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The King of Eswatini, officially Ngwenyama, is the title of the male monarch and head of state of Eswatini. The King (Ngwenyama) reigns together with the Queen Mother (Indlovukazi)…
King Mswati III of Swaziland announces that his country's name will change to Eswatini
Protests against President of Nicaragua Daniel Ortega began in 2014, when the construction of the Nicaragua Canal was about to begin, and several hundred protesters blocked roads a…
Anti-government protests start in Nicaragua
On May 18, 2018, a school shooting occurred at Santa Fe High School in Santa Fe, Texas, United States, in the Houston metropolitan area. Ten people – eight students and two teacher…
A school shooting at Santa Fe High School in Texas kills ten people
On 18 June 2018, around 7:58:35 a.m. Japan Standard Time, an earthquake measuring 5.6 Mw on the moment magnitude scale struck in northern Osaka Prefecture, Japan. The earthquake's …
An earthquake of magnitude 6
The Knesset is the unicameral legislature of Israel.
The Knesset passes the controversial Nationality Bill, which defines the State of Israel as the nation-state of the…
The 2018 Suwayda attacks were a string of suicide bombings and mass shooting incidents in Suwayda, Syria on 25 July 2018. At least 258 people were killed and 180 wounded. The attac…
As-Suwayda attacks: Coordinated attacks occur in Syria.
Wendy Tuck is a yachtswoman and previous chief instructor and principal at the Clipper Race training base in Sydney, Australia. She was the first female skipper to win a round-the-…
Australian Wendy Tuck becomes the first female skipper to win the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race.
Two burka-clad men kill 29 people and injure more than 80 in a suicide attack on a Shia mosque in eastern Afghanistan.
Two burka-clad men kill 29 people and injure more than 80 in a suicide attack on a Shia mosque in eastern Afghanistan.
Sarmada is a town in the Harem District, Idlib Governorate of Syria. It is in the extreme northwest of Syria near the border with Turkey.
Thirty-nine civilians, including a dozen children, are killed in an explosion at a weapons depot in Sarmada, Syria.
On 14 August 2018, around 11:36 CEST a section of the Ponte Morandi in Genoa, Liguria, Italy, collapsed during a rainstorm, killing forty-three people. The remains were demolished …
The collapse of the Ponte Morandi bridge in Genoa, Italy, left 16 people injured and 43 people killed.
Jair Messias Bolsonaro is a Brazilian politician and former military officer who served as the 38th president of Brazil from 2019 to 2023. He previously served as a member of the C…
Brazilian presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro survives a stabbing at a campaign rally in Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais.
National Fire and Rescue Administration, is an agency under the Ministry of Emergency Management which oversees the China Fire and Rescue, China's firefighter force.
The National Fire and Rescue Administration is founded, replacing the China Fire Services [zh] and the People's Armed…
Princess Eugenie, Mrs Jack Brooksbank, is a member of the British royal family. She is the younger daughter of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Sarah Ferguson, and a niece of King Ch…
Princess Eugenie marries Jack Brooksbank at St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.
The Cannabis Act is a law which legalized recreational cannabis use in Canada in combination with its companion legislation Bill C-46, An Act to Amend the Criminal Code. The law is…
The recreational use of cannabis is legalized in Canada.
The New York Times (NYT) is a newspaper based in Manhattan, New York City. The New York Times covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces and re…
The New York Times and The New Yorker win the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for breaking news of the Harvey Weinstei
A vehicle-ramming attack occurred on April 23, 2018, when a rented van was driven along Yonge Street through the North York City Centre business district in Toronto, Ontario, Canad…
A vehicle-ramming attack kills 11 people and injures 15 in Toronto
The Panmunjom Declaration for Peace, Prosperity and Reunification of the Korean Peninsula was adopted between the supreme leader of North Korea, Kim Jong Un, and the president of S…
The Panmunjom Declaration is signed between North and South Korea, officially declaring their intentions to end the Kore
The Syrian Civil War was an armed conflict that began with the Syrian revolution in March 2011, when popular discontent with the Ba'athist regime ruled by Bashar al-Assad triggered…
Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) resumes the Deir ez-Zor campaign in order to clear the remnants of
Barisan Nasional is a political coalition in Malaysia. It was founded in 1974 as a coalition of centre-right and right-wing ethnic political parties to succeed the Alliance Party, …
Barisan Nasional, the coalition that had governed Malaysia since the country's independence in 1957, suffer an historic
On 21 October 2018, a passenger train derailed in Yilan County, Taiwan, killing 18 people and injuring 187. At the time, it was Taiwan's deadliest rail accident since a collision n…
A passenger train derails in Yilan County, Taiwan, killing 18 people and injuring 187.
Leicester City Football Club is a professional football club based in Leicester, East Midlands, England. The club competes in EFL League One, the third tier of English football.
Leicester City F.C. owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha dies in a helicopter crash along with four others after a Premier…
On 12 May 2018, a 20-year-old Chechnya-born French citizen, armed with a knife, killed one pedestrian and injured four others near the Palais Garnier opera house in Paris, France, …
Paris knife attack: A man is fatally shot by police in Paris after killing one and injuring several others
Cubana de Aviación Flight 0972 was a scheduled domestic flight operated by Mexican charter airline Global Air on behalf of Cubana de Aviación, from José Martí International Airport…
Cubana de Aviación Flight 972 crashes in Santiago de las Vegas after takeoff from José Martí International Airport in Ha
The wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle was held on Saturday 19 May 2018 in St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle in the United Kingdom. The groom is a member of the British r…
The wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle is held at St George's Chapel, Windsor, with an estimated global audience