The bloodiest war broke out between Israel and Hamas on October 7 when Palestinian militant group launched a multifaceted assault involving land, sea and air forces on several Israeli cities, killing about 1,200 people and taking more than 200 hostages
In February, Turkey and Syria experienced powerful earthquakes that killed 59,000 and 8,000 people respectively
India organized its inaugural G20 Leaders' Summit on September 9-10. 43 heads of various governments, including US President Biden, Canada's Trudeau, and British PM Rishi Sunak participated in the summit
The Indian Space Research Organisation’s third lunar mission, Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft successfully landed on the South Pole of the Moon on August 23
Catastrophic flooding struck eastern Libya on September 10 and 11 that killed at least 4,352 people and displaced more than 43,000
On June 18, OceanGate's Titan submersible, carrying five people, imploded during an expedition to view the wreck of the Titanic in the North Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada
Popular micro-blogging platform Twitter was renamed X by Elon Musk and its iconic blue bird logo was also changed to the letter X
Donald Trump was indicted for his wide-ranging attempts to overturn the US 2020 presidential election
Chinese leader Xi Jinping was on March 10 formally reappointed as President for a record third five-year term.
In January, Jacinda Ardern resigned as New Zealand prime minister saying she no longer has "enough in the tank" to lead