Jakarta deploys 2,460 personnel as Indonesia Gelap protests continue
Police in Central Jakarta deployed 2,460 joint personnel on 2025-02-21 to secure an Indonesia Gelap demonstration near the Horse Statue and State Palace.
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Veolia settles remaining Flint water lawsuits for $53 million without admitting blame
Veolia North America agreed to pay $53 million to resolve the last Flint water lawsuits on 2025-02-21 while continuing to deny responsibility for the lead crisis.
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AP sues White House officials over access ban after Gulf of Mexico dispute
The Associated Press says blocking its journalists from presidential events because it will not adopt “Gulf of America” violates the First Amendment and asks a judge to stop the ban.
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Spanish tourist seriously injured in stabbing at Mallorca museum
A 30-year-old Spanish tourist is seriously wounded in a stabbing at the Miro Museum in Palma de Mallorca, in an attack that rattles one of the island’s best-known cultural sites.
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Prabowo inaugurates 961 regional heads in first mass swearing-in at palace
Indonesia’s president oversaw the simultaneous oath-taking of governors, regents and mayors in Jakarta, marking an unusual collective ceremony.
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Teenager Arrested After Two Women Killed in Czech Shopping Center Stabbing
2025-02-20 event: Police said a 16-year-old Czech national was detained shortly after the attack in Hradec Kralove.
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Denmark boosts defence spending to meet rising Russian threat
Denmark says it will add 50 billion kroner to defence spending over two years, lifting military expenditure to its highest level in more than half a century.
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Iran charges British couple with espionage after January arrest
Craig and Lindsay Foreman were detained in southern Iran while travelling on motorbikes around the world.
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Senate confirms Howard Lutnick as commerce secretary in 51-45 vote
The wealthy financier takes charge of a department central to tariffs, census work and weather reporting as Trump presses a hard-line trade agenda.
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Wales moves to ban greyhound racing in UK first
Ministers said they want the sport wound down as soon as practicably possible, but gave no start date for the ban.
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Argentine judge opens fraud probe into Milei after crypto promotion backfires
A Buenos Aires court assigned a fraud investigation after President Javier Milei briefly promoted a cryptocurrency that crashed within hours, triggering complaints from lawyers and critics.
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Turkey bootleg alcohol deaths climb past 124 as authorities arrest suspects
State news agency Anadolu says methanol-tainted counterfeit alcohol has killed at least 124 people in Ankara and Istanbul over six weeks, with dozens still in intensive care.
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Pritam Singh fined S$7,000 on each perjury count in Singapore
The opposition leader is appealing after a court found he lied to a parliamentary committee probing Raeesah Khan’s false account.
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Indonesian student groups and civil coalition stage anti-government protests in multiple cities
Student organizers and civil society groups took their complaints over government policy to the streets, calling for a broad review of Prabowo Subianto’s first 100 days in office.
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Anti-Trump protests spread across the US as 50501 rallies on Presidents Day
Demonstrators in Washington, New York, Texas, Colorado, Florida, Pennsylvania and Ohio rally against Trump, Musk and federal layoffs.
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Lebanon arrests more than 25 after UN convoy attack near Beirut airport
The assault on a UNIFIL convoy injured peacekeepers and triggered condemnation from Lebanon, the UN and Washington.
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Man killed in Clemenceau station shooting as Brussels drug violence spreads
A man was shot dead near Brussels’ Clemenceau metro station, prompting station closures and renewed concern over the city’s drug-related violence.
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Openly gay South African imam Muhsin Hendricks is shot dead near Gqeberha
South African police said Muhsin Hendricks, widely described as the world’s first openly gay imam, was shot dead near Gqeberha, in a killing that has drawn international attention.
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Djibouti’s Mahmoud Ali Youssouf elected to lead African Union Commission
African leaders chose the veteran foreign minister for a four-year term, replacing Chad’s Moussa Faki at the continental body’s executive arm.
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Thailand says 260 scam-center victims are being repatriated from Myanmar
The army says the rescued people came from 20 nationalities after being freed from compounds on the Myanmar border.
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Ambush over land dispute kills three Ucizoni members in Oaxaca
A conflict over municipal boundaries in southern Oaxaca escalated into a deadly ambush that left three Ucizoni members dead and one local official missing.
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U.S. agrees to return Alexander Vinnik to Russia in exchange for Marc Fogel
An NBC News report says the deal would send the BTC-e figure back to Russia while securing the release of American teacher Marc Fogel after years in detention.
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Almost 150 people arrested in Sicily mafia crackdown
Italian police say the raids exposed how Cosa Nostra still uses encrypted phones, extortion and drug trafficking to hold territory.
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Sydney nurses stood down after video sparks anger over Israeli patients
Two NSW hospital workers were removed from duty on 2025-02-11 after a video appeared to show them threatening Israeli patients and boasting about mistreatment.
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