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How The World Changed In 2014

23/12/2014

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When we look back at 2014 we’re going to remember a lot of great moments, birthdays, concerts, holidays, family occasions, etc. But what was the year all about, as in what actually happened in the real world, here’s a review with some pictures to show how the political landscape changed in 2014 and how the world is still embroiled in never ending war. Political tensions between East and West are at their highest since the end of the cold war. The Russian ruble went into free fall after trade sanctions imposed by the west impacted its economy and banking sector. Russia in turn strengthened its ties with China and Iran. The rise in Islamic terror groups across the Middle East and Africa threatened global peace in 2014. When we see these events in the news we see them as separate incidents, what we don't see is the chain of events which make up the global landscape. We are told about a car bomb but forget that the explosion is part of a war, we don't look at the faces of the people who suffer most. We don't see how a political divide in the Ukraine impacts on a civil war in Syria. This post is a bird's eye view of the world which will demonstrate political ties and motivations and hopefully allow you to understand the significance of events as they happen in 2015.

January 9th

A suicide bomber killed 23 Iraqi army recruits and wounded 36 in Baghdad in an attack on men volunteering to join the government's struggle to crush al-Qaeda-linked militants in Anbar province. Members of the terrorist group
al-Qaeda in Iraq, which recently changed its name to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), is believed to be responsible for the attack. 

 







January 10th

On January 10th U.S. forces in Afghanistan accidentally shot dead a four year old boy, straining ties with the Karzai Administration.

"As the weather was dusty, the marine forces based there thought he was an enemy and opened fire. As result of mistaken fire, he was killed," Omar Zwak, spokesman for the governor of the southern province of Helmand

January 14th

Moscow authorities expel writer David Satter from the country in the first expulsion of a US journalist since the cold war. This event is the first sign that relations between Moscow and Washington are beginning to deteriorate.
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January 20th

Iran suspended its most sensitive nuclear development work and world powers immediately responded by lifting some of the sanctions that have crippled the oil-based economy. 

Jan 28th

Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who leaked a trove of government documents to journalists last year, was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. He lives in an undisclosed location in Russia having been granted  a three-year residency permit allowing him to travel freely within the country.

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Feb 15th

Peace talks aimed at forging a path out of Syria's civil war reach an impasse after five days of negotiations. The Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, accused the US of using the talks for the sole purpose of "regime change". British-based opposition group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the death toll in the three-year conflict had now reached 140,000, with 5,000 people killed since the first round of peace talks began on 22 January.

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Feb 24th

The US signaled it no longer recognises Viktor Yanukovych as Ukraine's president, as the country’s interim president Olexander Turchynov prepares to form a unity government. The President of Russia, Vladimir Putin responds by ordering snap military exercises near the Ukraine border.

Feb 27th

Ousted President Viktor Yanukovich, whose whereabouts remained unknown before he turned up in Russia, issues a statement saying that he is still the legitimate president and "ready to fight to the end". Around 50 armed men bearing Russian national symbols seize the building of the Supreme Council of Crimea

Feb 28th

Russia finally confirms that it has moved troops in Ukraine's Crimea region to protect its own interests.

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Mar 1st

Russian President Vladimir Putin formally asks the Federation Council of the Russian Parliament for approval to use armed forces in Ukraine. He receives unanimous support. The Council also demands for President Putin to recall the Russian Federation ambassador to the United States.

Mar 6th

Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro severed diplomatic relations with Panama, accusing the Central American nation of being a "lackey" for the United States in a conspiracy plot against his government.

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Mar 9th

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappears with 239 people from 15 countries on board, the plane disappeared without a trace and it remains one of the biggest mysteries in aviation history. 

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 Mar 13th

Israeli media reported that up to 55 rockets had been fired into Israel. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for Wednesday's attack, saying that over 90 rockets had been fired toward Israel. No injuries reported.

Mar 16th

Voters in Crimea vote overwhelmingly to leave Ukraine and rejoin Russia. Ukraine, the European Union, and the United States condemn the referendum.

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Mar 21st

President of Russia Vladimir Putin signs the legislation completing the annexation of Crimea.

Mar 24th

North Korea fires two mid-range ballistic missiles as the leaders of the United States, Japan and South Korea meet to discuss the security threat it poses to the region. It demonstrated North Korea’s first tests of midrange projectiles in nearly five years, two Rodong missiles blasted off from mobile launching vehicles from and flew 403 miles before landing in the sea between North Korea and Japan.
April 7th

Pro-Russian activists occupying a government building in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk have proclaimed the creation of a sovereign Donetsk People's Republic independent of the capital Kiev.

