Border clashes break out on the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. Pakistan's Ministry of Information claims that Afghan forces around Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provoked the clashes.
February 27
Armed conflicts and attacks
Pakistan launches 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 
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
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
Politics and elections
Danish prime minister Mette Frederiksen calls a snap election for March 24 amid the Greenland crisis.
Source:
AP via NBC News
Armed conflicts and attacks
Afghanistan announces 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.
Source:
Al Jazeera
February 25
Disasters and accidents
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NOS
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.
Source:
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.
Source:
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."
Source:
Times of Israel
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
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
February 24
Politics and elections
Source:
Andina
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.
Source:
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.
Source:
JFeed
Four people are killed and another is critically injured from carbon monoxide poisoning at an apartment building in Kursk Oblast, Russia.
Source:
Xinhua
The death toll from an explosion and fire at a six-story residential building in Chattogram, Bangladesh, rises to three.
Source:
News.Az
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.
Source:
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.
Source:
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.
Source:
AA
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.
Source:
The Peninsula Qatar
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.
Source:
The Guardian
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.
Source:
Reuters
Myanmar Air Force airstrikes on suspected rebel targets kill at least 17 in Rakhine state.
Source:
Al Jazeera
Source:
Al Jazeera
Five police officers are killed by the Pakistani Taliban during two ambushes in Kohat District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
Source:
AP
Four police officers are killed and three civilians injured in a suicide bombing at a checkpoint in Bhakkar District, Punjab, Pakistan.
Source:
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.
Source:
Xinhua