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The 2020s (pronounced "twenty-twenties" or "two thousand [and] twenties"; shortened to "the '20s" and also known as "The Twenties") is the current decade that began on 1 January 2020, and will end on 31 December 2029.

The 2020s began with the COVID-19 pandemic. The first reports of the virus were published on 31 December 2019, though the first cases are said to have appeared nearly a month earlier. The pandemic led to a global economic recession, a sustained rise in global inflation for the first time since the 1970s, and a global supply chain crisis. The World Health Organization declared the virus a global state of emergency from March 2020 to May 2023. While no longer considered a pandemic, many health critics consider the virus' effects to still be ongoing through new variants.

Several anti-government demonstrations and revolts occurred in the early 2020s, including a continuation of those in Hong Kong against extradition legislation; protests against certain local, state and national responses to the COVID-19 pandemic; others around the world, particularly in the United States, against racism and police brutality; one in India against agriculture and farming acts; one in Israel against judicial reforms; another in Indonesia against the omnibus law on jobs; protests and strikes in France against pension reform; political crises in Peru, Bangladesh, Armenia, and Thailand; and many in Belarus, Eswatini, Myanmar, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Iran, China, Russia, and Venezuela against various forms of governmental jurisdiction, corruption, and authoritarianism; along with citizen riots in the United States, Japan, and Brazil in an attempt to overturn election results. The world population grew to over eight billion people, and in 2023, India overtook China as the most populous country in the world. Among democracies in 2024, its elections saw an 80% loss of incumbent support worldwide, several losses being historic. That year, former U.S. president Donald Trump was reelected to a second, nonconsecutive term.

Ongoing military conflicts include the Myanmar civil war, the Ethiopian civil conflict, the Kivu conflict, the Mali War, the Yemeni civil war, the Somali Civil War, Sudanese civil war, the Syrian civil war, the Russo-Ukrainian War, and the Gaza war. The year 2021 saw the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan and the fall of Kabul to the Taliban, ending nearly 20 years of war in Afghanistan. The Russian invasion of Ukraine became the largest conventional military offensive in Europe since World War II, resulting in a refugee crisis, disruptions to global trade, and an exacerbation of economic inflation. In 2023, a Hamas-led attack marked the first invasion of Israel since 1948, triggering an Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip, a Palestinian territory. The invasion has led to the displacement of nearly all 2.3 million Gaza residents, a humanitarian crisis, a famine, and a polio epidemic, sparking global protests against Israel. In 2024, a quick and renewed rebel offensive during the Syrian civil war led to the toppling of Bashar al-Assad and the fall of the Assad regime. Smaller conflicts include the insurgency in the Maghreb, the Iraq insurgency, the Philippine and the Mexican drug wars. (Full article...)

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On 8 December 2024, the Assad regime collapsed during a major offensive by opposition forces. The offensive was spearheaded by Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and supported mainly by the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army as part of the ongoing Syrian civil war that began with the Syrian revolution in 2011. The capture of Syria's capital, Damascus, marked the end of the Assad family's rule, which had governed Syria as a hereditary totalitarian dictatorship since Hafez al-Assad assumed power in 1971 after a successful coup d'état.

As a rebel coalition advanced towards Damascus, reports emerged that Bashar al-Assad had fled the capital aboard a plane to Russia, where he joined his family, already in exile, and was granted asylum. Following his departure, opposition forces declared victory on state television. Concurrently, the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed his resignation and departure from Syria. (Full article...)

