Portal:Current events/2024 October 30
October 30, 2024 (Wednesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- 2024 Beqaa Valley airstrikes
- Israeli airstrikes on two villages in Baalbek, Lebanon, kill at least nineteen people. (Reuters)
- The Israeli army says that it killed the deputy head of Hezbollah's Redwan Force Mustafa Ahmad Shahadi in a strike in Nabatieh, Lebanon. (Al Arabiya)
- 2024 Beqaa Valley airstrikes
- Moro conflict
- Nineteen people are killed and five are injured after a shootout triggered by a land dispute between two rival factions of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front in Pagalungan, Maguindanao del Sur, Philippines. (PNA) (Xinhua)
- War against the Islamic State
- The United States military announces that American airstrikes in Syria earlier this week killed as many as 35 Islamic State members. (Al Arabiya)
Disasters and accidents
- 2024 European floods
- 2024 Spain floods
- At least 140 people are killed and many others are missing after severe floods in the Valencian Community, Spain, that damaged rail lines and highways. (BBC) (AP)
- 2024 Spain floods
- At least twelve workers are killed and another is injured in an explosion at a steel plant in Xaloztoc, Tlaxcala, Mexico. (Reuters) (Milenio)
Law and crime
- 2024 Mozambican general election
- It is reported that at least ten people were killed and 63 others were injured by gunfire in post-election protests in Mozambique last week. (Reuters)
- English Channel migrant crossings
- One person is killed while attempting to cross the English Channel in a dinghy. Three other bodies are found on beaches near Neufchâtel-Hardelot and Équihen-Plage, France. (Reuters)
- Eight people are killed and eight others are injured in a stabbing spree in Kagadi, Uganda, by members of an unknown cult. Two attackers are killed by police. (Reuters)
- The United Nations Security Council votes 15–0 to make changes to the United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia, forming a new mission called the United Nations Transitional Mission in Somalia, which is expected to begin operating on November 1. (Mirage News)
Politics and elections
- 2024 Botswana general election
- Citizens of Botswana vote for the 61 seats of the National Assembly. (AP)
Sports
- 2024 Major League Baseball season
- 2024 World Series
- In baseball, the Los Angeles Dodgers win the World Series, defeating the New York Yankees in 5 games including a comeback victory in Game 5 at Yankee Stadium. (Los Angeles Times)
- 2024 World Series