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The death toll from Hurricane Helene surpasses 160 people, with most of the deaths occurring in North
Carolina, making it the second-deadliest hurricane to strike the contiguous United States in the past fifty years, behind only Hurricane Katrina.
The death toll from the floods and landslides in Nepal increases to 204 people, with 30 others missing.
This is the highest recorded monsoon rainfall in Nepal in the past two decades.
Tuvalu's climate minister denounces the Australian Labor government's decision to expand three coal mines as
an existential threat to the nation, due to the role of the mines in causing rising sea levels that have forced mass displacement across Tuvalu's low-lying islands.
Three people are killed and fifteen others are injured in a mass stabbing at a supermarket in Songjiang
district, Shanghai, China. Police arrest a 37-year-old man at the scene, adding that the man had come to Shanghai in order to "vent his anger due to a personal economic dispute".
Five children belonging to the Imam al-Mahdi Scouts are killed in an Israeli airstrike in Charkiyeh in
Lithuania announces that it has referred Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, the Belarusian
government, military officers, and other security officials to the International Criminal Court at The Hague, accusing them of committing crimes against humanity and causing people to flee the country.
Three militants of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine are killed in an Israeli airstrike in
the Kola District of Beirut, Lebanon. Separately, Hamas's commander in Lebanon, Fatah Sharif, is killed alongside his family in Tyre.
Twelve people are killed, 29 others are rescued, and ten others are missing after a boat capsizes off the
A Lebanese Army soldier is killed in an Israeli drone strike in Wazzani, Lebanon.
Israel informs the U.S. State Department that it will launch an imminent ground invasion of southern Lebanon
in order to clear out Hezbollah infrastructure near Israeli border communities.
Lebanese troops withdraw from the Israeli border ahead of an Israeli ground offensive.
Lebanese displacement during the Israel–Hezbollah conflict
Two people are killed in wildfires in Peloponnese, Greece, as several villages are evacuated due to the fires.
At least 95 people are killed and 172 others are injured in Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon.
The last coal-fired power station in the United Kingdom shuts down in Ratcliffe-on-Soar, Nottinghamshire,
England, ending the 142-year history of coal-fired electricity in the UK.
Austrians vote for the 183 members of the 26th National Council.
Approximately 17,000 people are ordered to evacuate their homes and more are ordered to shelter in place
after a fire, potentially causing hazardous chlorine contamination, occurs at a BioLab facility in Conyers, Georgia, United States.
The far-right Freedom Party of Austria wins the most seats with 58 but falls short of a majority, with other
parties expressing an unwillingness to form a coalition government with them.

A total of 105 people are killed by Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon, including 32 in Ain El Delb and 21 in
Baalbek-Hermel, and at least 359 people are injured.

Following the Houthis' launch of a ballistic missile from Yemen towards Ben Gurion Airport prompting air raid
sirens in Tel Aviv, the Israeli Air Force launches airstrikes against seaports and power stations operated by the Houthis in Al Hudaydah Governorate, Yemen, killing four people and injuring 29 others.

Twelve pro-Iranian militiamen are killed in airstrikes of unknown origin in Deir ez-Zor Governorate, Syria.
Seven people are killed and 85 others are injured after a head-on collision between a bus and a private
vehicle in Majayjay, Laguna, Philippines.
Thirty-one people are injured in a double arson and vehicle-ramming attack in Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia,
Germany. The perpetrator, a 41-year-old Syrian national, is arrested shortly after the attacks.

United States senator Mark Kelly confirms that it was U.S.
produced and provided 2,000-pound bunker buster BLU-109 bombs that were used by Israel to assassinate Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut.
The death toll from Hurricane Helene rises to at least 116 people, including 46 in North Carolina, 27 in
South Carolina, 25 in Georgia, and 13 in Florida.