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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- 25 December 2024 – Israel–Hamas war
- Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
- Siege of North Gaza, Gaza famine
- The United States-funded Famine Early Warning Systems Network takes down a report estimating that food insecurity conditions in northern Gaza have surpassed the highest IPC famine thresholds, after the United States envoy to Israel criticized the report as "irresponsible" for overinflating the civilization population of Gaza by several tens-of-thousands. (FEWS NET)
- 25 December 2024 – Somali Civil War
- Constitutional crisis in Somalia
- Jubaland crisis
- The federal government of Somalia imposes a flight ban on Jubaland State of Somalia, including all flights to and from Jubaland, particularly affecting cities Kismayo and Doolow. The flight ban was initiated after ongoing political tensions and military engagements since Jubaland forces reportedly defeated Somali Armed Forces in several locations, including Ras Kamboni, Kulbiyow, and Dolow. (Garowe Online) (The Somali Digest) (Eastleigh Voice)
- 25 December 2024 – Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure, Ukrainian energy crisis
- A series of Russian ballistic missile and drone strikes target critical energy infrastructure in Kharkiv, Dnipro, Kryvyi Rih, Kherson, and Kremenchuk in Ukraine, killing at least two people, injuring 20 others, and forcing widespread emergency blackouts. (The Kyiv Independent) (The Guardian)
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy condemns Russian President Vladimir Putin for the “inhumane” attacks on the infrastructure. (RTE)
- 25 December 2024 – Sudanese civil war
- 2024 famine in Sudan
- The IPC Famine Review Committee determines the presence of famine in five areas in Darfur and South Kordofan, Sudan, and estimates that five more areas will face famine by May 2025 due to ongoing conflict and blocked aid distribution. (BBC News Hausa)
- 25 December 2024 – Ethiopian civil conflict
- Ethiopian military forces close the border between Ethiopia–Somalia following ongoing heavy fighting in the rural area of Dacawaley under Harshin, Fafan Zone, between Ethiopia's Somali regional forces and local clan militias after the killing of a local security chief and his bodyguards. Hundreds of people, including children, flee from their homes. (Hiiraan Online) (Somali Guardian)
- 25 December 2024 – Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243
- An Azerbaijan Airlines Embraer 190 flight carrying 67 passengers onboard from Baku to Grozny crashes in Aktau, Kazakhstan, killing 38 people and wounding 29 more. (Al Jazeera) (NPR)
- 25 December 2024 – Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- Lebanon files a new complaint to the UN Security Council over Israel's ceasefire violations. (Bastille Post)
- 24 December 2024 – Syrian civil war
- Deir ez-Zor offensive, Eastern Syria insurgency
- ISIS cells launch attacks on the town of al-Hawayej in Rojava, Syria, against Asayish forces. (SOHR)
- Protests occur after a Christmas tree was set on fire in Al-Suqaylabiyah, Hama Governorate. (The Week)
- Turkey's interior minister announces that more than 25,000 Syrian refugees have returned to Syria since former president Bashar al-Assad was overthrown by rebels. (Al Arabiya)
- Syrian opposition factions announce that they will dissolve and merge under the authority of the Ministry of Defense. (Reuters)
- 24 December 2024 – Haiti crisis
- Gang war in Haiti
- Three people are killed by gunmen in Haiti opening fire at the journalists, police and medical staff at the reopening of the Port-au-Prince General Hospital. (BBC News)
- 24 December 2024 –
- At least 46 people are killed in a series of airstrikes by the Pakistan Army against alleged Pakistani Taliban hideouts in Paktika Province, Afghanistan. (Al Jazeera)
- 24 December 2024 – National symbols of the United States
- U.S. President Joe Biden signs a bill making the bald eagle the official national bird of the United States. (NBC News)
- 24 December 2024 – 2024–25 Australian bushfire season
- Residents of the Grampians region of Victoria, Australia, evacuate due to bushfires, with more than 41,000 hectares (100,000 acres) already burnt by the bushfires. (BBC News)
- 24 December 2024 – 2024 Lobitos oil spill
- Residents of Lobitos and Cabo Blanco, Peru, demonstrate against Peruvian state-owned oil company PetroPerú following an oil spill that contaminated six beaches. (La República)
- 24 December 2024 –
- Twelve people are killed and four others are injured in an explosion at an explosives factory in Kavakli, Balıkesir Province, Turkey. (Al Jazeera)
- The Russian cargo ship MV Ursa Major, allegedly used to evacuate military personnel and equipment from Russian bases in Syria, sinks in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Spain following an explosion in the ship's engine room. The Russian Foreign Ministry says that 14 of the 16 crew members have been rescued, with the two others missing. (Politico)
