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On 13 April 2024, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), a branch of the Iranian Armed Forces, in collaboration with the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, [3] Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, and the Ansar Allah (Houthis), launched retaliatory attacks against Israel and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights [note 2] with loitering munitions, cruise missiles, and ballistic missiles. [14]
On April 4, 2024, Colorado State University (CSU) released its forecast, calling for an extremely active hurricane season, with 23 named storms, 11 hurricanes and five major hurricanes, with an ACE index of 210 units, citing the extremely warm Atlantic sea surface temperatures and the development of a La Niña by the summer. [4]
April 2024 Chernihiv missile strike. 18 people are killed and 78 others are injured in a Russian missile strike which damaged an eight-storey building in a densely populated area of Chernihiv. War in Sudan. Taqaddum leader and former Prime Minister of Sudan Abdalla Hamdok meets with French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris, France.
2023–2024 El Niño event. 2024 Kenya floods. Floods caused by weeks of heavy rains in Kenya have killed at least 38 people, according to the Red Cross. (The Washington Post) Floods and landslides have killed at least 155 people in Tanzania, according to Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa. International relations. Russia–NATO relations
Botswana at the 2024 Summer Olympics. Letsile Tebogo wins the gold medal in Men's 200 metres, earning Botswana its first ever gold medal. Ecuador at the 2024 Summer Olympics. Lucía Yépez wins the silver medal in the Women's freestyle 53 kg wrestling event, the first medal in the sport for Ecuador. Pakistan at the 2024 Summer Olympics
2024 ATP Tour. 2024 US Open – Men's singles. Defending men's champion Novak Djokovic is defeated in the third round by Alexei Popyrin, 6-4, 6-4, 2-6, 6-4, making 2024 the first tennis season since 2002 in which no Grand Slam tournaments were won by one of Djokovic, Roger Federer, or Rafael Nadal, collectively known as the "big three."
2024 Maldivian parliamentary election. President Mohamed Muizzu's party, the People's National Congress, is declared the winner of the election. 2024 Basilicata regional election. Vito Bardi is re-elected president of the Italian region of Basilicata. Law and Crime
From April 25 to 28, 2024, a very large, deadly and destructive tornado outbreak occurred across the Midwestern, Southern, and High Plains regions of the United States, primarily on April 26 and 27. [3]