Portal:Current events/2024 October 22
Appearance
October 22, 2024
(Tuesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- 2024 Iran–Israel conflict
- Israeli retaliation leak, Israel–United States relations
- The FBI announces an investigation into the leaking of classified U.S. intelligence documents regarding military plans for Israeli retaliation against Iran. (Reuters)
- Israeli retaliation leak, Israel–United States relations
- Israel–Hamas war
- Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
- An Israeli drone strike on Beit Lahia in the Gaza Strip, kills at least fifteen people, including several women and children. (Al Jazeera)
- Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
- Islamic State insurgency in Iraq
- Prime Minister of Iraq Mohammed Shia' Al Sudani announces the death of several Islamic State senior members, including the group's leader in Iraq, in a military operation in Saladin Governorate, Iraq. (The Washington Post)
Disasters and accidents
- Eleven people are killed after a fuel truck explosion on a highway near Kampala, Uganda. (AP)
Health and environment
- 2024 McDonald's E. coli outbreak
- The U.S. Center for Disease Control announces that one person has died and at least 48 others have become ill in an E. coli outbreak linked to McDonald's Quarter Pounder beef sandwiches in ten western and midwest states with the first case confirmed on 27 September. (BBC News)
Politics and elections
- 2024 United States presidential election
- Foreign interference in the 2024 United States elections
- The presidential campaign of former U.S. President Donald Trump files a formal complaint to the Federal Election Commission against the United Kingdom's Labour Party, accusing the Labour Party of "blatant foreign interference" in the election to support the Kamala Harris presidential campaign. (BBC News)
- Foreign interference in the 2024 United States elections