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Today, how the Guardian covered 2024.

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QVC. 2024. What a year.

The UN has warned that the Middle East is on the brink of imminent catastrophe amid fears of an all-out war,

as Israel and the Iran backed group Hezbollah.

Disorder on the streets of Southport, with riot police deployed after violence erupted outside a mosque.

Let's head to Spain now, where the authorities have opened a temporary morgue in a convention centre

as the death toll from the flooding rises above 200, making this Europe's worst weather disaster in five decades.

So I've been the editor-in-chief of The Guardian for nearly 10 years,

and if you think about when that was,

I became editor halfway through 2015 and 2016 was the vote for Brexit and the first vote for Trump.

So I don't think we've known anything other than intensity, but this year has felt huge.

Catherine Viner has seen it all from the editor's chair.

Lots of significant stories, some massively significant elections,

some devastating wars and relentless demands on our reporters

and relentless desire, I think, from our audience to understand what's really going on.

The year began with wars raging in Ukraine and the Middle East, as well as in Sudan.

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