Portal:Current events/2024 August 28

August 28, 2024 (Wednesday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

Myanmar civil war
- Tatmadaw forces launch a major counteroffensive against rebels in Kachin State, Myanmar, following the fall of Momauk to the Kachin Independence Army. (Myanmar Now)
- A UN official says that the Arakan Army has begun indiscriminately attacking the Muslim Rohingya minority in Rakhine State after capturing much of the state, forcing thousands of people to flee. The rebel group is reportedly "rounding up groups" of Rohingya men and shelling Rohingya villages. (The Guardian)

Disasters and accidents

2024 Sudan floods
- Arbaat Dam collapse
  - The death toll from flooding across Sudan including the collapse of the Arbaat Dam near Port Sudan, Sudan, increases to 148 people. (Sudan Tribune)
2024 Pacific typhoon season
- Hundreds of flights are cancelled and the Japan Meteorological Agency issues an alert in Kagoshima Prefecture as Typhoon Shanshan is expected to make landfall over southwestern Japan. (Reuters)
- Three people are injured and three others are reported missing due to heavy rains and landslides in Kyushu, according to the Fire and Disaster Management Agency. (MSN)
2024 Afghanistan–Pakistan floods
- The death toll from flooding in Pakistan increases to 245 people. (Dunya News)
2024 Yemen floods
- At least 33 people are killed by landslides and heavy rainfall in Al Mahwit, Yemen. (NOS)

International relations

Israel–United States relations, Israeli settler violence
- The United States Department of State imposes sanctions on Israeli settler group Hashomer Yosh and a civilian security coordinator for the Yitzhar settlement for extremist settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank. (Al Jazeera)

Law and crime

Politics and elections

LXVI Legislature of the Mexican Congress
- Two senators elected from the defunct Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) in Mexico defect to the ruling Morena party, leaving Morena and its allies one seat short of a supermajority in both chambers of Congress. (AP)

Science and technology

NASA announces discovery of Earth's subtle electric field, which contributes to the polar wind phenomenon. Its significance as to the emergence of life and complex organisms on Earth, and the planet's physical and chemical properties, are to be analyzed. (NASA Science) (MSN, Newsweek)
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration temporarily grounds all SpaceX Falcon 9 launches and orders an investigation following a booster rocket fire incident at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, United States. (AP)

Sports