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An exceptional Santa Ana wind event reaching hurricane-force in some locations in southern California, United States, cause multiple power outages and wildfire outbreaks, including a rapidly-spreading >2,900 acre wildfire in Los Angeles County which causes several burn injuries and forces 30,000 people to evacuate.
The United Nations reports that almost a half million children in the Amazon are currently experiencing significant food and water scarcity due to prolonged droughts. (The Guardian) 2024 Atlantic hurricane season, 2024 Cuba blackouts. Cuba experiences a nationwide blackout as Hurricane Rafael makes landfall in Artemisa Province.
Armed conflicts and attacks. Israel–Hamas war. Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip. 2024 Gaza Strip polio epidemic. Six people are injured, including two children, in an Israeli strike on a polio vaccination centre in northern Gaza as the World Health Organization vaccination campaign resumes with its second phase.
Formerly My Weekly Reader, the Weekly Reader was a weekly newspaper for elementary school children. It was first published by the American Education Press of Columbus, Ohio, which had been founded in 1902 by Charles Palmer Davis to publish Current Events, a paper for secondary school children. [3] The first issue appeared on September 21, 1928. [4]
Forty-four children are injured, including one critically, when a person sprays an unknown gas inside a school in Berlin, Germany. Three people are killed and eight others are injured after a mass shooting at a gathering in Gage Park, Chicago, Illinois, United States. Politics and elections. 2024 Irish general election
A bus carrying school students and teachers crashes and catches fire in Lam Luk Ka District, Pathum Thani Province, Thailand, killing 25 people, including 22 children, and injuring 19 others. (Khmer Times) Rwanda Marburg virus disease outbreak. Rwanda reports eight deaths from Marburg virus.
An Israeli attack on a school used to shelter displaced Palestinians kills at least 22 people, including fifteen children, in the Nuseirat refugee camp in northern Gaza. Russian invasion of Ukraine. Foreign involvement in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Three children are killed and a fourth child from the same family is injured, when a land mine in a plastic bag explodes near a park in Manbij, Aleppo Governorate, Syria. (SOHR) Kata'ib Hezbollah announce that Abu Haidar al-Khafaji, a senior commander in the group, was killed in Damascus , Syria, and blame Israel for the attack.