October 2024 Bulgarian parliamentary election Bulgarian citizens vote for a new National Assembly in the country's seventh election in the past four years.
2024 Uruguayan general election Uruguayan citizens vote for a President in the first round of the general election.
2024 Lithuanian parliamentary election The Social Democratic Party of Lithuania wins 52 seats in the Seimas election, forming a majority with its coalition partners "For Lithuania" and the Farmers and Greens Union.
2024 Liechtenstein referendums Voters in Liechtenstein approve a referendum to privatize Radio Liechtenstein, the country's state-owned radio station.
2024 Georgian parliamentary election President of Georgia Salome Zourabichvili announces that she does not recognize the official results of the election, alleging that the country has been the victim of a "Russian special operation".
2024 Japanese general election The ruling coalition of the Liberal Democratic Party and Komeito loses its majority.
Rams A man steals an SUV and rams passers-by and a group of protesters from the National Front for the Family, in front of Guadalajara Cathedral, causing 16 injuries. The authorities are still investigating the incident to determine the motivations and circumstances of the attack.
2024 Pacific typhoon season The death toll from Tropical Storm Trami in the Philippines increases to 136 people killed and missing.
Boko Haram insurgency At least 40 Chadian soldiers are killed during a mass shooting by Boko Haram gunmen against a military base near Ngouboua, Chad.
2024 Bolivian protest Former Bolivian president Evo Morales claims that he survived an assassination attempt.
Sudanese Civil War The United Nations condemns the Rapid Support Forces' targeted mass killing of civilians in Gezira State, Sudan, comparing it to earlier mass killings in Darfur.
Israel–Hamas war Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi proposes a temporary two-day ceasefire in Gaza to exchange four Israeli hostages for several Palestinian prisoners.
Arab–Israeli conflict A man is killed and thirty others are injured in a vehicle-ramming attack when an Arab Israeli man rams his truck into a bus stop north of Tel Aviv, Israel, before being fatally shot by an armed civilian. Authorities are investigating the incident as a suspected terrorist attack.