Every Day In 2022 Quiz

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State funeral held for famous anti-apartheid leader in Cape Town

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Abdalla Hadmok resigns as Prime Minister of this country

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This company becomes first to be worth $3 trillion

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This automaker becomes the first foreign automaker to top US sales

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Nationwide state of emergency is declared in this Asian country

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Nationality of tennis player whose visa is cancelled by Australia

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Three men convicted of murdering this black jogger in Feb 2020 and are sentenced to life in prison in a Georgia court

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One of the co-creators of Woodstock dies from non-Hodgkin lymphoma at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City at the age of 77

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This football tournament kicks off in Cameroon

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The first successful heart transplant to a human from this animal

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This Canadian state announces it will impose a healthcare tax on unvaccinated adults

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UK Prime Minister admits for first time that he attended a party during country's first lockdown

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This British Prince is stripped of his military titles amid continuing sexual assault allegations

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This European monarch celebrates her Golden Jubilee and marks 50 years on the throne

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Underwater volcano Hunga-***** Hunga-Ha'apai violently erupts, sending tsunami over this nearby country

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This tennis player is deported from Australia due to his vaccination status

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A Parisian court fines far-right French television pundit and presidential candidate €10,000 for calling unaccompanied migrant children "rapists" and "murderers" during a September 2020 television broadcast.

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American company Microsoft announces its intent to purchase this company for $68.7 billion.

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This cellphone service launches in America

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This woman becomes the youngest woman to fly solo around the world landing at Kortrijk-Wevelgem Airport, Belgium

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Yemen detention centre in Saada held by this rebel movement bombed killing more than 70 people

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This Italian politician withdraws his candidacy a few days before the elections for the president of the republic.

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This tropical storm kills 115 people in Madagascar, Malawi and Mozambique

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Coup in Burkina Faso as military announce on TV they have overthrown this President after his failure to stem an Islamic insurgency

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Australian government buys the copyright to this flag designed by artist Harold Thomas for A$20 million (US$14m)

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Spotify removes this singer's music from its streaming platform after the singer-songwriter's ultimatum in objection to COVID-19 misinformation in Joe Rogan's podcasts

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This person is officially sworn in as the 56th President of Honduras, making her the country's first female president.

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This two-year-old cat becomes the newest resident of the White House

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World #1 wins her home Grand Slam event for the first time; beats American Danielle Collins 6-3, 7-6

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Portuguese elections lead to this PM's Socialist Party winning an 'unexpected' majority

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Online word puzzle Wordle bought for “low seven figure sum” by this newspaper

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Legendary NFL Quarterback retires after 22 years in the sport

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More than one million Afghans have fled for this country since October due to the country's economic crisis, according to immigration authorities threatening a new migrant crisis

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Leader of ISIS is killed in Atme during a counter-terrorism raid by U.S. special forces in north-western Syria

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This city becomes the first city to stage Summer and Winter Olympics

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This cyclone kills 123 people in Southern Africa

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British Monarch becomes first to reach this milestone on the throne

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Name of the celebrations that this milestone is referred to

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Russian President meets with this European leader

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BRIT Awards: This singer wins best artist, song and album of the year

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Biggest breakthrough in 25 years is reported in Oxford for this proposed power generation

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A federal judge overturnes the Trump-era decision that removed these predators from the endangered species list.

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Australia lists this animal as endangered for the first time in Queensland, New South Wales and ACT after a steep decline in numbers

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French forces say they have killed 40 fighters in air attacks in this country linked to deadly attacks on Benin border

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Name the two teams that played in this year's Super Bowl

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Name the two teams that played in this year's Super Bowl

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The megadrought affecting the American Southwest is now considered the worst for this many years according to scientists

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In the only podium sweep of the Beijing Winter Olympics, Germany takes all 3 medals in this event

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Johannes Høsflot Klæbo teams with this person to win the men's team sprint for Norway and clinch the cross country freestyle sprint double at the Beijing Winter Olympics

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28,000 women apply for 30 jobs driving this form of transport after they are advertised for women in Saudi Arabia for the first time

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This storm moves across Europe and the UK with gusts of 120mph, killing at least 17, cutting off power to millions

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This storm was given a different name in Germany and Denmark. Name either of its alternate names.

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Representing Russian Olympic Committee, this person wins men's 50k freestyle cross country gold in Beijing to become only 2nd man to achieve 30k/50k double at a Winter Olympics

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Winner of the NBA All-Star Game Kobe Bryant Most Valuable Player Award after scoring 50 points

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Colombia's Constitutional Court, its highest court, decriminalizes this

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This national association football team's female players settle their lawsuit with the country's association football federation for $24 million and a promise to equalise pay

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Tunisia announces that they will remove this film from theaters over Gal Gadot’s role in the film and her normalization of Israel.

