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User:Patrick Cristiano

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.
This user is owned by one or more cats.
A, B, and CThis user prefers the Oxford comma.
its & it'sThis user understands the difference between its and it's. So should you.
Wikipedian life
This user has been on Wikipedia for 13 years, 2 months and 16 days.
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fil-5Propesyonal na nagsasalita ng wikang Filipino ang user na ito.
tl-5Ang tagagamit na ito ay nakakapag-ambag ng Tagalog sa propesyonal na antas.
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该用户能以基本中文进行交流。
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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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users, has a BLACK MIRROR.
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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This user thinks Rafael Nadal is the King of Clay!
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Barangay Ginebra.
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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 prefers eating pizza with pineapple.
,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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18 January 2025 – Russian invasion of Ukraine
Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure
At least four people are killed in Russian missile and drone attacks on Kyiv, Ukraine. (Al Jazeera)
Kryvyi Rih strikes
Four people are killed and 14 others are wounded in a Russian ballistic missile strike on Kryvyi Rih, according to the Governor of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Serhiy Lysak. (Euronews)
18 January 2025 – Israel–Hamas war
The Government of Israel approves the proposed Gaza ceasefire agreement, previously approved by the Security Cabinet of Israel. (CNN)
18 January 2025 –
Two judges are killed while a third and a bodyguard are wounded in a mass shooting at the Supreme Court of Iran in Tehran, Iran. The perpetrator has killed himself. (DW)
A Palestinian man from Tulkarm illegally enters Israel and stabs a man in his 30s on Levontin Street in central Tel Aviv, leaving him seriously injured. An armed civilian intervenes and fatally shoots the attacker. (The Times of Israel)
18 January 2025 – 2025 Suleja fuel tanker explosion
More than 70 people are killed and several are injured after a fuel tanker overturns on a highway in Niger State, Nigeria and later exploded when people went to the side to get the spilled fuel. (Vanguard) (The Straight Times)
18 January 2025 –
The fall of a chairlift at the ski resort Astún, Aragon, Spain, causes 30 injuries, 17 of them in serious condition. (The Mirror)
18 January 2025 – 2023–2024 mpox epidemic
Azerbaijan's Ministry of Healthcare reports the country's first case of mpox in a 22-year-old patient who had recently travelled abroad. (Reuters)
18 January 2025 – Israel–Hamas war protests
Israel–Hamas war protests in the United Kingdom
Several pro-Palestine protesters in Whitehall, UK are arrested for breaching protest conditions, with some allegedly breaking through police lines. (The Guardian)
18 January 2025 – Protests against Donald Trump
The Women's March holds a protest rebranded as the People's March in Washington, D.C. against U.S. President-elect Donald Trump ahead of his second presidency. (Reuters) (WRC-TV)
Women's March protests are also held in the United Kingdom including Manchester, Liverpool, and Plymouth. (BBC) (Plymouth Herald)
17 January 2025 – Internal conflict in South Sudan
Three people are killed and seven others are injured in clashes with security forces in Juba and Aweil, South Sudan, with three Sudanese-owned houses set on fire in Aweil. This comes after videos emerged allegedly showing Sudanese soldiers killing South Sudanese civilians in Wad Madani, Sudan. (BBC News)
17 January 2025 – Israel–Hamas war
The Security Cabinet of Israel approves the proposed Gaza ceasefire agreement, which is expected to take effect on Sunday. (The Guardian)
17 January 2025 – Naxalite–Maoist insurgency
Twelve Naxalites are killed in a police raid in Bijapur, Chhattisgarh, India. (Al Jazeera)
17 January 2025 –
British oil and gas company BP announces that it will lay off 4,700 employees and 3,000 contractors globally to reduce costs. (AP)
17 January 2025 – 2024 United States telecommunications hack
The U.S. Treasury Department sanctions a cybersecurity company and hacker, both with ties to China's Ministry of State Security, for their alleged roles in hacking American telecommunications companies. (Reuters)
17 January 2025 – Iran–Russia relations
Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian and Russian president Vladimir Putin sign the Iranian–Russian Treaty on Comprehensive Strategic Partnership. The 20-year deal will see cooperation between the two countries in multiple areas, including nuclear energy, counterterrorism, and environmental issues. (Middle East Eye)
