2020-02-25

USA

South Carolina Democratic debate live updates: Candidates face off in Charleston

The 10th Democratic debate will be the last before the nominating contests in South Carolina on Saturday and 14 other states on Super Tuesday.

25/02/2020

USA

Trump says Sotomayor, Ginsberg must recuse themselves from cases related to him

The comments come one month before the Supreme Court takes up cases related to Trump's tax returns and financial records.

25/02/2020

Spain

Tech industry forges ahead in Barcelona despite MWC cancellation

Plenty of companies are still doing deals in Barcelona despite MWC2020 being cancelled because of COVID-19 coronavirus.

25/02/2020

USA

Euroviews. Anti-immigrant policies are bad for America. Trump's chief of staff admitted it ǀ View

This administration curtailed legal immigration in addition to its efforts against undocumented people. Now it bemoans that people don't want to move here.

25/02/2020

Syria

These pictures reveal how desperate life is in northwest Syria

More than 900,000 people have been displaced by violence in northwest Syria in fewer than three months.

25/02/2020

United Kingdom

Scotland set to be first country in world to make period products free

The new legislation would put a legal obligation on the government to provide free sanitary products to "everyone in Scotland who needs to use period product"

25/02/2020

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On a frozen Siberian lake, festival-goers mark the Lunar New Year

Dancers perform the Yokhor, a traditional circle dance.

25/02/2020

USA

Hotel on Spanish vacation island locked down after guest tests positive for coronavirus

Rebecca Lunt, who is staying at the hotel, told NBC News via Facebook messenger that guests were not being allowed to leave.

25/02/2020

USA

Supreme Court rules Mexican parents can't sue Border Patrol agent who killed their son

The ruling was a defeat for the parents of Sergio Hernandez Guereca, who was on the Mexico side when he was shot in 2010 by a Border Patrol agent who fired from the U.S. side.

25/02/2020

Spain

Francisco Luzón: 'I think about death every day. But I want to live'

Luzón, who suffers from ALS, thinks about death every day - but only for five minutes.

25/02/2020

USA

Opera singer Placido Domingo apologises after sex harrassment claims

Placido Domingo's apology came hours before a US opera union found him guilty of "​inappropriate activity, ranging from flirtation to sexual advances".

25/02/2020

USA

Bloomberg's girlfriend Diana Taylor on concerns over NDAs: 'Get over it'

"Life has changed. I grew up in that world, it was a bro culture," Taylor said.

25/02/2020

USA

Coronavirus could leave only 3 months to decide fate of Tokyo Olympics

The modern Olympics dating from 1896 have only been cancelled during wartime, and faced boycotts in 1976 in Montreal, in 1980 in Moscow and 1984 in Los Angeles.

25/02/2020

Croatia

Outrage after same-sex couple effigy burned at Croatian festival

"We think that this comes from a place of ignorance and hate towards those things which people do not understand."

25/02/2020

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Chinese robot sprays disinfectant to fight spread of COVID-19

The robot is handled using a remote control. The tank is filled with the disinfectant liquid that transformed into steam to spray infected areas.

25/02/2020

USA

Trump says he wants 'no help from any country' in re-election bid

The president declined to say specifically whether he believes Russia is interfering in the election and issued no warning for Vladimir Putin not to.

25/02/2020

World News

Europe's biggest companies need to double climate spending: report

Europe's biggest 882 companies invested €124 billion on reducing carbon emissions last year. A new report claims that is nowhere near enough.

25/02/2020

Turkey

Euroviews. A EU-Turkey trade pact is a better solution to deal with the Syrian refugee crisis than aid ǀ View

The EU could pursue a track focused on mutual economic benefits, creating attractive trade incentive programs in exchange for Turkey continuing its difficult task. Direct aid is helpful, but perhaps the most sustainable and realistic approach is for Europe to set a new higher mutual trade volume.

25/02/2020

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Clean up underway in South Korea as COVID-19 spreads

The new virus has made thousands sick.

25/02/2020

USA

DNC adds red states Georgia and Texas to list of 2020 targets

Democrats are adding the rapidly diversifying Southern states to the list of places they're focusing on, in addition to battleground states like Wisconsin.

25/02/2020

USA

Six reasons why Bernie Sanders became the Democratic front-runner

First Read is your briefing from "Meet the Press" and the NBC Political Unit on the day's most important political stories and why they matter.

25/02/2020

USA

World's oldest man, who said secret was smiling, dies at 112

A Japanese man who received his certificate as the world's oldest man with a raised fist and big smiles earlier this month has died at 112.

25/02/2020

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Protests in cities across India against Donald Trump visit

Street demonstrations against Trump broke out in the cities of Gauhati in the northeast, Kolkata in the east and Hyderabad in the south

25/02/2020

United Kingdom

Euroviews. Britain’s “Hostile Environment” is destroying the lives of those who contribute to the UK ǀ View

I had never heard the phrase “hostile environment” until I moved to the UK in 2016, just a few months before the Brexit vote. I assumed - perhaps naively, perhaps arrogantly - that this hostility was reserved for vulnerable refugees, illegal immigrants or convicted criminals.

25/02/2020

World News

Tragedy, war and protest: Six pictures vying to win World Press Photo

Snapshots from earth-shattering events make up the press photo of the year nominations

25/02/2020

World News

What caused Antarctica's ice to turn blood red?

Scientists got a shock when they woke up on Monday.

25/02/2020

USA

Former Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak dies at 91

Mubarak ruled Egypt with an iron fist until he was overthrown during the so-called Arab Spring, uprisings that toppled leaders throughout the region.

25/02/2020

Egypt

Hosni Mubarak, former ruler of Egypt, dead at 91

Mubarak was overthrown in the 2011 Arab Spring but later acquitted of charges relating to his role in the deaths of anti-government protesters.

25/02/2020

China

Chinese court jails Swedish bookseller Gui Minhai for 10 years

The naturalised Swedish citizen who sold books in Hong Kong that were sceptical of the Communist Party has been sentenced for 'illegally providing intelligence overseas'.

25/02/2020

Spain

Watch: Tourist speaks about life under lockdown at Tenerife hotel

Harriet spoke to us from a Tenerife hotel on lockdown after a guest tested positive for COVID-19 coronavirus

25/02/2020