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Russian President describes invasion into Ukraine by using this phrase

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Champions League final is relocated to this stadium in response to Russian invasion

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The EU, US and it allies commit to removing Russian banks from this payment system

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In a constitutional referendum, Belarus votes to revoke this and to allow the country to host Russian forces permanently.

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A 40 mile Russian military convoy approaches this capital city

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US President says Russian President has "badly miscalculated" by invading into Ukraine at this annual message

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Russia seizes this large Ukrainian city

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This UFC Fighter "wants to explore" buying Chelsea for £3billion amid reports of owner Roman Abramovich looking to sell the club.

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Four-ton rocket debris crashes into the far side of the moon, unconfirmed booster from this Chinese mission in first unintentional collision with the moon

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Explorer Ernest Shackleton's ship that sank in 1915, rediscovered in the Weddell Sea, Antarctica in excellent condition

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Protesters gather in this Kazakhstani city to protest Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

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Global death toll from Covid-19 passes this total according to Johns Hopkins figures, with 57% of the world's population fully vaccinated

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US and UK ban this resource from Russia

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This person is narrowly elected President of South Korea

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Length of lockout between Major League Baseball and MLB Players Association who reach a new collective bargaining agreement; MLB teams set to play full 162 game season in 2022

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Gabriel Boric becomes world's youngest state leader at this age

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Portuguese footballer Cristiano Ronaldo becomes the sport's official top goalscorer of all time as recorded by FIFA, after scoring a brace in a Premier League match for Manchester United against this team

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After a 40-day retirement, record breaking quarterback announces he will play at least one more season in the NFL with this team

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This singer removes herself from the ballot for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame saying " I don’t feel that I have earned that right”

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Architectures' Pritzker Prize awarded to this person from Burkina Faso

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Russian airstrike on a theatre in this city kills an estimated 600 civilians

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NHL Philadelphia Flyers longest-serving captain, becomes only 2nd player in franchise history to play 1,000th game for the team

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Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov signs a law to rename the town of Isfana to this in honor of former Secretary of the Communist Party of Kirghizia.

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LeBron James moves past this person into second on NBA's all-time scoring list with 38 points in LA Lakers' 127-119 loss to Washington Wizards

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Intense fighting in this Ukrainian city continues as Russian forces encircle the city, trapping 300,000 people

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Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador inaugurates this airport to serve Mexico City

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This found in human blood for first time through new research conducted at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands

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Abel Prize, mathematics' Nobel equivalent, awarded to this American for his work on topography

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A fire breaks out at this stadium in Denver, Colorado.

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Sydney forward kicks 4 goals to become only 6th player in VFL/AFL history to kick 1,000 career goals

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British rock band performs final concert of farewell tour at O2 Arena in London, England

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Best Actor Oscar winner who controversially slaps host Chris Rock live on stage

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Governor in this state signs so called "Don't Say Gay" bill limiting LGBTQ classroom instruction

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D.R.Congo is admitted into this intergovernmental organisation

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This actor announces he is stepping away from acting after a diagnosis of aphasia

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US announces it will release this many barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve for six months to drive down prices

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Sri Lanka's President declares this after violent protests amid the country's worst economic crisis since independence

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Hundreds of civilians are found dead on the streets in this city after it is recaptured by Ukrainian forces. Journalists and Ukrainian forces say that they have uncovered evidence of war crimes by the Russian military.

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The Taliban government bans cultivation of this in Afghanistan, with consequences for world supply as it produces 80%

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This business magnate buys 9.2% of Twitter stock, making him the company's largest shareholder

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This Chinese city's lockdown extended to cover the whole city as cases of a virus increase,

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Scientists claim to have found dinosaur remains killed on the actual day a giant asteroid struck earth 66 million years ago beginning their extinction in this US State

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This person becomes the first black woman to be confirmed by the US Senate to the Supreme Court in 53-47 vote

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Name of first all-private space flight which launches to the International Space Station

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Heiress and actress Nicola Peltz (27) marries this photographer and former model in Palm Beach, Florida

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Pakistani Prime Minister who is removed from power after losing a no-confidence vote in parliament

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This person is elected Pakistan's new Prime Minister by the country's parliament

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Amount fined by UK Prime Minister and his Chancellor for breaking lockdown rules

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At least 448 people killed after heavy rains and flooding in this province in South Africa

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This Russian ship, flagship of its Black Sea fleet, sinks in the Black Sea

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Coachella Valley music festival returns after a two-year hiatus with this singer/actor the headlining act on opening night in front of 100,000

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The inaugural 2022 season of this competition begins with the Birmingham Stallions taking on the New Jersey Generals, marking the return of this competition for the first time since 1985.

