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NASA formally announces that asteroid 2024 YR4 now poses "no significant threat" to Earth in 2032 and beyond as the chances of an impact drop to 1-in-59,000 (0.0017%). This means a planetary defense mission to intercept and deflect the object in 2028 during a close flyby of Earth is no longer necessary.
2024 Pakistani general election, Arrest of Imran Khan. Pakistani police arrest thousands of supporters of jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan ahead of a planned protest to demand for the release of Khan and other members of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, along with the resignation of the current government.
Armed conflicts and attacks. Gaza war. Gaza war hostage crisis. Hamas says that 33 hostages have been killed in the 14 months since the war started. (The Israel Defense Forces say that Israeli-American soldier Omer Maxim Neutra, previously believed to be a living hostage, was killed during the October 7 attacks last year and his body was kept in Gaza.
(Mercury News) Human trafficking in Greece. Four people are killed and 25 others are rescued after human traffickers force them from their boat into the water off the coast of Rhodes, Greece, and abandon them. Politics and elections. 2024 U.S. elections. 2024 U.S. presidential election, Second presidency of Donald Trump
2024 French political crisis, French anti-Barnier government protests October 2024 French vote of no confidence The left-wing New Popular Front coalition files a motion of no confidence against the new right-wing Barnier government amid ongoing political protests in France .
Armed conflicts and attacks. Russian invasion of Ukraine. Ukraine lowers the age of conscription from 27 years to 25. (The Guardian) (The New York Times)Business and economy. The United States Army Corps of Engineers begins dredging the San Juan Bay in Puerto Rico to open space for a new natural gas terminal that is expected to add $400 million to the local economy.
(Al Jazeera English) (The Washington Post) Disasters and accidents Oil begins to wash ashore on Bonaire , Leeward Antilles , believed to have originated from the ship Gulfstream with around 35,000 barrels of oil on board that capsized near Tobago earlier this month.
English High Court judge John Cavanagh sentences Urfan Sharif and Beinash Batool to life imprisonment for the murder of Sharif's 10-year-old daughter Sara. (ABS-CBN News) Canadian-American anti-whaling activist Paul Watson is released from prison in Greenland after Denmark declines Japan's extradition request. Politics and elections