Portal:Current events/2024 October 8
October 8, 2024 (Tuesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- Around 105 Hezbollah rockets hit the northern Israeli city of Haifa in the heaviest barrage fired at the city since the start of the war. (The Telegraph)
- The Israel Defense Forces say that they killed Suhail Hussein Husseini, the head of Hezbollah's logistical headquarters and a member of the Jihad Council. (Times of Israel)
- Israel's role in the Syrian civil war
Health and environment
- The Environmental Protection Agency sets a 10-year deadline to replace all lead water pipes in the United States. (AP)
Science and technology
- Nobel Prize in Physics
- American physicist John Hopfield and computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton are awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Physics "for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks". (The Guardian)