese Parliament as the next President of Malta. (Times of Malta)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • 2024 Shangla bombing
    • A suicide bomber attacks a bus in Shangla District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, killing five Chinese workers and their Pakistani driver. (AP)
• Syrian civil war
  • Iran–Israel conflict during the Syrian civil war
    • The Israeli Air Force bombs Deir ez-Zor Governorate, Syria, killing an Iranian Quds Force officer and 15 other militants. (AP)
• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • Israeli warplanes launch airstrikes against Hezbollah targets near the towns of Ras Baalbek and Hermel in Baalbek-Hermel Governorate, Lebanon, killing at least three Hezbollah members. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse
  • The Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland, United States, collapses after the container ship Dali strikes a bridge column, causing multiple vehicles to fall into the water below. (CBS News)
  • President Joe Biden says that the federal government will pay for the full cost of rebuilding the bridge. (WMAR-TV)

Law and crime

• Abortion in the United States
  • The US Supreme Court announces that it will hear oral arguments on whether to restrict access to mifepristone, a commonly-used abortion pill. (BBC News)
• The United Kingdom's High Court of Justice grants WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange a stay of extradition to the United States, and demands that the US not consider the death penalty against Assange if he is sent to the US to face espionage charges. (AP)
• Former Kyrgyzstan deputy Raimbek Matraimov is detained in Baku, Azerbaijan, and is extradited to Kyrgyzstan. (AKIPress)

Politics and elections

• 2024 United States presidential election
  • Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 2024 presidential campaign
    • Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces while campaigning that his Vice Presidential pick will be attorney Nicole Shanahan. (NBC News)