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Mumbai · Maharashtra · india

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August 7, 2026 Finance

India supports rupee amid oil

The Reserve Bank of India was believed to have intervened in the foreign exchange market on August 7, 2026, as the Indian rupee faced renewed pressure from rising global oil prices. Curre...

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June 1, 2026 Breaking

Jared Kushner Ivanka Trump Sazan Island protests

Tirana · Albania

Claims circulating online allege involvement of Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump in discussions or interest related to Sazan Island, a small island located off the coast of Albania. These c...

April 8, 2026 Wars & Conflicts

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US and Iran begin ceasefire

Iran

The United States and Iran entered a two-week ceasefire on April 8, 2026, following more than five weeks of military conflict. U.S. President Donald Trump announced the agreement after me...

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March 7, 2026 Wars & Conflicts

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Dozens killed in Lebanon during Israel search for missing navigator

Sidon · South Governorate · Lebanon

Dozens of Lebanese civilians have been killed as Israeli forces conduct operations in southern Lebanon searching for a navigator who has been missing for 40 years. The military action rep...

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February 28, 2026 Wars & Conflicts

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US and Israel strike Iran

The United States and Israel launched coordinated military strikes against Iran on February 28, 2026. The operation targeted Iranian military facilities, missile capabilities, government ...

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February 19, 2026 Wars & Conflicts

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Palestinian-american teenager murdered by israeli settlers in west bank

West Bank · Ramallah · Palestine

Palestinian-american teenager murdered by israeli settlers in west bank On February 18, 2026, a 17-year-old Palestinian-American teenager was shot and killed by Israeli settlers near the...

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February 12, 2026 Politics

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Trump Calls for Netanyahu Pardon

Prime Minister’s Office · Jerusalem · Jerusalem District · Israel

On February 12, 2026, U.S. President Donald Trump publicly demanded that Israeli President Isaac Herzog grant a pardon to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, thrusting himself into one of ...

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Riyadh · Riyadh Province · Saudi Arabia

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February 4, 2026 Finance

Global Oil Prices Rise After Saudi and Russia Production Cut Extension

Global Oil Prices Rise After Saudi and Russia Production Cut Extension On February 4, 2026, global oil benchmark prices increased following announcements that Saudi Arabia and ...

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January 31, 2026 Wars & Conflicts

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Children of Foreign Workers Join IDF Amid Manpower Shortages

Israel Defense Forces Headquarters (Kirya) · Tel Aviv · Tel Aviv District · Israel

Children of Foreign Workers Join IDF Amid Manpower Shortages Reports indicate that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has faced increased recruitment needs due to ongoing operatio...

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January 25, 2026 Wars & Conflicts

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Israeli Army Investigates Soldier After Fake Kidnapping and Ransom Demand

IDF Military Police Headquarters · Tel Aviv · Tel Aviv District · Israel

Israeli Army Investigates Soldier After Fake Kidnapping and Ransom Demand The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed that it launched an internal investigation into a soldier ac...

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January 23, 2026 Finance

U.S. Stock Markets Mixed as Intel Shares Plunge and Gold Hits Record

On January 23, 2026, U.S. financial markets showed mixed performance amid corporate earnings news and geopolitical uncertainty. Major indexes including the S&P 500 and Nasdaq ended the se...

January 22, 2026 Breaking

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Tens of Thousands Rally in Sakhnin Against Crime and Extortion

Sakhnin · Northern District · Israel

Tens of thousands of people demonstrated in the northern city of Sakhnin against a wave of violent crime, extortion and perceived police inaction. The protest comes amid a general strike ...

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May 5, 2025 Breaking

Mother waits 36 years for Israel to return son's body

Mother Waits 36 Years for Israel to Return Son’s Body The article describes the story of a Palestinian mother who waited 36 years for Israel to return the body of her son, who was k...

George Floyd Square · Minneapolis · Minnesota · United States

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May 25, 2020 Breaking

George Floyd: Death in Police Custody, Legal Outcomes, and Global Impact

George Floyd was a 46-year-old Black American man who died on May 25, 2020, during an arrest by Minneapolis police officers after a store clerk reported that he may have used a counterfei...

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January 27, 2013 Breaking

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Israel accused of forcing birth control on Ethiopian Jewish women

Tel Aviv · Tel Aviv District · Israel

Reports in Israel raised serious concerns that Ethiopian Jewish women were given long-term birth control injections without full consent. The allegations centered on the use of Depo-Prove...

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January 21, 2002 Breaking

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Ashley Madison Data Breach and Service Overview

Toronto · Ontario · Canada

Ashley Madison is an online dating and social networking service launched on January 21, 2002. It was founded by Darren J. Morgenstern and Noel Biderman, and later operated by the Canadia...

