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2021-02-27 22:28:37 • Myanmar police launch most extensive crackdown; hundreds arrested
• Thousands mark anniversary of Kremlin critic Nemtsov’s murder
• Five protesters die, dozens injured in clashes in Iraqi city
• Prison director and gang leader among 25 killed in Haitian jailbreak
• Thousands march in Armenia to demand PM’s resignation
• NATO exercises kick off in the Black Sea
• Massive iceberg breaks off from Antarctica
• Swiss player wins record-breaking €210,000,000 jackpot
• Exceptional low tide sees Venice's canals run dry Open / Comment

2021-02-26 21:34:59 • Nigeria gunmen kidnap more than 300 schoolgirls
• Former king pays 4.4 million euros to Spanish tax agency
• US air strikes in Syria target Iranian-backed militia
• Top Putin critic, Alexei Navalny, sent to Russian penal colony
• Boeing 777 makes emergency landing in Moscow after engine sensor problem
• Georgians take to the streets to protest at opposition leader's detention
• Woman who joined Islamic State cannot return to UK to fight for citizenship
• Australia passes law to make Google, Facebook pay for news
• German police raid 27 sites in probe of far-right crime network
• The world’s biggest diesel engine plant is about to go electric
• Twitter to test subscription feature allowing users to charge followers for exclusive content
• Orbital Assembly Corporation plans to start building private Voyager space station in 2025
• Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase files to go public in a direct listing on Nasdaq Open / Comment

2021-02-25 22:48:42 • UK lowers COVID-19 alert status as pressure on hospitals eases
• China approves two more domestic COVID-19 vaccines for public use
• Armenia PM Nikol Pashinyan accuses army of attempted coup
• Facebook bans Myanmar military from its platforms with immediate effect
• China's President Xi Jinping trumpets 'complete victory' in campaign to end rural poverty
• German man charged with giving Bundestag floor plans to Russian intelligence
• Morocco to legalize cannabis next week
• Yemen faces the worst famine the world has seen in decades
• Two men charged with supplying bomb that killed Maltese journalist
• India and Pakistan agree to stop cross-border firing in Kashmir
• Rarely seen Van Gogh painting exhibited ahead of auction
• NYPD tests robot dog to clear crime scene in the Bronx
• Israel holds its first outdoor concert, for COVID ‘green pass’ holders only
• Petrified tree up to 20 million years old found intact in Lesbos Open / Comment

2021-02-25 00:35:30 • Dutch report record catch of more than 23 tonnes of cocaine
• Thailand receives its first coronavirus vaccines
• Last statue of dictator Franco removed in 'historic day' for Spain
• In world first, Germany convicts Syrian regime officer of crimes against humanity
• Hyundai is recalling 82,000 electric cars due to fire risk
• Hundreds of coffins fall into the sea following collapse of an Italian cemetery
• Czech Airlines to lay off all 430 members of staff
• Germany records sharpest-ever temperature rise: 42C in a week
• Dozens of dolphins found dead on Mozambique beach Open / Comment

2021-02-23 22:19:01 • Guinea starts Ebola vaccine campaign as cases emerge
• Wife of drug kingpin El Chapo arrested on US drug charges
• 6,500 migrant workers have died in Qatar as it gears up for World Cup
• Hundreds protest after Georgian police detain opposition leader
• Facebook to restore Australian news pages after tweaks to media laws
• EU to sanction Russian officials over Navalny treatment
• Mount Etna erupted on the Italian island of Sicily
• European companies back out of Russian Nord Stream 2
• Long-serving Saudi oil minister Ahmed Zaki Yamani dies at 90
• Canada votes to recognize China’s treatment of Uighur population as genocide
• NASA rover beams back first sound ever recorded from the surface of Mars
• Elon Musk loses $15.2 billion in Tesla’s biggest stock slide since September
• Cherokee Nation chief wants Jeep to stop using tribe's name
• Clubhouse suffer a ‘data breach’
• 30,000 Apple Macs reportedly infected with ‘Silver Sparrow’ virus Open / Comment