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Alex Jones' companies including this website, file for bankruptcy in the US after losing defamation suits filed by families of the Sandy Hook Massacre (which he called a hoax)

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South African President declares a national state of disaster, after floods and mudslides in this area result in over 400 deaths and destroy over 4,000 homes

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US Biden administration restores climate impacts and community say to this Act, previously removed by Donald Trump

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Online streaming service suffers its first subscriber loss in a decade, losing 200,000 subscribers

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Ex-president of this country Juan Orlando Hernández extradited to the US to face drug trafficking and weapons charges

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This group agree to set up a regional military force in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo in an attempt to end the conflicts there.

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Name of main exhibition at the 59th Venice Biennale

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Name of the losing candidate in the French Presidential election

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Name of author who A Book of Ryhmes , written when she was 13, sells at auction in New York for $1.25 million

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Russia says it will stop supplying gas to these two countries, after the countries refused to pay in rubles

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Russia says it will stop supplying gas to these two countries, after the countries refused to pay in rubles

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SpaceX, launches its Crew Dragon capsule with four astronauts, including this person who becomes 1st black woman to serve extended mission on International Space Station

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Russian missiles strike Ukrainian city of Kyiv during a visit by this important UN figurehead

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London court sentences this retired tennis star to 2-1/2 years in prison for hiding assets during bankruptcy proceedings

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Name of the world's longest glass-bottom bridge at 632m opens in Moc Chau Island mountain park, Vietnam

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Name of Russian Foreign Minister who said Adolf Hitler "had Jewish blood" in interview on Italian TV, prompting outrage from Israel

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This country reopens its borders to international visitors after being closed for two years

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Heatwave continues across North and Central India disproportionally affecting the poor, with March and April temperatures the hottest ever recorded in this many years

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"'World's most dangerous trafficker" Columbian drug kingpin (known as Otoniel) is extradited to the US for drug charges

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This person is appointed White House Press Secretary to President Joe Biden, first Black and out LGBTQ person in the role

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This virus sees its first reported case in London

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Afghan women issued decree to cover this in public by Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, or her male guardian faces criminal punishment

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British actor named as the first black actor to play Doctor Who, replacing Jodie Whittaker in long-running BBC sci-fi drama

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Andy Warhol portrait of a famous actress sells for $195 million at auction in New York - highest price ever for an American artwork

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Apple ends production of this after 21 years

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This Spanish speaking country declares a state of emergency after a ransomware attack infiltrates and cripples several government agencies

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The Event Horizon Telescope collaboration reveals its first image of this supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way.

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This becomes the first city in Italy to use the QR Code in restaurants that allows you to pay the bill without waiting

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This song wins Ukraine the Eurovision song contest

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British rock band returns to Cincinnati, Ohio for the first time since tragic December 1979 stampede that killed 11 concert goers

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This country formally announces it wants to join NATO

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The United States House of Representatives holds a hearing on this topic, the first such hearing in over fifty years

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Amid a nationwide US baby formula shortage, President Joe Biden invokes this Act, requiring suppliers to fulfil orders to baby formula manufacturers first

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This car company confirms the sale of the world's most expensive car

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Transport for London announces their intention to consult on an expansion of this area to cover almost all of Greater London beginning on 23 August 2023

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This Prime Minister loses the Australian election after 9 years in government

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2017 PGA Championship champion who beats Will Zalatoris by 1 stroke in a 3-hole playoff after 54-hole leader Mito Pereira double bogeys the 72nd hole

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New York City removes the last of this object in Midtown Manhattan, they will become part of a museum display

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19 children and two teachers shot and killed at Robb Elementary School in this Texan city by an 18-year-old gunman

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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus re-elected Director-General of this organization

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This premieres in London, England, a virtual concert with computer generated images of the Swedish pop band and live musicians; all four members, as well as the king and queen of Sweden attend

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This sequel is released in the USA and goes on to gross $1.4 billion 36 years after the original

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This team wins a record 14th Champions League against Liverpool

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This man becomes the 2nd Australian to win a Grand Tour by winning the Giro d'Italia

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This is announced by Oak Ridge National Laboratory as the world's first exascale supercomputer.

