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List of ongoing armed conflicts. Map of ongoing armed conflicts (number of combat-related deaths in current or previous year): Major wars (10,000 or more) Wars (1,000–9,999) Minor conflicts (100–999) Skirmishes and clashes (1–99) The following is a list of ongoing armed conflicts that are taking place around the world.
A presidential debate hosted by ABC News between U.S. Vice President and Democratic nominee Kamala Harris and former president and Republican nominee Donald Trump takes place at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. (CNN) September 9, 2024 (Monday) edit. history.
Earth Day is an annual event on April 22 to demonstrate support for environmental protection. First held on April 22, 1970, it now includes a wide range of events coordinated globally by EARTHDAY.ORG (formerly Earth Day Network) [1] including 1 billion people in more than 193 countries. [2][1][3] In 1969 at a UNESCO Conference in San Francisco ...
As a result, most of the events listed below were known by a large portion of the world's population as they occurred. The attacks themselves lasted less than two hours; the first hijacking commenced at approximately 8:14 am EST, and the final hijacked plane crashed at 10:03 am EST. All times given are in Eastern Time Zone (EDT), or UTC−04:00.
Although numbers are unreliable, it is generally accepted that the most widely watched events worldwide are international sporting events such as the Summer Olympic Games, FIFA World Cup, [3] and the Cricket World Cup [4] with annual events such as the Super Bowl in the U.S., the Indian Premier League in India [5] and the UEFA Champions League ...
Armed Conflict Location & Event Data (ACLED) is a non-profit organization specializing in disaggregated conflict data collection, analysis, and crisis mapping.ACLED codes the dates, actors, locations, fatalities, and types of all reported political violence and demonstration events around the world in real time.
Scholarship varies on the definition of genocide employed when analysing whether events are genocidal in nature. The United Nations Genocide Convention, not always employed, defines genocide as "any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental ...
The Oktoberfest is a two-week festival held each year in Munich, Germany during late September and early October.It is attended by six million people each year and has inspired numerous similar events using the name Oktoberfest in Germany and around the world, many of which were founded by German immigrants or their descendants.