Superlatives have been used extensively to characterize the year 2022. When we take stock of the year 2023, how can we not be tempted to use the same terms?
Heat records in the midst of a climate crisis have multiplied there. The year 2023 is already considered the hottest in history. Earthquakes in Morocco, Turkey and Syria, floods in Libya, storms in the United States… extreme weather events affect the entire world.
A year and eight months after the Russian army’s offensive in Ukraine, on February 24, 2022, another latent war was reactivated. On October 7, 2023, Hamas carried out a surprise and deadly military attack against Israel, leading to the invasion of Gaza by the Israeli army. Civilians die massively there, as in Sudan and Ukraine.
In France, a series of political crises followed: pension reform, the death of Nahel M., urban riots and, more recently, the immigration bill.
The world has collected dozens of sequences to tell you about the year 2023 in six minutes.
“Understand in three minutes”
The explanatory videos that make up the “Understand in three minutes” series are produced by the Vertical Videos department of the World. Broadcast primarily on platforms such as TikTok, Snapchat, Instagram or Facebook, they aim to put major events into context in a short format and make the news accessible to everyone.