17 January 2025 – TikTok v. Garland
The United States Supreme Court upholds a law that could ban TikTok in the United States on January 19 unless the social media platform is sold by its Chinese parent company ByteDance. (AP)
17 January 2025 –
A judge in Bolivia orders the arrest of former Bolivian President Evo Morales on statutory rape charges. (The Guardian)
Brazilian police raid a ranch in Ponta Grossa, South Region, Brazil, in an operation to dismantle a gang planning large-scale bank heists, killing six suspects and seizing weapons, including a .50-caliber machine gun and explosives. (AP)
17 January 2025 – Colombian conflict
Colombian President Gustavo Petro suspends dialogue with the National Liberation Army following accusations of war crimes against the group. (Reuters)
17 January 2025 – Second inauguration of Donald Trump
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump announces that his upcoming second inauguration will be held indoors at the United States Capitol rotunda due to cold temperatures forecasts. Trump also announces that the inaugural parade will be held indoors at Capital One Arena in Washington D.C. (Reuters)
17 January 2025 –
Didier Guillaume, the head of government of Monaco, dies suddenly at the age of 65. Isabelle Berro-Lefèvre is appointed acting Minister of State by Prince Albert II. (Monaco Tribune)
17 January 2025 – Censorship of TikTok
TikTok warns that it could "go dark" on Sunday without assistance from outgoing U.S. President Joe Biden and his administration. (Politico)
16 January 2025 – Israel–Hamas war
Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip
Israeli airstrikes kill at least 82 people across the Gaza Strip, including 30 in Gaza City, hours after the announcement of a ceasefire agreement. (Al Jazeera)
Three-phase Israel–Hamas war ceasefire proposal
The Israeli and Hamas negotiating teams sign the hostage release and ceasefire deal in Doha, Qatar. (The Times of Israel)
16 January 2025 – Somali Civil War, War against the Islamic State
Islamic State insurgency in Puntland
The Puntland Security Force claims to have captured a training facility used by ISIL militants, with over forty ISIL fighters killed following heavy fighting. (The Eastleigh Voice)
Thousands of families are displaced as the military campaign intensifies, forcing locals to flee their homes in Bari region of Puntland, Somalia. (Idil News) (Horn Observer)
16 January 2025 – Red Sea crisis
The leader of the Houthis Abdul-Malik al-Houthi announces that the group will monitor the implementation of the Israel–Hamas ceasefire agreement and continue its attacks on vessels and on Israel if the ceasefire is breached. (Middle East Monitor)
16 January 2025 – Sudanese civil war
The U.S. Treasury Department sanctions the head of the Sudanese Armed Forces Abdel Fattah al-Burhan for "destabilizing Sudan and undermining the goal of a democratic transition" to a civilian-led government. (BBC News)
16 January 2025 – 2025 California wildfires
January 2025 Southern California wildfires
It is reported that the Eaton Fire, which has burned over 14,000 acres and has killed 17 people, is 65% contained. (CBS News)
16 January 2025 – Stilfontein mine deaths
The bodies of nine illegal miners trapped inside a gold mine in Stilfontein, South Africa, are recovered by police. (CTV News)
16 January 2025 –
Two deminers are killed in an explosion while attempting to remove a Cambodian Civil War-era anti-tank mine from a rice field in Oddar Meanchey province, Cambodia. (AP)
16 January 2025 – Ukraine–United Kingdom relations
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer visits Kyiv, Ukraine, to sign a 100-year agreement with Ukraine that will formalize British economic and military support for Ukraine. (Sky News) (BBC News)
16 January 2025 – Capital punishment in Taiwan
Taiwan carries out its first execution in five years on a man who was convicted of the 2013 murder of his former girlfriend and her mother. (Yahoo! News)
16 January 2025 – Spišská Stará Ves school stabbing
Two women are killed and a third is injured in a mass stabbing at a school in Spišská Stará Ves, Slovakia. The perpetrator is arrested. (BBC News) (Devdiscourse)
16 January 2025 –
Two homeless people are killed and two others are injured in a mass stabbing attack in Miami, Florida, United States. A 30-year-old suspect is arrested. (NBC News)
The Government of Cuba releases dissident and human rights activist José Daniel Ferrer from jail. (Reuters)
16 January 2025 – 2021–present Bulgarian political crisis
The Parliament of Bulgaria approves a coalition government consisting of the GERB-SDS, BSP – United Left, and There is Such a People parties, with GERB's Rosen Zhelyazkov becoming Prime Minister. (Euronews)
16 January 2025 – 2024 French political crisis
