Current events: 2025-02-17

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Armed conflicts and attacks

Disasters and accidents

2025 Kerdasa building collapse
- Ten people are killed and eight others are injured when a three-story residential building collapses in Cairo, Egypt. (Washington Post) (Voice of America)
Delta Connection Flight 4819
- At least 15 people are injured, including three critically, when Delta Air Lines Flight 4819, a Mitsubishi Bombardier CRJ-900LR, crashes after catching fire and flipping over at Toronto Pearson Airport in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. (CBS News)
A bus crashes and falls {{conv|800|m|ft|abbr=on}} down a cliff in Yocalla Municipality, Bolivia, killing 30 people and injuring ten others. (Reuters)
Eight adults and one child are killed in flooding caused by heavy rains in the eastern United States. (DW)

International relations

Peace negotiations in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Weimar+
- European leaders gather in France for a summit on Ukraine after the U.S. administration announced the opening of peace talks with Russia on ending the Ukrainian war without European participation. (CNN)
- Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov says that Europe has no role in any peace negotiations on ending the war in Ukraine. (BBC News)

Law and crime

Syrian security forces arrest three former Assad regime officers responsible for the Tadamon massacre, which occurred in south Damascus in 2013. (The New Arab)
Singaporean Leader of the Opposition Pritam Singh is convicted of two counts of perjury to the Committee of Privileges and is fined S$7,000 per count, but is not disqualified as a member of parliament. (CNA)

Politics and elections