News [Late 2024] (experiment, maybe-probably subject to change)

Northumbria, the youngest country in the World. [September 19 of 2024]

The 2024 referendum for the Independence of Northumbria, held on September 18, has given its results.

To the questions: "Should Northumbria be an independent country?" and "Should [____] be part of an independent Northumbria?", 63% to 75% of the referendum participants (94% of the population eligible to vote), have answered "Yes".

After 80 years of fighting for independence, the Northern Party ("Northumbria Group") has achieved independence for the regions of: Yorkshire, Lancashire, Cumbria, Merseyside, Tyne and Wear, Greater Manchester, County Durham, Northumberland and Cheshire.

The referendum in the borough of High Peak (northern Derbyshire), has resulted in a majority in favor of "No", being the only region of the referendum that does not join the new country of Northumbria.

In York, people celebrate on the streets after the sucess of the second independence referendum (one decade later after the 2014 referendum).

Meanwhile, after signing the interim constitution of Northumbria, the General Secretary of the new Communist Party of Northumbria (CPN), Philip Proudfoot, meets with the Chairman Jeremy Bernard Corbyn, to sign the recognition of the new British country and formal relations.

For now Northumbria has announced its intentions to join the European Socialist Union, but the North's independence has dealt a heavy blow to continental Europeans and Zimmerwald's response is so far, sketchy.

Some fear that the success of Northumbria's independence referendum will prompt the secession of more republics in Western Europe...

*[Europe]

Moscow announces plans to expand its lunar base MEC (ЛЭК/LEK), in preparation for its Mars 2035 program. [October 2 of 2024]

After the 2020 budget revision and with the 2025 budget revision approaching, the Russian space agency Roscosmos (Роскосмос) has announced the expansion of its Lunar Experimental Complex (Лунный Экспериментальный Комплекс - ЛЭК, also known as "Mir III").

It is planned to expand not only the modules of the station, but also the number of personnel present at the base, from 12 people to 18.

It is unknown at present time, how this could affect Russian plans for the International Lunar Research Station (Международная Лунная Исследовательская Станция)...

*[Space]

Transfer of a Monet painting valued at ₽20 million to the Russian State Collection. [October 15 of 2024]

Russian Tsar Nicholas III transfers to the nation a ₽20 million Monet painting and about 4 million rubles (inheritance tax), as a continuation of the legal processes after having inherited the throne, of the brief Tsar Alexander V in 2023.

Raising interest and discussion about other Western European pieces present in the Russian State-Royal collection after World War III (many 'inherited' from the British-Germanic relatives of the Russian emperors and others looted by the forces of the Covenant of Nations in its assault against the Imperial Federation and its allies).

The Romanov Family as a whole, especially the Tsar of All Russia, has at its name the World's largest art collection own by a single family. That it is semi-open to the public, according to the ordinance of the Tsar (as head of the family), various Ministries and the Duma (as representative of the State in general).

Across the estates of the Russian state and the imperial family (especially the Palace-Museums, a phenomenon started under Tsar Alexander III), more than 1 million collectibles are kept and displayed to the public all year round or intermittently.

Including over 7,000 paintings, over 150,000 works on paper, 30,000 watercolours and drawings, 450,000 photographs, and more (tapestries, furniture, ceramics, textiles, carriages, weapons, armour, jewellery, clocks, musical instruments, tableware, plants, manuscripts, books, and sculptures)...

*[Culture]

2024 Uruguayan general elections taking place. [October 27 of 2024]

*[South America]

2024 United States presidental election. [November 5 of 2024]

The Senate of America has reopened Congress for the 2024 Presidential Elections, after the chaos caused by the Referendum of 2023.

Twenty years after the start of the Build Back Better America Initiative (BBBA-I) in 2001, the United States has not regained its position as the world's second largest economic power and has fallen further behind other hyperpowers. While Brazil and the African powers are gaining more and more ground in the international arena.

Announcing quite difficult and hard-fought elections between the North American electoral blocs (California, Texas, South Western, Canadian, etc).

Soon we will show the candidates and their running mates...

*[North America]

India announces the completion of the Delhi-Colombo high-speed railway, with the Gulf of Mannar and Palk Strait Tunnel Project completed. [ December of 2024]

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After nearly 30 years, the Indian government has completed the Gulf of Mannar Tunnel Project and the Palk Strait Tunnel Project, giving rise to a high-speed route between the city of Colombo (island of Sri Lanka), and the city of Delhi (northern India), connecting the island with much of the Indian subcontinent.

Putting a final point, to one of the five major undersea tunnel projects under construction, of the last 30-20 years (according to the Indian Academy of Engineering)...

*[South Asia]