Current events: 2023-02-26

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Insurgency in Balochistan
  • Four people are killed and 14 others are injured by a bombing at a market in Barkhan, Balochistan, Pakistan. (Al Jazeera)
• Palestinian intifada (2022–present)
  • Two Israeli settlers are shot and killed in Huwara, in the occupied West Bank by unidentified men. (CNN)
• Belarusian partisans sabotage the Machulishchy air base. (Yahoo News)

Disasters and accidents

• European migrant crisis
  • 2023 Calabria migrant boat disaster
    • At least 60 people are killed and 80 others are rescued after a boat carrying migrants capsizes in rough seas off the southern coast of Calabria, Italy. (AP)
  • One migrant is killed and 29 others are hospitalized after a bus carrying migrants crashes near Chirpan in Stara Zagora Province, Bulgaria. (BNR)

Sports

• 2023 EFL Cup final
  • Manchester United defeat Newcastle United 2–0 at Wembley Stadium to win the 2022–23 EFL Cup, and their first competitive trophy since 2017. It is also the first match to allow safe standing in a major domestic English men's final for 34 years. (BBC Sport)

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