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Image 1Balletcore inspired skirt worn with boho-chic sweater and retro sneakers, 2023 (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 2Androgynous outfit worn by alternative singer Yungblud in 2023 (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 3Aftermath of the earthquake at Wajima morning market in January 2024. (from 2020s)
Image 4Project 2025 document, published April 21, 2023 (from 2020s)
Image 5Elderly man dressed up in Stockholm in 2023 (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 6An earthquake-damaged building in Antakya, Turkey in February 2023 (from 2020s)
Image 7Indonesian girls wearing face masks in 2022. (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 8Countries with at least one election date altered (from 2020s in politics)
Image 9Singer Jack White wearing striped Madcap England blazer, 2021. (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 10Batken Region in Kyrgyzstan. (from 2020s in politics)
Image 11Highrise residential building ″Palestine Tower″ in Gaza following an Israeli strike during the Gaza war. (from 2020s)
Image 12An earthquake-damaged buildings in Mandalay, Myanmar in March 2025. (from 2020s)
Image 13Shinzo Abe (from 2020s)
Image 14Project 2025 document, published April 21, 2023 (from 2020s)
Image 15Highrise residential building ″Palestine Tower″ in Gaza following an Israeli strike during the Gaza war. (from 2020s)
Image 16Dominican Republican–Spanish actor Jean Cruz [es] wearing an early 1980s-inspired outfit in 2021 (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 17Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson and Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin were two female prime ministers in Scandinavia who guided their countries' ascensions into NATO. (from 2020s)
Image 18Kacey Musgraves performing at the Pilgrimage Music Festival (from 2020s in music)
Image 19Maximalist necklace, unknown designer, produced by Pull&Bear, c.2023 (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 20Yahya Sinwar (from 2020s)
Image 212020: Blush pink dress designed by Shey Natividad for DC Fashion Week. (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 22Aftermath of the earthquake at Wajima morning market in January 2024. (from 2020s)
Image 23Ismail Haniyeh (from 2020s)
Image 24Indian actress Ananya Panday wearing long green sequin dress, 2024 (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 25Ayman al-Zawahiri (from 2020s)
Image 26Yahya Sinwar (from 2020s)
Image 27Karol G (from 2020s in music)
Image 28Actor Finn Wolfhard wearing early 2020s Indie Fashion (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 29Asus ROG Ally (2023) (from 2020s in video games)
Image 30Ismail Haniyeh (from 2020s)
Image 31Quest 2 (2020) (from 2020s in video games)
Image 32Donald Trump (from 2020s)
Image 332021: Italian band Måneskin in androgynous outfits. (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 34 Taiwanese teen girl in Hanfu, 2024. (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 35Jovenel Moïse (from 2020s)
Image 36A 2020s laptop gaming PC manufactured by MSI (from 2020s in video games)
Image 37The Imi N'Tala village was heavily destroyed by the Marrakesh-Safi earthquake in September 2023. (from 2020s)
Image 38All pink Barbiecore inspired outfit worn by actress Margot Robbie in 2023 (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 39Confirmed deaths per 100,000 population as of 20 December 2023 (from 2020s in politics)
Image 40A 2020s custom built desktop gaming PC with MSI manufactured hardware (from 2020s in video games)
Image 41Oversized workwear-inspired outfit worn by indie rocker Sam Fender in 2021. (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 42Fairy Grunge clothing at an Urban Outfitters store (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 43Cardigan and flannel coats worn by Taylor Swift, representative of the cottagecore subtrend. (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 44Clothing items used to express beliefs during a Black Lives Matter protest. (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 45French actor and singer Etienne Daho wearing Americana-inspired black leather blouson and red western shirt in 2023. (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 46Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson and Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin were two female prime ministers in Scandinavia who guided their countries' ascensions into NATO. (from 2020s)
Image 47PlayStation 5 (2020) (from 2020s in video games)
Image 482021: Nikki Phillips in Fashion Week. (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 49Syrian rebels at Hama Air Base during the Syrian civil war. (from 2020s)
Image 50An earthquake-damaged building in Antakya, Turkey in February 2023 (from 2020s)
Image 51Roku is one of the most popularly known streaming devices (from 2020s)
Image 52Qasem Soleimani (from 2020s)
Image 532020: example of a Dark Academia outfit. (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 54 Brightly colored western clothing, early to mid 2020s (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 55PICO 4 (2022) (from 2020s in video games)
Image 56Maximalist outfits worn by indie girl group Wet Leg, 2022. (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 571960s-inspired outfit from 2021 featuring knee high boots, pop-art-inspired top, miniskirt, and cardigan with checkerboard motif. (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 58Hassan Nasrallah (from 2020s)
Image 59Taylor Swift continued to dominate the global music industry in the 2020s. She released the million-selling albums Midnights, 1989 (Taylor's Version) and The Tortured Poets Department, and embarked on the highest-grossing concert tour of all time. (from 2020s in music)
Image 60The highest-grossing film of the decade so far is James Cameron's Avatar: The Way of Water. (from 2020s)
Image 61Qasem Soleimani (from 2020s)
Image 62 Contemporary Chinese Mao jacket, 2023. (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 63Two women with Jirai Kei outfit, 2024 (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 64Clothes for sale in 2021. (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 65US Marines with SP-MAGTF-CR-CC at an evacuation checkpoint at Kabul Airport on 21 August during the 2021 Fall of Kabul, at the end of the War in Afghanistan. (from 2020s)
Image 66Tablets and smartphones (Samsung Galaxy S23 series pictured) would be widely used to play mobile games which now form the largest sector in the gaming industry (from 2020s in video games)
Image 67Steam Deck (2022) (from 2020s in video games)
Image 682021: Natalie Biden wearing a matching cloth COVID-19 mask at the inauguration of Joe Biden, her grandfather (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 69Goblincore sweater (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 70Donald Trump (from 2020s)
Image 71NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 (2022) one the most popular video cards used for gaming PC's during the decade (from 2020s in video games)
Image 72Roku is one of the most popularly known streaming devices (from 2020s)
Image 73Xbox Series X (2020) (from 2020s in video games)
Image 74Nintendo Switch OLED (2021) (from 2020s in video games)
Image 752020–21: Korean men in the 1980s and 2000s-inspired outfits fashionable in the early 2020s. (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 76British rapper Stormzy wearing all-black outfit in 2022. (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 77The highest-grossing film of the decade so far is James Cameron's Avatar: The Way of Water. (from 2020s)
Image 78The Imi N'Tala village was heavily destroyed by the Marrakesh-Safi earthquake in September 2023. (from 2020s)
Image 79Nintendo Switch (from 2020s in video games)
Image 80Japanese man with curtained hair. (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 81The mullet/shaggy hairstyle became a popular hairstyle among men. (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 82Haim and Taylor Swift in glamorous, industrial-inspired all-black outfits in a 2022 concert. (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 83American playwright and musician Lin-Manuel Miranda wrote the original songs for the soundtrack of Encanto, a viral phenomenon. (from 2020s in music)
Image 84Syrian rebels at Hama Air Base during the Syrian civil war. (from 2020s)
Image 85Ayman al-Zawahiri (from 2020s)
Image 86K-pop group BTS continued to be one of the most popular bands of the 2020s. (from 2020s in music)
Image 87US Marines with SP-MAGTF-CR-CC at an evacuation checkpoint at Kabul Airport on 21 August during the 2021 Fall of Kabul, at the end of the War in Afghanistan. (from 2020s)
Image 88Icelandic pop artist Laufey dressed in a high-collared tank top and jeans (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 89Shinzo Abe (from 2020s)
Image 90Jovenel Moïse (from 2020s)
Image 91Xbox Series S (2020) (from 2020s in video games)
Image 92Machine Gun Kelly performing (from 2020s in music)
Image 93Hassan Nasrallah (from 2020s)
Image 94Student in 2022. (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 95The AI boom emerged in the 2020s. Generative AI such as Text-to-image models and AI chatbots released publicly. Machine learning systems that took minute(s) to produce blurry images in mid 2022 were able to produce more realistic imagery in seconds by mid 2023. English text would appear as gibberish in earlier AI text-to-image builds, although this was fixed to an extent with newer AI models such as DALL-E 3. (from 2020s)
Image 96Teen girl wearing early 2020s fashion trends. (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 97French woman attending 2022 Fashion Week. (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 98Blackpink's Born Pink became the first album by a girl group in over 20 years to top both the US and UK album charts. (from 2020s in music)
Image 992021: Black American woman with a kidcore-inspired outfit and brightly dyed hair in 2021. (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 100Apple Vision Pro (2024) (from 2020s in video games)
Image 101Aftermath of the Spanish floods at Sedaví, Horta Sud in October 2024. (from 2020s)
Image 102Aftermath of the Spanish floods at Sedaví, Horta Sud in October 2024. (from 2020s)
Image 103The AI boom emerged in the 2020s. Generative AI such as Text-to-image models and AI chatbots released publicly. Machine learning systems that took minute(s) to produce blurry images in mid 2022 were able to produce more realistic imagery in seconds by mid 2023. English text would appear as gibberish in earlier AI text-to-image builds, although this was fixed to an extent with newer AI models such as DALL-E 3. (from 2020s)
Image 104Montage of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, part of the Russo-Ukrainian War. (from 2020s)
Image 105Stand-up comedian Kurtis Conner wearing early 2020s mullet hairstyle and mustache. (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 106Montage of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, part of the Russo-Ukrainian War. (from 2020s)
Image 107An earthquake-damaged buildings in Mandalay, Myanmar in March 2025. (from 2020s)
Image 108American singer Billie Eilish are among the notable examples of Y2K fashion revival. (from 2020s in fashion)

