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UN Security Council adopts resolution demanding COVID ceasefire

The resolution "will help bring vaccines to 160 million people in conflict areas or displaced by conflict,'' says the council president.

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Nigeria

Police confirm abduction of at least 317 girls in Zamfara state

Gunmen abducted 317 girls from a boarding school in northern Nigeria on Friday, police said.

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Myanmar

Myanmar's UN envoy opposes coup in dramatic speech

"We will continue to fight for a government which is of the people, by the people, for the people,'' Ambassador Kyaw Moe Tun told the UN General Assembly in a surprise speech on Friday.

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Angela Merkel did not "refuse" the AstraZeneca vaccine

Newspapers claimed the German Chancellor refused to have the vaccine. However, she wasn't offered it because she is above the age threshold.

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Armenia

Armenia’s PM says the army attempted a coup. What’s really going on?

Who are the key players and what was the catalyst that sparked tensions this week?

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France

France-based Uighur group sues Nike for 'complicity in forced labour'

The sports brand is accused of sub-contracting Chinese factories using forced Uighur labour

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Europe's week: Leaders meet virtually, as Russia sanctioned

EU leaders met virtually this week to take stock of the epidemiological situation across the continent, as sanctions against Russia were agreed upon by foreign affairs ministers.

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Lockdown easing plan circulating on WhatsApp in Portugal is "false"

Portugal's government says there is "no truth" to the document, which has been shared widely on social media.

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Saudi Arabia

Jamal Khashoggi: Saudi Arabia rejects US intelligence report

The US report claimed Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman authorised the operation to 'capture or kill' journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

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Rollerblading police unit established in Pakistani port of Karachi

The force has already been deployed to work outside the venue of the Pakistan Super League cricket tournament.

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Could Facebook's news row in Australia replicate itself in Europe?

Facebook's move to ban news sites from its platform in Australia was a chilling warning for those who fear the same could happen in Europe.

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Green News

French village says 'non' to Elon Musk's space-age internet

Saint-Senier-de-Beuvron's 350 residents are not too thrilled to have been picked as a ground station for Musk's Starlink project.

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Europe News

New EU sanctions on Russia 'are a missed chance to fix relations'

Vladimir Chizhov, Russia's long-time envoy to the EU, believes any sort of "unilateral restrictive measures are illegitimate by definition".

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Some EU member states relinquished COVID vaccines last year: Macron

EU member states agreed to redistribute COVID vaccines among themselves and many member states took extra vaccine doses that were not wanted by others.

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Former North Macedonia police chief sentenced over wiretapping scandal

The former head of the North Macedonian intelligence police has been imprisoned for 12 years for co-ordinating a decade-long illegal wiretapping scandal.

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Russia

Boeing 777 flight makes unscheduled landing in Moscow

Russian media say that a Boeing 777 plane made an emergency landing in Moscow in the early hours of Friday after the pilot reported a problem with the engine.

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Spain

Former Spanish king pays €4.4 million in bid to settle tax situation

The payment marks Juan Carlos I's second attempt to regularise past undeclared income.

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Belgium

Belgium's government warns against using its own facemasks

Belgian authorities said their freely distributed masks contain small traces of silver and a chemical compound and are undertaking further studies.

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Turkey

Turkey slams Dutch bid to recognise massacre of Armenians as genocide

Turkey has strongly denounced a motion by the Dutch parliament to formally recognise the 1915 massacre of Armenians as genocide.

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Netherlands

Victory for Dutch government over legal challenge to COVID curfew

Court found government was entitled to use an emergency law to introduce the measures forcing residents indoors from 9 pm to 4:30 am

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Musicians play as Myanmar coup protests continue

The rally drew hundreds of protesters, who sang and danced to the beat while holding up the three-fingered salute that has come to symbolise resistance to the coup.

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Russia

Diplomat uses hand-pushed rail trolley to get from N Korea to Russia

A group of Russian diplomats and their families have returned from North Korea on a hand-pushed rail trolley due to COVID-19 restrictions.

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Georgia

Protesters gather in Georgia over opposition leader's arrest

Protesters gathered in Tbilisi, Georgia over the arrest earlier in the week of opposition leader Nika Melia.

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United Kingdom

Shamima Begum: UK Supreme Court says IS bride cannot return to UK

The Supreme Court, in its judgment on Friday 26 February, ruled against the Court of Appeal's decision, stating among other reasons that "the right to a fair hearing does not trump all other considerations, such as the safety of the public".

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World

Closures on Iberian peninsula make life tough for cross-border workers

At 400 metres long, the Friendship Bridge allows cross-border workers to reach their homes in just a few minutes. But with its closure, they now have to travel dozens more kilometres.

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Are the Earth’s shifting magnetic fields causing climate change?

Bold new research claims that atmospheric changes more than 40,000 years ago could be related to the climate crisis.

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Biden talks 'human rights' in Saudi call ahead of Khashoggi report

US President Joe Biden has his first phone call with Saudi King Salman ahead of the the release of a new US intelligence report on the Jamal Khashoggi killing.

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USA

Ex-US Olympics gymnastics coach facing multiple charges kills himself

John Geddert had long-running ties to to disgraced Michigan State University sports doctor Larry Nassar, who is in jail for a series of sexual assaults.

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The key stories of the week, captured by photographers around the world.

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2021-02-26

UN Security Council adopts resolution demanding COVID ceasefire

Myanmar's UN envoy opposes coup in dramatic speech

Armenia’s PM says the army attempted a coup. What’s really going on?

France-based Uighur group sues Nike for 'complicity in forced labour'

Europe's week: Leaders meet virtually, as Russia sanctioned

Rollerblading police unit established in Pakistani port of Karachi

Could Facebook's news row in Australia replicate itself in Europe?

Some EU member states relinquished COVID vaccines last year: Macron

Climate data: the new key for finance decision making

Victory for Dutch government over legal challenge to COVID curfew

Musicians play as Myanmar coup protests continue

Are the Earth’s shifting magnetic fields causing climate change?

Ex-US Olympics gymnastics coach facing multiple charges kills himself