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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


Khronicle I
— Wikipedian non-binary —
PronounsThey/them
LanguagesEnglish
Raceim not a fan of exercise
Hairyes
Eyesprobably
Handednessblue
Blood typefriendly
Sexualityreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
IQi am an intelligent
Personality typethe letter 3 wrapped in a pancake
Family and friends
Petsgot a cat
Hobbies, favourites and beliefs
Religionjust kinda sitting here
PoliticsVery
Music
Interests

Leaders of first-level administrative divisions
Elections
Governance of Christian denominations and high control groups
Space exploration, colonisation and governance

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JoinedMarch 2020





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


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21 July 2024 – Red Sea crisis
2024 Israeli strikes on Yemen
The death toll from the previous day's Israeli airstrikes on Al Hudaydah, Yemen, increases to six. (Al Jazeera)
The Houthis target the Israeli city of Eilat with multiple ballistic missiles, in response to the previous day's airstrikes. (Sky News)
21 July 2024 – Russian invasion of Ukraine
Eastern Ukraine campaign
Russian forces capture the villages of Andriivka in Luhansk Oblast and Pishchane in Kharkiv Oblast. (Anatolia Agency) (RTL)
21 July 2024 – 2024 United States presidential election
Withdrawal of Joe Biden from the 2024 United States presidential election, Kamala Harris 2024 presidential campaign
Incumbent President of the United States Joe Biden announces that he will not seek a second term in office and suspends his presidential campaign, while endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee. (NBC News)
20 July 2024 – Israel–Hamas war
Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
At least 39 Palestinians are killed and 54 others are injured in Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip. (Reuters) (Anadolu Ajansi)
20 July 2024 – Red Sea crisis
2024 Israeli strikes on Yemen
In response to the prior day's Houthi drone attack on Tel Aviv, Israeli airstrikes hit oil refineries and power stations in the Yemeni port of Al Hudaydah, killing three people and injuring 87 others. (Al Jazeera)
20 July 2024 – Russian invasion of Ukraine
Southern Ukraine campaign
Five people, including a child, are killed in Russian missile strikes on Mykolaiv and Kherson, Ukraine. (Euronews) (The Moscow Times)
20 July 2024 – 2024 Bangladesh quota reform movement
The death toll from the ongoing protests in Bangladesh increases to 110 people. (Al Jazeera)
20 July 2024 – 2024 China floods
At least 12 people are killed and 31 others are missing when a bridge collapses due to flash flooding in Zhashui County, Shaanxi, China. (CNN)
20 July 2024 –
At least 16 people are killed and 14 others are injured in a head-on collision between a truck and a passenger bus on a highway between Patacamaya, Bolivia, and Tambo Quemado, Chile. (RTÉ)
The government of Equatorial Guinea suspends internet and telephone services on the separatist island of Annobón, with the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization condemning the suspension. (Agencia NOVA)
19 July 2024 – Russian invasion of Ukraine
Eastern Ukraine campaign
Ukrainian forces retreat from Urozhaine in Donetsk Oblast. (The Independent)
The Russian Ministry of Defence announces that its troops captured the village of Yuryivka in Donetsk Oblast. (Al Arabiya)
19 July 2024 – 2024 Bangladesh quota reform movement
Police in Dhaka, Bangladesh, ban all public rallies and protests in the city and impose a nationwide curfew, one day after protestors set fire to government buildings in the city. (Al Jazeera) (Reuters)
The government of Bangladesh cut off internet, mobile phone, and TV broadcast services in the country, instituting a media blackout. (France 24)
19 July 2024 – Red Sea crisis
At least one person is killed and ten others are injured when a kamikaze drone strikes central Tel Aviv, Israel, near the United States embassy. The Houthis claim responsibility for the attack, and also issue an announcement that that they will be providing details on a planned military operation on Tel Aviv soon. (The Times of Israel) (Axios)
19 July 2024 – Jadar mining project
The European Union and Serbia sign a deal to develop a lithium mining project and production chains for batteries for electric vehicles. (DW)
19 July 2024 – Haitian crisis
At least 40 Haitians are killed and several others are injured when a boat travelling to the Turks and Caicos Islands catches fire. (Al Arabiya)
19 July 2024 –
Thirty-six people are rescued after fires break out onboard the São Tomé and Príncipe-flagged tanker Ceres I and Singapore-flagged tanker Hafnia Nile following a collision near Pedra Branca, Singapore. The remaining 26 Ceres I crew members remain onboard to conduct fire-fighting operations. (The Straits Times) (CNA)
