The death toll from floods across Minas Gerais, Brazil, rises to 54, with 14 people still missing.
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France24 
February 26
Disasters and accidents
Armed conflicts and attacks
Afghani authorities announce attacks against Pakistani military positions along their shared border in response to Pakistani air strikes launched in the week prior. Pakistan, in turn, says its forces have responded.
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Al Jazeera
Law and crime
A Greek court sentences four individuals, including Intellexa's Israel-based founder Tal Dilian, to eight years in prison for breaching data and violating privacy laws after they deployed the Predator spyware, targeting the mobile phones of more than 90 politicians, journalists, businesspeople, and military officials in 2022.
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Times of Israel
February 25
Law and crime
The Supreme Federal Court of Brazil sentences former Rio de Janeiro legislators Chiquinho and Domingos Brazão to 76 years and three months in prison each for ordering the 2018 killing of city councilor Marielle Franco and her driver, convicting them of double aggravated homicide, participation in an armed criminal organization, and attempted murder.
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AFP via France 24
Armed conflicts and attacks
The Cuban coast guard trades fire with an American marked speedboat registered in Florida 1 nautical mile (1.9 km; 1.2 mi) off of Cuba. According to Cuban government sources, the boat's occupants fired on coast guard personnel that approached it for identification, and injured a coast guard commander in the shootout, with returning fire killing four and injuring six unidentified gunmen.
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CBS News
International relations
The United States announces that it will ease certain restrictions to permit Venezuelan oil exports to Cuba's private sector for commercial and humanitarian purposes amid an energy shortage.
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Reuters
Israel's Knesset speaker Amir Ohana awards Indian prime minister Narendra Modi the newly established Medal of the Knesset to honor him for his "significant contributions to the State of Israel and the Jewish people."
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Times of Israel
Disasters and accidents
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NOS
Business and economy
South Korea's benchmark KOSPI index surpasses 6,000 points for the first time, crossing the threshold shortly after the opening of trading.
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AFP via BSS
February 24
Politics and elections
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Andina
Armed conflicts and attacks
The Foreign Intelligence Service of Russia accuses France and the United Kingdom of preparing to supply Ukraine with a nuclear weapon, prompting the Russian foreign ministry to warn that such a move would lead to a direct conflict between NATO states and Russia.
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Reuters
Myanmar Air Force airstrikes on suspected rebel targets kill at least 17 in Rakhine state.
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al Jazeera
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Al Jazeera
Five police officers are killed by the Pakistani Taliban during two ambushes in Kohat District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
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AP
Four police officers are killed and three civilians injured in a suicide bombing at a checkpoint in Bhakkar District, Punjab, Pakistan.
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Xinhua
Two people are killed, including the suspect, and two others are injured in a suicide bombing targeting a police car near the Savyolovsky railway station in Moscow, Russia.
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Xinhua
Science and technology
The United Kingdom's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) fines American social media network Reddit £14.5m for "using the data of children under the age of 13 unlawfully", and potentially exposing them to "inappropriate and harmful content", including pornography.
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The Guardian
Business and economy
American technology company Meta agrees to purchase millions of artificial intelligence chips from AMD, with AMD committing to supply up to six gigawatts of graphics processing units and issuing Meta warrants convertible into 160 million shares as part of a long-term partnership.
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The Peninsula Qatar
International relations
Bolivia resumes operational cooperation with the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to combat drug trafficking and organized crime after a 17-year suspension. Bolivia says the renewed collaboration will include efforts to address money laundering linked to the illicit drug trade.
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Reuters
Sierra Leone says that Guinea has detained several of its army and police personnel and seized their ammunition during construction work on border facilities in Sulima Chiefdom, Falaba District.
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Reuters
Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán announces that Hungary has ended all support for Ukraine, including through European Union framework, until Ukraine resumes oil transfers via the Druzhba pipeline.
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AA
Disasters and accidents
Thirty people are killed, 39 others are reported missing and at least 440 are displaced from their homes after heavy rain triggers flash flooding in Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
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Reuters
Four people are killed and several others are injured when an Islamic Republic of Iran Army Aviation Bell AH-1 SuperCobra helicopter crashes into a fruit market in Dorcheh, Isfahan province, Iran.
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JFeed
Four people are killed and another is critically injured from carbon monoxide poisoning at an apartment building in Kursk Oblast, Russia.
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Xinhua
The death toll from an explosion and fire at a six-story residential building in Chattogram, Bangladesh, rises to three.
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News.Az
February 23
Health and environment
Brazil announces that it will revoke a decree expanding the waterways in the Amazon rainforest under a federal privatization program following protests by Indigenous groups.
