Portal:Current events/2024 February 16

February 16, 2024 (Friday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- 2024 Kiryat Malakhi attack
  - Two people are killed and four others are injured in a mass shooting at a bus station near Kiryat Malachi, Israel. The perpetrator is killed by an off-duty IDF reservist. (Al Arabiya) (Times of Israel)
Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Battle of Avdiivka
  - Ukraine announces the withdrawal of its troops from positions in the south of Avdiivka amid heavy clashes with Russian forces for control of the city. The withdrawal comes a day after Russian soldiers entered the city from multiple directions. (Kyiv Post)
Red Sea crisis
- U.S. officials confirm that a cyberattack was carried out on the MV Beshad, an Iranian spy ship in the Red Sea, to prevent the ship from sharing intelligence with Houthi forces in Yemen. (NBC News)

Disasters and accidents

Five workers are killed and three others are injured after a supermarket under construction collapses in Florence, Italy. (AP)
One firefighter is killed and 11 other people are injured after a house explodes in Sterling, Virginia, United States. (CNN)

Law and crime

Death and funeral of Alexei Navalny
- Alexei Navalny, a prominent Russian opposition leader and a vocal critic of President Vladimir Putin, dies while serving a 19-year sentence at the Polar Wolf penal colony in Tyumen Oblast, Russia. (CNN)
LGBT rights in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- The High Court of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines rejects a challenge to the colonial anti-LGBT laws in the country. (Reuters)
New York civil investigation of The Trump Organization
- Former U.S. President Donald Trump is fined over $350 million by the New York Supreme Court and temporarily barred from business in New York as a result of The Trump Organization's financial fraud. (The New York Times)
A drive-by mass shooting in Birmingham, Alabama, United States kills four people. All four victims are friends of the 20-year-old gunman Lamarion Tykese Charlie. (GVA)