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From Boeing's turbulence and a catastrophic hurricane, to Donald Trump's election victory, "Sunday Morning" host Jane Pauley looks back at key events of a year that was monumental.
The United Nations reports that almost a half million children in the Amazon are currently experiencing significant food and water scarcity due to prolonged droughts. (The Guardian) 2024 Atlantic hurricane season, 2024 Cuba blackouts. Cuba experiences a nationwide blackout as Hurricane Rafael makes landfall in Artemisa Province.
The United Kingdom enters a technical recession, as a report issued by the Office for National Statistics stated that the economy shrunk in two consecutive quarters amid a slowdown in consumer spending. Disasters and accidents. Eleven people are killed and four more injured during a fire at a paint factory in New Delhi, India.
2024 Minas Gerais road crash. Forty-one people are killed and seven more are injured when a bus collides with a granite block that fell from a truck on a highway in Minas Gerais, Brazil. (The Guardian) Ten people are killed and many others are injured in a stampede during a distribution of food and clothes at a church in Abuja, Nigeria.
Foreign interference in the 2024 United States elections The presidential campaign of former U.S. President Donald Trump files a formal complaint to the Federal Election Commission against the United Kingdom 's Labour Party , accusing the Labour Party of "blatant foreign interference" in the election to support the Kamala Harris presidential ...
The U.S. House of Representatives Oversight and Accountability Committee releases their final reports on the COVID-19 outbreak in the United States investigating the origins of COVID-19, Operation Warp Speed's vaccination program, and mask mandates and lockdowns. 2024 Georgian post-election protests
Armed conflicts and attacks. Russian invasion of Ukraine. Ukraine lowers the age of conscription from 27 years to 25. (The Guardian) (The New York Times)Business and economy. The United States Army Corps of Engineers begins dredging the San Juan Bay in Puerto Rico to open space for a new natural gas terminal that is expected to add $400 million to the local economy.
2024–25 Australian bushfire season. Residents of the Grampians region of Victoria, Australia, evacuate due to bushfires, with more than 41,000 hectares (100,000 acres) already burnt by the bushfires. 2024 Lobitos oil spill