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Lost 3,400 year-old Bronze Age city unearthed on the Tigris river, Iraq due to drought, likely part of this Empire, including 100 cuneiform tablets

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The United Nations agrees to officially change the English name of the country from Turkey to this

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Jury in defamation case brought by this movie star against ex-wife Amber Heard awards him $15 million in damages and compensation and Heard $2 million in damages in Fairfax, Virginia

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Two journalists from this news agency are injured and their driver is killed after their vehicle is attacked while travelling to Sievierodonetsk. The perpetrators have not been identified.

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Retired general Bajram Begaj is elected the 9th President of this country by the parliament in the 4th round of voting

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American rocker who joins British rock band Coldplay for two songs

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UK Prime Minister wins Tory party no-confidence vote by margin of 63, with this % of MPs voting against him

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New study reveals this sea grass, off Western Australia, may be world's largest plant, covering 77 square miles of sea floor, having cloned itself for 4,500 years

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This TV miniseries premieres on Disney+, with Disney's first on-screen Muslim superhero story, starring Iman Vellani

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Russian leader compares himself to this Tsar, who conquered the Baltic coast, at an exhibition to the Tsar in Moscow

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Actress who comes out on Instagram, before it emerges an Australian newspaper had given her 27 hours to comment on their upcoming story on her new female partner

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This golfer hangs on to beat fellow South African Hennie Du Plessis by a stroke to win the inaugural LIV Golf Invitational event at the Centurion GC, Hertfordshire; pockets massive US$4.75m for the victory

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This award ceremony returns after a 3 year hiatus

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World's largest freshwater fish, a stingray 3.98m x 2.2m caught in this river

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Canada and Denmark end this border dispute over this small island

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Black Death, the 14th century plague, originated in this Asian nation, according to new DNA research taken from burials at Lake Issyk Kul

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Ninety-year-old US cosmetics company files for bankruptcy, blaming supply issues and rising costs

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The United Kingdom is asked to host this event next year after its organisers concluded that Ukraine is not capable of hosting the competition

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Lithuania bans the passage of EU sanctioned goods across its territory and into this Russian exclave

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Colombian elects its first leftist President, a former member of the M-19 guerrilla movement

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It is announced that this African island will allocate a budget of $85 million to combat the effects of the war in Ukraine, which has caused an increase in the prices of gasoline and food, as 9% of the population are currently facing a food crisis.

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South Korea successfully launches its first satellites into orbit with this homegrown rocket

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Government of Bulgarian PM loses confidence vote by this many votes

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US Supreme Court declares for the first time that there is a constitutional right to carry this in public for self defense in a 6-3 vote

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US Supreme Court overturns this decision, eliminating constitutional right to choose abortion, in a 6-3 vote

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30,000-year-old intact remains of this extinct animal found frozen in permafrost in Klondike gold fields in the Yukon, Canada

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This team beats two-time defending champions Tampa Bay Lightning, 2-1 for a 4-2 series win in the Stanley Cup final

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Russian missile strike on Ukrainian shopping center in this city, with 1000 people inside kills at least 13

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This person is sentenced to 20 years in US federal prison for grooming and aiding Jeffery Epstein to abuse underage girls

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Earth sets a new record in the length of day by this many milliseconds

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Son of Ferdinand Marcos who is sworn in as President of the Philippines

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This man becomes Israel's 3rd Prime Minister since the start of 2020

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The more contagious COVID-19 subvariant achieves dominance in the US, making up 54% of cases according to the CDC

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Multiple people are killed in a mass shooting at Field's shopping mall in this Danish city.

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Lone shooter at a 4th of July parade in this Chicago suburb, kills seven and wounds 47, later captured

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This Chancellor and Health Secretary resign contributing to the eventual resignation of the British PM

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This Chancellor and Health Secretary resign contributing to the eventual resignation of the British PM

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This many MPs also resign from government, adding more pressure to the British PM whilst smashing the record of most resignations in a single day

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US scientists begin the search for this with a device in a former gold mine in Lead, South Dakota

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This former Japanese PM is assassinated while giving a public speech

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This Kazakhstani claims her first Grand Slam title with a 3-6, 6-2, 6-2 win over Tunisia's Ons Jabeur

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This hot-temper Australian tennis player plays in his first Grand Slam

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This UK Olympic gold medalist reveals he was trafficked into the UK as a child, from Djibouti, to work as a domestic servant

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This company sues Elon Musk after he pulls out of a deal to buy them, accusing him of "trashing it" and "a model of bad faith"

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This Sri Lankan President flees to the Maldives amid political and economic unrest

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First wife of former US President Donald Trump who dies

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This singer kicks off the North American leg of his "Farewell Yellow Brick Road: The Final Tour"

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American actor and film director Ben Affleck weds this American singer and actress at the Little White Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas, Nevada

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Cameron Smith of Australia wins his first major golf title at this event by 1 stroke from American Cameron Young

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This person is elected as President of India, making her the first tribal woman and youngest person to be elected to the office.

