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The Paris 2024 Olympic Games were set to be the hottest on record, an increase on the previous Games in Tokyo, during which athletes had already expressed health concerns. In June 2024, a report titled "Rings of Fire: Heat Risks at the 2024 Paris Olympics" documented concerns, and the IOC proposed mitigation measures.
2024 India–Maldives diplomatic row; 2024 Iran–Pakistan border skirmishes; 2024 Iranian missile strikes in Pakistan; April 2024 Iranian strikes against Israel; Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest 2024; Israeli airstrike on the Iranian consulate in Damascus; Israeli public diplomacy in the Israel–Hamas war; April 2024 Israeli strikes on Iran
5 November – The 2024 American Samoan general election was held. 10 November – The 2024 Mauritian general election was held. 13 November – The 2024 Somaliland presidential election was held. 14 November – The 2024 Sri Lankan parliamentary election was held, the victory party of the 2024 presidential election, the NPP, winning 159 seats.
The Supreme Court on July 1, 2024, kept on hold efforts by Texas and Florida to limit how Facebook, TikTok, X, YouTube and other social media platforms regulate content in a ruling that strongly ...
An opening is seen in the fuselage of an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737-9 MAX on January 7, 2024 in Portland, Oregon. A door-sized section near the rear of the plane blew off 10 minutes after Flight ...
It reported last month that it has generated nearly $91.17 billion in revenue and $50.79 billion in net income over the first three quarters of 2024, marking massive year-over-year increases.
Armed conflicts and attacks. Israel–Hamas war; 2024 Iran–Israel conflict, Israel–Hezbollah conflict. Assassination of Saleh al-Arouri. Four people and Saleh al-Arouri, the deputy chairman of Hamas' political bureau with two other senior Hamas military officials killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Dahieh neighborhood of Beirut, Lebanon.
In protest against the New Zealand national rugby union team's 1976 tour of South Africa, controversial due to the regime's apartheid policies, Afghanistan, Albania, Burma, El Salvador, Guyana, Iraq, Sri Lanka, Syria and Tanzania, led a boycott of twenty-two African nations after the IOC refused to ban New Zealand from participating. Some of ...