2020: A Year in Review
Al Jazeera English takes a look back at the COVID-19 pandemic and the other stories that defined the year.
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Party like it’s 2020: US braced for quiet New Year’s Eve
Quiet night expected as restaurants grapple with occupancy limits, early curfews and a ban on indoor dining.
Spain reaches deal with UK on Gibraltar, avoiding hard border
Just hours before the UK was to complete its break from the 27-nation bloc, Madrid and London clinched an agreement.
Brexit: Boris Johnson’s father seeks French citizenship
Stanley Johnson confirms plan to seek French citizenship as the free movement of Britons in the EU comes to an end.
Trump faces resistance from post-presidency Florida neighbours
Trump wants to live at his Mar-a-Lago estate after leaving Washington but not all of his neighbours are welcoming him.
Belarus to hold referendum on constitutional changes
President Alexander Lukashenko promises vote on proposed reforms to his office's powers, state media reports.
Tracking the new coronavirus strains
At least 31 countries so far have reported cases of the new strains of coronavirus.
How Minneapolis small businesses banded together to survive COVID
Small firms weathered the economic fallout from COVID and the civil unrest sparked by the killing of George Floyd.
Pakistan arrests more than a dozen over Hindu temple attack
A Muslim mob attacked and set fire to a Hindu temple in the northwestern province of Khyber Pakthunkhwa.
Trump’s Blackwater pardons ‘an affront to justice’: UN experts
Experts say pardons of 4 private contractors convicted of murder in a 2007 Baghdad massacre undermine humanitarian law.
US demands release of Uighur doctor sentenced to 20 years’ jail
The call to release Gulshan Abbas came as China urged Washington to halt 'lies, smears'.
Norway: 10 missing, including children, after landslide disaster
The landslide struck a residential area north of the capital, Oslo, forcing some 700 people to evacuate.
Vietnamese pick up the pieces after 2020’s relentless storms
Climate change increases the risk to hard-hit central provinces, but few want to leave the only home they know.
Second Indigenous activist killed in Honduras this week
Honduran authorities say they are investigating the killings of activists Felix Vasquez and Jose Adan Medina.
US mulls COVID tests for more international travellers: report
New requirements could need US citizens travelling from abroad to test negative within three days before departure.
Sleeping volcanoes rumble to life in the eastern Caribbean
Officials report seismic activity, strong gas emissions and changes to the crater lake of once-dormant volcanoes.
Mob attacks and sets fire to Hindu temple in Pakistan
Videos circulating on social media showed men using hammers to damage the temple after an address from Muslim leaders.
Bitcoin heads for $29,000, quadrupling in value in 2020
This month, Bitcoin has surged almost 50 percent, putting it on track to make December its biggest month since 2019.
Bosnia cancels migrant relocation from burned down camp
Bosnian authorities return hundreds of migrants to empty burned out tent camp after 24 hours in relocation buses.
Indian forces kill three Kashmiri men in Srinagar
India claims the dead men were armed fighters but families say they were innocent civilians.