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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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4 October 2024 – 2024 Bosnia and Herzegovina floods
Sixteen people are killed during floods and landslides in Jablanica, Bosnia and Herzegovina. (Al Jazeera)
4 October 2024 –
At least one person is critically injured in a building fire at a three-story building in the Old Montreal neighbourhood of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. (CBC News)
4 October 2024 – Pork barrel scam
The Sandiganbayan in the Philippines acquits Chief Presidential Legal Counsel and former Senate president Juan Ponce Enrile, his former aide Gigi Reyes, and Janet Napoles of plunder in connection with the alleged misuse of Ponce Enrile's Priority Development Assistance Fund during his senatorial term. (AFP via CNA) (Rappler)
3 October 2024 – Israel–Hamas war
Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip
An Israeli airstrike kills Aziz Salha, known for his role in the 2000 Ramallah lynching, in central Gaza. (Jerusalem Post)
The Israel Defense Forces announces that they killed Rawhi Mushtaha, head of the Hamas government in Gaza, along with Sameh al-Siraj and Sami Oudeh, who were responsible for security in Hamas, in an airstrike 3 months ago in northern Gaza. (BBC News)
Israeli incursions in the West Bank during the Israel–Hamas war
Tulkarm camp airstrike
An Israeli Air Force jet launches an airstrike against a bar in Tulkarm in the occupied West Bank, killing at least 18 people. (Al Jazeera)
3 October 2024 – Israel–Hezbollah conflict
2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon
Israel launches multiple strikes using bunker buster bombs on Beirut, Lebanon, targeting Hezbollah official Hashem Safieddine. (Al Arabiya)
Nine medics are killed in an Israeli airstrike against an Islamic Health Authority office in Beirut, Lebanon, bringing the death toll of medics killed in Lebanon in the past two weeks to 97. (Al Jazeera) (Al Jazeera 2)
The Lebanese Armed Forces open fire on Israeli troops near Bint Jbeil, Nabatieh Governorate, Lebanon, for the first time since the invasion began, after two Lebanese Army soldiers were killed earlier today in separate Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon. (The Times) (Al Arabiya)
A Hellenic Air Force plane evacuates Greek and Cypriot nationals from Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport in Lebanon. (Ekathimerini)
Spillover of the Israel–Hamas war
The Islamic Resistance in Iraq launch a kamikaze drone attack on a military base in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, killing two IDF soldiers and injuring 24 others. (Times of Israel)
3 October 2024 – Haitian crisis
Armed gunmen from the Gran-Grif gang commit a mass shooting in the town of Pont-Sondé, Haiti, killing at least 20 people and injuring several others, with a local government prosecutor describing the incident as a massacre. (Rezo Nòdwes)
3 October 2024 – 2024 Atlantic hurricane season
Effects of Hurricane Helene in North Carolina
One thousand U.S. soldiers are deployed to western North Carolina to aid the North Carolina National Guard in humanitarian operations and to help find hundreds of missing people. (NBC News)
United States Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas reports that the Federal Emergency Management Agency lacks the funding to provide necessary support for the remainder of the 2024 hurricane season. (Axios)
3 October 2024 – 2024 famine in Haiti
Save the Children reports that 17% of all children in Haiti are currently suffering from emergency food insecurity primarily caused by national gang wars. (Reuters)
3 October 2024 –
Nine people are killed in a fire at the Antai Tian-Sheng Memorial Hospital in Pingtung County, Taiwan. (AP)
Seven people are killed and 19 others are injured when a bus falls into a ravine in Balochistan, Pakistan. (Dawn)
At least 78 people are killed when a boat capsizes in Lake Kivu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Al Jazeera)
An engine surge causes a fire in a Ryanair Boeing 737-800 while taxiing at Brindisi Airport in southern Italy, prompting the evacuation of the 184 passengers and crew on board. (CTV News) (ASN)
3 October 2024 – 2023–2024 mpox epidemic
