Five people are killed in two separate attacks targeting government employees in Kabul, including the head of the provincial department of the Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development.
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February 9, 2021 (Tuesday)
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Armed conflicts and attacks
Tatmadaw raids the headquarters of ousted de-facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi's party National League for Democracy in Yangon, according to a party statement posted on Facebook.
Disasters and accidents
The National Transportation Safety Board concludes their investigation of the crash that killed former professional basketball player Kobe Bryant and eight others nearly a year prior, citing pilot error and spatial disorientation as the cause of the crash.
Health and environment
Iran begins a vaccination campaign against COVID-19 among healthcare workers using the Sputnik V vaccine.
Spain surpasses three million cases of COVID-19.
Health Secretary Matt Hancock announces that all British and Irish residents returning from 33 "high-risk" countries will be charged £1,750 to stay in quarantine hotels in England for 10 days and that those who fail to do so or who violate COVID rules face fines of up to £10,000 or up to 10 years in jail.
Chancellor Sebastian Kurz announces a statewide isolation order in Tyrol beginning February 12 in order to prevent the spread of the 501.V2 variant. Residents will have to present a negative COVID-19 test result from the last 48 hours in order to leave the state.
Equatorial Guinea imposes a curfew from 7 p.m. to 6 a.m. local time for the first since the beginning of the pandemic and prohibits many leisure activities. The country also reduces domestic flights to once per day, and international flights to twice per week for domestic airlines and once per week for foreign airlines.
Peru launches a vaccination program against COVID-19 two days after it received 300,000 doses of Sinopharm's BBIBP-CorV vaccine. President Francisco Sagasti becomes the first person to get vaccinated.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announces a near-full lockdown in the Attica region, which includes the capital Athens, from February 11 until February 28. All schools, churches, hair salons, and retail stores, with the exception of supermarkets and pharmacies, are ordered to close; and restaurants are only allowed to offer delivery services.
The Food and Drug Administration grants emergency use authorization for Eli Lilly and Company's combination antibody therapy bamlanivimab/etesevimab for use in COVID-19 positive adults and children aged 12 and older who are at high risk of severe disease.
The government allows more businesses in retail sector and Mosques in most of Malaysia to reopen beginning tomorrow and allows restaurants to resume dine-in service with two people seat on the table despite COVID-19 cases in the country remains high.
Quebec reports its first two cases of the 501.V2 variant first detected in South Africa in Abitibi-Témiscamingue.
International relations
Five countries: Palau, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, Kiribati and Nauru, officially withdraw from the Pacific Islands Forum over a disagreement regarding the choice of the forum's new Secretary-General.
Law and crime
Former United States president Donald Trump's second impeachment trial begins.
The United States Senate votes 56–44 to proceed with the impeachment trial, rejecting claims by Trump's attorneys that the proceeding is unconstitutional.
A court in Budapest rejects an appeal by independent radio station Klubrádió to have its broadcast license renewed by the government's media regulator, which says that the station had infringed rules. Klubrádió owner András Arató says that the station will appeal the decision at the Supreme Court.
One person is killed and four others injured in a mass shooting at an Allina Health clinic in Buffalo, Minnesota. A 67-year-old man is arrested, and the clinic is believed to have been intentionally targeted.
A court in Baden-Wurttemberg overturns the nighttime curfew imposed since mid-December to stop the spread of COVID-19 following an emergency application. It means that the 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew will be scrapped on February 11.
A Ku Klux Klan member is sentenced to three years and eight months in prison for driving his pickup truck into Black Lives Matter protesters in Richmond, Virginia, during the summer.
Politics and elections
Demonstrations in Myanmar's capital Naypyidaw, continue in response to the military coup. Riot police fire rubber bullets and use water cannons to disperse protesters.
Parliament suspends their sittings for the next three weeks after 17 MPs and 151 staff tested positive for COVID-19.
Science and technology
United Arab Emirates Space Agency spacecraft Hope enters orbit around Mars. The space probe will study the climate of Mars, and meteorological phenomena such as dust storms.
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