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2024 Lobitos oil spill. The Government of Peru declares a 90-day environmental emergency for parts of Talara province due to an oil spill caused by state-owned oil company Petroperú. International relations. 2024 Baltic Sea submarine cable disruptions, Finland–Russia relations. 2024 Estlink 2 incident
Moldovan prime minister Dorin Recean states his country is envisaging the possible nationalization of the Moldovagaz energy company, which Russia's Gazprom owns 50% of, following the announcement by Gazprom that the current gas supply deal that expires on December 31 will not be renewed. Disasters and accidents
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. (Türkiye Today) Politics and elections. 2024 Icelandic parliamentary election
Astro Bot wins Game of the Year at The Game Awards 2024. Disasters and accidents. 2024–25 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season. Tropical Cyclone Chido makes landfall over Agaléga, Mauritius. Seven people, including a child, are killed and 35 others are injured in a fire at a private hospital in Dindigul, Tamil Nadu, India.
The 10 costliest climate disasters in 2024 racked up damage totalling more than 200 billion US dollars, Christian Aid has warned. A report from the charity on hurricanes, floods, typhoons and ...
Residents of Logroño, La Rioja, Spain, win the world's biggest lottery, the Spanish Christmas Lottery's El Gordo €2.7 billion prize. Disasters and accidents. 2024–25 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season. The death toll from Cyclone Chido in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique, increases to 94. Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira bridge collapse
The climate crisis took a hefty economic toll in 2024, with just 10 disasters causing over $200bn in damage, according to a new report by Christian Aid.. The report, released on Monday, lists the ...
Disasters and accidents. November 2024 Northeast Pacific bomb cyclone. Two people are killed and more than 570,000 people are without power when a bomb cyclone makes landfall over the West Coast of the United States and British Columbia, Canada. Law and crime. 2024 Baltic Sea submarine cable disruptions