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Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror.
Just keep going. No feeling is final.

— Rainer Maria Rilke, "Go to the Limits of Your Longing", The Book of Hours

The editor formerly known as PatTag2659.

About me
This user lives in the Philippines.
This user is of Spanish ancestry.
OCDThis user suffers from OCD (Obsessive–compulsive disorder)
ADMUThis user is or was an Atenean.
Atenista 'to! OBF!
IBThis user is a graduate or student of the International Baccalaureate.
This user is active in simulating the United Nations.
This user was born during the Erap presidential administration.
This user lives in Muntinlupa, Metro Manila.
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A, B, and CThis user prefers the Oxford comma.
its & it'sThis user understands the difference between its and it's. So should you.
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ja-1この利用者は初級日本語ができます。
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This user plays association football.
This user plays futsal.
This user plays badminton.
This user plays chess.
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This user is interested in the Philippines.
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This user is interested in New Zealand.
This user is interested in Singapore.
This user is interested in the United States of America.
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This user enjoys playing FIFA Career mode or any other FIFA offline modes.
FBMThinks that Football Manager is far better than Championship Manager.
This user plays Rocket League
This user once loved Grand Theft Auto.
This user plays Minecraft.
"There are no two words in the English language more harmful than 'good job'."

- J. K. Simmons, Whiplash

This user thinks Steven Spielberg is the greatest director of all time.
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CommunityThis user watches Troy and Abed in the Morning.
FGThis user thinks Family Guy is freakin' sweet.
This user knows that "Democracy is so overrated".
This user loves the TV series Mayday.
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am Contrary to popular belief, this user does not look good on the dance floor.
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DAJE ROMA DAJE!
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This user thinks Rafael Nadal is the King of Clay!
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Barangay Ginebra.
CHIThis user is a fan of the
Chicago Bulls.
This user strongly believes that Michael Jordan is the greatest athlete of all time.
CHCThis user is a fan of the
Chicago Cubs
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SQThis user's favorite airline is Singapore Airlines.
This user's favorite airport is Singapore Changi Airport.
MRThis user enjoys their steak Medium rare.
This user eats the balut.
,This user's favorite punctuation is commas, guys, not exclamation points or whatever.
This user has stayed at home due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines.
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6 February 2025 – Gaza war
2025 Gaza war ceasefire
United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Thomas Fletcher reports that over 10,000 aid trucks have arrived in the Gaza Strip since the ceasefire took effect on January 19. (Arab News)
Italian foreign minister Antonio Tajani said that Italy will stop working with UNRWA after the mother of a freed hostage said that her daughter had been held at facilities of UNRWA in Gaza. (Times Of Israel)
6 February 2025 – Kivu conflict
M23 campaign
Malawian President Lazarus Chakwera orders Malawian troops to withdraw from peacekeeping operations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo as the crisis escalates. Three Malawian soldiers have been killed in recent fighting in North Kivu. (BBC News)
6 February 2025 – Russian invasion of Ukraine
Military aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War
The Ukrainian Air Force receives the first shipment of Mirage 2000 fighter jets from France and more F-16 Fighting Falcons from the Netherlands. (DW)
6 February 2025 – Islamist insurgency in the Sahel
Ten Nigerien soldiers are killed in an ambush by Islamic State fighters near the border with Burkina Faso. (AP)
6 February 2025 – Bering Air Flight 445
A Cessna 208B Grand Caravan carrying 10 people goes missing on a flight from Unalakleet, Alaska, United States, to Nome. A search and rescue operation is underway. (KTUU-TV)
6 February 2025 –
Four people are killed after a U.S. military-contracted Beechcraft Super King Air 300 surveillance aircraft crashes in a paddy field in Ampatuan, Maguindanao del Sur, Philippines. (AP) (ABC News Australia)
6 February 2025 – United States and the International Criminal Court
U.S. President Donald Trump signs an executive order imposing sanctions on International Criminal Court officials that assist investigations into U.S. citizens or those of its allies, namely Israel. (NBC)
6 February 2025 – 2025 Greek presidential election
