Current events: 2026-02-26

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• 2026 Afghanistan–Pakistan conflict
  • Afghani authorities announce attacks against Pakistani military positions along their shared border in response to Pakistani air strikes launched in the week prior. Pakistan, in turn, says its forces have responded. (Al Jazeera)

Disasters and accidents

• 2026 Zona da Mata floods
  • The death toll from the floods across Minas Gerais, Brazil, rises to 54 people, with fourteen more still missing. (France24)

Law and crime

• 2022 Greek surveillance scandal
  • A Greek court sentences four individuals, including Intellexa's Israel-based founder Tal Dilian, to eight years in prison for breaching data and violating privacy laws after they deployed the Predator spyware, targeting the mobile phones of more than 90 politicians, journalists, businesspeople, and military officials in 2022. (AFP via Times of Israel)

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