World Meditation Day – What Happened Around the World on December 21, 2024?

Islamist militants in northwest Pakistan kill 16 security personnel, police officer says
Sixteen security personnel were killed in northwest Pakistan in an attack by Islamist militants early on Saturday, a senior police official in the South Waziristan region said, as Islamist fighters step up their assaults on the security forces.
Ten Palestinians killed in airstrikes on houses in central Gaza, medics say
At least 10 Palestinians, including two children, were killed in Israeli airstrikes on two houses in the Nuseirat refugee camp and Deir Al-Balah city in the central Gaza Strip, medics told Reuters on Saturday.
Israeli troops shoot Syrian protester as forces move beyond buffer zone
Villagers say Israel’s forces have sown ‘fear and horror’ as they continue to expand into Syria’s territory
Middle East crisis: 14 injured after Israel fails to intercept missile from Yemen – as it happened
Missile fell in the Tel Aviv-Jaffa area leaving 14 people with minor injuries; attack comes days after Israel launched deadly strikes on Yemen
Over 20 civilians killed in central Mali village attacks
Suspected jihadists killed more than 20 people in a string of attacks on villages in central Mali’s insurgency-hit Mopti region on Friday, two local sources said.
10 killed in Nigeria following stampede at Christmas charity event – Times of India
Rest of World News: Tragedy struck a Christmas charity event in Abuja, Nigeria, where a crowd surge claimed the lives of ten people, including four children. Over a thous
38 people die in a crash between a passenger bus and a truck in Brazil | CNN
A crash between a passenger bus and a truck early Saturday killed 38 people on a highway in Minas Gerais, a state in southeastern Brazil, officials said.