The government of French Prime Minister François Bayrou survives a no-confidence motion by the opposition New Popular Front electoral alliance. (Euronews)
16 January 2025 – 2025 Vanuatuan general election
Citizens of Vanuatu vote for the 52 members of Parliament. (RNZ)
16 January 2025 – 2025 in spaceflight
Blue Origin launches its New Glenn rocket for the first time from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, United States. The rocket's second stage, carrying a prototype Blue Ring spacecraft, successfully reaches a geocentric orbit, but its reusable first stage is lost during landing. (CNN)
The twin satellites SDX01 and SDX02 of the SpaDeX mission, launched in December by the Indian Space Research Organisation, successfully conduct India's first spacecraft docking, with India becoming the fourth country to successfully dock a spacecraft after the United States, Russia, and China. (BBC News)
SpaceX launches its seventh test flight of the Starship launch vehicle, with an improved second stage, at Starbase in Texas, United States. The first stage is successfully caught by the launch tower but the second stage breaks up shortly before engine shutdown. (CNBC)
16 January 2025 –
Nintendo officially reveals the Nintendo Switch 2 video game console, the successor to the Nintendo Switch. (Nintendo)
16 January 2025 – 2025 in sumo
Shortly after withdrawing from the January 2025 Grand Sumo Tournament due to injuries, the 73rd yokozuna Terunofuji Haruo announces his retirement. If no other wrestler is promoted this tournament, his retirement leaves sumo without a yokozuna for the first time since 1993. Terunofuji also announced his intention to remain in the Japan Sumo Association as an oyakata. (Kyodo News) (Nikkan Sports)
15 January 2025 – Allied Democratic Forces insurgency
Kivu conflict
Allied Democratic Forces militants kill ten people in an attack on a village in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (AP)
15 January 2025 – Israel–Hamas war
2025 Israel–Hamas war ceasefire
Israel and Hamas reach a diplomatic agreement mediated by Egypt, Qatar, and the U.S. to initiate a ceasefire and an end to military operations in the Gaza Strip, as well as to facilitate the exchange of hostages and prisoners, marking the first major cessation of hostilities since November 2023. (CNN)
15 January 2025 – Syrian civil war
Israeli invasion of Syria
The Israeli Air Force strikes a Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) vehicle convoy in Quneitra Governorate, Syria, killing two HTS personnel and the mayor of a local village. It is the first time that Israel has targeted HTS forces since the fall of the Assad regime. (Al Arabiya)
15 January 2025 – Russian invasion of Ukraine
Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure
Russia launches a major ballistic and cruise missile attack on regions across Ukraine, targeting energy production and compelling authorities to shut down the power grid. (AP)
15 January 2025 – Red Sea crisis
Yemen's Houthi movement claims that it launched a missile attack targeting the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier and accompanying warships of the United States Navy in the Red Sea. (Anadolu Agency)
15 January 2025 – 2025 Istanbul alcohol poisonings
Bootleg alcohol kills 37 people and leaves 80 others hospitalized over the last 48 hours in Istanbul, Turkey. Turkish health officials say many of those in hospital are in intensive care. (ABC News)
15 January 2025 – Stilfontein mine deaths
Seventy-eight bodies of workers are retrieved from a closed illegal gold mine in Stilfontein, North West Province, South Africa following a months-long siege by police. Over 200 survivors are arrested as they exit the mine. (Reuters)
15 January 2025 –
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration bans the usage of Red No. 3 artificial food coloring, due to research showing that the food coloring is carcinogenic. (NBC News)
15 January 2025 – Poland–Russia relations
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk accuses Russian President Vladimir Putin and his country of plotting terror attacks on airliners around the world. (The Independent)
15 January 2025 – 2024 South Korean martial law crisis
Arrest of Yoon Suk Yeol
Anti-corruption officials and police attempt to breach the residence of impeached South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol for a second time in order to execute an arrest warrant, while facing resistance from the Presidential Security Service, People Power Party lawmakers, and pro-Yoon protesters. Following a five-hour standoff, Yoon is arrested, becoming South Korea's first sitting president to be arrested. (Yonhap) (Yonhap 2) (AP)
15 January 2025 – 2024 drone sightings
The German government authorises the Bundeswehr to shoot down suspicious drones seen near military sites or other critical infrastructure with Interior Minister Nancy Faeser stating that Russia is suspected of being behind the drone activity. (BBC News)
