February 16, 2024 (Friday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

Ukraine announces the withdrawal of its troops from positions in the south of Avdiivka amid heavy clashes with Russian forces for control of the city. The withdrawal comes a day after Russian soldiers entered the city from multiple directions.

(Kyiv Post)

Battle of AvdiivkaRussian invasion of Ukraine

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Two people are killed and four others are injured in a mass shooting at a bus station near Kiryat Malachi, Israel. The perpetrator is killed by an off-duty IDF reservist.

(Al Arabiya), (Times of Israel)

Israeli–Palestinian conflict

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U.S. officials confirm that a cyberattack was carried out on the MV Beshad, an Iranian spy ship in the Red Sea, to prevent the ship from sharing intelligence with Houthi forces in Yemen.

(NBC News)

Red Sea crisis

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Disasters and accidents

Five workers are killed and three others are injured after a supermarket under construction collapses in Florence, Italy.

(AP)

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One firefighter is killed and 11 other people are injured after a house explodes in Sterling, Virginia, United States.

(CNN)

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Law and crime

Former U.S. President Donald Trump is fined over $350 million by the New York Supreme Court and temporarily barred from business in New York as a result of The Trump Organization's financial fraud.

(The New York Times)

New York civil investigation of The Trump Organization

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Alexei Navalny, a prominent Russian opposition leader and a vocal critic of President Vladimir Putin, dies while serving a 19-year sentence at the Polar Wolf penal colony in Tyumen Oblast, Russia.

(CNN)

Death of Alexei Navalny

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The High Court of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines rejects a challenge to the colonial anti-LGBT laws in the country.

(Reuters)

LGBT rights in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

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