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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
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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


Newsfeed

Wikipedia newsfeed

19 July 2024 – Red Sea crisis
At least one person is killed and ten others are wounded when a kamikaze drone strikes central Tel Aviv, Israel, near the United States embassy. The Houthis claim responsibility and issue an announcement that details regarding a military operation on Tel Aviv will be stated soon. (The Times of Israel) (Axios)
19 July 2024 – July 2024 global cyber outages
Numerous organizations experience service disruptions due to a faulty CrowdStrike update resulting in blue screens of death on Microsoft Windows machines. (The Verge)
Delta Air Lines, United Airlines, and American Airlines order a global grounding of all flights in response to widespread IT outages. (ABC News)
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 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 – Russian invasion of Ukraine
Southern Ukraine campaign
Ukrainian forces withdraw from the village of Krynky in Kherson Oblast. (Bloomberg)
18 July 2024 – 2024 Bangladesh quota reform movement
The death toll from the protests in Bangladesh increases to 32, with 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)
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)
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)
16 July 2024 – Israel–Hamas war
Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
At least 57 Palestinians are killed by Israeli bombardments in Gaza City, Khan Younis, and Rafah. (Reuters)
16 July 2024 – 2024 Bangladesh quota reform movement
Six people are killed during clashes in Bangladesh as opposition demonstrators protesting government job quotas, which benefit pro-government families, clashes with police and pro-government supporters. (Al Jazeera)
16 July 2024 – 2024 Muscat mosque shooting
The Islamic State claims responsibility for the prior day's mass shooting at a Shi'ite mosque in Muscat, Oman. This is the first attack carried out by the Islamic State in the country. (BBC)
16 July 2024 – Hezbollah–Israel conflict
Three Syrian children are killed by an Israeli airstrike on the village of Umm al-Tut in southern Lebanon, while two others are killed during a strike on the Kfar Tebnit-Khardali road. (Reuters)
16 July 2024 –
At least 25 people are killed and 17 others are injured when a bus veers off a cliff and crashes in Ayacucho Region, Peru. (Reuters)
Heavy rainfall across the Midwestern United States causes a dam failure in Washington County, Illinois, prompting an immediate evacuation order in the nearby city of Nashville. (USA Today)
A malfunction causes an emergency shutdown of one of the four reactors at the Rostov Nuclear Power Plant in Rostov Oblast, Russia. Background radiation levels are reported as normal. (Reuters)
16 July 2024 – 2024 European heatwaves
Ukrainian state electrical grid operator Ukrenergo begins emergency power shutdowns in seven eastern and central oblasts amid a record heat wave and equipment failures worsened by ongoing Russian attacks. (Reuters)
16 July 2024 –
Romania approves the culling of 481 bears in the country, after a 19-year-old woman was killed by a bear last week in the Carpathian Mountains. (Al Jazeera)
16 July 2024 – Czech Republic–Ukraine relations
The Czech Republic announces plans to facilitate Colt CZ Group assault rifle production and the construction of an ammunition factory in Ukraine. (RFE/RL)
16 July 2024 – Estonia–Russia relations, Latvia–Russia relations, Lithuania–Russia relations
The Baltic states announce their exit from Russia's and Belarus's electricity grid along with plans to synchronize their grid with the continental Europe grid on February 9, 2025. (AP)
16 July 2024 – Israel–Hamas war
2023 Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip
An investigation by the Associated Press and Israeli investigative organization Shomrim finds that the United States and Israel allowed tax-deductible donations totaling over US$200,000 to multiple Israeli far-right extremist groups involved in blocking and disrupting humanitarian aid delivery to the Gaza Strip. (AP)
16 July 2024 – Kosovo War
War crimes in the Kosovo War