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Temperatures exceed this temperature in parts of England for 1st time ever

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Name of a meat-free restaurant in Copenhagen named world's best restaurant at a ceremony in London

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This Italian PM resigns for a second time after a week long government crisis leading to a snap election

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This woman becomes the first tribal politician to be elected President of India

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Hong Kong-based airline which completes its maiden flight from Hong Kong to Bangkok.

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Danish cyclist who claims Yellow and King of the Mountains Jersey at the 109th Tour de France

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UN says 209 people killed in gang violence in the Haitian capital, including no-gang members over 10 days, with a further 254 injured with gunshot wounds

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Russia announces it will leave this at the end of 2024

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Name of 170-carat pink diamond which is thought to be largest discovered in 300 years, announced found in Angola

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Final episodes of this TV soap after 37 years, screens in Australia

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This woman loses her UK libel trial with Coleen Rooney in the so-called Wagatha Christie trial, over Rooney accusing her of leaking stories to The Sun newspaper

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Indonesia restricts access to eight websites, including this financial online payment company, for failing to register with the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology.

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This team wins its first international tournament since 1966

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First grain ship leaves this Ukrainian port in UN brokered deal, breaking months long Russian blockade, to help alleviate global shortage

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This US official visits Taiwan which increases tensions with China

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Ascent skyscraper in Milwaukee certified as the world's tallest building made of this material at 25 stories, 86.6 metres (284 feet)

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US Attorney General Merrick Garland announces charges against four police officers for violating the rights of this victim of police brutality during a 2020 raid that resulted in her death

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Actress who crashes her car into a house in Mar Vista, Los Angeles, igniting a fire that puts her in a coma and destroys much of the house

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Israel launches airstrikes for the second day in the Gaza Strip, killing 14 people and injuring several others as part of this operation. Nineteen Palestinian Islamic Jihad members are also arrested in the West Bank.

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US Senate passes this sweeping bill, an economic package designed to combat climate change, address health care costs and tax large corporations

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FBI conduct a search of former US President Donald Trump's Florida home

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Tennis superstar announces her intention to retire in an interview with "Vogue

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Former US President Donald Trump invokes this amendment against self-incrimination at a disposition into his organization's business by NY attorney's office

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Monster" wildfire south-east of this city fought by 1,000 firefighters has burnt through 7,400 hectares (18,286 acres) part of France's driest summer since 1961

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British author who was attacked and repeatedly stabbed on stage prior to giving a lecture at Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, New York

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The German environment ministry says that an unknown, highly toxic substance is responsible for the mass die-off of wildlife in this river. High levels of mercury have also been found in the river.

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Fire at Abu Sefein Church in this Egyptian city, results in 41 deaths

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Deputy President who is declared winner of Kenyan Presidential election won with just 50.5% of the vote, defeating former Prime Minister Raila Odinga

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Sections of China's Yangtze River launch this due to severe drought conditions, including seeding clouds with silver iodide rods to encourage rain

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These two countries agree to restore full diplomatic relations after a period of tensions

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These two countries agree to restore full diplomatic relations after a period of tensions

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan and UN Secretary General António Guterres warn of "another _______" due to fighting by Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant at a summit in Lviv

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European drought uncovers river 'hunger stones' that once warned of famine, including Děčín stone (earliest inscription 1417) on this river, with carving "if you see me, then weep"

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This Modern Family actress marries reality star Wells Adams (38) at Sunstone Winery near Santa Barbara, California

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Masai Graham wins funniest joke at Edinburgh Fringe with "I tried to steal spaghetti from the shop, but the female guard saw me and I couldn't get _____"

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This person announces he will step down as chief medical advisor to the US President and as Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

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This person's single "Super Freaky Girl" debuts at #1; first female rapper to do so since Lauren Hill in 1998 with "Doo Wop (That Thing)"

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British-Belgian teen (17) becomes youngest person to fly solo around the world, landing at Sofia, Bulgaria, after a five-month journey across 52 countries.

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This US State votes to ban the sale of all new gasoline-powered cars by 2035

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Russian peacekeepers withdraw from this city and the villages of Zabukh and Sus, thereby returning the corridor to Azerbaijan.