- 24 December 2024 – Israel–Hezbollah conflict, Syrian civil war
- Palestine factions hand weapons to the Lebanese army and vacate their headquarters. (Middle East Monitor)
- 24 December 2024 – Denmark–United States relations
- The Danish government announces an increase in defense spending for Greenland hours after US president-elect Donald Trump repeated his interest in purchasing Greenland, although they affirm that the two are unrelated. (BBC News)
- 24 December 2024 – Russia–United States relations
- Gene Spector, an American citizen of Russian descent, is sentenced to 15 years in prison by a Russian court for espionage. (CNN)
- 24 December 2024 – Capital punishment in Saudi Arabia
- Human rights organization Reprieve reports that Saudi Arabia executed 330 people this year. (First Post)
- 24 December 2024 –
- At least 21 people are killed and 25 others are injured in a series of violent incidents in Mozambique following the previous day's confirmation by the high court of Daniel Chapo as the winning presidential candidate in the recent election. (ABC News)
- Hong Kong offers bounties of HK$1 million (US$128,728) each for six foreign pro-democracy activists accused of violating the national security law, including Tony Chung, and also revokes the passports of seven others, citing actions such as incitement to secession, subversion, and collusion with foreign forces. (Reuters)
- Five people accused of being Al-Qaeda supporters are arrested in four cities in Italy. (Il Gazzettino)
- Four participants in the November 2024 Amsterdam riots are sentenced to prison, with 32-year-old Sefa Ö handed the longest sentence of six months. (BBC News)
- Maia Sandu is sworn in for her second four-year term as President of the Republic of Moldova. (Euronews)
- In his Christmas speech, Grand Duke of Luxembourg Henri announces that he will abdicate on 3 October 2025 and hand over the throne to his son, Hereditary Grand Duke Guillaume. (The Brussels Times)
- ʻAisake Eke is appointed as the new Prime Minister of Tonga. (RNZ)
- 24 December 2024 – NASA large strategic science missions
- The Parker Solar Probe attempts its closest-ever approach to the Sun to study the sun's temperatures, radiation, and magnetic field. (BBC News)
- 23 December 2024 – Somali Civil War
- Constitutional crisis in Somalia
- Jubaland crisis
- Violent clashes occur between the Ethiopia-backed Jubaland forces and the Somali Armed Forces in Dolow, Gedo Region, Somalia, with Jubaland forces later taking control of the town. (Garowe Online) (Hiiraan Online)
- The mayor of Badhadhe District, Lower Juba, Hassan Nuur Cabdi, survives an ambush attack which killed at least five of his security personnel. (Idil News) (Hiiraan Online)
- 23 December 2024 – Syrian civil war
- Operation Dawn of Freedom
- Manbij offensive
- The pro-Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces launch a counter-offensive on recently captured pro-Turkish faction positions in Manbij, Aleppo Governorate, Syria, and recapture several villages. (SOHR)
- Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi meets with de facto Syrian leader Ahmed al-Sharaa in Damascus to discuss the support of the Syrian transitional government. (Al Jazeera)
- 23 December 2024 – Haitian crisis
- Gang war in Haiti
- 2024 Cité Soleil massacre
- The death toll from the mass killing by a gang in Cité Soleil, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, increases to 207, according to the United Nations. (Al Jazeera)
- 23 December 2024 – Israel–Hamas war
- Assassination of Ismail Haniyeh
- For the first time, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz claims responsibility for the July 2024 assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, Iran. (Reuters)
- Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip, Attacks on protected zones and civilians in Gaza
- At least seven people are killed in Israeli airstrikes on a safe zone in al-Mawasi, Gaza. Several other attacks across the Gaza Strip kill at least 43 others. (Al Jazeera)
- 23 December 2024 – Mexican drug war
- Seventeen people are killed in a string of attacks over the past 48 hours across the state of Guanajuato, Mexico. (El País)
- 23 December 2024 – Student loans in the United States, Economic policy of the Joe Biden administration
- The Biden administration officially withdraws two major legislative plans that would have granted student loan forgiveness to more than 30 million Americans. (Forbes) (CNBC)
- 23 December 2024 –
- Japanese automakers Nissan and Honda announce plans to for a merger by 2026, potentially forming the third-largest automotive company in the world. (Al Jazeera) (Nikkei Asia)
- 23 December 2024 – 2024 famine in Sudan
- The Government of Sudan suspends participation in the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification hunger monitoring system, in advance of a new report about famine occurring in the nation. (Reuters)