Ghana reports its first case of mpox this year. (Reuters)
3 October 2024 – Rwanda Marburg virus disease outbreak
Officials in Rwanda report that the death toll from the Marburg virus outbreak in the country has increased to 11 people. (AP)
3 October 2024 – Chagos Archipelago sovereignty dispute
The United Kingdom and Mauritius jointly announce that a deal has been made to resolve the dispute over the Chagos Archipelago, with sovereignty of the British Indian Ocean Territory being handed over to Mauritius in exchange for the United Kingdom and the United States retaining control of the military base on Diego Garcia for the next 99 years. (BBC News) (Reuters)
3 October 2024 –
Six migrants are killed and ten others are injured in a mass shooting after two soldiers open fire on a truck near the Guatemalan border in Mexico. (CTV News)
3 October 2024 – LGBT rights in Georgia, Georgian LGBT propaganda law
The Georgian Parliament Speaker signs into law a wide-ranging bill that bans gender transitioning and gender-affirming care, same-sex marriage and adoption, and depictions of LGBTQ+ people in media after the President refused to sign it, which chief European Union diplomat Josep Borrell states could prevent the nation's accession to the EU. (Politico)
3 October 2024 – Prosecution of S. Iswaran
Former Singapore Transport Minister S. Iswaran, who pleaded guilty to four charges of obtaining valuable items as a public servant and one charge of obstruction of justice last week, is sentenced to one year in jail. (CNA) (Straits Times)
3 October 2024 –
A Yazidi woman, who had been kidnapped at age 11 by the Islamic State in 2014 in Iraq and sold and trafficked to Gaza, is freed from captivity in Gaza following a secret operation involving the United States and Israel, with the woman's captor believed to have previously been killed in an Israeli airstrike. (Reuters)
2 October 2024 – Israel–Hamas war
2024 Jaffa shooting
Hamas military wing Al-Qassam Brigades claims responsibility for yesterday's mass shooting and stabbing attack in Jaffa, Israel, that killed seven people and injured 17 others. (Al Jazeera)
Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip, Gaza Strip famine
Humanitarian aid groups tell Reuters that Israel introduced new customs regulations and restrictions on humanitarian aid deliveries into the Gaza Strip in mid-August, which are significantly delaying the delivery of food and essential supplies via the Jordan route. (Reuters)
Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip
The Gaza Health Ministry reports that at least 51 people – including 7 women and 12 children – were killed in coordinated Israeli strikes in southern Gaza. (AP) (Guardian)
Israeli airstrike on a school housing displaced people killed 30. (Reuters)
2 October 2024 – Israel–Hezbollah conflict
2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon
Eight Israeli soldiers are killed in ambushes by Hezbollah militants in southern Lebanon. (AP)
2 October 2024 – Russian invasion of Ukraine
Kharkiv strikes
At least ten people are injured when a Russian guided bomb hits an apartment building in Kharkiv, Ukraine. (Reuters)
2 October 2024 – Haitian crisis
The United Nations International Organization for Migration reports that over 700,000 Haitians are internally displaced in the country due to gang violence, with more than half being children. (Al Jazeera)
2 October 2024 – Islamic State insurgency in Iraq
Four Iraqi soldiers are killed and three others are injured in an ambush by Islamic State militants near Kirkuk, Iraq. (Iraqi News Agency) (Reuters)
2 October 2024 – Terrorism in Denmark, Attacks against Israeli embassies and diplomats
Danish police arrest three Swedes in connection with two explosions that occurred near the Israeli embassy in Copenhagen, Denmark. (Reuters)
2 October 2024 –
An unexploded ordnance from World War II detonates under a taxiway at Miyazaki Airport in Miyazaki, Japan, causing more than 80 flights to be cancelled. (NHK) (The Guardian)
More than 100 people, mostly women and children, are missing after a wooden boat carrying 300 people sinks in the Niger River near Mokwa, Niger State, Nigeria. At least 150 people are rescued and 16 bodies are recovered. (DW) (Al Jazeera)
2 October 2024 – Israel and the United Nations
Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs Israel Katz bans UN Secretary-General António Guterres from entering Israel and declares him persona non grata for not "unequivocally" condemning yesterday's Iranian missile attack. (Reuters) (DW)
2 October 2024 –
Two men and a pregnant woman are shot and killed by unidentified assailants in a barbershop in Lisbon, Portugal. The three suspects fled the scene on foot. (Reuters)
The Mexican Armed Forces announces its soldiers opened fire on a truck after "hearing detonations" while pursuing it near Huixtla, Chiapas, Mexico. The vehicle was carrying migrants, six out of thirty-one of whom are killed. (Al Jazeera) (AP)
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation announces an investigation into a plastic factory after six workers have died or went missing from flooding by Hurricane Helene. (ABC News)
Two NASCAR teams, 23XI Racing owned by former basketball player Michael Jordan, and Front Row Motorsports, file an antitrust lawsuit against NASCAR, alleging "anticompetitive and exclusionary practices". (The Athletic)
1 October 2024 – Russian invasion of Ukraine
Eastern Ukraine campaign
Battle of Vuhledar
Russian forces capture the town of Vuhledar in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, after Ukrainian forces retreat from the town. (The Daily Telegraph)
Southern Ukraine campaign
Seven people are killed and 12 others are injured in Russian strikes in Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine. (Reuters)
1 October 2024 – 2024 Iran–Israel conflict
October 2024 Iranian strikes against Israel
Iran launches a wave of ballistic missile attacks against Israel in retaliation for the 2024 Hezbollah headquarters strike, killing a Palestinian civilian and injuring two others. The U.S. State Department had previously warned of an imminent Iranian attack, saying that such an attack would carry "severe consequences for Iran". (The Guardian) (CBS News) (CNN)
United States Navy destroyers USS Bulkeley and USS Cole successfully shoot down several Iranian missiles heading towards Israel. (UK Defence Journal)
Iran–Israel conflict during the Syrian civil war
The Syrian military intercepts several drones or missiles over Damascus. Several of them explode in the Mezzeh neighborhood, killing three people and injuring nine others. (Al Jazeera) (AFP via Barron's) (Jerusalem Post) (Reuters)
1 October 2024 – Israel–Hezbollah conflict
2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon
Israeli forces invade southern Lebanon and begin a ground operation against Hezbollah. (Al Jazeera) (Jerusalem Post)
A rocket explosion is reported in Tel Aviv, Israel, with the debris severely injuring a man. Separately, a drone is intercepted by Israeli forces over the Mediterranean Sea. (Al Jazeera)
Israel launches an airstrike in the Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp in Sidon, Lebanon, in order to target Munir al-Maqdah, an official of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades. (Al Jazeera)
1 October 2024 – Israeli–Palestinian conflict
2024 Jaffa shooting
Two Palestinian gunmen open fire on pedestrians in Jaffa, Israel, killing at least seven people and injuring at least 17 others. The gunmen are subsequently shot and killed by armed civilians and police. (Reuters) (Times of Israel)
1 October 2024 – 2024 United States port strike
Over 45,000 dockworkers of the International Longshoremen's Association operating at thirty-six United States ports, primarily along the East Coast and the Gulf Coast, begin a labor strike, following the failure of the ports to reach a deal for worker compensation and a ban on automation. (AP)
1 October 2024 –
CNN begins to roll out a paywall to view its news website. (Reuters)
1 October 2024 – 2024 Atlantic hurricane season
The death toll from Hurricane Helene surpasses 160 people, with most of the deaths occurring in North Carolina, making it the second-deadliest hurricane to strike the contiguous United States in the past fifty years, behind only Hurricane Katrina. (CNN)
1 October 2024 – 2024 famine in Haiti
An Integrated Food Security Phase Classification report declares famine conditions in Haiti, with nearly 48% of Haitians suffering from Stage 4 "crisis" levels of food insecurity and nearly 6,000 in starvation. (Al Jazeera) (AP)
1 October 2024 – 2024 Lam Luk Ka bus crash
