Portal:Current events/2024 February 8
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February 8, 2024
(Thursday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
- Mobile phone services are temporarily suspended and thousands of troops are deployed to protect polling stations. Five policemen and two children are killed during two separate bombings, targeting a patrol and a polling station respectively. (Reuters)
Disasters and accidents
- Search operations are concluded in Baghdati, Imereti, Georgia, with the recovery of a body of the last individual killed in a landslide, bringing the toll to nine. (RFE/RL) (Agenda.ge)
- Five United States Marines are confirmed dead after a Sikorsky CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter crashes in San Diego County, California, United States on February 7. (NBC News)
Politics and elections
- 2024 Pakistani general election
- Pakistanis elect members of the 16th National Assembly. (Reuters)
Science and technology
- Meta removes the Instagram accounts of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei for violating its "Dangerous Organizations & Individuals policy". (Middle East Eye)
- NASA's PACE mission is launched aboard a Falcon 9 rocket to study Earth's ocean and atmosphere. (Ars Technica)