April 10th

88 civilians are killed in Aleppo by barrel bombs dropped from Syrian government warplanes.

April 23rd

Palestinian rival factions Fatah and Hamas announce reconciliation to form a unity government. They split up violently in 2007.

April 24th

Washington accuses Moscow of fomenting unrest in the Ukraine. President Barack Obama blamed Russia for failing to carry out the Geneva deal and said he was ready to impose new sanctions.

April 29th

At least 37 people are killed and 85 others are injured in multiple explosions in the Syrian city of Homs.

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May 12th

Islamist militants Boko Haram have released a video apparently showing about 130 girls kidnapped from a school in northern Nigeria. Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau said the children would be held until all imprisoned militants have been freed. Boko Haram means "Western education is sin." Around 2,000 people were killed in Boko Haram attacks in the first four months of 2014 alone.

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May 18th

More than 3,000 Chinese citizens are evacuated from Vietnam, with 2 Chinese killed and more than 100 injured in the riot last week following China drilling for oil in the South China Sea.

May 22nd

Negotiations between Iran and Russia regarding the building of two additional nuclear reactors at Iran's Bushehr power plant take place.

May 23rd

Russia and China veto a U.N. Security Council resolution that would have asked the International Criminal Court to investigate war crimes in Syria.
May 31st

Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, previously the only United States military prisoner held captive in Afghanistan, is released in exchange for five Taliban prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay. The move evidences dialogue between the Taliban and the United States.

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Jun 3rd

Amid the crisis in Ukraine, President of the United States Barack Obama announces the European Reassurance Initiative—a $1bn plan to fund the increase of the United States military presence in Europe and step up defense capabilities of Ukraine, Moldova, and Georgia.

Jun 11th

Insurgents continue their offensive, gaining control of the city of Tikrit – Iraq, the second provincial capital to fall in as many days.

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Jun 12th

The United Nations Security Council meets to discuss the rapid progress of an Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant offensive towards Baghdad.

Jun 14th

A Ukraine military Ilyushin Il-76 airlifter is shot down, killing all 49 people on board.

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Jun 17th

275 United States Military personnel are deployed to Iraq to provide extra protection for the American embassy in Baghdad.

Jun 20th

12 people including 9 children are killed when a Syrian army helicopter strikes a refugees camp south of Damascus.

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Jun 23rd

Pakistani forces conduct airstrikes on terrorist hideouts in North Waziristan, killing 25 militants.

Kenyan Air Force planes attack the al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabab killing 80 of its fighters

Jun 28th

The Iraqi Army expels militants from the centre of the city of Tikrit amongst heavy fighting.

Jun 29th

Boko Haram torch four churches, killing at least 30 people, near the town of Chibok, a village just kilometers from the town where more than 200 schoolgirls were kidnapped ealier this year.

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Jul 1st

Israel's military hits 34 targets across the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip in response to the more than 20 rockets that were fired into Israel from Gaza

Jul 3rd

A 31 year old male employee of Germany's intelligence service BND is arrested on suspicions of spying for the United States.

Jul 8th

The Prime Minister of Australia Tony Abbott and the Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe sign a free trade agreement in the Australian capital Canberra.

Jul 16th

The US widens sanctions against Russia, targeting major banks and energy companies.

Israeli shelling kills four children playing in a port next to Al-Deira hotel in Gaza, base to many journalists.

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Jul 17th

A Malaysia Airlines jet carrying 295 people is shot down in east Ukraine on a flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur. There are no survivors.  Other airlines announce they are now avoiding eastern Ukraine.

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Jul 18th

President Barack Obama says the United States has "increasing confidence" that the missile that shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 came from Russian separatists in Ukraine - and that Russia bears responsibility for the crisis.

Jul 19th

According to Hamas the death toll from Israel's offensive against the Gaza Strip exceeds 300

Jul 21st

The United Nations Security Council calls for an immediate ceasefire on the Gaza Strip after an emergency meeting

Jul 24th

At least 15 Palestinians are killed and 200 injured in a strike on a UNRWA-run school in Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza, crowded with hundreds of displaced civilians. UN condemns the shelling, saying it asked the Israel Defense Force for time to evacuate civilians.

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Jul 26th

Insurgents stop minibuses in Ghōr Province, Afghanistan and execute 14 Shiite Muslims

Jul 29th

Eighteen people die in airstrikes on Gaza City as the fighting intensifies.

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Aug 3rd

The pro-Russian separatists in Donetsk renew their calls for Russia to send troops and arms to their aid.

A UNRWA-run school in Rafah is hit by an Israeli air strike. At least seven people are thought to have been killed, and at least 30 injured. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon condemns in strong terms the attack as 'moral outrage and criminal act'.