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The Asia Cup begins in this country

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Pakistan declares a climate catastrophe for this natural disaster

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St. Louis Cardinals slugger hits career home run 694 off of major league record 450th different pitcher in 13-4 win over Reds in Cincinnati

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Final Soviet President who oversaw great change in Russia passes away in Moscow

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This statistical measure falls to its lowest level since 1996 in the US, with COVID 19 the main contributing factor

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Very expensive TV series premieres on Amazon Prime

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Attempted assassination of Argentina's vice-president fails when the gun jams outside her home in Buenos Aires

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American band and friends who hold tribute concert for drummer Taylor Hawkins at Wembley Stadium, London, England; performers include: Stewart Copland; Rush; The Pretenders; Paul McCartney; and Queen

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Mass stabbing leaves 10 people dead and 19 injured with two suspects on the run in James Smith Cree Nation, in this Canadian province

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This English musician resumes his All-Starr Band tour after two musicians recover from Covid

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This woman becomes only the 3rd female Prime Minister of the UK

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New British PM appoints her cabinet and for the first time in British politics none of these are held by white men

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This prince becomes King of the United Kingdom upon the death of his mother

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North Korea passes a new law formally declaring itself this type of state

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Best film at 79th Venice international film festival awarded to this person's documentary about photographer Nan Goldin "All the Beauty and the Bloodshed"

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This 19 year old tennis player wins the Men's US Open Title

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This star star of "Squid Game" is the first person from a foreign-language show to win an Emmy for best actor in a drama

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This state passes a near-total abortion ban in both houses of its legislature.

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Highly anticipated meeting between Chinese leader and Russian President at regional summit in this country after losses in Ukraine and tensions over Taiwan

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Tennis great announces his retirement after 20 grand slam wins

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Protests erupt in Iran following the death of this person in the custody of the country's "morality police".

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This animal is re-introduced to India after 70 years of extinction

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Steven Spielberg's film which wins The People's Choice Award at the Toronto Film Festival

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State funeral of UK's longest reigning monarch is held in Westminster Abbey

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Tigray People's Liberation Front authorities say that this country has launched a full-scale intervention into the Tigray Region of Ethiopia.

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Russian President announces partial mobilisation and calls up this many reserve troops

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This Christian denomination at 45.7% outnumber Protestants at 43.48% in Northern Ireland for the first time according to the result of the 2021 census

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St. Louis Cardinals slugger hits 2 home runs in 11-0 win over Dodgers in LA; becomes fourth player in MLB history to hit 700 career HRs

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This event held in Raleigh, North Carolina; performers include Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp, Dave Matthews. Margo Price, Chris Stapleton, Sheryl Crow, and Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats

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Cuba legalizes this as part of a new family code in a national referendum

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This NASA mission successfully crashes into the Dimorphos asteroid in the first planetary defense test

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This hurricane crosses western Cuba as a category 3 storm, leaving 1 million without power and one person dead

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Bank of England forced to step in to calm markets after mini-budget with tax-cuts by this Chancellor drives the pound to its lowest level against the US dollar (close to $1.03)

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Swedish authorities report a fourth gas leak from these pipelines.

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Russian President signs treaties absorbing these 4 occupied regions into the Russian Federation. This annexation is seen as a breach of international law by the global community

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Russian President signs treaties absorbing these 4 occupied regions into the Russian Federation. This annexation is seen as a breach of international law by the global community

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Russian President signs treaties absorbing these 4 occupied regions into the Russian Federation. This annexation is seen as a breach of international law by the global community

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Russian President signs treaties absorbing these 4 occupied regions into the Russian Federation. This annexation is seen as a breach of international law by the global community

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At least 125 people die during a stampede in Kanjuruhan Stadium in this country

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Haitian authorities announce an unexpected resurgence of this disease in the country and report that at least seven people have died from the disease.

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Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine awarded to this person for "discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution" (including sequencing genome of the Neanderthal)

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Noble Prize for Physics won by these 3 scientists,for their groundbreaking experiments using entangled quantum states

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Noble Prize for Physics won by these 3 scientists,for their groundbreaking experiments using entangled quantum states

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Noble Prize for Physics won by these 3 scientists,for their groundbreaking experiments using entangled quantum states

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This person gets his 2nd Nobel Prize in the field of Chemistry for helping work on Click Chemistry

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French writer who is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature

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Belarusian activist who is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize with two others

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Landslide caused by unusually heavy rain kills at least 50 in Las Tejerias in this Latin American nation

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American runner who runs US record 2:18:29 in Chicago Marathon, finishing 2nd by 4:11 to repeat winner Ruth Chepngetich of Kenya

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Manager of the Portuguese national football team who is convicted of creating a fictitious company to pay less taxes from his FPF salary.