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December 31, 1913 Breaking

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Major Global Events of 1913

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January 1, 1900 Wars & Conflicts

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Selk'nam Genocide in Patagonia

Selk'nam Territory · Tierra del Fuego · Magallanes · Chile

The Selk'nam genocide refers to the systematic extermination of the Selk'nam people, indigenous inhabitants of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago in Patagonia, during the late 19th and earl...

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July 18, 1848 Breaking

Women’s Rights Seneca Falls Convention

Seneca Falls Methodist Chapel Site · Seneca Falls · New York · United States

The first women’s rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York, demanded legal, social, and political equality, sparking the organized women’s suffrage movement in the United States.

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March 15, 1700 Breaking

Advancements in Chinese Porcelain Craft

Jingdezhen Kilns · Jingdezhen · Jiangsu · China

Chinese artisans in Jingdezhen have significantly advanced porcelain production techniques, enhancing the quality and durability of ceramics. These improvements include refined glazing me...

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Student Protests Shake the Regime

8 December 1990 — Students in Tirana begin demonstrations demanding political and economic change. The protests rapidly become a national challenge to communist one-party rule.

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Fascist Italy Invades Albania

7 April 1939 — Italian forces invade Albania after King Zog rejects Mussolini's demands for greater Italian control. Zog flees the country and Albania is incorporated into the Italian imp...

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Egyptian Revolution of 1919

March–April 1919 — Mass demonstrations, strikes and civil unrest erupt after British authorities exile nationalist leader Saad Zaghloul and other members of the Wafd movement. Students, w...

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Vienna Plans a Coercive Ultimatum

7–23 July 1914 — Austro-Hungarian leaders debate how to transform the Sarajevo assassination into a confrontation with Serbia. Officials increasingly favor demands severe enough to justif...

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DuPont

1914–1918 wartime production — DuPont becomes one of the most striking American industrial beneficiaries of wartime demand because explosives and propellants are required on an unpreceden...

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Schneider-Creusot

1914–1918 wartime production — Schneider is a major French heavy-industrial and armaments producer whose factories supply artillery and military material to the French war effort. Industr...

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Vickers

1914–1918 wartime production — British engineering and armaments company Vickers becomes an important supplier of guns, ammunition, ships and other military equipment during the war. Enor...

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League of Prizren

10 June 1878 — Albanian political and religious leaders gather in Prizren as the Ottoman Empire faces defeat and territorial losses following the Russo-Turkish War. They fear that territo...

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American War Production Accelerates

16 January 1942 — Roosevelt creates the War Production Board to coordinate conversion of the American economy to wartime needs. Automobile plants, steel mills, aircraft factories and ship...

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Austria-Hungary Delivers Its Ultimatum

23 July 1914 — Austria-Hungary presents Serbia with a severe ultimatum designed to suppress anti-Habsburg activity and permit substantial Austro-Hungarian involvement in Serbian investiga...

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Britain Abandons Further Territorial Concessions

31 March 1939 — The British guarantee to Poland marks a major shift in policy after the occupation of Prague. Britain is no longer signaling willingness to negotiate every German territor...

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Britain and France Declare War

3 September 1939 — Britain and France declare war on Germany after Hitler refuses demands to withdraw from Poland. Governments that spent much of the 1930s attempting to prevent another c...

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Britain Enters the War

4 August 1914 — Britain declares war on Germany after German forces invade neutral Belgium and Berlin fails to meet the British demand for Belgian neutrality to be respected. Britain's de...

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Germany Declares War on Russia

1 August 1914 — Germany declares war on Russia after demanding that Russian mobilization stop. German military planning assumes that a war with Russia will also involve France. Berlin the...

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Germany Invades Poland

1 September 1939 — German forces invade Poland from the west, north and south, beginning the European phase of the Second World War. The attack follows months of escalating German pressur...

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Hitler Demands Resistance Despite Strategic Collapse

19 March 1945 — Hitler issues the so-called Nero Decree ordering destruction of German infrastructure that might fall into enemy hands. Albert Speer later claims he worked to prevent exte...

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Italy Demands Access to Greece

28 October 1940 — Greece rejects an Italian ultimatum, commemorated today as Ohi Day.

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Mitsubishi Heavy Industries

1937–1945 wartime expansion — Mitsubishi becomes one of Japan's most important industrial groups supporting naval construction, aircraft production, machinery and other military requireme...

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Serbia Replies to the Ultimatum

25 July 1914 — Serbia submits a conciliatory reply accepting most Austro-Hungarian demands while rejecting or qualifying provisions that would allow foreign officials to exercise authorit...

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Wall Street Crash

29 October 1929 — Severe declines on the New York Stock Exchange become a symbol of the developing global economic crisis. Banking failures, declining trade, falling demand and contractio...

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What Role Did German Industry Play in Nazi Rearmament?

16 March 1935 — German rearmament creates enormous military demand for steel, chemicals, vehicles, weapons and fuel substitutes. Industrial firms benefit from government contracts and pro...