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.
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February 16, 2024 (Friday)
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Armed conflicts and attacks
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.
Disasters and accidents
One firefighter is killed and 11 other people are injured after a house explodes in Sterling, Virginia, United States.
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.
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.
The High Court of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines rejects a challenge to the colonial anti-LGBT laws in the country.
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