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WORLD'S TIMELINE

Jun 2016: ISIS suicide bombers kill 44 people at the Istanbul airport 

Jun 2016: The majority of British people (mostly in England) vote in a referendum to leave the European Union, stock markets plunge worldwide losing more than 2 trillion dollars in value and the British pound falls to its lowest level in 30 years, Cameron resigns and Theresa May of the same party replaces him

Jul 2016: A Tunisian kills 84 people in Nice driving a truck into a crowd

Jul 2016: Military units led by former general Akin Ozturk attempt a coup in Turkey and about 300 people are killed, but Erdogan regains power and blames exiled cleric Fethullah Gulen

Jul 2016: The USA begins deploying an anti-missile system in South Korea 

Jul 2016: The Philippines win a legal case against China's annexation of the Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea

Jul 2016: South Sudan plunges into civil war again with 270 people killed

Jul 2016: A bombing by an ISIS affiliate, Jamaeytul Mujahdeen Bangladesh, kills 28 people (mostly foreigners) in Bangladesh's capital Dhaka 

Jul 2016: Indian police kills 36 people in Kashmir to quell protests for the killing of militant Burhan Wani

Jun 2016: Omar Mateen kills 49 people at a gay club in Florida, pledging alliance to ISIS

Jun 2016: The majority of British people (mostly in England) vote in a referendum to leave the European Union and Cameron resigns

Jun 2016: The economist Pedro Pablo Kuczynski wins presidential elections in Peru with a narrow margin over Fujimori's daughter 

Jun 2016: Colombia and FARC sign a peace agreement 

Jun 2016: Russian track and field athletes are banned from the Olympic games because of a state-organized doping scheme

Jun 2016: Chinese anti-corruption activist Zulian Lin is arrested on trumped-up charges of corruption 

Jun 2016: A car bomb kills seven police officers and four civilians in Istanbul, the fourth attack of the year in the city

Jun 2016: The Libyan government expels ISIS from the city of Sirte Mustafa Badreddine

May 2016: Sadiq Khan is the first Muslim elected mayor of London 

May 2016: Turkey's prime minister Davutoglu resigns 

May 2016: Brazil's parliament votes to impeach president Dilma Rousseff 

2016: Myanmar is the world's fastest-growing economy 

May 2016: Anti-crime politician Rodrigo "Digong" Duterte wins the Philippine presidential elections 

May 2016: The USA lifts the arms trade embargo against Vietnam 

Apr 2016: A leak of millions of confidential documents reveals that Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca helped rich people launder money and avoid taxes 

Apr 2016: Members of South Sudan's Murle tribe kill 140 people in Ethiopia near the border with South Sudan and abduct at least 39 children

Apr 2016: An explosion sparked by fireworks kills more than 100 people at a Hindu temple in the Indian state of Kerala

Apr 2016: Joshua Wong launches a new political party in Hong Kong, Demosisto, demanding self-determination for Hong Kong

Apr 2016: Turkey sues a German comedian that ridiculed Turkey's president

Apr 2016: A unity government is installed in Lybia's capital Tripoli, headed by Fayez el-Serraj

Mar 2016: Turkey places the country's biggest newspaper, Zaman, under state control 

Mar 2016: A car bomb detonated by a female suicide bomber of the Kurdish militant group TAK kills 37 people in Turkey's capital Ankara, and an ISIS suicide bomber kills 5 people in Istanbul including 3 Israelis

Mar 2016: ISIS stages attacks from Lybia into Tunisia and Tunisia kills 28 militants in a cross-border raid

Mar 2016: Barack Obama becomes the first president to visit Cuba since the Castro revolution

Jan 2016: A British investigation concludes that Alexander Litvinenko was killed by the Russian secret services

Feb 2016: The USA begins bombing ISIS territory in Lybia, killing more than 40 people including Noureddine Chouchane, who masterminded the terrorist attacks in Tunisia 