In the third round of voting, the Hellenic Parliament fails to elect the new President of Greece. A fourth and final round is called for February 12. (To Vima)
6 February 2025 –
NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies says that the probablity of asteroid 2024 YR4 impacting Earth on 22 December 2032 has increased to 2.3%, or a (1-in-43) chance, following further observations of its trajectory. More observations are planned in the coming months to gather data on the asteroid before it moves too far away from Earth-based telescopes to be accurately observed. (The Guardian)
5 February 2025 – War against the Islamic State
Islamic State insurgency in Puntland
Puntland counter-terrorism operations
A deadly battle between the Puntland Security Force and Islamic State results in the killing of 57 foreign militants in Dharin area of Bari Region, Puntland. (Garowe Online)
Puntland Maritime Police Force seize a boat carrying illegal military supplies, uniforms and equipment. The vessel was taken captive off the coast of the Qaw district in the Bari Region, Somalia. (The East African)
5 February 2025 – Sudanese civil war
Battle of Khartoum
The UNICEF confirms that several children have been killed in Khartoum, Sudan, in the past few days. (UNICEF) (The Peninsula Qatar)
The Sudanese Armed Forces announce they have gained more territory around Khartoum as they try to enter the capital city. (APA)
5 February 2025 – Kivu conflict
M23 campaign
M23 rebels capture Nyabibwe, a town along the road to the South Kivu capital city of Bukavu. The Democratic Republic of the Congo government claims that the unilateral ceasefire declared by M23 earlier was false. (AP)
5 February 2025 – Somali Civil War
Jubaland crisis
Somali federal government-appointed commissioner of Bardhere District Mohamed Ilyas Caagane is killed after Somali National Army forces are defeated by Jubaland forces in Gedo, Somalia. (Garowe Online) (Hiiraan Online)
5 February 2025 – Second Trump tariffs, China–United States trade war
The United States Postal Service says it is temporarily refusing inbound parcels from China and Hong Kong, but reverses this policy hours later. (The Guardian) (NBC News)
5 February 2025 – Grenfell Tower fire
United Kingdom Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner announces that Grenfell Tower in North Kensington, London, will be demolished following a meeting with bereaved relatives and survivors of the 2017 fire. (BBC News)
5 February 2025 –
A fire at an Islamic school in Kaura Namoda, Zamfara State, Nigeria, kills at least 17 people. (BBC News)
5 February 2025 – Israel and the United Nations
Israel withdraws from the United Nations Human Rights Council, accusing the UN body of "obsessively demonizing" and discriminating against the country. (Ynet News)
5 February 2025 –
Argentina announces that it will withdraw from the World Health Organization citing "deep differences" with the organization's leaders. (Reuters)
5 February 2025 – Mass deportation of illegal immigrants in the second presidency of Donald Trump
The first flight carrying "high-threat" deportees from the United States arrives at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. The ten deportees are allegedly part of Tren de Aragua, a transnational organized crime group originating from Venezuela recently designated as a terrorist organization by the United States. (The Independent)
5 February 2025 – Second presidency of Donald Trump
Protests against Donald Trump
Protests against the second presidency of Donald Trump
Demonstrators gather in cities across the United States to protest against the policies of U.S. President Donald Trump, his second administration, Elon Musk and Project 2025. (AP)
Executive orders in the second presidency of Donald Trump
U.S. President Donald Trump signs an executive order that prevents transgender women from competing in women's sports. (BBC News)
5 February 2025 – Impeachment of Sara Duterte, Impeachment in the Philippines
The House of Representatives of the Philippines formally impeaches Vice President Sara Duterte. The Senate is now set to conduct a trial. (ABS-CBN News) (Bloomberg)
5 February 2025 – LGBTQ rights in Argentina
Argentinian presidential spokesperson Manuel Adorni announces that the President Javier Milei has signed a decree modifying the 2012 Gender Identity Law that allows transgender people to be treated according to their gender identity and have their documents be registered with the corresponding name and gender to exclude people under the age of 18 to access gender-affirming care. (NBC News)
4 February 2025 – Israeli–Palestinian conflict
Gaza war
2025 Gaza war ceasefire, Israel–United States relations
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with U.S. President Donald Trump amidst a second phase of negotiations for the ceasefire on the Gaza Strip. (NPR)
U.S. President Donald Trump announces a plan where the U.S. would seek "long-term ownership" of Gaza, and that the U.S. military would be in charge of Gaza's redevelopment into “The Riviera of the Middle East” for "the world's people." Trump also says Palestinians will have no choice but to leave the territory. (Reuters) (The Guardian) (AP)
Israeli incursions in the West Bank during the Gaza war
