Portal:Current events/2024 May 24
May 24, 2024 (Friday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Israel–Hamas war
- Israel–Hamas war hostage crisis
- The Israeli army recovers the bodies of three captives who were killed and taken to Gaza by Palestinian militants in the 7 October attacks. (Reuters)
- Israel–Hamas war hostage crisis
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Sources say Russian President Vladimir Putin interested in a ceasefire negotiation in Ukraine, freezing the current frontlines in place. (Reuters)
- Three Christian missionaries from the United States are killed in Haiti. (Reuters)
Arts and culture
- Kabosu, the Shiba Inu notable for being the origin of the Doge meme, dies at the age of 18. (Reuters)
- Norah becomes the first film from Saudi Arabia to screen as part of the official calendar at the Cannes Film Festival as a part of the Un Certain Regard competition. (Arab News)
Disasters and accidents
- 2024 Enga landslide
- Four people are confirmed killed and many are presumed dead among three thousand buried by a landslide in Enga Province, Papua New Guinea. (Papua New Guinea Post-Courier) (RNZ)
- Fourteen people are killed and three are injured by a building fire in a densely populated area of Hanoi, Vietnam. (Reuters)
- Dozens of people are killed after a deadly heatwave across Mexico. (France 24)
Law and crime
- 2024 Bishkek riots
- International students from Pakistan and other Asian countries leave Kyrgyzstan in the aftermath of attacks by Kyrgyz nationalist mobs on student hostels in Bishkek earlier this month. (Reuters)
- Crocus City Hall attack
- Russia arrests more than 20 people in connection with the Islamic State – Khorasan Province attack on the Crocus City Hall concert venue in Krasnogorsk, Moscow Oblast. (Reuters)
- South Africa's genocide case against Israel
- The International Court of Justice, in a 13–2 decision, orders Israel to halt the military offensive in Rafah. (Reuters)