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The World in 2022 the year war came back to Europe

Summer floods left about a third of Pakistan under water and touched around 33 million people. That is more people than live in Australia and New Zealand put together.

Life back then

Green and yellow squares from Wordle filled group chats every morning. Offices reopened, though plenty of people kept working from home part of the week. Food and fuel cost much more than the year before, and across Europe governments asked people to turn the heating down to save gas. Top Gun: Maverick packed theaters, and a 1985 Kate Bush song climbed the charts again thanks to Stranger Things.

The year in 8 events

• ⛷️Feb 4 The Winter Olympics open in Beijing, inside a sealed bubble with no fans from abroad.
• 🪖Feb 24 Russia invades Ukraine, starting the biggest war in Europe since 1945.
• 🕯️Jul 8 Shinzo Abe, Japan's longest serving prime minister, is shot dead while making a speech in the street.
• 🔭Jul 12 NASA releases the first full-color pictures from the Webb telescope, the deepest views of space ever taken.
• 🌱Aug 16 Joe Biden signs the Inflation Reduction Act, the biggest US spending on clean energy so far.
• 👑Sep 8 Queen Elizabeth II dies at 96 after 70 years on the British throne. Her son becomes King Charles III.
• 🤖Nov 30 A San Francisco company, OpenAI, releases ChatGPT. It reaches a million users in five days.
• ⚽Dec 18 Argentina beats France on penalties to win the World Cup in Qatar.

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