Two Israeli soldiers are killed and eight others are injured in a shooting at the Taysir checkpoint by an unknown gunman. (DW)
4 February 2025 – War against the Islamic State
War in Somalia
Islamic State insurgency in Puntland
Puntland Security Forces battle ISIL militants near Dharin, killing at least 40 fighters and injuring others. They claim to have captured the village of Dharin in Togga Jecel of Bari Region, Puntland. (The Somali Digest) (Garowe Online)
Jubaland crisis
Jubaland forces have regained control of Bardhere District in the Gedo region after withdrawal of federal forces was reportedly linked to the disbandment of units stationed at headquarters for several months. South Somalia (Hiiraan Online)
4 February 2025 – Russo-Ukrainian War
Russian invasion of Ukraine
Russian attacks on civilians in the Russo-Ukrainian War
A Russian missile strikes a residential building in Izium, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine, killing four people and injuring twenty others. (Ukrainska Pravda)
Peace negotiations in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says in a interview with British journalist Piers Morgan that he is ready for direct talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin if it is a setup to end the war. (Kyiv Independent)
4 February 2025 – Sudanese civil war
Battle of Khartoum
Engineers in Khartoum are attacked by the Rapid Support Forces while assessing damage on a water plant in Khartoum North. (Sudan Tribune)
Six people are killed and 38 others are injured after an attack perpetrated by the RSF hits a hospital in Khartoum. (Anadolu Ajansi)
The Sudanese Armed Forces take Al-Kamlin as they advance towards Khartoum. (Sudan Tribune)
4 February 2025 – Mexican drug war
A series of shootouts and encounters are reported in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico, after the arrest of the regional leader of the Cártel del Noreste and leader of an armed wing in the state. The United States Consulate in Mexico issues an alert for its citizens to not go out on the streets, and the Nuevo Laredo International Airport suspends activities due to the violence. (UNO TV)
A riot within the Tabasco Social Reinsertion Center in Villahermosa, Tabasco, Mexico, leaves seven inmates dead. This is the second riot in less than two months at the prison. (El Universal)
4 February 2025 – Spillover of the Ethiopian civil war
Djiboutian armed forces execute a drone strike near the Ethiopian border, killing eight members of what the government described as a "terrorist group" involved in "hostile actions". The attack also injured an unknown number of civilians. (Hiiraan Online)  (VOA)
4 February 2025 – 2025 Potomac River mid-air collision
The remains of all 67 people who were killed in a collision between a PSA Airlines CRJ700 and a United States Army UH-60 Black Hawk are recovered from the Potomac River near Washington, D.C., United States. (AP)
4 February 2025 – Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243
An Azerbaijani government source reports that the Azerbaijan Airlines E190 plane was shot down by Russia's Pantsir missile system. (Reuters)
4 February 2025 – Moldova–European Union relations
2025 Moldovan energy crisis
The European Union and Moldova sign an energy deal that will integrate Moldova into the bloc's energy grid after Russia halted gas supplies over an alleged US$709 million unpaid bill. The European Commission says Moldova will receive €250 million ($258 million) this year to help its citizens afford rising energy bills as part of the agreement. (AP)
4 February 2025 – Second Trump tariffs
China–United States trade war
The United States implements a 10% across-the-board tariff on Chinese products and eliminates the de minimis exemption for exports from China. In response, China imposes retaliatory tariffs on energy products, agricultural equipment, and automobiles from the United States, effective February 10, and export controls on critical minerals. It also adds U.S. companies PVH Corp. and Illumina Inc to its unreliable entities list and launches a probe into U.S. technology company Google for alleged anti-trust violations. (The Guardian)
4 February 2025 – Iran–United States relations
U.S. President Donald Trump signs a presidential memorandum reimposing a policy of maximum pressure against Iran. (Reuters)
4 February 2025 – 2025 Risbergska school shooting
Eleven people are killed and six injured in a mass shooting at the Risbergska School, a municipal adult education centre, in Örebro, Sweden. (BBC News) (SVT) (The Guardian)
4 February 2025 – 2025 New Albany, Ohio shooting
Two persons is killed and five others are injured after a mass shooting at a warehouse in New Albany, Ohio, United States. (ABC News)
4 February 2025 –
Colombian President Gustavo Petro calls for the worldwide legalization of cocaine for recreational use, saying the drug is "no worse than whisky" and that it was only illegal because it is produced in Latin America. (The Times of India)
4 February 2025 – Second cabinet of Donald Trump
The United States Senate confirms Pam Bondi as Attorney General, making her the third female to run the U.S. Justice Department. (NPR)
