Event forecast period was January 25–March 4, 2024
January 26: Yemen’s Houthi hit a fuel tanker transiting the Red Sea with a missile strike (Mars) sparking a fire (Mars) on board.
January 27/28: 52 people are killed and 64 wounded in attacks by armed groups (Mars-Pluto) in a disputed region (Mars) between South Sudan and Sudan.
February 1: In Argentina everything is melting as 45 million people swelter in a heat wave (Mars).
February 2: In response to the January 28 drone attack on a US military base in Jordan the US launches retaliatory strikes (Mars) on 85 targets in Syria and Iraq killing nearly 40 people; and North Korea fires multiple cruise missiles (Mars) off its west coast.
February 3: The US and Britain launch strikes (Mars) against 36 Houthi targets in Yemen.
In Chile a state of emergency (Mars) is declared as firefighters battle forest fires (Mars) that have so far killed at least 112 with hundreds missing.
February 7: In Pakistan twin bomb blasts (Mars) kill at least 28 people and wound dozens on the eve of general elections.
February 12: In Gaza two Israeli-Argentine hostages (Pluto) held by Hamas (Pluto) in Rafah are freed in a ferocious (Mars) Israeli rescue operation that killed 74 Palestinians as international opposition (Pluto) to a ground invasion (Mars) without a credible plan (Saturn) to protect civilians (Moon) intensifies.
According to a United Nation’s first-ever report (Uranus) on migrating animals more than a fifth of the world’s migrating species are at risk of going extinct (Pluto) as a result of climate change and human encroachment (Mars).
February 14: In southern Lebanon 10 civilians including four children are killed in a barrage (Pluto) of Israeli military strikes (Mars). Hezbollah (Pluto) and the Israeli military (Mars) have been exchanging fire along the Israel-Lebanon border for more than four months, after the Lebanese armed group launched rockets across the disputed frontier in support of its Palestinian ally Hamas.
In Spain a Russian pilot who defected to Ukraine with his helicopter last year is shot dead (Mars) by two gunman (Mars) his body riddled with bullets (Mars).
February 15: In Gaza Israeli forces raid the biggest functioning hospital; in Lebanon Hezbollah retaliates to yesterday’s missile strikes by firing dozens of rockets at a northern Israeli town; in Yemen the Houthis claim responsibility for a missile attack on Barbados-flagged bulk carrier ‘Lycavitos’ in the Gulf of Aden.
In Kansas City, Missouri, a woman (Venus) dies and 22 people are wounded in a mass shooting (Mars-Pluto).
February 16: In Russia jailed opposition politician Alexei Navalny (Pluto) and archenemy of Vladimir Putin (Pluto) dies after a walk at the ‘Polar Wolf’ Arctic penal colony (house 12) where he was serving a three-decade sentence.
February 18: In New Guinea’s remote Highland’s region at least 49 people are killed in an ambush (Mars) involving a tribal dispute (Mars).
In Mexico City a huge crowd (Pluto) estimated at 700,000 people turns out in an anti-government, pro-democracy protest (Uranus) against President Lopez Obrador’s administration.
In a rare international law enforcement operation (Pluto-house 12) by Britain’s National Crime Agency, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation and Europol (Pluto-house 12), Lockbit, a notorious cybercrime gang (Pluto) that holds its victims’ data to ransom is disrupted and its website is now under the control of the National Crime Agency of the UK, working in close cooperation with the FBI and the international law enforcement task force, ‘Operation Cronos’.
February 20: The United States again vetoes (Pluto) a draft United Nations Security Council resolution on the Israel-Hamas war, blocking a demand for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire.
February 23: The United States imposes extensive sanctions (Saturn-Pluto) against Russia, targeting more than 500 people and entities to mark the second anniversary of Moscow’s invasion (Mars) of Ukraine and retaliate (Mars) for the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny.
February 25: In Burkina Faso 170 people including women and children are ‘executed’ (Mars-Pluto) in attacks on three villages; at least 15 Catholic worshippers (Jupiter) are killed when gunmen (Mars) attack a community in the country’s northern region; and in Natiaboani town dozens of people are shot dead at a mosque during early-morning prayers.
February 27: In Mali at least 31 people (Pluto – group) are killed when a bus plunges (Mars) off a bridge into a river near the western town of Kenieba.
February 29: In Gaza more than 100 Palestinians waiting for food aid are shot (Mars), trampled or run over by trucks (Mars) and killed in a crowd-crush incident (Pluto) near Gaza City.
In Bangladesh at least 45 people are killed after a fire (Mars) broke out in a six-story shopping mall in Dhaka.
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