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Reuters
Law and crime
British politician Peter Mandelson is arrested on charges of misconduct in public office related to his links to convicted American sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
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BBC News
Canadian-American author and former researcher Peter Attia resigns from CBS News following backlash after lewd messages between him and Jeffery Epstein were released.
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CNN
Seven police officers are injured, including two seriously, in a seperate bombing targeting police vehicles at a filling station in Mykolaiv, Ukraine.
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Reuters
Business and economy
Panama's canal authority assumes control of the Balboa and Cristóbal ports on the Panama Canal after the Supreme Court annulled the concessions held by Hong Kong–based CK Hutchison, with an 18-month transition period and a new international tender process planned.
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AFP via France 24
International relations
Slovak prime minister Robert Fico announces the suspension of emergency electricity supplies to Ukraine amid the Russo-Ukrainian war unless oil transit through the Druzhba pipeline resumes, following a disruption that Slovakia attributes to Ukraine.
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Al Jazeera
France restricts United States ambassador Charles Kushner's direct access to government ministers after he skipped a meeting requested by foreign minister Jean-Noël Barrot to address comments concerning the killing of Quentin Deranque.
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Reuters
Armed conflicts and attacks
The death toll among Mexican National Guard troops in Jalisco rises to at least 25 with dozens more wounded amid clashes with Jalisco New Generation Cartel gunmen.
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BBC News
Hugo César "El Tuli" Macías Ureña, a right-hand man of El Mencho, who coordinated attacks after his death, is confirmed killed in a shootout with authorities.
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The Guardian
At least six soldiers and National Guards were wounded after an ambush in the Zamora–Carapan highway, Zamora Municipality, Michoacán.
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Quadrantin
Three people are killed in an airstrike by the United States Southern Command on an alleged drug vessel in the Caribbean Sea.
Operation Southern SpearUnited States strikes on alleged drug traffickers during Operation Southern Spear
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Al Jazeera
Nigerian Army troops kill five suspected Lakurawa insurgents near Mayama Hill, Kebbi State, Nigeria, and recover a cache of weapons.
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Channels TV
Russian forces launch a wave of missile and drone strikes across Ukraine, killing four people, including two civilians in Odesa.
Russo-Ukrainian war (2022–present)Russian attacks on civilians in the Russo-Ukrainian war (2022–present)
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Al Jazeera
Chad closes its border with Sudan after five Chadian soldiers and three civilians are killed, and 12 others are injured, in clashes between the Rapid Support Forces and militia groups affiliated with the Sudanese government.
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Reuters
At least 28 people are killed and 39 others are injured in an attack by the Rapid Support Forces in Misteriha, North Darfur, Sudan.
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AP
In Ecuador, seven people are killed in a mass shooting in a rural area in Jama, while two people are killed at a seaside resort of San Vincente.
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Xinhua
Militiamen suspected to be loyal to the South Sudanese government reportedly lure a dozen civilians from their homes with the promise of humanitarian aid and then shot them dead.
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AP
Three security personnel are killed and six others are injured, including some seriously, in an ambush on ambulances by unidentified gunmen in Karak District.
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AA
Four security personnel and an Islamic State gunman are killed in a shootout at a checkpoint in Raqqa, Syria.
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Asharq Al-Awsat
Politics and elections
Spanish prime minister Pedro Sánchez announces the declassification of the documents relating to the attempted coup that took place in the Congress of Deputies in 1981.
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Reuters
Rob Jetten is sworn in as the new prime minister of the Netherlands, becoming the country's youngest and its first openly gay prime minister.
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BBC News
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Gestión
Disasters and accidents
Seven people are killed when a Beechcraft King Air air ambulance crashes in Chatra district, Jharkhand, India.
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Hindustan Times
A nationwide power outage occurs in the Dominican Republic, which the Ministry of Energy and Mines attributes to a transmission line switch malfunction that triggered system protection mechanisms. Power generation begins to recover later in the day, reaching about 30 percent of normal capacity.
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Reuters
A bus plunges off a mountainous section of the Prithvi Highway near Benighat, Nepal, killing 19 people and injuring 25 others.
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AP
A Mil Mi-17 helicopter of the Peruvian Air Force that went missing the previous day is found crashed near Chala, Peru. All 15 people on board are confirmed dead.
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Gulf News
Six people are killed in a fire at a three-story residential building in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India.
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Hindustan Times
Five people are killed and 45 others are injured when a double-decker bus overturns on the Purvanchal Expressway in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.
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NDTV
A body of one of the three people that were reported missing after a garbage mound collapsed at a landfill in Rodriguez, Rizal, Philippines, three days ago, is recovered. The claims of up to 50 people missing are dismissed.
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Philippine Daily Inquirer