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February 27

Disasters and accidents

Fifteen people are killed and 30 more injured after the crash of a Bolivian Air Force's aircraft in to a busy avenue in El Alto, Bolivia.
Source: Reuters external link
Six people are killed and several others are injured after a sleeper bus collides with a trailer on National Highway 25 in Rajasthan, India.
Source: News18 external link
Two people are killed and 49 more injured after a tram derails in Milan, Italy, and crashes into pedestrians and a building.
Source: Rai News external link

Law and crime

A court in Jakarta, Indonesia, sentences nine individuals, including two former chief executives of subsidiaries of state-owned energy company Pertamina, to prison terms ranging from nine to 15 years in a corruption case involving alleged unlawful oil terminal leasing and crude oil imports that prosecutors say caused significant state losses.
Source: Reuters external link
The Supreme Court of Israel issues an interim order suspending a government ban on 37 foreign non-governmental organizations operating in Gaza and the West Bank, allowing them to continue their operations while the court reviews a petition challenging the revocation of their legal status.
Source: AFP via France 24 external link
A Tunisian court sentences former prime minister Ali Laarayedh, who has been detained since 2022, to 24 years in prison for facilitating the travel of Tunisian nationals to Syrian conflict zones during his premiership, while seven co-defendants, including former interior ministry officials, receive prison terms ranging from three to 24 years.
Source: Reuters external link

Science and technology

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei rejects a U.S. Department of Defense request to loosen security safeguards on the Claude large language model for potential use in mass surveillance and autonomous weapons systems.
Source: SRF external link

Armed conflicts and attacks

Israeli air and drone strikes kill at least five people and injure several others in central and southern Gaza, despite an ongoing United States-brokered truce between Israel and Hamas.
Source: The Hindu external link
Clashes break out on the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, with Pakistan launching airstrikes on several locations in Afghanistan, including the capital of Kabul, targeting Taliban government forces directly, in what Pakistani defense minister Khawaja Asif describes as "open war".
Source: Al Jazeera external link

February 26

Disasters and accidents

The death toll from the floods across Minas Gerais, Brazil, rises to 54 people, with fourteen more still missing.
Source: AFP via France 24 external link
Seven people are killed and 25 others are injured after a gas cylinder explodes inside a house in Chaman, Pakistan.
Source: Daily Times external link

Politics and elections

Source: AP via NBC News external link
Green Party candidate Hannah Spencer wins the constituency of Gorton and Denton in the party's first ever by-election win.
Source: BBC external link
Albanian prime minister Edi Rama dismisses deputy prime minister and infrastructure minister Belinda Balluku after anti-corruption prosecutors indicted her on suspicion of interfering in the award of two public construction contracts worth more than €200 million.
Source: Reuters external link

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.
Source: Times of Israel external link

Armed conflicts and attacks

Afghanistan announces attacks against Pakistani military positions along their shared border in response to Pakistani air strikes launched 4 days prior. Pakistan, in turn, says its forces have responded.
Source: Al Jazeera external link

February 25

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 who approached it for identification, and injured a coast guard commander in the shootout, with returning fire killing four and injuring six unidentified gunmen.
Source: CBS News external link

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.
Source: AFP via BSS external link

Disasters and accidents

A Turkish Air Force F-16 fighter jet crashes in western Turkey, killing the pilot.
Source: NOS external link

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.
Source: Reuters external link
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."
Source: Times of Israel external link

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.
Source: AFP via France 24 external link