- 23 December 2024 –
- Three people are killed and another is injured in severe storms in Rome, Italy, while two people go missing on the Gran Sasso d'Italia massif. (Roma Today) (Il Messaggero)
- 23 December 2024 – Weather of 2024
- The Santa Cruz Wharf of Santa Cruz, California, United States, partially collapses from high waves of a Pacific storm. (BBC News)
- 23 December 2024 – Panama–United States relations
- Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino rebuffs U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's recent threat to reimpose U.S. control over the Panama Canal, saying its shipping tolls aren't inflated and that Panamanian sovereignty over the waterway isn't negotiable. (Bloomberg)
- 23 December 2024 – 2024 New York City Subway immolation
- A man is arrested after fatally burning a woman yesterday on a Subway train in New York City, United States. (Al Jazeera)
- 23 December 2024 – Capital punishment by the United States federal government
- U.S. President Joe Biden commutes the death sentences of 37 out of the 44 federal death row inmates to life imprisonment. The exceptions are Dylann Roof, Robert Gregory Bowers, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who received death sentences for terrorism or hate-motivated mass murder-related crimes, as well as all four prisoners on US Military death row. (CBS News)
- 23 December 2024 – Minas Gerais road crash
- The suspected truck driver that caused a multiple-vehicle collision and killed at least 41 people in Teófilo Otoni, Minas Gerais, Brazil, turns himself in to local authorities. (R7) (G1)
- 23 December 2024 –
- A man is arrested and charged with animal cruelty for shooting and killing 98 kangaroos on a military base in Singleton, New South Wales, Australia. (news.com.au)
- Guatemalan police rescue at least 160 children and 40 women held by the Lev Tahor Jewish sect and accuse the group of child sexual abuse, forced marriage, and human trafficking. Members of Lev Tahor broke into the care center in Oratorio, Santa Rosa Department, where the children were being held on Sunday. (Al Jazeera) (The Times of Israel) (The Independent)
- 23 December 2024 – 2024 French political crisis
- Following the collapse of the Barnier government, French President Emmanuel Macron announces a new administration led by François Bayrou as the new Prime Minister. (DW)
- 23 December 2024 – Second presidency of Donald Trump
- The United States House Committee on Ethics releases a report on former Florida representative and Attorney General nominee Matt Gaetz, revealing that Gaetz paid women for sexual activity, committed statutory rape with a 17-year-old, possessed and used illegal drugs, accepted financial gifts beyond House limits, and assisted a woman in obtaining a passport. (BBC News)
- Joel Greenberg, a former IRS employee of Florida is sentenced to 11 years in prison on 6 federal charges for underage sex trafficking, wire fraud, stalking, identity theft, producing a fake ID card, and conspiring to defraud the US federal government, receiving a reduced sentence after testifying against eight other men including Gaetz, after initially facing 33 federal charges. (CNN)
- 23 December 2024 –
- The Greek government restores citizenship to 10 members of the former royal family, including the children and grandchildren of King Constantine II, following their agreement to adopt the surname "De Grece", renounce royal claims, and formally recognize Greece's status as a parliamentary democracy. (AP)
- A team of scientists at the North-Eastern Federal University in Sakha Republic, Russia, unveil the highly preserved remains of a 50,000-year-old female juvenile woolly mammoth named Yana. The researchers say Yana was roughly about one-year-old when she died, likely from drowning, and was discovered in the Batagaika crater by locals. (BBC News)
- 22 December 2024 – Syrian civil war
- Fall of the Assad regime
- Syrian mass graves
- An Assad regime mass grave containing the remains of 93 civilians, including several women and children, is discovered in Qarfa, Daraa Governorate, Syria, with all of the bodies reportedly burnt alive. (SOHR)
- In the highest-ranking state visit since the regime change, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan holds a meeting with Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham leader Ahmed al-Sharaa in Damascus to support the transitional government. (Reuters)
- 22 December 2024 – Israel–Hamas war
- Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
- Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip kill at least 28 people. (France 24)
- 22 December 2024 – Red Sea crisis
- The US military states that the USS Gettysburg guided-missile cruiser accidentally shot down a Navy F/A-18F Super Hornet fighter jet and injured one of its pilots in a friendly fire incident following a series of airstrikes on Yemen. However, the Houthis claim that they shot down the fighter jet. (CNN) (Middle East Monitor)