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Irish-British-American Golden Globe and multiple Tony Award-winning stage and screen actress (Gaslight; The Manchurian Candidate; Mame; Murder, SheWrote; Beauty and the Beast), dies at 96

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American conspiracy theorist, radio host, and provocateur ordered by a Connecticut defamation trial jury to pay $965 million to families of those killed in 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School for falsely claiming on his broadcasts that none of the victims killed had actually died and that their relatives were crisis actors

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Jury recommends sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole for shooter who pled guilty to killing 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in this Miami suburban town, Florida in 2018

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Psychedelic rock band who were honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

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Gunfire breaks out amid a fire at this prison in Tehran, Iran, resulting in the death of eight inmates and the wounding of 61 more.

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This country cause a historic upset by defeating former champions Sri Lanka by 55 runs in the opening game of the T20 World Cup in Australia.

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This K-pop band announces that all seven members will be serving in the South Korean military for the required 18 month minimum

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American cellist who is awarded the fifth $1 million Birgit Nilsson Prize

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This state names Podokesaurus holyokensis ("swift-footed lizard of Holyoke") as official state dinosaur

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British PM resigns and becomes shortest serving PM in history overtaking this person who died of tuberculosis whilst in office

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This person is acclaimed as the leader of the British Columbia New Democratic Party and becomes the next Premier of British Columbia following the disqualification of his sole opponent, climate activist Anjali Appadurai.

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This woman becomes Italy's first female PM in a coalition of parties led by the Brothers of Italy

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This actor shocks Doctor Who fans becoming the first actor to play two separate incarnations of the Time Lord

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US Mint issues first US currency featuring an Asian-American: Coin is part of American Women Quarters Program celebrates female trailblazers like this silent film actress

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This man officially becomes the 3rd British PM of the calendar year with no other candidate reaching 100 nominations from Tory MPs

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Thousands of protesters in this Iranian city defy security forces to mark 40-day Arba'een (period of mourning) for Mahsa Amini, a 22-year old who died in police custody for not wearing a hijab properly

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Elon Musk takes over as owner of Twitter, immediately fires this many executives

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Hammer-wielding intruder attacks the 82-year old husband of US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, at their California home

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Crowd surge at Halloween festivities in this South Korean city, leaves 155 people dead

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This person is elected President of Brazil after a tight run-off race against sitting President Jair Bolsonaro

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This singer becomes the first artist in history to claim all top 10 slots on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart, all tracks from her album "Midnights"

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Fifth Israeli election held in under four years won by this former Prime Minister and his Likud party, defeating sitting Prime Minister Yair Lapid

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Ethiopia’s government and authorities from this Semitic-speaking ethnic group reach an agreement end fighting after two years at peace talks in South Africa

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This US State approves drug-policy reform ballot legalizing psilocybin (magic) mushrooms for use in therapy, along with decriminalizes possession of small amounts of drugs

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Columbia Records releases album by this singer - Live At The Bon Soir", recorded in an NYC nightclub in November 1962

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This person scores 787th career goal for the Washington Capitals surpassing Gordie Howe of the Detroit Red Wings, for all-time NHL record for most goals scored for a single team

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Plane crashes into this lake in Tanzania killing 19 people on board, with 24 survivors

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French tennis star who scores the biggest title win of her career beating Aryna Sabalenka 7–6, 6–4 in the WTA Finals in Fort Worth, Texas

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Actor who is named People magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive, says “My mom will be so happy”

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Archaeologists announce discovery of oldest decipherable sentence on this object “May this tusk root out the lice of the hair and the beard.” in 1,700 B.C Canaanite script from Tel Lachish, Israel

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Afghanistan's ruling Taliban ban women from using these areas

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Cypto currency, founded by Sam Bankman-Fried files for bankruptcy, amid accusations of financial mismanagement and criminal misconduct

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Amazon founder Jeff Bezos announces his 3rd 'Courage and Civility Award' of $100M to country singer-songwriter to distribute to charities of her choice

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This hotel in Miami Beach, Florida, built in 1957 and host to JFK, The Beatles, and Frank Sinatra is imploded; closed in 2017 after an electrical fire

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Grammy Award winner who reveals she is suffering from ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease) and is no longer able to sing

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Brooklyn Public Library celebrates its 125th anniversary and announces Maurice Sendak's 1963 title is its most borrowed book

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This NASA mission carrying the uncrewed Orion spacecraft on a test mission around the Moon and back launches from Florida

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This Russian ice dancer who won Olympic gold in 1976 dies at 76

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International Bureau of Weights and Measures votes to abandon this (to take effect 2035). Originally inserted in 1972 to reconcile atomic and astronomical time scales

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General elections in this Asian nation produce the country's first ever hung parliament with opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim securing the most seats