2021-02-22 22:09:08 • Italian ambassador killed in attack on UN convoy in Congo
• EU foreign ministers agree to prepare Russian sanctions
• Oil spill off Israel reaches south Lebanese beaches
• Tens of thousands of Indian farmers protest against new farm laws outside Delhi
• UK temporarily bans Boeing 777 planes with engine that blew apart in US
• Iran's Khamenei decrees that female cartoon characters must wear hijab
• WhatsApp to switch off messages for all who reject new terms
• In UK cocaine 'worth £184m' found in banana boxes sent from Colombia
• British woman becomes youngest female to row across an ocean
• Daft Punk confirm split after 28 years Open / Comment

2021-02-21 23:25:52 • Seven Niger election officials killed by landmine on poll day
• Thousands rally in Myanmar after the bloodiest day of anti-coup protests so far
• Two explosions in Afghanistan kill at least three
• Nigerian air force passenger plane crash kills seven people
• India sent 500 thousand doses of AstraZeneca vaccine to Ukraine
• Japan discovers new coronavirus variant
• US sanctions inflicted $1 trillion damage on Iran’s economy
• Israel bought Syria vaccines from Russia as part of prisoner swap deal
• UK aiming to vaccinate every adult by end of July
• Spain sees fourth night of riots over imprisonment of rapper
• Boeing 747 engine parts rain down on village in the Netherlands
• Ukraine imposed sanctions against Mali and Yemen
• Singapore vending machines now dispense salmon, crab and even cacti
• Novak Djokovic wins ninth Australian Open by beating Daniil Medvedev Open / Comment

2021-02-20 22:36:47 • G7 will allocate $7.5 billion for vaccination of poor countries
• Italian authorities rescue 45 migrants after ship capsizes
• 2 Myanmar protesters killed by police fire
• Russian court rejects Kremlin critic Navalny's appeal against jail term
• US deports 95-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard to Germany
• Argentina's health minister quits in vaccine line-jumping scandal
• Anti-coronavirus vaccine protests held in Australia
• Joe Biden approved a disaster declaration for Texas
• Perseverance rover sends back first color images of Mars
• Djokovic and Medvedev will meet in the Australian Open men’s singles final
• Kim Kardashian filed for divorce from Kanye West Open / Comment

2021-02-20 00:05:38 • In UK, the murder of Prince George was prevented
• Taiwan deploys missiles after Chinese jets ‘enter its air zone’
• Georgian police detain 20 protesters after PM's resignation
• G7 leaders discussed social media and freedom of speech
• 31 people die after bubonic plague outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo
• UN asks UAE for proof that missing Dubai princess Latifa is alive
• Biden withdraws Trump's restoration of UN sanctions on Iran
• US officially rejoins Paris climate agreement
• 80 arrested in Spain riots over rapper's imprisonment for insulting monarch
• Serbian orthodox church picks new Patriarch
• Employee injured as unknown attacks Ukraine's Consulate General in Russia
• NASA’s Mars rover Perseverance lands safely on red planet
• Bitcoin hits $1 trillion in market value as cryptocurrency surge continues
• Apple hiring engineers to develop 6g wireless technologies
• Scientists clone US black-footed ferret for the first time
• Dota 2 game is getting a Netflix series Open / Comment

2021-02-18 23:54:40 • Facebook bans Australian users from sharing news in dispute over new law
• EU to impose sanctions on Russia over Navalny by March summit
• Two journalists jailed for two years in Belarus for filming protests
• NATO announces eight-fold increase in number of forces in Iraq
• New strain of coronavirus discovered in Finland
• German police crackdown on Berlin organized crime families
• Telegram hopes to raise $1bn with a convertible bond private placement
• Dinosaur unearthed in Argentina could be largest land animal ever
• Nvidia to restrict the RTX 3060's ability to mine cryptocurrency
• Jerusalem covered in snow as cold winter storm underway in Jewish state
• Ukrainian detective horror game, The Sinking City, launches on 19th February for PS5
• The world’s most expensive shepherd dog went under a hammer for $38,000 Open / Comment