Portal:Current events/2024 October 21
October 21, 2024 (Monday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Sudanese civil war
- 2024 New Way Cargo Airlines Ilyushin Il-76 shootdown
- An Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane crashes in North Darfur, Sudan, killing its crew of two Russians and three Sudanese nationals. The Rapid Support Forces claim that they shot down the aircraft with a surface-to-air missile and say that they have recovered the airplane's flight recorder. Russia says that its diplomats in Sudan are currently investigating the crash. (Sudan Tribune) (AP)
- A Sudanese Armed Forces jet bombs a mosque in Wad Madani, Gezira State, killing at least 31 people. The attack coincides with the RSF launching an assault across the state following the defection of the Rapid Support Forces' top commander in the state to the SAF. (Sudan Tribune)
- 2024 New Way Cargo Airlines Ilyushin Il-76 shootdown
- Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- Thirteen people are killed and 57 more wounded during Israeli airstrikes near Rafik Hariri University Hospital in Beirut, Lebanon. (Al Jazeera)
- Israel launches airstrikes across Lebanon, including in Beirut and the Beqaa Valley, targeting financial institutions that are allegedly linked to Hezbollah. (AP)
- Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir
- Seven people are killed and five others are injured in a mass shooting at a camp for construction workers near Sonamarg, Jammu and Kashmir, India. (Al Jazeera)
Disasters and accidents
- 2024 Talerddig train collision
- Two passenger trains collide head-on at Talerddig, Powys, Wales, killing one passenger and injuring 15 others. (BBC News)
Health and environment
- The World Health Organization declares Egypt to be malaria-free. (BBC News)
International relations
- China–India relations
- India and China reach a breakthrough in discussions on disengagement and border patrol along the disputed Line of Actual Control. (Zee News) (DW)
Law and crime
- 2000 Sipadan kidnappings
- A trial court in Taguig, Philippines, convicts 17 leaders and members of Abu Sayyaf, including two top officials of the Rajah Sulaiman Movement who were on the United Nations Security Council's Sanctions List, of the kidnapping of 21 tourists from Sipadan, Malaysia, in 2000. The convicts are sentenced to reclusión perpetua. (AFP via SCMP) (PNA)
- Operation Car Wash
- A court in Peru sentences former president Alejandro Toledo to 20 years and six months in prison for receiving bribes. (Reuters)
- Five members of a family, including three teenagers, are killed in a mass shooting in Fall City, Washington, United States. (USA Today)
- Former Albanian president Ilir Meta is arrested on accusations of corruption. (Reuters)
Politics and elections
- The National Assembly of Vietnam appoints army general Lương Cường as the country's president, succeeding Communist Party General Secretary Tô Lâm. (VOA) (AP) (VnExpress)
Science and technology
- A 52nd Mersenne prime is discovered by a participant of the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search, six years after the last new Mersenne prime was discovered in 2018. The prime number is 41,024,320 digits in length, making it the largest known prime number. (Mersenne.org)