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Current events/2021 May 18. A Hamas rocket kills two Thai workers and injures ten others in southern Israel, thereby bringing the death toll in the country to 12. ( Times of Israel) The death toll from the Israeli airstrikes in Gaza rise to at least 217 Palestinians killed, including 63 children. About 1,500 others have been wounded.
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs announces that nearly 1 million people are affected and at least 24 people have died in the flash floods that hit Beledweyne and Jowhar, Somalia. (CTV) In Sweden, an earthquake with a magnitude of 4.1 strikes near Kiruna. No injuries are reported.
2020 in U.S. states and territories. The following is a list of notable events, births and deaths from 2020 in the United States . The US was heavily impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, which by the end of the year killed over 300,000 people within American borders.
This is a list of protests and unrest in the United States between 2020 and 2023 against systemic racism towards black people in the United States, such as in the form of police violence. [1] [2] [3] Following the murder of George Floyd, unrest broke out in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul area on May 26, 2020, and quickly spread across the country ...
A protest sign at George Floyd Square on May 18, 2021, referencing the three other officers Kueng and Lane plead guilty. The state criminal trial of Kueng, Lane, and Thao was delayed several times to allow the federal civil rights case to proceed first.
Insurgency in Balochistan. Islamic State–Taliban conflict. 18 January. Suicide car bombing. 4 (+1) 20. Afgooye, Somalia. 2020 Afgooye bombing. A suicide car bomber targeted a place where Turkish engineers and Somali police were having lunch in Lower Shabelle .Most of the casualties were police officers.
In July 2021, several European countries were affected by severe floods. Some were catastrophic, causing deaths and widespread damage. The floods started in the United Kingdom as flash floods causing some property damage and inconvenience. Later floods affected several river basins across Europe including Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Germany ...
Current events/2021 May 19. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian officials say that fighting between Israel and Palestine will continue while working toward a ceasefire. (Reuters) The United States rejects a United Nations Security Council resolution that calls for a ceasefire in the conflict between Israel and Gaza.