At least four security forces personnel, including a commander, are killed in eastern and southern Afghanistan as clashes with an unidentified terrorist group intensify. Separately, in Kandahar, a Humvee containing explosives detonates, injuring seven police officers.
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February 13, 2021 (Saturday)
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Armed conflicts and attacks
Arts and culture
Egyptian and American archaeologists discover an ancient mass-production brewery in the ancient Egyptian city of Abydos, likely dating back to the Early Dynastic Period. Mostafa Waziri, the secretary-general of the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities, believes it to be "the oldest high-production brewery in the world".
Disasters and accidents
A series of severe weather-related incidents in Northern Italy leaves four people dead and 25 others injured.
Health and environment
Two 11-week-old white tiger cubs that died in Lahore Zoo on January 30 appear to have died of COVID-19.
The government decides to lower social distancing levels to level 2 in the Seoul Capital Area and level 1.5 in other regions beginning February 15, allowing nightclubs to reopen and extending the operating hours of restaurants, coffee shops and gyms in the Seoul Capital Area until 10 pm local time. However, gatherings of more than five people continue to be prohibited but theatres, libraries, and other types of businesses will no longer be subject to operating hours restrictions.
Victoria returns to Stage 4 restrictions in a five-day "circuit breaker" lockdown due to an ongoing outbreak of the B.1.1.7 variant at the Melbourne Airport Holiday Inn. All non-essential businesses are closed, masks are mandatory in all public places, and people are only permitted to leave their homes for essential work, education or care-giving, or for up to 2 hours a day for essential shopping and outdoor exercise within a 5 km (3.1 mi) radius of their homes. All international flights to Melbourne have also been cancelled for the duration of the lockdown.
Prince Edward Island reports their first case of the B.1.1.7 variant in a man in his 20s who had travelled internationally.
Northern Cyprus extends their full-scale curfew until February 22 in order to reduce the spread of COVID-19.
The cabinet announces that 20 of South Africa's land borders with Botswana, Lesotho, Eswatini, Namibia, Mozambique and Zimbabwe will reopen on February 15.
Guinea's health ministry reports the country's first deaths from the Ebola virus disease since the 2013–2016 epidemic.
Law and crime
The United States Senate votes to acquit former president Donald Trump for the second time when the 57–43 vote in favor of conviction fails to reach the necessary two-thirds majority. Seven Republicans join the entire Democratic caucus in voting for conviction, making it the closest trial vote since the Andrew Johnson impeachment trial of 1868.
Politics and elections
Prime Minister Mario Draghi and the ministers of his cabinet are officially sworn in at the Quirinal Palace in Rome, ending the government crisis.
White House Deputy Press Secretary TJ Ducklo resigns after making threats towards Politico journalist Tara Palmeri.
Sports
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