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Narendra Damodardas Modi (born 17 September 1950) is an Indian politician who has served as the prime minister of India since 2014. Modi was the chief minister of Gujarat from 2001 to 2014 and is the member of parliament (MP) for Varanasi. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a far-right Hindu nationalist paramilitary volunteer organisation. He is the longest-serving prime minister outside the Indian National Congress.

Modi was born and raised in Vadnagar in northeastern Gujarat, where he completed his secondary education. He was introduced to the RSS at the age of eight. At the age of 18, he was married to Jashodaben Modi, whom he abandoned soon after, only publicly acknowledging her four decades later when legally required to do so. Modi became a full-time worker for the RSS in Gujarat in 1971. The RSS assigned him to the BJP in 1985 and he rose through the party hierarchy, becoming general secretary in 1998. In 2001, Modi was appointed chief minister of Gujarat and elected to the legislative assembly soon after. His administration is considered complicit in the 2002 Gujarat riots, and has been criticised for its management of the crisis. According to official records, a little over 1,000 people were killed, three-quarters of whom were Muslim; independent sources estimated 2,000 deaths, mostly Muslim. A Special Investigation Team appointed by the Supreme Court of India in 2012 found no evidence to initiate prosecution proceedings against him. While his policies as chief minister were credited for encouraging economic growth, his administration was criticised for failing to significantly improve health, poverty and education indices in the state. (Full article...)

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