Portal:Current events/2024 April 8

April 8, 2024 (Monday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Battle of Chasiv Yar
  - Heavy fighting between Russian and Ukrainian troops occurs around the city of Chasiv Yar, with Ukraine describing the situation as "difficult" and "tense". (Al Jazeera)
- Shelling kills three civilians in Huliaipole, Zaporizhzhia Oblast. (Al Jazeera)
- Ukraine claims to have damaged the Russian Navy missile ship Serpukhov [ru] in the Baltic Sea near Kaliningrad. (Kyiv Independent)
War in Sudan
- Humanitarian impact of the war in Sudan
  - Khartoum reports 384 cases of dengue fever which are attributed to the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Sudan. (Al Taghyeer)
- Over 100 civilians in South Kordofan are killed after allies of the Rapid Support Forces launch attacks in villages across the state. (Dabanga Sudan)
Israel–Hamas war
- Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip, Rafah offensive
  - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he has ordered an invasion of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip with a date "being set" for the ground offensive. (The Telegraph) (NU.nl)
2024 Iran–Israel conflict, Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- Hezbollah shoots down an Israeli Hermes 900 drone, for the first time in the conflict.(Hareetz)

Business and economy

99 Cents Only Stores files for bankruptcy in the U.S. state of Delaware, with the intention to liquidate. (Reuters)

Law and crime

Protesters set fire to government buildings and dozens of vehicles in the Mexican state of Guerrero amid anger over the police killing of a college student in March and the kidnapping of 43 students in 2014. Governor Evelyn Salgado Pineda's office in Chilpancingo is ransacked. (AP)

Science and technology

Sports