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Beginning on 6 December 2024, the SNA initiated extensive and escalating military operations in the eastern countryside of Aleppo Governorate. The operations featured intensive drone surveillance and artillery strikes targeting multiple villages located to the northwestern countryside of Manbij under SDF control, including Aoun al-Dadat, al ...
While the poverty rate had fallen from 35% to 21% between 2007 and 2017, the combined effects of a reduction in public spending under the presidencies of Moreno and Guillermo Lasso and the COVID-19 pandemic have pushed it back up to 27% in 2023. Unemployment and the lack of study grants mean that a third of young people aged between 15 and 25 ...
3 May – The Spanish government revokes a national award given out since 2011 for bullfighting. [12]12 May – 2024 Catalan regional election: The PSC emerges as the largest party in the Parliament of Catalonia at the expense of separatist parties, who lose their majority.
On 9 August 2024, HIMARS destroyed a convoy of Russian troops in Kursk Oblast in what Russian milbloggers described as one of the bloodiest attacks of the entire war. [ 85 ] [ 310 ] On 12 August, Ukrainian military expert Mykhailo Zhirokhov claimed that the ratio of Ukrainian to Russian manpower losses as "closer to 1 to 10", and the number of ...
On 13 April 2024, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), a branch of the Iranian Armed Forces, in collaboration with the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, [3] Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, and the Ansar Allah (Houthis), launched retaliatory attacks against Israel and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights [note 2] with loitering munitions, cruise missiles, and ballistic missiles. [14]
2024 South African general election: The ANC party fails to win a majority of the vote for the first time in South Africa's democratic history. [117] [118] 2024 Malagasy parliamentary election: President Andry Rajoelina's party, Tanora Malagasy Vonona, loses their majority at the National Assembly, winning only 80 seats out of 163. [119]
The 2023–2024 Spanish protests against Catalan amnesty were a series of protests which began in October 2023, resulting from the announced negotiations of then-acting prime minister Pedro Sánchez's Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) with former president of the Government of Catalonia Carles Puigdemont's Together for Catalonia (Junts) party.
7 July – A court rules that the rights of the Machángara River, which runs through Quito, had been violated by environmental pollution and orders the government to clean up the river. [ 24 ] 12 July – A court in Quito sentences Carlos Angulo, the alleged leader of the Los Lobos gang , and Laura Castilla to 34 years' imprisonment for the ...