Tokyo Olympics, European Football Championships, and for Brexiteers, a final farewell to the European Union. But it wasn’t going to be your typical year, and neither was it your typical January.Three days in, Qasem Soleimani – one of Iran’s most senior military figures – is killed in a US drone strike, leaving Iranian and US relations at breaking point.
On 8 January we are introduced to ‘Megxit’ – Meghan and Harry’s shock announcement they are ‘stepping back’ as senior royals.
Meanwhile, devastating pictures of Australia burning are beamed round the world – more than 42,000 square miles of bush and forest are destroyed.Then, on 11 January, a small story appears on newspaper inside pages: Chinese state media reports that a 61-year-old man, a.
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