User:Khronicle I
Lists are the best thing since sliced bread, even though lists are older than sliced bread. Anyway pretty much the only thing I edit is lists and typos here and there
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| Pronouns | They/them |
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| Languages | English |
| Race | im not a fan of exercise |
| Hair | yes |
| Eyes | probably |
| Handedness | blue |
| Blood type | friendly |
| Sexuality | reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee |
| IQ | i am an intelligent |
| Personality type | the letter 3 wrapped in a pancake |
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| Pets | got a cat |
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| Religion | just kinda sitting here |
| Politics | Very |
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| Joined | March 2020 |
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todo list
- add proper lists to the lists of Ukrainian oblast governors
- add proper lists to the lists of Afghan province governors (Balkh done)
Pages I've created
it ain't much, but it's honest work
- Russ Kun
the Russ Kun page was originally a redirect to another politician called Russell Kun, ends up Russ is a separate person - 2023 Sudanese Armed Forces-Rapid Support Forces confrontation
- Seventy-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly
Newsfeed
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- 1 January 2025 – Israel–Hamas war
- Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
- Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip kill at least 26 Palestinians, including four children. At least ten others are missing and believed to be under the rubble. (Al Jazeera)
- 1 January 2025 – 2025 New Orleans truck attack
- An Islamic State-allegiant Texas man kills ten people and injures 36 others, including two police officers, in a vehicle-ramming and shooting attack on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, before being shot dead. (New York Post)
- 1 January 2025 – Somali Civil War
- The African Union Support and Stabilisation Mission (AUSSOM) replaces the African Union Transition Mission (ATMIS) as the African Union's new peacekeeping mission in Somalia. (Voice of Nigeria)
- 1 January 2025 – 2022–2023 Russia–European Union gas dispute
- Russia's gas firm Gazprom halts exports of Russian natural gas through Ukrainian pipelines after Ukraine refused to renew a transit agreement. Hungary will continue receiving Russian gas via the TurkStream pipeline. (Reuters)
- 1 January 2025 – Foreign relations of Mexico
- Mexico's Tax Administration Service implements new tariffs, including a 19% duty on goods from countries without international trade agreements with Mexico and a 17% duty on items from Canada and the United States under certain value thresholds. (Reuters)
- 1 January 2025 – Energy in Moldova
- Moldova declares a 60-day energy emergency after Gazprom halts the transport of gas to the country, citing frequent non-payment by their breakaway region Transnistria. Moldova does not recognize Transnistria's debt. (Ukrayinska Pravda via Yahoo! News)
- 1 January 2025 – LGBTQ rights in Liechtenstein
- Liechtenstein becomes the 39th country to legalize same-sex marriage. (GCN)
- 1 January 2025 – 2025 Cetinje shootings
- Seven people are killed in a mass shooting after a brawl in Cetinje, Montenegro. At least two other people are also killed at another location. The perpetrator is on the run. (CNN)
- 1 January 2025 – Trump International Hotel Las Vegas Tesla Cybertruck explosion
- A Tesla Cybertruck explodes outside the Trump International Hotel Las Vegas in Paradise, Nevada, United States, killing the driver and inflicting minor injuries on seven bystanders. The police investigate whether it's load of fireworks was an element of a terrorist plot. (ABC News)
- 1 January 2025 –
- Five people are killed, several are injured, and at least 330 are arrested due to mishandling of pyrotechnics during New Year's celebrations in Germany. (RNZ) (DW)
- A police officer is killed and four other people are injured in a vehicle-ramming attack during a patrol in Nelson, New Zealand. A 32-year-old suspect is arrested. (AP)
- FBI agents announce the seizure of over 150 homemade pipe bombs and other explosive devices from a home in Norfolk, Virginia, United States. (AP)
- The Palestinian Authority suspended Al Jazeera's broadcast and froze its operations in Palestine, accusing it of interfering in internal affairs and spreading incitement and misinformation. (Reuters)
- 1 January 2025 – Schengen Area
- Bulgaria and Romania finalize the process of joining the Schengen Area, lifting land border controls. (AP)
- 1 January 2025 –
- Karin Keller-Sutter is sworn in as President of Switzerland. (Le News)
- 31 December 2024 – War against the Islamic State
- Opération Chammal
- The French Air Force conducts airstrikes against several Islamic State targets in Syria. (Le Parisien)