19 July 2024 – Israeli allegations against UNRWA
The United Kingdom announces the resumption of funding to the United Nations agency UNRWA. (Al Jazeera)
19 July 2024 – Palestine–European Union relations
The European Commission announces loans and grants totalling €400 million (US$435.5 million) to the Palestinian Authority to prevent the government's financial collapse. (Reuters)
19 July 2024 – Capital punishment in Belarus
The Minsk Regional Court in Belarus, in a secretive trial, sentences a German national Rico Krieger to death over alleged crimes including terrorism and mercenary activity. (DW)
19 July 2024 – Gaza humanitarian crisis, Societal breakdown in the Gaza Strip during the Israel–Hamas war
The United Nations reports that "anarchy" and societal breakdown is expanding across the Gaza Strip due to Israeli military destabilization, citing an increase in looting and extrajudicial killings of police and humanitarian workers. (Reuters)
19 July 2024 – ICJ case on Israel's occupation of the Palestinian territories, Israel and apartheid
The International Court of Justice rules that Israel's land annexation and settlement construction in East Jerusalem and the West Bank is unlawful, and demands an end to these practices "as soon as possible". The Court also rules that Israel's occupation in the West Bank amounts to apartheid. (AP) (Middle East Eye)
19 July 2024 –
A court in Yekaterinburg, Russia, convicts American journalist Evan Gershkovich of spying and sentences him to 16 years in prison. (CNN)
Communist Party general secretary and paramount leader of Vietnam Nguyễn Phú Trọng dies at the age of 80, and is succeeded on an acting basis by President Tô Lâm. (BBC News)
Pakistani counter-terrorism authorities arrest Amin al-Haq, a high-ranking member of Al-Qaeda and a close confidant of Osama bin Laden. (Times of India)
A Tunisian court sentences opposition party leader Lotfi Mraïhi [fr], a potential presidential candidate, to eight months in prison on a charge of vote buying, and also bans Mraïhi from running in presidential elections. (Reuters)
Ukrainian linguist, nationalist politician, and former People's Deputy Iryna Farion is shot and killed in Lviv, Ukraine by an unknown assailant. (Reuters)
WazirX [hi], an Indian cryptocurrency exchange owned by Binance, announces a security breach in which $234 million USD in cryptocurrency was stolen, amounting to half of the platform's total assets. (Business Standard)
19 July 2024 – 2024 Tunisian presidential election
Incumbent Tunisian president Kais Saied announces his candidacy for a second term. (Le Monde)
19 July 2024 – 2024 CrowdStrike incident
Numerous organizations worldwide experience service disruptions due to a faulty CrowdStrike update resulting in blue screens of death on Microsoft Windows computers. (The Verge)
American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, and United Airlines order a temporary global ground stop of many of their flights in response to the widespread computer outages. (ABC News)
18 July 2024 – Russian invasion of Ukraine
Southern Ukraine campaign
Dnieper campaign
Ukrainian forces withdraw from the village of Krynky in Kherson Oblast. (Bloomberg)
Eastern Ukraine campaign
Five people are killed and three others are injured in Russian attacks on villages in the Donetsk region, Ukraine. (Reuters)
18 July 2024 – Israel–Hamas war
Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
2023 Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip
Both the Gaza Health Ministry and the Israeli Health Ministry report traces of type 2 polio in Gaza's sewage system, caused by "severe overcrowding" and Israel's blockade of hygiene products from entering the enclave. (France 24)
At least five Palestinians are killed and fifteen others are injured in Israeli airstrikes on the Nuseirat and al-Bureij refugee camps in the Gaza Strip. (Al Jazeera) (Anadolu Ajansi)
18 July 2024 – 2024 Bangladesh quota reform movement
The death toll from the protests in Bangladesh increases to 32, with the government shutting down internet access across the entire country, and protesters setting fire to the headquarters of the main state broadcaster in Dhaka. (France 24)
18 July 2024 – Naxalite–Maoist insurgency
Two Indian soldiers are killed and four others are injured in an IED attack by Maoists in Chhattisgarh, India. (The Hindustan Times) ('India Blooms')
18 July 2024 –
Stegosaurus skeleton Apex is auctioned for $44.6 million (£34 million) at a Sotheby's auction in New York City, United States, the most ever paid for a fossil. (BBC News)
18 July 2024 – 2024 Nigerian general strike
The Nigeria Labour Congress, the Trade Union Congress, and the Nigerian government agree on a new minimum wage of 70,000 (US$43) per month, ending prolonged negotiations amid high inflation and a weakening currency. (Reuters)