4 February 2025 –
The U.S. State Department orders the closure of all overseas missions of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and recalls thousands of USAID staff to the United States ahead of the agency's shutdown. (Reuters)
3 February 2025 – Gaza war
Israeli incursions in the West Bank
2025 Israeli operation in the West Bank
At least 70 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli troops since the start of the year in the occupied West Bank, including 38 killed in Jenin. (Al Jazeera)
3 February 2025 – Sudanese civil war
Battle of Khartoum
2025 Omdurman market attack
The United Nations condemns the recent Rapid Support Forces attack on civilians at a market in Omdurman, Sudan, as a war crime. (Malaysia Sun)
3 February 2025 – Somali Civil War
Islamic State insurgency in Puntland
A Puntland police spokesperson confirms that a senior commander of the Islamic State, Abdirahman Shirwac Aw-Said, the head of the group’s assassination squad, surrendered to Puntland forces in the Cal Miskaad mountains, Bari Region, Puntland. (Al Jazeera) (Reuters)
Spillover of the Somali Civil War
Suspected Al-Shabaab gunmen abduct five government-appointed village chiefs in Kenya's Mandera County, who were en route to the border town of El Wak. The abducted chiefs were part of the preparation team for President William Ruto's visit to the region next week. (Garowe Online) (Hiiraan Online) (Reuters)
3 February 2025 – Kivu conflict
M23 campaign
The rebel Congo River Alliance, which includes M23, announces a unilateral ceasefire that will take effect the next day. (Reuters)
3 February 2025 – Russian invasion of Ukraine
Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
A bomb explodes inside a building in Moscow, Russia, killing two people and wounding three. The presumed main target, Armen Sarkisyan, a pro-Russia leader in the Donbas, is among the dead. (Reuters)
3 February 2025 – Central African Republic Civil War
Five soldiers are killed by Coalition of Patriots for Change gunmen at a military outpost in Kouki, Central African Republic. (AP)
3 February 2025 – Mexican drug war
An armed attack in San Luis Río Colorado, San Luis Río Colorado Municipality left seven people dead, according to authorities the criminal cell "Los Rusos" are behind of this attack and other violent incidents in the zone.(El Universal)
3 February 2025 – Syrian civil war
A car bombing kills at least 20 people and leaves 15 others wounded in Manbij, Syria. Most of the victims were female agricultural workers, according to local authorities. (BBC News) (AP)
3 February 2025 – Terrorism in Azerbaijan
Eight people are killed and six others are injured in a security operation in Qusar District, Azerbaijan, against former Derbent Jamaat militants. (Report.az)
3 February 2025 – Second Trump tariffs
2025 United States trade war with Canada and Mexico
Canada–United States relations
Ontario Premier Doug Ford announces Ontario will end contracts with the Starlink program unless the United States lifts its tariffs on Canada. (BBC News)
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announces that U.S. tariffs would be delayed by at least 30 days, following a call with United States President Donald Trump. (DW)
Mexico–United States relations
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum and U.S. President Donald Trump announce they have agreed to delay 25% of tariffs on Mexico for a month. (NBC News)
3 February 2025 – Ecuador–Mexico relations
Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa announces 27% tariffs on Mexican imports. (CNN)
3 February 2025 –
The Philippines declares a food security emergency on rice due to rising prices. (Reuters)
3 February 2025 – 2025 Santorini earthquakes
A series of over 200 earthquakes in a 48-hour period causes widespread evacuations from the Greek island of Santorini. (The Guardian)
3 February 2025 –
A teenage girl is killed in a shark attack off the coast of Queensland, Australia. (BBC News)
3 February 2025 – Democratic Republic of the Congo–Rwanda conflict
The Democratic Republic of the Congo government requests international sanctions against Rwanda. (Reuters)
3 February 2025 – South Africa–United States relations
U.S. President Donald Trump says he is stopping funding to South Africa over a land seizure law. (The Guardian)
3 February 2025 – El Salvador–United States relations
Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele offers U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio the option to send convicted "dangerous American criminals" to be incarcerated at the Terrorism Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador, in exchange for a fee. (The Washington Post)
3 February 2025 –
Three Islamic State-linked inmates are killed and three guards are injured in a prison riot in Vakhdat District, Tajikistan. (Barron's)
3 February 2025 – 2024–2025 Belgian government formation
Bart De Wever is sworn in as the new Prime Minister of Belgium after a final agreement was reached between N-VA, CD&V, Vooruit, MR and Les Engagés. De Wever becomes the first Flemish nationalist to become Prime Minister. (The Guardian)