On February 6th, 2023, a series of earthquakes killed over 55,000 people in Turkey and Syria and injured a further 100,000. Turkey is one of the world’s most active earthquake zones because it is located on the Anatolian plate. This earthquake shocked the world leaving everyone speechless with the all of the damage and the deaths.

2023 almost went down in the history books as the year America lost faith in its banks. The First Republic Bank was a huge bank that had to be shut down causing people all around the world to lose so much money.

On November 1st and 2nd, 2023 the AI Safety Summit was an international conference discussing the safety and regulation of artificial intelligence. This meeting was a huge deal because AI has become a big problem as well as a benefit across the world.

The summer of 2023 was Earth’s hottest since global records began in 1880, according to scientists at NASA. The average global land and ocean surface temperature in August was 2.25 degrees F (1.25 degrees C) above the 20th-century average of 60.1 degrees F (15.6 degrees C), ranking as the warmest August in the 174-year global climate record. This affects the world and how it is changing for the worse and we are the cause.

In recent years, tensions between the United States and China have introduced new challenges—especially related to economic and defense issues. China is a major trading partner for the United States, but it is also developing its military capabilities, which poses challenges to the U.S. military. Now in 2023 the threat has risen to a whole new level, leaving not just the U.S. scared but the world scared.

In early August 2023, a series of wildfires broke out in the U.S. state of Hawaii, predominantly on the island of Maui. The wind-driven fires prompted evacuations, caused widespread damage, and killed at least 100 people, leaving four persons missing in the town of Lahaina on Maui’s northwest coast. This was a shock because Hawaii has always been seen as a tourist destination and sacred place for anyone around the world to go.

On September 13, 2023 North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s train arrived at the Vostochny Cosmodrome spaceport located in the Amur Oblast in the Russian Far East. Kim met Russian leader Vladimir Putin at the launch vehicle assembly building and toured the spaceport before they held a meeting that spanned hours. They talked about supporting each other’s countries which is very bad for not just America, but for the rest of the world.

On 8 July 2022, Shinzo Abe, the former prime minister of Japan and a serving member of the House of Representatives, was assassinated while speaking at a political event outside Yamato-Saidaiji Station in Nara City, Nara Prefecture. This was bad because many different countries are allies with Japan but his death threw Japan off.

An armed conflict between Israel and Hamas-led Palestinian militant groups has been taking place chiefly in and around the Gaza Strip since October 7th, 2023. Everyone in the world has been affected by this war and the damages it has caused.

The coronation of Charles III and his wife, Camilla, as king and queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms, took place on Saturday, 6 May 2023, at Westminster Abbey. People in the world saw this because everyone is still in shock about the late queen’s passing.