18 July 2024 – Red Sea crisis
Egypt's Suez Canal reports a 23.4% drop in revenues attributed to disruptions in Red Sea shipping over the past year, marked by attacks from Yemen's Houthi militia on Israeli-linked vessels. (Al Arabiya)
18 July 2024 –
The Saudia Airlines group signs a binding sales agreement with Lilium GmbH to purchase 50 electric Lilium Jets, with the option to purchase 50 more. (Flight Global)
18 July 2024 – Sudan–United States relations, Sudanese civil war
The United States announces it will give an additional $203 million to help civilians affected by the war in Sudan. (Al Arabiya)
18 July 2024 – LGBT rights in South Korea
The Supreme Court of South Korea rules that same-sex couples are eligible to receive the same health insurance benefits as heterosexual couples. (AP)
18 July 2024 –
Seven people from the same family, including three young children and a teenager, are killed, another is injured and thirty suffer smoke inhalation in an arson attack in Nice, France. (BBC News)
The Southwark Crown Court sentences five Just Stop Oil activists, including co-founder Roger Hallam, to prison terms ranging from four to five years for organizing protests that blocked the M25 motorway in London, England, United Kingdom, in 2022. (CNN)
Five people, a mother and four children, are killed in a mass shooting near West Blocton, Alabama, United States. (AP)
A riot erupts in the suburb of Harehills, Leeds, United Kingdom.
Ursula von der Leyen is re-elected as president of the European Commission. (BBC News)
17 July 2024 – Israel–Hamas war
Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
At least 42 Palestinians are killed and more than 70 others are injured in Israeli strikes on a United Nations-run school in the Nuseirat refugee camp and on a designated "safe zone" in al-Mawasi, Rafah. (Al Jazeera)
17 July 2024 – 2024 Bangladesh quota reform movement
Police fire tear gas and rubber bullets at students and professors occupying Dhaka University in Dhaka, Bangladesh, to protest against the ruling Awami League party and its government job quotas. (Al Jazeera) (CBC News)
17 July 2024 –
Archaeologists unearth remains of a medieval papal palace in the square outside the Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran in Rome, Italy. (Reuters)
The European Union General Court dismisses ByteDance's lawsuit against the European Commission's designation of the company as a "gatekeeper" under the Digital Markets Act, citing ByteDance's significant global market value. (Bernama)
17 July 2024 – 2024 Atlantic hurricane season
Effects of Hurricane Beryl in Texas
The confirmed death toll from Hurricane Beryl in Texas, United States, increases to 22, with several deaths in the Greater Houston area caused by heat illness due to prolonged power outages amid an ongoing heat wave. (NPR) (KRIV-TV)
17 July 2024 –
At least 16 people are killed in a fire at a shopping mall in Zigong, Sichuan, China. (AP)
Comoros-flagged oil tanker Prestige Falcon capsizes off the coast of Oman. The Indian Navy rescues nine crew members, with seven others missing. (AP)
At least six people are killed by storms in Brest, Gomel, and Mogilev Regions, Belarus. (AP)
17 July 2024 – 2024 European heatwaves
Italian authorities place thirteen cities throughout the Italian Peninsula under rare severe heat warnings due to predicted heat indexes reaching as high as 44°C (111.2°F) throughout the week. (AP) (Sky News)
17 July 2024 – Germany–Ukraine relations, Military aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War
Germany issues plans to halve its military aid to Ukraine in 2025. (Reuters)
17 July 2024 – Eugenics in Japan
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida formally apologizes to 130 victims of forced sterilization under the Eugenics Protection Law which was declared unconstitutional on July 3, and approves compensation measures for more than 25,000 affected victims and their relatives. (NHK)
17 July 2024 –
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announces measures to reduce the spread of fake news and harmful content in all forms of media, which the People's Party claims is an act to censor and control critical media. (Reuters)
17 July 2024 – 2024 United States presidential election
Joe Biden 2024 presidential campaign
U.S. President Joe Biden temporarily suspends his re-election campaign to recover at his home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, after being diagnosed with COVID-19. (CNN)
17 July 2024 – Israeli–Palestinian conflict
Israel's Knesset passes a resolution 68–9 stating that it opposes the establishment of a Palestinian state. (Haaretz)
17 July 2024 –
NASA cancels its lunar water-seeking rover mission with the VIPER rover, citing cost overruns and launch delays, after spending $450 million on the project. (AP) (NASA)