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Disney announces this person's return as chief executive less than a year after he retired from the company

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Magnitude 5.6 earthquake strikes near this city on the Indonesian island of Java, killing at least 268 people, with over 1000 injured

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New British monarch hosts his first state visit - welcoming this South African President to Buckingham Palace

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European Space Agency is the first to announce the inclusion of a disabled person amongst their new class of astronauts

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British born cat aged almost 27 crowned the world's oldest cat by the Guinness Book of Records

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American Grammy and Academy Award-winning singer-songwriter ("Fame"; "Flashdance...What A Feeling"), and actress (Fame; D.C. Cab), dies at 63

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Rare public protests held in various Chinese cities over the governments restrictive COVID-19 policies, after 10 people die in an apartment fire in this city

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Albanian President Bajram Begaj grants citizenship to this pop star for promoting the country through her international fame and her musical talents

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Merriam-Webster's word of the year is this colloquialism

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Canadian scientists announce discovery of two new minerals, never seen on earth before from 'Nightfall' meteorite found in Somalia

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Canadian scientists announce discovery of two new minerals, never seen on earth before from 'Nightfall' meteorite found in Somalia

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9th General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and 5th President of China dies

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Us President and First Lady host their first state dinner at the White House with this French President

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Two men disguised in burqas attack a mosque in Kabul while this former Afghan prime minister is inside. The attackers killed a civilian and injured two others before being shot dead by security guards.

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FBI investigate a targeted attack on two electricity substations in this US State which closes schools and leaves around 40,000 without power for days

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"A Beautiful Noise, The Neil Diamond Musical" opens at this theatre

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Construction begins on world's biggest radio telescope in South Africa and Australia with collection area of nearly 500,000 square meters. Built to test Einstein's theories and search for extra-terrestrial life

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Indonesia passes a new criminal code outlawing sex outside of this, even for foreigners

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Democratic Senator who wins re-election over Republican Herschel Walker in run-off for the Georgia Senate seat, taking the US Senate to a clearer 51-49 Democratic majority

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Documentary series "Harry and Meghan" begins airing on this streaming service

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Peruvian Vice president who is sworn in as country's first woman president.

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En Nesyri scores only goal in match against Portugal to send the very first African nation into the semi finals of the World Cup

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Federal authorities in the United States announce the arrest of a Libyan man charged in relation with this bombing in 1988, which killed 270 people.

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This person is appointed editor-in-chief of The Wall Street Journal, first woman to lead the paper

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US President Joe Biden signs the this Act into law, mandating federal recognition of same-sex marriages in ceremony at the White House

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Europe's largest bank says it will stop financing new oil and gas fields, in attempt to lower global greenhouse gas emissions

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Tens of thousands of people in this profession go on strike in England, Wales and Northern Ireland in largest strike in NHS history

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Pokemon producers announce main man and Pikachu will leave the anime series after 25 years

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This team recover from 33-0 down at halftime to beat Indianapolis Colts, 39-36 in overtime; biggest comeback in NFL history

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This football player scores a hat trick for France in the World Cup final but ends up on the losing side

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This Argentine magician scores two and arguably cements his position as the GOAT in many eyes by finally claiming the most prized trophy in Football by winning the World Cup in Qatar

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Dutch Prime Minister formally apologies for the slave trade on behalf of the Dutch state in a speech at the national archives in The Hague

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Fiji's main opposition parties, led by this person form a coalition government, ending 16 years of rule by Frank Bainimarama's FijiFirst government

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Ukrainian President makes his first foreign visit since the invasion began to this city

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US Drug Enforcement Administration says it seized enough of this pain medication in 2022 to kill every American,

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Washington Capitals center scores two goals to move past Gordie Howe on most NHL career goals list in 4-1 win over visiting Winnipeg Jets

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This American golfer (7 x LPGA Player of Year, 6 x major titles, record 88 LPGA Tour wins), dies at 83

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A court in the Maldives sentences this former president to 11 years in prison on money laundering and bribery charges.

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Three members of this endangered species have died within ten days from each other in Cambodia, prompting an increasing alarming situation.

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This person becomes the first player to register a 60-21-10 triple-double in NBA history as the Dallas Mavericks beat the NY Knicks, 126-121; first 60-point game in Mavs franchise history

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Indian writer, Sanskrit grammarian, and literary critic dies at age of 86

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This 3 time World Cup winner passes away after a battle with cancer

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Cristiano Ronaldo signs for this Saudi Arabian club in a deal reportedly earning the player up to $200 million

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Former Pope who served from 2005 until his resignation in 2013, dies at the age of 95.