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Topics in the news

Paralympics opening ceremony

• The Summer Paralympics open (cauldron lighting pictured) in Paris, France.
• More than four hundred people are killed in an Islamist militant attack in Barsalogho Department, Burkina Faso.
• The Islamic State claims responsibility for a mass stabbing that killed three people at a festival in Solingen, Germany.
• In cycling, Katarzyna Niewiadoma wins the Tour de France Femmes.

Ongoing:

• Israel–Hamas war
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• Russian invasion of Ukraine
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• Sudanese civil war
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Recent deaths:

• Joe D'Alessandris
• Sol Bamba
• Steve Silberman
• Sid Eudy
• Alexander Goehr
• Tom Brown Jr.

September 2, 2024 (2024-09-02) (Monday)

September 1, 2024 (2024-09-01) (Sunday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Ukraine launches more than a hundred drones against targets in Russia, including the Konakovo Power Station in Konakovo, Tver Oblast, and the Moscow Refinery in Moscow. (Reuters)
  • Kharkiv strikes
    • At least 47 people are injured when Russian missiles hit a shopping mall and events complex in Kharkiv, Ukraine. (Reuters)
  • Eastern Ukraine campaign
    • Russia reports that its forces have taken control of the settlements of Ptyche and Vyimka in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. (Reuters)
• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • 2024 Tarqumiyah shooting
    • Three Israeli police officers are killed in a drive-by shooting on a road near Tarqumiyah in the West Bank. (The Jerusalem Post)
• 2024 Bangladesh quota reform movement
  • The office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights announces that it will deploy a fact-finding team to investigate human rights abuses and violations committed by government forces during the quota reform movement, after being requested to do so by the interim government of Muhammad Yunus. (The New York Times)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Kamchatka Mil Mi-8 crash
  • The Mil Mi-8T helicopter which went missing yesterday over the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia is found crashed, with all 22 people on board dead. (Kommersant) (BBC News)
• At least 11 people are killed and more than 30 others are injured when a truck crashes into a bar in Azua, Dominican Republic. The driver subsequently flees the scene. (AP)

Health and environment

• 2024 Brazil wildfires
  • The number of wildfires in the Amazon rainforest reaches its highest number in fourteen years at 38,266 fire hotspots as a result of an ongoing drought in South America. (Reuters)
• A weather station near Qeshm International Airport in Dayrestan, Iran, records the highest unverified heat index on Earth of 82.2 °C (180.0 °F) and the highest dew point of 36.1 °C (97.0 °F). Climatologists will investigate to confirm the readings' accuracy. (The Economic Times) (Times of India)

Politics and elections

• Israel–Hamas war
  • September 2024 Israel ceasefire protests
    • Hundreds of thousands of Israelis, including approximately 300,000 in Tel Aviv, protest in cities across the country following the recovery of the bodies of six hostages from Gaza, with the national trade union center calling for a general strike on Monday and for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to resign after failing to negotiate a ceasefire. (The New York Times) (CNN)
    • At least 29 people are arrested in Tel Aviv on accusations of vandalism, disorderly conduct, and attacking police officers. (CNN)
• 2024 Saxony state election, 2024 Thuringian state election
  • Parliamentary elections in the German states of Saxony and Thuringia show large gains for the right-wing populist Alternative for Germany party and the left-wing populist Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht party as well as losses for the left-wing and liberal parties of the governing coalition and for the socialist The Left party. In Thuringia, a far-right party comes in first place in a state election for the first time since World War II. (DW)

From today's featured article

Falcon's Fury is a freestanding Sky Jump drop tower attraction at Busch Gardens Tampa Bay, an amusement park in Tampa, Florida. Manufactured by Intaride, a subsidiary of Intamin, the ride is one of North America's tallest freestanding drop towers, with a height of 335 feet (102 m). It was also the first drop tower to use 90-degree tilting seats, facing riders straight down through five seconds of free fall. They reach a speed of 60 miles per hour (100 km/h) before rotating back into a vertical position and decelerating at about 3.5 g. The ride's name is meant to suggest a falcon's ability to dive steeply at high speed to capture prey. Due to the height of the attraction, approval from the Federal Aviation Administration was required. Construction was delayed until 2013, and the opening date was also delayed by mechanical and technical issues. Falcon's Fury opened to park employees in August before a soft opening on August 16, 2014, and an official opening on September 2, 2014. (Full article...)

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Did you know ...

Satellite image of Tropical Storm Chris

• ... that Tropical Storm Chris (pictured) in July 2024 caused bodies of water to overflow in Ciudad Madero, Mexico, resulting in a crocodile sighting at a beach?
• ... that when New York City's Metropolitan Club was established, there was another Metropolitan Club two city blocks away?
• ... that William Pope, an Anglican deacon, was a follower of John Henry Newman and like him became a Roman Catholic priest?
• ... that a bootleg album of Jai Paul's unreleased music was named as one of the best of 2013 by several music publications?
• ... that a historian lamented the lack of English-language translations for the work of Aracy Amaral despite it being "a vital reference for the study of art history in Brazil"?
• ... that the Auckland meteorite crashed through the roof of a house in New Zealand?
• ... that Rachel Scott reported live during the January 6 United States Capitol attack in her first week as ABC News' White House correspondent?
• ... that the Nan Oo Pagoda is classified as a double encased stupa as it envelops a smaller stupa?
• ... that the creators of Poetry for Neanderthals faced difficulties during its release because they needed a way to manufacture inflatable clubs?

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