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**For the first time in [[Sri Lanka]]'s history, election officials begin a second round of vote counting. In the first round, [[National People's Power]] candidate [[Anura Kumara Dissanayake]] led with 42.31% of the vote counted, while [[Leader of the Opposition (Sri Lanka)|opposition leader]] and [[Samagi Jana Balawegaya|United People's Power]] candidate [[Sajith Premadasa]] took second place with 32.76%. Incumbent [[President of Sri Lanka|President]] [[Ranil Wickremesinghe]] comes in third place with 17% of the vote. [https://apnews.com/article/sri-lanka-presidential-election-dissanayake-wickremesinghe-results-50a8990acae90fabaddd8d01c0ef5bcd (AP)] |
**For the first time in [[Sri Lanka]]'s history, election officials begin a second round of vote counting. In the first round, [[National People's Power]] candidate [[Anura Kumara Dissanayake]] led with 42.31% of the vote counted, while [[Leader of the Opposition (Sri Lanka)|opposition leader]] and [[Samagi Jana Balawegaya|United People's Power]] candidate [[Sajith Premadasa]] took second place with 32.76%. Incumbent [[President of Sri Lanka|President]] [[Ranil Wickremesinghe]] comes in third place with 17% of the vote. [https://apnews.com/article/sri-lanka-presidential-election-dissanayake-wickremesinghe-results-50a8990acae90fabaddd8d01c0ef5bcd (AP)] |
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**Following the counting of second and third preferences, [[Anura Kumara Dissanayake]] is declared president-elect by the [[Election Commission of Sri Lanka|election commission]]. [https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyznjz3d78o (BBC)] |
**Following the counting of second and third preferences, [[Anura Kumara Dissanayake]] is declared president-elect by the [[Election Commission of Sri Lanka|election commission]]. [https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyznjz3d78o (BBC)] |
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*[[2024 Chicago White Sox season]], [[List of worst Major League Baseball season win–loss records|Worst Major League Baseball season win–loss records]] |
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**The [[Chicago White Sox]] earn their 119th loss of the [[2024 Major League Baseball season|2024 MLB season]], tying the [[American League]] loss record set by the [[2003 Detroit Tigers season|2003 Detroit Tigers]] while now being one loss away from tying the post-1900 MLB loss record of the [[Expansion of Major League Baseball|expansion]] [[1962 New York Mets season|1962 New York Mets]]. [https://apnews.com/article/white-sox-padres-score-3e12c7554f0fee663cd165a58642d766 (AP)] |
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Revision as of 00:21, 23 September 2024
September 22, 2024 (Sunday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- 2024 Lebanon pager explosions
- The death toll from the pager explosions across Lebanon last week increases to 42 people, with over 3,500 others injured. (The Guardian)
- Israeli assassinations of Ibrahim Aqil and Ahmed Wehbe
- The death toll from the Israeli airstrikes two days ago in Dahieh, Beirut, Lebanon, increases to at least 45 militants and civilians. (Al Jazeera)
- Hezbollah launches a barrage of rockets at an Israel Defense Forces base in Haifa, northern Israel, in retaliation for the assassination of Ibrahim Aqil. An Israeli civilian is lightly injured by Iron Dome interception. (CTV News) (AP News)
- 2024 Lebanon pager explosions
- Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
- A police officer is killed and four others are injured in an IED attack on a multinational diplomatic convoy in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (AP)
- Mexican drug war
- The death toll from the shootouts since September 9 between rival factions of the Sinaloa Cartel in Sinaloa, Mexico, increases to 70 people killed and 51 others missing. (Al Jazeera)
Disasters and accidents
- Three people are killed, three others are injured, and one person is missing after a two-story building collapses in Naples, Italy. (CTV News)
- An explosion at a mine in eastern Iran has killed at least 51 people and injured 20.(Al Jazeera)
Law and crime
- Censorship in Israel
- Israeli forces carry out a siege and order the shut down the offices of Al Jazeera Arabic in Ramallah, Israeli-occupied West Bank. (AP)
Politics and elections
- 2024 Sri Lankan presidential election
- For the first time in Sri Lanka's history, election officials begin a second round of vote counting. In the first round, National People's Power candidate Anura Kumara Dissanayake led with 42.31% of the vote counted, while opposition leader and United People's Power candidate Sajith Premadasa took second place with 32.76%. Incumbent President Ranil Wickremesinghe comes in third place with 17% of the vote. (AP)
- Following the counting of second and third preferences, Anura Kumara Dissanayake is declared president-elect by the election commission. (BBC)