A bus crashes and catches fire in Lam Luk Ka District, Pathum Thani Province, Thailand, killing 23 people. (BBC News)
1 October 2024 – Rwanda Marburg virus disease outbreak
Rwanda reports eight deaths from Marburg virus. (AP News) (US News)
1 October 2024 –
At least 45 people are killed and dozens are missing after two boats carrying migrants capsizes off the coast of Djibouti. (Al Jazeera)
Three people are killed and fifteen others are injured in a mass stabbing at a supermarket in Songjiang district, Shanghai, China. Police arrest a 37-year-old man at the scene, adding that the man had come to Shanghai in order to "vent his anger due to a personal economic dispute". (Reuters) (BBC News)
1 October 2024 – 2024 Japanese general election
Shigeru Ishiba is sworn in as the 65th prime minister of Japan, succeeding Fumio Kishida. (Mainichi) (AP)
1 October 2024 – 2024 Mexican general election
Claudia Sheinbaum is inaugurated as the 66th president of Mexico, becoming the first female Mexican president. (USA Today)
1 October 2024 – 2024 United States presidential debates
The U.S. Vice President debate is held between Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and U.S. Senator JD Vance. (Business Insider) (CBS News)
1 October 2024 –
Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, celebrates his 100th birthday, becoming the first centenarian former U.S. president. (BBC News)
Former Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte is installed as the 14th Secretary General of NATO, succeeding Jens Stoltenberg. (DW)
30 September 2024 – Israel–Hezbollah conflict
September 2024 Lebanon strikes
At least 95 people are killed and 172 others are injured in Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon. (Al Jazeera)
Five children belonging to the Imam al-Mahdi Scouts are killed in an Israeli airstrike in Charkiyeh in southern Lebanon. (Anadolu Agency)
Three militants of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine are killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Kola District of Beirut, Lebanon. Separately, Hamas's commander in Lebanon, Fatah Sharif, is killed alongside his family in Tyre. (Al Jazeera)
A Lebanese Army soldier is killed in an Israeli drone strike in Wazzani, Lebanon. (The Times of Israel)
2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon
Israel informs the U.S. State Department that it will launch an imminent ground invasion of southern Lebanon in order to clear out Hezbollah infrastructure near Israeli border communities. (The Washington Post)
Lebanese troops withdraw from the Israeli border ahead of an Israeli ground offensive. (Reuters)
Lebanese displacement during the Israel–Hezbollah conflict
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees reports that at least 100,000 people have crossed from Lebanon into Syria in order to flee from Israeli strikes. (Al Jazeera)
30 September 2024 – Coal phase-out
The last coal-fired power station in the United Kingdom shuts down in Ratcliffe-on-Soar, Nottinghamshire, England, ending the 142-year history of coal-fired electricity in the UK. (The Guardian)
30 September 2024 – 2024 Nepal floods
The death toll from the floods and landslides in Nepal increases to 204 people, with 30 others missing. This is the highest recorded monsoon rainfall in Nepal in the past two decades. (The Guardian)
30 September 2024 –
Two people are killed in wildfires in Peloponnese, Greece, as several villages are evacuated due to the fires. (ITV News)
Twelve people are killed, 29 others are rescued, and ten others are missing after a boat capsizes off the coast of Djerba, Tunisia. (Al Jazeera)
30 September 2024 – Australia–Tuvalu relations, Climate change in Tuvalu
Tuvalu's climate minister denounces the Australian Labor government's decision to expand three coal mines as an existential threat to the nation, due to the role of the mines in causing rising sea levels that have forced mass displacement across Tuvalu's low-lying islands. (The Guardian)
30 September 2024 –
Lithuania announces that it has referred Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, the Belarusian government, military officers, and other security officials to the International Criminal Court at The Hague, accusing them of committing crimes against humanity and causing people to flee the country. (AP)