15 January 2025 – 2024–2025 Georgian protests
A general strike takes place in Georgia with hundreds of Georgian firms urging the government to release all political prisoners and hold new elections amid nationwide protests. Former Prime Minister and opposition leader Giorgi Gakharia is hospitalized after being assaulted, allegedly by members of the ruling Georgian Dream party. (Civil Georgia) (BBC News)
15 January 2025 – 2024–2025 Mozambican protests
Daniel Chapo is sworn in as President of Mozambique, succeeding Filipe Nyusi. The inauguration takes place amid ongoing political unrest in Mozambique, with opposition leader Venâncio Mondlane continuing to insist that the October 2024 election was rigged. Since then, over 300 people have died in clashes with Police. (France 24) (Reuters)
15 January 2025 –
Rosen Zhelyazkov of the GERB–SDS coalition is tasked by Bulgarian President Rumen Radev with forming the new goverment, following the parliamentary election in October 2024. (Fakti.bg)
15 January 2025 – Exploration of the Moon, Commercial Lunar Payload Services
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, United States, carrying the American Blue Ghost M1 moon lander from Firefly Aerospace and the Japanese Hakuto-R Mission 2 moon lander from ispace. (BBC News)
14 January 2025 – Israel–Hamas war
Israel–Hamas war hostage crisis, Calls for a ceasefire during the Israel–Hamas war
Hamas officials say that they have accepted a draft agreement for a potential ceasefire as well as the release of hostages. Mediators in the United States and Qatar also state that this is the closest that both sides have been to a ceasefire agreement so far. (AP)
Israeli incursions in the West Bank
Four Al-Qassam Brigades militants and two civilians are killed during an Israeli airstrike in Jenin, in the occupied West Bank. (Al Jazeera)
14 January 2025 – Russian invasion of Ukraine
Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Ukraine strikes targets in the Republic of Tatarstan and Bryansk, Saratov, and Tula oblasts, Russia, with more than 200 drones and five ATACMS ballistic missiles, hitting ammunition depots, industrial plants and a refinery, in what Ukraine says is its "most massive" and "deepest" attack inside Russia so far. (CNN) (BBC News)
14 January 2025 – North Korean missile tests
North Korea launches multiple short-range ballistic missiles into the Sea of Japan. (Reuters)
14 January 2025 – Red Sea crisis
Yemen's Houthi forces fire a missile at Israel, triggering sirens in several areas, including Tel Aviv and some Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. According to the Israeli military, the missile was "likely intercepted" with no injuries reported. (Xinhua)
14 January 2025 –
The World Health Organization reports a suspected Marburg virus outbreak in Kagera, Tanzania, with nine cases and eight deaths. (Reuters)
14 January 2025 – 2024 Baltic Sea submarine cable disruptions, NATO operations
At the Summit of Baltic Sea Allies in Helsinki, Finland, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte announces the establishment of the Baltic Sentry military mission, which will strengthen the protection of critical infrastructure in the region, such as energy and communication cables, from "destabilizing acts". (NATO News)
14 January 2025 – Armenia–United States relations
The Armenian Foreign Minister, Ararat Mirzoyan, and the U.S. Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, sign in Washington, DC a Strategic Partnership Charter between Armenia and the United States. (The Defense Post)
14 January 2025 – Cuba–United States relations
U.S. President Joe Biden announces that the United States will remove Cuba from its state sponsors of terrorism list as part of a prisoner release deal. (BBC News)
14 January 2025 – 2024 South Korean martial law crisis
Arrest of Yoon Suk Yeol
A military unit assigned to guard the presidential residence of impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol approves the entry of anti-corruption officials and police, which is contested by the Presidential Security Service. (Yonhap)
The Constitutional Court of South Korea adjourns the opening session of Yoon Suk Yeol's impeachment trial after Yoon failed to attend the session due to alleged safety concerns. (NBC News) (Xinhua)
14 January 2025 –
Moldova detains former Kyrgyzstan presidential advisor Aidar Khalikov, who has accused Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov of corruption and election rigging. (OCCRP)
British Treasury Economic Secretary Tulip Siddiq resigns amid an anti-corruption investigation in Bangladesh involving her family. (BBC News)
The new Government of Prime Minister Américo Ramos is sworn in São Tomé and Príncipe. (Xinhua)
The government of Venezuela lifts its ban on the social media and instant messaging app Telegram. (TechRadar)