The Kosovo Specialist Chambers criminal tribunal sentences former Liberation Army member Pjetër Shala to 18 years in prison for war crimes committed during the war. (Al Jazeera) (Koha Ditore)
16 July 2024 –
Six Vietnamese and American people are found dead at the Grand Hyatt Erawan Bangkok hotel in Bangkok, Thailand, in a suspected cyanide poisoning incident. (AP)
American senator Bob Menendez is found guilty on all counts, including acting as a foreign agent, in a federal corruption trial. (ABC News)
Former governor of Deir ez-Zor Governorate, Syria, and director of the Adra Prison Samir Ousman al-Sheikh is arrested by the FBI in Los Angeles, California, United States. Al-Sheikh has been accused of torturing and killing political dissidents while serving as prison director and governor. (The New York Times)
German authorities in four states search the properties of management and shareholders of the right-wing extremist magazine Compact, seizing assets and evidence after the magazine was banned by the interior ministry. (Reuters)
Police in Paraguay seizes more than four tons of cocaine, worth $240 million, at a river port in Asunción, the largest cocaine seizure in the country's history. (AP)
Chinese businessman Guo Wengui is found guilty by a U.S. jury on multiple fraud charges, accused of running a racketeering enterprise from 2018 to 2023 that defrauded thousands of investors out of over $1 billion. (The Guardian)
16 July 2024 – 2024 French legislative election
French President Emmanuel Macron approves the resignation request of Prime Minister Gabriel Attal, who will continue to serve as head of the transitional caretaker government. (AP)
16 July 2024 – 2024 Welsh government crisis
Six weeks after losing a vote of no confidence in the Senedd, Vaughan Gething resigns as First Minister of Wales. (The Guardian)
16 July 2024 – Kenya Finance Bill protests
Police fire tear gas and water cannons at anti-government protestors as demonstrations continue in cities across Kenya, calling for the removal of President William Ruto. (Al Jazeera)
16 July 2024 –
Roberta Metsola is re-elected as President of the European Parliament with the highest number of votes ever registered for a candidate in the history of the European Parliament. (Times of Malta)
15 July 2024 – Kivu conflict
M23 offensive
Fighting between the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (FARDC), pro-government militia, and M23 rebels is reported in the Bashali Chiefdom, Bahunde Chiefdom, and the surroundings of Bweremana following simultaneous attacks on the positions of the FARDC and allies by the M23. (Radio Okapi)
Four civilians are killed and five others are injured in a bombardment on Bweremana. Local police accuse the M23 of being responsible. (Al Jazeera)
15 July 2024 – Israel–Hamas war
Siege of Gaza City
At least 12 Palestinians are killed in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza City and Deir al-Balah in the Gaza Strip. (Anandolu Ajansi)
15 July 2024 – Russian invasion of Ukraine
Ukraine–NATO relations
NATO establishes a new command centre in Wiesbaden, Germany, to plan and coordinate support for the Ukrainian military as part of the NATO Security Assistance and Training for Ukraine. (Euronews)
15 July 2024 – 2024 Bangladesh quota reform movement
Over 100 people are injured in violent clashes in Dhaka, Bangladesh, between supporters of the ruling Awami League party and opposition demonstrators protesting government job quotas which benefit pro-government families. (Al Jazeera)
15 July 2024 – 2024 Muscat mosque shooting
Six people are killed and 30+ others are injured in a mass shooting at a Shia mosque in Muscat, Oman. The three attackers are killed by security forces in the ensuing shootout. (Al Arabiya)
15 July 2024 – Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Eight soldiers are killed during a suicide bombing at a military base in Bannu, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Ten Pakistani Taliban gunmen are also killed in an ensuing shootout. (Al Jazeera)
15 July 2024 – Israel–Hezbollah conflict
An Israeli airstrike on Bint Jbeil, Lebanon, kills three civilians and injures three others. Israel's military says that its fighter jets struck a Hezbollah weapons storage facility in the area. (Reuters)
15 July 2024 – 2024 Afghanistan–Pakistan floods
At least 47 people are killed and 350 others are injured by severe storms in Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan. (Dhaka Tribune)
