Jan 1: Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE become BRICS members.
Jan 11: South Africa begins its case accusing Israel of genocidal acts against Palestinians in Gaza and violating the 1948 genocide convention at the International Court of Justice in The Hague.
Jan 22: New Hindu temple to the god Ram inaugurated by Indian PM Narendra Modi in Ayodhya city in a grand ceremony, on site of a mosque razed to the ground by Hindu militants in 1992.
Feb 8: Pakistan election: In an upset, independents backed by imprisoned Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party win the most seats with 97, PML-N win 76, PPP 54.
Feb 14: Israel launches air strikes in Lebanon in an escalation of conflict along the border, killing four, in retaliation after a Hezbollah rocket killed an Israeli soldier in Safed.
Feb 15: Germany becomes the world's third-largest economy after Japan slips into recession.
Mar 7: Sweden officially joins NATO as the alliance's 32nd member, abandoning its 200-year policy of neutrality.
Mar 17: After suppressing and murdering opponents, President Vladimir Putin claims a post-Soviet record election victory, with 87.8% of the vote. The six-year term will make him Russia's longest-serving leader in over 200 years.
Mar 19: Finland is ranked the happiest country in the world by the UN for the seventh year in a row, with Afghanistan the lowest ranked.
Mar 25: UN Security Council issues its first demand for a cease-fire in Gaza, with the US abstaining from the vote, angering Israel.
Mar 25: UN-appointed expert says there are "reasonable grounds" to believe Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, in a report titled Anatomy of a Genocide.
Apr 1: Airstrike by Israel on the Iranian embassy in Damascus, Syria, kills seven officials, including three senior generals—most serious attack on Iranian targets since 2020.
Apr 15: Donald Trump becomes the first former US president to stand trial on criminal charges as his hush money case begins in New York.
Apr 19: World's largest-ever election begins in India with 968 million eligible voters, in the first of seven stages ending June 1. after six weeks with 642 million people voting in the country's general election, including a record 312 million women.
Apr 20: US House passes a bipartisan $95 billion foreign aid package for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan and a bill against TikTok.
May 19: Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi dies in a helicopter crash in foggy conditions, along with his foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and other officials.
May 22: Ireland, Norway, and Spain announce they will formally recognize a Palestinian state on 28 May, joining nine other countries other European countries.
May 30: Jury in New York City find former 34 US President Donald Trump guilty on felony counts of falsifying business records to hide payments made to prevent damaging personal information from being released prior to the 2016 election.
Jun 2: Chinese spacecraft Chang'e-6 successfully lands on the far side of the Moon on a mission to analyse and collect rock samples.
Jun 9: Narendra Modi is sworn in as only the second third-term Prime Minister of India at the head of a BJP-led coalition government at a ceremony in Delhi.
Jun 10: Apple announces it will be using generative A.I. on its devices and in its update for Siri, in a partnership with OpenAl.
Jun 13: G7 leaders agree to loan Ukraine $50 billion from frozen Russian assets to buy weapons and rebuild, at their meeting in Borgo Egnazia, Italy.
Jun 24: Wikileaks founder Julian Assange reaches deal with the US; pleading guilty to criminal charges but allowed to go free, after five years in a UK prison.
Jul 5: Keir Starmer succeeds Rishi Sunak Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in a landside victory for the Labour Party.
Jul 5: Reformist Masoud Pezeshkian elected President of Iran, defeating his conservative rival Saeed Jalili in a run-off election.
Jul 13: Former US President Donald Trump survives an assassination attempt at an outdoor campaign rally in rural Butler, Pennsylvania; gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks fires 6 to 8 shots killing one spectator, critically wounding two, and hits Trump in the ear with a bullet before being killed by a Secret Service sniper.
Jul 15: Donald Trump picks Ohio Senator JD Vance as running mate. his Republican vice-presidential.
Jul 20: Donald Trump accepts Republican nomination for president at the Republican National Convention in 90 minute speech, longest acceptance speech in history. Milwaukee with a 90 minute speech, longest acceptance speech in history.
Jul 20: Israel strikes inside Yemen for the first time hitting the port of Hodeidah, killing six people, attack on in retaliation for a Tel Aviv that killed one.
Jul 21: US President Joe Biden abandons his campaign for re-election and endorses Vice President Kamala Harris.
Jul 26: XXXIII Summer Olympic Games officially open along the River Seine and Jardins du Trocadéro, in front of the Eiffel Tower, Paris. United States stood on top with 126 medals, China and Great Britain were runner-up with 91 and 65 medals. On Aug 11 XXXIII Summer Olympic Games officially close at the Stade de France, Paris.
Jul 29: America's gross national debt tops $35 trillion for the first time, according to the US Treasury Department.
Jul 30: Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh is assassinated in Iran's capital Tehran.
Aug 5: Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigns and flees the country as protesters storm government buildings in Dhaka, including the Presidential Palace.
Aug 6: Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus picked to lead Bangladesh's interim government after PM Sheikh Hasina forced to flee the country.
Aug 22: Vice President Kamala Harris accepts the Democratic nomination for US President on the last day of the party's national conference in Chicago.
Sep 17: Handheld pagers belonging to members of armed group Hezbollah explode across Lebanon killing nine people and injuring 2,800. Hezbollah holds Israel responsible.
Sep 17: Norway becomes the first country where electric cars outnumber petrol vehicles, aided by tax rebates.
Sep 27: Hezbollah leader for more than 30 years, Hassan Nasrallah is killed by an Israeli airstrike on his underground headquarters in Beirut.
Oct 8: Noble Prize for Physics awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton "for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks".
Oct 11: Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Japanese anti-nuclear organisation Nihon Hidankyo "for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again".
Oct 14: Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences is awarded to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson "for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity".
Nov 27: Truce agreed between Israel and Hezbollah brokered by the US and France with Lebanon saying 3,768 people have been killed in 13 months.
Dec 3: South Korean president President Yoon Suk Yeol declares martial law for the first time in Assembly. 50 years, prompting an emergency vote against it by the National.
Dec 14: South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol is impeached by a vote in the National Assembly after his failed attempt to impose martial law.
Dec 29: Jimmy Carter, 39th president of the United States and winner of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, died peacefully Sunday, Dec. 29, what his home in Plains, Georgia.
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