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2024 Rio Grande do Sul floods The death toll from the ongoing heavy flooding in southern Brazil increases to 107, with at least 136 people still missing and 165,000 people displaced. (Reuters)
Armed conflicts and attacks. Kivu conflict. M23 offensive. The mining town of Rubaya, Democratic Republic of the Congo, is seized by the March 23 Movement.; Twelve people are killed and more than 20 others are injured during explosions caused by bombs at two camps for displaced people in Lac Vert and Mugunga, in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The anticlockwise or counterclockwise direction. Widdershins (sometimes withershins, widershins or widderschynnes) is a term meaning to go counter-clockwise, anti-clockwise, or lefthandwise, or to walk around an object by always keeping it on the left.
An anticyclonic tornado is a tornado which rotates in a clockwise direction in the Northern Hemisphere and a counterclockwise direction in the Southern Hemisphere. [1] The term is a naming convention denoting the anomaly from normal rotation which is cyclonic in upwards of 98 percent of tornadoes.
There were 227 participants from 24 nations at the 2024 Quiz Olympiad. Some notable participants include Issa Schultz of Australia; Nico Pattyn, Ronny Swiggers, and Tom Trogh of Belgium; Dean Kotiga of Croatia; Pat Gibson and Paul Sinha of England; Tero Kalliolevo of Finland; Sebastian Jacoby and Sebastian Klussmann of Germany; Anne Hegerty and Barry Simmons of Scotland; and Victoria Groce of ...
2024 Summer Olympics. Algeria at the 2024 Summer Olympics. Imane Khelif wins the gold medal in the Women's 66 kg boxing event, after facing controversy and harassment related to a 2023 gender evaluation by the International Boxing Association, which is no longer recognized by the IOC. Breaking at the 2024 Summer Olympics
2024 Formula One World Championship. 2024 Miami Grand Prix. In auto racing, McLaren driver Lando Norris wins his first Formula One race at the Miami Grand Prix. 2024 NASCAR Cup Series. 2024 AdventHealth 400. Kyle Larson edges out Chris Buescher in the closest finish in NASCAR Cup Series history, winning a photo finish by one-thousandth (0.001 ...
2024 Rajkot gaming zone fire. At least 27 people, including many children, are killed in a building fire at a family entertainment venue in Rajkot, Gujarat, India. Tornado outbreak sequence of May 19–26, 2024. At least five people are killed after a tornado strikes the cities of Pilot Point and Valley View in Texas, United States.