Current events: 2025-02-21

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • 2025 Gaza war ceasefire, Gaza war hostage crisis
    • Israel says that forensic testing revealed one of the bodies returned by Hamas yesterday does not match with Shiri Bibas nor with any other hostages. Her sons Ariel and Kfir, as well as Oded Lifshitz, were all positively identified. Israel accuses Hamas of violating the ceasefire and demands the return of her body along with the other remaining hostages. (BBC News)
    • Hamas claim that Shiri's body was "mistakenly mixed” with others who were killed and buried under the rubble in Gaza. (Al Arabiya)

Health and environment

• South Sudan orders the closure of all schools in the country for two weeks due to a heat wave, with temperatures expected to reach {{conv|42|C|F}}. (DW)

International relations

• 2025 Gaza war ceasefire
  • Egypt, Jordan and the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council meet in Riyadh to address possible future developments in the Gaza Strip. (The Times of Israel)
• Kyrgyzstan–Tajikistan relations
  • Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan sign an agreement to delimitate their border, solving a decades-old border dispute that had sparked clashes between different ethnic groups that had killed over a hundred people. (Trend News Agency) (Reuters)

Law and crime

• 2024 South Korean martial law crisis
  • Arrest of Yoon Suk Yeol
    • South Korean police file a case against impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol for obstructing his arrest warrant. (Reuters)
• Censorship in the United States
  • American news agency The Associated Press files a lawsuit for freedom of speech against three Trump administration officials after they banned the news agency from attending presidential press events after the agency refused to refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the "Gulf of America". (AP) (NPR)
• Flint water crisis
  • Veolia Water agrees to pay $53 million in settlement for all remaining active class action lawsuits for the contamination of drinking water in Flint, Michigan, United States, but refuses to acknowledge any fault in the crisis. (AP) (WNEM)
• Indonesia Gelap
  • Demonstrations continue against the government in several cities in Indonesia. Nine students have been arrested and two are injured, along with four injured policemen and two parliament members. (Tempo) (Barron's)
• Stabbing of Salman Rushdie
  • Hadi Matar is found guilty by a New York jury of attempted murder and assault for his stabbing attack on author Salman Rushdie in 2022. (ABC News)
• Three people are killed in a shooting outside of a motor vehicle office in Louisville, Kentucky, United States. (The Independent)
• One person is seriously injured in a stabbing attack at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin, Germany. (AP News)

Science and technology

• The European Space Agency announces that the chances of asteroid 2024 YR4 impacting Earth in 2032 has decreased to 1.5% (1-in-67), and is likely to decrease further to less than 1%. (Nature)

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