Is it really the end or the beginning of the end?

Protests around the world at times cast a shadow over the pandemic.
Even during epidemic crises, citizens elected new government officials, which led to mass demonstrations in some countries, and from January 2020 to January 2021, the world was hit by several terrorist attacks and killings.
It took 366 days of this leap year that will be remembered by the coronavirus, but no matter how much the virus slowed down and overshadowed everything, some of the events found their place in history.
Did the new 2021 mark the end or at least the beginning of the end of what the previous year brought?

The murder of Suleimani EPA-EFE/IRANIAN SUPREME LEADER'S OFFICE

Already at the beginning of the year, primarily the world political public was shocked by the news of the assassination of Kasem Sulejmani, a high-ranking Iranian general.
Suleimani, who led Iranian military operations in Iraq and Syria, was killed on January 3 as local allies drove him from Baghdad airport.
A close associate and deputy head of the PMU, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandes, was also killed in the attack.

The fall of the Ukrainian Boeing and death of a basketball legend

Shortly afterwards, on January 8, a Ukrainian Boeing 737 carrying 176 people crashed after taking off from Tehran airport. Three days later, Iran announced that the country's army "inadvertently shot down" a Ukrainian passenger plane, stating that it was a human error.
Also, before anyone could have guessed what year awaited us, the world was hit by the news of the death of the legendary basketball player Kobe Bryant.
Forty-one-year-old Bryant was in a helicopter when he crashed near Calabasas, in the western part of Los Angeles. His daughter Giana - Gigi also died with Kobe.<...