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The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued in 2021. Most major events scheduled for 2020 that were postponed due to the pandemic were hosted in 2021, including the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference, Expo 2020, and sporting events such as UEFA Euro 2020, the 2020 Summer Olympics and ...
2024 Portugal wildfires. Three Portuguese firefighters die while fighting wildfires in the country's central and northern regions, bringing the death toll from the wildfires to seven people. (Reuters) At least 25 children are killed in Kaduna State, Nigeria, when a bus carrying Muslims celebrating Mawlid crashes.
This is an archived version of Wikipedia's Current events Portal from October 2021. Thirteen Allied Democratic Forces terrorists are arrested in Rwanda after planning multiple bombing attacks in Kigali. The planned attacks came as Rwanda is helping Mozambique fighting ISIL -linked groups in the Insurgency in Cabo Delgado.
2021 was mostly a year to finish what we couldn't have in 2020 due to the goddamned pandemic, between delayed sports events (football - the one actually involving feet and a ball, although gridiron also shows up thanks to a dominating quarterback - and the Olympics) and movies (broadly construed, there are twelve superhero media entries on this list, not counting future supervillain Dwayne ...
This is an archived version of Wikipedia's Current events Portal from November 2021. November 1, 2021 (Monday) edit. history. watch. Disasters and accidents. 2021 Lagos high-rise collapse. At least 15 people are killed and several others are trapped when a high-rise building under construction in Ikoyi, Lagos, Nigeria, collapses.
Current events/2021 July 11. Australian Minister for Defence Peter Dutton says that the country has ended its military involvement in Afghanistan. (VOA) Suspects in the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse say that their intent was to arrest, not kill, Moïse.
In 2021, Brazil's worst drought in almost a century threatened its electricity supply. [6] [7] Brazil relies on hydropower for two-thirds of its electricity.[8]Euractiv reported that European Commissioner for Climate Action Frans Timmermans told the European Parliament in Strasbourg that "about one fifth" of the energy price increase "can be attributed to rising CO 2 pricing on the EU's carbon ...
Armed conflicts and attacks. Syrian civil war, Israel's role in the Syrian Civil War. Syria missile strikes (January 2021) An Israeli airstrike in the city of Hama, Syria, destroys five Syrian military sites. According to SANA, four people from the same family, including two children, are killed in the strikes.