- 22 December 2024 –
- Residents of Logroño, La Rioja, Spain, win the world's biggest lottery, the Spanish Christmas Lottery's El Gordo €2.7 billion prize. (DW)
- 22 December 2024 – 2024–25 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season
- The death toll from Cyclone Chido in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique, increases to 94. (DW)
- 22 December 2024 – 2024 Gramado Piper PA-42 crash
- Ten people are killed and seventeen others are injured when a Piper PA-42 Cheyenne crashes into shops and a hotel while taking off from the Canela Airport in Gramado, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. (CNN) (ASN)
- 22 December 2024 –
- The death toll from the stampede at two food distribution events in Abuja and Okija, Nigeria, increases to 32. (DW)
- Seven people are killed when a private Cessna 207 crashes into a hill in El Montoso, Jalisco, Mexico. (Bureau of Aircraft Accidents Archive)
- An Airbus EC135 ambulance helicopter crashes near a hospital in Muğla, Turkey, killing all four people onboard. (AP)
- Four people are killed and 13 others are missing when a highway bridge across the Tocantins River between Estreito, Maranhão, and Aguiarnópolis, Tocantins, Brazil, partially collapses. (Xinhua) (G1)
- 22 December 2024 – Russia–Slovakia relations
- Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico holds a previously unannounced meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia. (The Moscow Times)
- 22 December 2024 – 2024 Novi Sad protests
- Around 100,000 people gather at the Slavija Square in Belgrade, Serbia, to protest against the government response to the Novi Sad railway station canopy collapse and demand the resignation of President Aleksandar Vučić and the ruling Serbian Progressive Party. President Vučić is dismissive of the protests and accuses the opposition of manipulating the protestors to gain political power. (Al Jazeera) (DW) (N1)
- 22 December 2024 –
- New Zealand rejects the Cook Islands' proposal to establish its own passports and citizenship but expresses willingness to discuss independence if initiated by Cook Islanders. (Reuters)
- 21 December 2024 – Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- At least seven Ukrainian drones strike Kazan, Russia, six of which reportedly hit residential areas, including a 32-story apartment building. (Ukrainska Pravda) (Reuters)
- 21 December 2024 – Haitian crisis
- The Haitian government declares a one-month state of emergency amid the escalating gang violence and the deepening security crisis. (Caribbean National Weekly)
- 21 December 2024 – Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
- Sixteen Pakistan Army soldiers are killed and five others are critically injured when Pakistani Taliban militants launch an overnight raid on an army post in Makeen, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (Al Arabiya)
- 21 December 2024 – Red Sea crisis
- Sixteen people are injured in a Houthi missile attack on the Tel Aviv-Jaffa area in Israel. (CNN)
- 21 December 2024 – Constitutional crisis in Somalia
- The Puntland region of Somalia announces that it will introduce a new regional currency in 2025. The region had previously shifted to use of the United States dollar in 2021, due to severe inflation of the Somali shilling. (Garowe Online) (Hiiraan Online) (Horseed Media)
- 21 December 2024 – Minas Gerais road crash
- Forty-one people are killed when a bus collides with a granite block that fell from a truck on a highway in Minas Gerais, Brazil. (The Guardian) (G1) (O Globo)
- 21 December 2024 –
- Ten people are killed and many others are injured in a stampede during a distribution of food and clothes at a church in Abuja, Nigeria. (AP)
- Nine people are killed and 13 more injured when a bus plunges into a ravine in Pa Alam, Lorestan, Iran. (AP)
- Two people are killed and three others are missing when an under-construction six-story building collapses in Sohana village, Mohali district, India. (Zee News)
- 21 December 2024 – Censorship of TikTok
- The Albanian government announces a one-year ban on the social media platform TikTok beginning in 2025, following a fatal stabbing of a teenager in November in connection to a confrontation on the platform. (Al Jazeera) (Türkiye Today)
- 21 December 2024 – 2024 Icelandic parliamentary election
- The Social Democratic Alliance, led by Kristrún Frostadóttir, forms a coalition government in Iceland's Althing with the Liberal Reform Party and the People's Party. Kristrún becomes Iceland's youngest prime minister at 36 years old. (CNA)
- 21 December 2024 – 2025 United States federal budget, Government shutdowns in the United States
- The United States Senate passes a funding bill, with President Joe Biden subsequently signing the bill into law, thereby averting a government shutdown. (CBS News)