- Somali Civil War
- Ten Islamic State militants are killed by Puntland forces while repulsing an attempted attack involving suicide bombers on a military base in Dharjaale, Bari, Puntland, Somalia. This comes after the semi-autonomous region of Puntland announced a military offensive against the Islamic State and Al-Shabaab. (Garowe Online) (Reuters) (Idil News)
- 31 December 2024 – Red Sea crisis
- The United States Air Force launches at least 12 airstrikes in Sanaa, Yemen. (Al Jazeera)
- 31 December 2024 –
- One crew member is killed and two others are missing after a Philippine-flagged cargo ship sinks in the San Bernardino Strait near Samar, Philippines. (News Central)
- Puerto Rico experiences a power outage, impacting 1.3 million people. (The New York Times) (NBC News)
- 31 December 2024 – Françafrique
- France–Ivory Coast relations
- In his New Year's speech, Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara announces that the French military base in Abidjan will be handed over to the Ivorian Government in January. (France 24)
- France–Senegal relations
- In his New Year's speech, Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye announces the closure of French military facilities and the withdrawal of all foreign military forces from Senegal beginning in 2025. (Le Figaro)
- 31 December 2024 – 2024 Ecuadorian conflict
- An Ecuadorian judge issues arrest warrants for 16 soldiers accused of the disappearance and murder of four children in Guayaquil after genetic tests confirm the charred remains found near a military base belong to the missing victims. (AP)
- 31 December 2024 – 2024 South Korean martial law crisis
- The Seoul Western District Court issues an arrest warrant for impeached president Yoon Suk Yeol. (The Japan Times)
- 31 December 2024 – Belgrade school shooting
- A Serbian court sentences the parents of a boy who killed 10 people in a Belgrade primary school in 2023 to over 14 years and three years in prison, respectively, for child neglect and abuse, and also sentences a shooting range instructor to 1 and a half years for perjury. (Reuters)
- 31 December 2024 – Capital punishment in Zimbabwe
- Zimbabwe approves a law abolishing the death penalty in the country, effective immediately. (BBC News)
- 31 December 2024 – Kivu conflict, Capital punishment in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- A military tribunal in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo, sentences 13 soldiers to death for charges including murder, looting, and cowardice, following territorial losses attributed to desertion during the conflict. (Reuters)
- 31 December 2024 –
- Five people are wounded during a random mass stabbing amid New Year's Eve celebrations in Verucchio, Province of Rimini, Italy. The perpetrator is shot dead by a soldier. (Il Resto del Carlino)
- A man steals an excavator in Grünsfeld, Germany, and rams the excavator against vehicles, injuring four police officers, before being shot dead. (DW)
- Two people are wounded in a knife attack in western Berlin, Germany, the police arrest the perpetrator. (DW)
- Six are injured in a shooting at a bodega in White Plains, The Bronx, New York. (New York Post)
- 30 December 2024 – Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Prisoners of war in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Russia and Ukraine exchange hundreds of prisoners of war in a deal brokered by the United Arab Emirates. Ukraine says that many of those released by Russia are soldiers captured during the Siege of Mariupol in 2022. (BBC News)
- 30 December 2024 – Sudanese civil war
- Battle of Khartoum
- The Sudanese government says at least nine people have been killed and 121 others injured in shelling by the Rapid Support Forces in Khartoum. (Sudan Tribune)
- 30 December 2024 – 2024 Israeli invasion of Syria
- Israel Defense Forces operating in the Syrian side of the 1974 buffer zone, in Quneitra Governorate, advance into the Syrian town of Madinat al-Baath. (The Times of Israel)
- 30 December 2024 –
- Trinidad and Tobago declares a state of emergency as gang violence escalates in the country, due to five people shot dead at a shop in Laventille, Port of Spain the previous day. (BBC News) (Al Jazeera)
- 30 December 2024 – Syrian civil war
- Fall of the Assad regime
- The Syrian transitional government appoints Maysaa Sabreen as the first female governor of the Central Bank of Syria. (Reuters)
- 30 December 2024 – Moldova–Russia relations
- Moldovan prime minister Dorin Recean states his country envisages the possible nationalisation of Moldovagaz company, which is 50%-owned by Russia's Gazprom, following the announcement by Gazprom that the current gas supply deal, to expire on December 31, will not be renewed. (Reuters)
- 30 December 2024 –
- In Pakistan, ten people are killed and seven injured in a bus crash on a highway in Fateh Jang, Punjab. Separately, eight people are killed during a van–truck collision in Naushahro Feroze, Sindh. (AP)