Feb 2016: US oil production reaches a 43-year high 

Feb 2016: A car bomb targeting a military convoy kills 28 people in Turkey's capital Ankara, and Turkey blames the attack on the Syrian Kurds, who denied any responsibility, and six soldiers are killed a roadside bombing in the southeastern Turkish province of Diyarbakir, an attack that Turkey blames on the PKK ***

Dec 2015: Russian air strikes on Syria have killed more than 1,000 civilians since they began in september 

Jan 2016: Oil prices fall below $30 a barrel for the first time since april 2004 

Jan 2016: The Russian rouble hits a new record low of 80 against the US dollar 

Jan 2016: A British investigation concludes that Alexander Litvinenko was killed by the Russian secret services 

Feb 2016: Russia arrests 7 Muslims suspected of being ISIS terrorists plotting a terror attack in Russia's fourth-largest city Yekaterinburg

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2015: A record one million refugees enter Europe by sea

Jan 2016: Islamic terrorists kill 1,700 people worldwide in january alone

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Oct 2015: Jaroslaw Kaczynski's conservative Law and Justice party wins elections

Sep 2015: Russia begins a bombing campaign in Syria against rebels to defend Assad's regime 

Oct 2015: ISIS in Sinai blows up a Russian airplane killing 224 people, mostly Russian tourists 

Nov 2015: Russia kills 14 Islamists who were smuggling fighters out of the North Caucasus region to join ISIS 

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Sep 2015: The civil war in Syria causes an exodus of thousands of people towards Europe 

Oct 2015: ISIS attacks a hotel used by Saudi Arabia's anti-Houthi coalition in Aden and kills 22 people 

Oct 2015: ISIS in Sinai blows up a Russian airplane killing 224 people, mostly Russian tourists 

Nov 2015: A United Nations report details how ISIS is committing genocide, torture, rape and slavery against the Yazidis in Iraq 

Nov 2015: ISIS suicide bombers kill 43 people in Beirut's Shiite suburb, the deadliest attack since the end of Lebanon's civil war in 1990 

Nov 2015: A US air strike kills Abu Nabil, the ISIS leader in Lybia 

Nov 2015: Islamists kill 12 people in Tunisia on a military bus 

Nov 2015: Islamists kill 7 magistrates in Egypt's Sinai 

Sep 2015: The civil war in Syria causes an exodus of thousands of people towards Europe 

Nov 2015: Islamists organized by Abdelhamid Abaaoud, kill more than 128 people in Paris 

2015: 3,589 people have been killed by ebola in Sierra Leone 

Dec 2015: Islamists kill 18 people in a nightclub of the Egyptian capital Cairo 

Dec 2015: ISIS kills the governor of Yemen's city of Aden, Jaafar Mohammed Saad 

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Sep 2015: Chris Mercer kills nine people in Oregon 

Oct 2015: The US, Japan, Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Chile, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, and Vietnam sign a trade agreement that covers about 40% of the world economy, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) 

Nov 2015: A US air strike kills the leader of ISIS in Libya, Abu Nabil, aka Wissam Najm Abd Zayd al-Zubaydi 

Dec 2015: Two ISIS supporters kill 14 people in San Bernardino 

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Jun 2015: France bans the low-cost car-sharing service UberPOP after a day of nationwide protests by taxi drivers 

Aug 2015: Oil prices fall below $40 a barrel for first time since 2009 

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Mar 2015: German co-pilot Andreas Lubitz intentionally crashes his passenger plane over France killing 150 people

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Jan 2015: Islamists of Al Qaeda kill 12 people at the Paris office of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, guilty of making fun of Islam's founder, and then 4 hostages in a Jewish supermarket, and a two-million people pro-democracy march takes place in Paris (Jan 2015: Belgium arrests more than 100 Muslims belonging to ISIS who were preparing terrorist attacks) 

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Jan 2015: Lithuania joins the euro 

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