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- Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announces the cancellation of Phase 2 of the United Kingdom's high-speed rail project High Speed 2. (BBC)
- Over 75,000 workers from Kaiser Permanente, an integrated managed care consortium in the United States, go on strike. (New York Times)
International relations
- The United States and Russia test their emergency alert systems. (Reuters)
Law and crime
- Protests against the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Russian journalist Marina Ovsyannikova is sentenced to eight and a half years in prison in absentia for interrupting a news broadcast with anti-war slogans. (Reuters)
Science and technology
- Moungi Bawendi, Louis E. Brus, and Alexey Ekimov are awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work on quantum dots. (BBC)
Sports
- Spain–Portugal–Morocco 2030 FIFA World Cup bid
- In association football, FIFA awards the 2030 FIFA World Cup to Spain, Portugal and Morocco. It will be the first FIFA World Cup tournament to be hosted in North Africa. The opening ceremony will take place in Montevideo, Uruguay, to mark the 100th anniversary of the competition. (Bloomberg) (FIFA)
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