15 July 2024 –
At least one person is killed and over 400,000 people without power as a derecho impacts the Midwestern United States, with downburst winds exceeding 100 mph (160 km/h) and multiple tornadoes being reported near Chicago. (Fox Weather)
15 July 2024 – Belarus–Latvia relations
Latvia issues a ban on Belarus-registered passenger vehicles entering Latvian territory from Belarus or Russia. (Reuters)
15 July 2024 – Hungary–European Union relations, 2024 visits by Viktor Orbán to Russia and China
The European Commission announces that top European Union officials including European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen will boycott informal meetings hosted by Hungary during its rotating EU Presidency, in response to rogue meetings made by Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán to Russia and China regarding Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. (AP)
15 July 2024 – Clifton Suspension Bridge human remains discovery
Colombian Yostin Andres Mosquera is charged with the murders of two gay men and remanded in custody by Wimbledon Magistrates Court in London, United Kingdom. (The Guardian)
15 July 2024 – Disappearance of Jay Slater
A body believed to be missing 19-year-old Jay Slater from Lancashire, United Kingdom, is found near where he was reported missing in Tenerife, Spain, after a 28-day search. (BBC News)
15 July 2024 – Federal prosecution of Donald Trump
Former United States president Donald Trump's criminal prosecution over his alleged mishandling of classified documents is dismissed by District Judge Aileen Cannon, who states that Special Counsel Jack Smith was unlawfully appointed and lacked the authority to bring the case to court. (Reuters)
15 July 2024 – Female genital mutilation in the Gambia
The National Assembly of the Gambia upholds a ban on female genital mutilation, which has been criminalized since 2015. Some conservative and religious groups had sought to overturn the ban through controversial legislation. (AFP)
15 July 2024 –
The prime suspect arrested over the discovery of nine mutilated female bodies in a rubbish dump in the Mukuru slums of Nairobi, Kenya, confesses to killing 42 women. Another man is also arrested. (Al Jazeera)
15 July 2024 – 2024 United States presidential election
2024 Republican National Convention, 2024 Republican Party vice presidential candidate selection, Donald Trump 2024 presidential campaign
Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump selects Ohio senator J. D. Vance as his vice-presidential running mate. (The Hill) (The New York Times)
15 July 2024 – 2024 Rwandan general election
Rwandans vote to elect their president between incumbent Paul Kagame and two other candidates, as well as elect 80 members of the Chamber of Deputies. (Reuters)
15 July 2024 – 2024 Syrian parliamentary election
Syrians vote to elect the 250 members of the parliament. (AP)
15 July 2024 – Arrest of Imran Khan, 2023 Pakistani protests
Pakistan moves forward a case to ban former prime minister Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party due to alleged use of illegal foreign funds and party supporter protests at military installations, and also pushes charges of treason for Khan and former president Arif Alvi. (Reuters)
15 July 2024 – Fatah–Hamas reconciliation process
Several Palestinian factions, including Fatah and Hamas, schedule reconciliatory meetings in China in an attempt to end their ongoing political disputes. (Reuters)
15 July 2024 –
Estonian prime minister Kaja Kallas resigns in order to assume her new role as High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy for the European External Action Service. (Politico)
15 July 2024 – Mare Tranquillitatis pit
In the journal Nature Astronomy, American and Italian scientists announce the discovery of a lunar cave, approximately 250 miles (400 km) from the landing site of Apollo 11. (AP) (Nature Astronomy)
15 July 2024 – 2024 Copa América
In association football, defending champions Argentina defeat Colombia 1–0 after extra time in the final match to win a record 16th Copa América title, with Lautaro Martínez scoring the winning goal in the 112th minute. Kick-off was delayed by 82 minutes due to fans breaching the security gates at Hard Rock Stadium, the match's venue, in Miami Gardens, Florida, United States. (AP) (The New York Times)