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Aug 4th

Human Rights Watch found that Israeli forces have deliberately killed Palestinian civilians in Gaza, including ones fleeing the conflict.

Aug 5th

Israeli ground forces leave the Gaza Strip ahead of an Egyptian mediated ceasefire.

Aug 6th

Saudi Arabia grants Lebanon US$1 billion to help the country in its conflict with self-declared jihadist fighters on the border with Syria.

Aug 8th

The United Nations says the persecution of the Yazidi by ISIS may be genocide.

Aug 15th

A column of at least 23 Russian armoured vehicles and military trucks crosses the border from Russia into Ukraine

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Aug 17th

Chadian troops rescue 85 hostages from Boko Haram who had been kidnapped in Nigeria and taken over the border into Chad.

Aug 19th

American journalist James Wright Foley, kidnapped in 2012, is beheaded by Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.

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Aug 20th

In response to rocket fire six hours before the end of a cease-fire, Israeli airstrikes kill 11 Palestinians including the wife and infant son of Hamas military leader Mohammed Deif.

Aug 22nd

At least 18 people are executed in public by Hamas after being accused of "collaborating" with Israel

Aug 26th

Russia says that the 10 armed Russian paratroopers captured during the night in the village of Dzerkalne, Donetsk Oblast, roughly 20 kilometers from the Russian border, only entered Ukraine by "mistake".

Aug 31st

China's parliament decides Hong Kong cannot freely choose its next leader in 2017. The decision kick starts a pro-democracy political wave known as The Umbrella Movement. 

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Sep 6th

The United States says that it will not coordinate with Iran in the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.

Sep 14th

Australia sends combat aircraft and special forces to the Middle East to help in the fight against Islamic State

Sep 18th

The President of Ukraine visits the United States to seek assistance in combating separatists in eastern Ukraine.

The Secretary General of the United Nations Ban Ki-Moon announces the creation of an emergency mission to respond to the Ebola virus in West Africa

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Sep 19th

Japan vows to continue its whaling program despite passage of an anti-whaling vote in the International Whaling Commission.

Sep 22nd

Students from more than 20 universities and colleges in Hong Kong boycott class in protest against Beijing’s decision to rule out fully democratic elections.

Sep26th

The People's Republic of China says that 50 people died in recent violence in the western province of Xinjiang.

Oct 1st

At least 45 people (including 41 children) are killed and 56 injured following a suicide bomber attack on the Akrameh al-Makhzumi school in Homs.

Oct 9th

A suicide bomb attack kills at least 20 people in Tahrir Square in the Yemeni capital Sana'a.

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Oct 10th

ISIL forces capture the headquarters of Kurdish forces defending the Syrian border town of Kobane, the United Nations warns of a massacre.

Oct 20th

A huge explosion occurs in a rubber factory in the rebel held city of Donetsk with the Russian media claiming it was caused by a missile. The Government of Ukraine denies the charges.

Oct 30th

Sweden officially recognises Palestine as a sovereign state. Israel recalls its ambassador to Sweden

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Nov 1st

Turkey breaks from its policy of preventing Kurdish fighters from entering Syria and allows 150 Iraqi Peshmerga to cross into Kobanê.

Nov 2nd

Over 300 members of the Sunni Albu Nimr tribe are executed by ISIS militants in Anbar Province, western Iraq.

At least 60 people were killed and 110 injured by a suicide bombing in the Pakistani city of Lahore

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Nov 7th

United States President Barack Obama orders 1500 more troops into Iraq.

Nov 10th

A suicide bomber kills at least 47 students at a school assembly in the Nigerian town of Potiskum in Yobe state

Nov 17th

Australia and the People's Republic of China conclude a free trade deal worth $18 billion

Nov 24th

Boko Haram captures the northeastern Nigerian town of Damasak, killing 50 and forcing more than 3,000 to flee across the border into Niger.

Nov 30th

Coalition forces launch over 30 airstrikes on Raqqa, the de facto capital of ISIL.

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Dec 6th

The Syrian Army repels an ISIL offensive on the Deir ez-Zor air base, resulting in at least 119 casualties total.

Dec 16th

Taliban gunmen storm one of the military-run Army Public Schools in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, killing at least 141, including 132 children and nine employees, with most of five hundred students evacuated

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Dec 19th

The Pakistan Armed Forces conduct operations in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, killing seventy-seven militants


Dec 22nd

Russia's central bank announce a bailout of the troubled Trust Bank - the first such rescue in the country's currency crisis. The Bank of Russia said it has placed Trust under its supervision and would hand it 30bn roubles (€450m) to avoid bankruptcy.



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