- Three tourists are killed and seven others are injured in a fire at a hotel on Khaosan Road in Bangkok, Thailand. (AP)
- 30 December 2024 – Syria–Ukraine relations
- Syria says that it hopes to form a "strategic partnership" with Ukraine following a high-level meeting in Damascus, Syria, between Syria's de-facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa and Ukrainian foreign minister Andrii Sybiha, where the two countries re-established diplomatic relations. Ukraine also vowed to send additional food aid to Syria. (Reuters)
- 30 December 2024 – 2024 South Korean martial law crisis
- The Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials formally requests an arrest warrant for impeached South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol over his declaration of martial law. (Reuters)
- 30 December 2024 – 2024 Venezuelan protests
- Venezuelan prosecutor general Tarek William Saab announces the release of 413 protesters from prison. (Reuters)
- 30 December 2024 – Donald Trump sexual misconduct allegations
- The U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals upholds a jury verdict finding Donald Trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation in E. Jean Carroll v. Donald J. Trump. (USA Today)
- 30 December 2024 – Yazidi genocide
- Germany's federal prosecutor charges an Iraqi couple, allegedly members of the Islamic State, with enslavement, torture, and war crimes, after they allegedly kept two Yazidi girls as slaves and sexually and physically abused them. (DW)
- 30 December 2024 –
- An Argentine judge issues arrest warrants for Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega, Vice President Rosario Murillo, and several others for alleged crimes against humanity, invoking universal jurisdiction. (Arab News)
- Cuba releases Salvadoran national Raúl Ernesto Cruz León after he completes a 30-year prison sentence for his involvement in the 1997 hotel bombings. (BSS)
- The Supreme Court of Venezuela fines social media platform TikTok $10 million for "not implementing measures" to prevent viral challenges that allegedly led to the death of three children. (AP)
- 30 December 2024 – Death and state funeral of Jimmy Carter
- U.S. president Joe Biden orders a state funeral for former president Jimmy Carter to be held in Washington, D.C. on January 9. Biden also orders flags to be lowered to half-staff for thirty days in accordance with federal law. (BBC News)
- 30 December 2024 – Treatment of women by the Taliban
- The Taliban government of Afghanistan announces it will close all national and foreign nongovernmental organizations in the country that currently employ women. (AP)
- 30 December 2024 –
- Kenya Police fire tear gas at demonstrators in Nairobi protesting against alleged government extrajudicial abductions in the past few months. (Al Jazeera)
- The Indian Space Research Organisation successfully launches its Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle rocket carrying the Space Docking Experiment twin satellite mission from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Andhra Pradesh, with the satellites expected to perform a docking maneuver on January 7, 2025. (DW) (The Times of India)
- 29 December 2024 – Syrian civil war
- Fall of the Assad regime
- Syrian mass graves
- Three mass graves associated with the Assad regime are discovered in Al-Qabou, Homs Governorate. (SOHR)
- Operation Dawn of Freedom, Yazidi genocide
- The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports that a humanitarian crisis has developed in Manbij District following its capture by Turkish-backed Syrian National Army (SNA) forces and Turkish artillery fire, leading to continuous water scarcity, power outages, and basic needs shortages. (SOHR)
- 29 December 2024 – Sudanese civil war
- Battle of Khartoum
- Seven civilians are killed and several others are injured in a Sudanese Armed Forces strike on residential areas in the southern part of Khartoum, Sudan. (Sudan Tribune)
- 29 December 2024 – Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243
- Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev says that Russia accidentally shot down the Azerbaijan Airlines plane, accusing Russia of trying to "hush up" the crash, and demanding from Russia a full admission of guilt, punishment for those responsible, and compensation for the victims. (AP)
- 29 December 2024 – English Channel migrant crossings
- Three migrants die attempting to cross the English Channel, with 45 rescued and treated for hypothermia and four hospitalized. (BBC News)
- 29 December 2024 – 2024 Sidama truck crash
- At least 71 people are killed and four injured when a passenger-carrying truck drives off a bridge into a river in Bona Zuria, Sidama Region, Ethiopia. (The Guardian) (Voice of America)
- 29 December 2024 – Jeju Air Flight 2216
- A Bangkok-departed Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 with 181 people on board crashes during landing at the Muan International Airport, in South Korea, killing 179 people and wounding two crew members. (Bloomberg) (Yna) (Euronews)
- 29 December 2024 –
- Three police officers are killed and two others are injured in a gas explosion at the police academy in Cairo, Egypt. (Reuters)
- Two pilots are killed when their light aircraft crashes into the sea near Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates, shortly after takeoff from Al Jazeirah Airport. (Inquirer.net)
- A tourist is killed and another is injured in a shark attack at a resort in Marsa Alam, Egypt. (Al Arabiya)
- 29 December 2024 – Cambodia–Philippines relations
- Cambodia pardons and repatriates 13 Filipino women who were convicted of human trafficking for participating in a surrogacy scheme prohibited under Cambodian law. (ABC News)
- 29 December 2024 – 2024 Chadian parliamentary election
- Voters in Chad elect the 188 members of the National Assembly. (Al Jazeera)
- 29 December 2024 – 2024 Croatian presidential election
- Croatians vote to elect the President between incumbent Zoran Milanović and seven other candidates. (Reuters)
- 29 December 2024 – 2024 Georgian post-election protests
- Mikheil Kavelashvili is inaugurated as the 6th President of Georgia, with outgoing president Salome Zourabichvili announcing that she would vacate her residence at the Orbeliani Palace in Tbilisi. Zourabichvili continues to claim that the new presidency is illegitimate and calls for continued protests. (Politico) (AP)
- 29 December 2024 – Death and state funeral of Jimmy Carter
- Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter dies at the age of 100 in Plains, Georgia, United States. (BBC News)
- 28 December 2024 – Israel–Hamas war
- Winter of 2024–25 in the Gaza Strip, Gaza Strip evacuations
- The Gaza Strip Government Media Office reports that 110,000 out of 135,000 tents used as shelters by displaced Palestinians have "completely deteriorated" and are now unusable due to strong winter winds and heavy rainfall. (Al Jazeera)
- 28 December 2024 – Syrian civil war
- Western Syria clashes
- Syria's new government announces "a large-scale sweep operation" in Latakia to arrest or eliminate all remaining pro-Assad insurgents and any threats to national security. (Al Jazeera)
- 28 December 2024 – 2024 Afghanistan–Pakistan skirmishes
- Afghanistan's Ministry of Defense announces that they targeted several locations in Pakistan in retaliation for Pakistani aircraft conducting aerial bombardments within Afghanistan. (Al Jazeera)
- 28 December 2024 – Homelessness in the United States
- U.S. homelessness hits a record high in 2024, increasing by more than 18% in the past year, primarily due to high housing costs, natural disasters, and an increase in migration to major cities. (BBC News)
- 28 December 2024 – Moldova-Russia relations
- Russian company Gazprom announces the supply of gas to Moldova will cease on January 1, 2025, alleging fails to fulfill its payment obligations. The Moldovan Prime Minister, Dorin Recean, accuses the Russian Government of deliberately weaponising energy flows to destabilise the country. (Euronews).
- 28 December 2024 – Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira Bridge collapse
- The death toll from the highway collapse between Maranhão and Tocantins, Brazil, six days ago, increases to eleven, with six others still missing. (Correio Braziliense)
- 28 December 2024 – Tornado outbreak of December 26–29, 2024
- At least two people are killed in a tornado outbreak across the southern United States, with damage reported near Houston, Texas. (USA Today)
- 28 December 2024 – Lukoil oil transit dispute, Ukrainian energy crisis, Slovakia–Ukraine relations
- Slovakia threatens reciprocal measures against Ukraine's plans to suspend the transit of Russian oil to Slovakia on January 1, including suspending electricity supplies. In response, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accuses Slovakia of opening a "second energy front" against Kyiv under Moscow's orders. (Al Jazeera)
- 28 December 2024 –
- The Afghanistan's Taliban government bans windows overlooking to places "used by women", and says that existing ones should be blocked. (RFI)
- 28 December 2024 – 2024 Mozambican general election
- 2024 Mozambican protests
- At least 13,000 Mozambicans flee the country into Malawi amid widespread civil unrest due to the results of the recent general election. (DW)
- 28 December 2024 – 2024 South Korean martial law crisis
- Impeachment of Han Duck-soo, Impeachment of Yoon Suk Yeol
- Impeached South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol is accused of ordering the authorization of the use of live firearms to stop MPs from overriding the martial law vote and to force the MPs out of the National Assembly legislature building. (BBC News)