The day

Friday 28 February 2025

18 stories, biggest first.

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   News2025 Trump–Zelenskyy meeting

   U.S. president Donald Trump, U.S. vice president JD Vance and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy end their talks early after their meeting in the White House turns into a "heated" exchange. Trump rejects any discussion of specific security guarantees for Ukraine, being interested solely in discussing the Ukraine–United States Mineral Resources Agreement.

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   Money2025 United States federal mass layoffs

   The United States Social Security Administration announces it will lay off over 7,000 jobs to align with President Donald Trump's executive order, despite its workforce already being at a 50-year low.

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   NewsRussia–United States relations

   Russia appoints Alexander Darchiev as its new ambassador to the U.S. following talks between the two countries in Istanbul on restoring regular diplomatic contacts and embassy staffs. The post has been vacant for several months.

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   Crime

   Mexico extradites 29 alleged cartel members to the United States, including Rafael Caro Quintero, Miguel Treviño Morales, Omar Treviño Morales, Vicente Carrillo Fuentes and Jose Rodolfo Villarreal-Hernandez.

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   News2025 Darul Uloom Haqqania bombing

   Five people, including Hamid Ul Haq Haqqani, the head of a faction of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (S) party and son of Sami-ul-Haq, are killed and twenty others are injured in a suicide bombing inside of a mosque in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.

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   NewsMexican drug war

   At least four people are shot dead in a mechanical workshop in Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, Mexico. This is the second massacre this week in the state, the other in Perote, which left three workers dead and one wounded.

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   News2025 disease outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

   At least 60 fatalities and nearly 1,100 symptomatic cases are reported to be a result of a disease outbreak of unknown etiology in the Province of Équateur, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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   News2025 Uttarakhand avalanche

   5 construction workers are trapped, 48 others are rescued and 4 people are killed after a group of 57 people are swept away by an avalanche near the Mana Pass, Uttarakhand, India.

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   NewsMexican drug war

   Three policemen and a civilian are killed in two attacks in Guanajuato, Mexico, the first in Celaya and the second in Apaseo el Alto.

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    News2024–25 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season

    Three people are killed as tropical cyclone Garance makes landfall in Réunion in the Indian Ocean.

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    Science

    Microsoft announces it will shut down Skype in May 2025 to focus its support and development on Teams.

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    NewsColombia–Israel relations

    Colombian president Gustavo Petro, Malaysian prime minister Anwar Ibrahim, and South African president Cyril Ramaphosa release a joint statement announcing they will close their ports to any ship carrying weapons supplied to Israel.

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    NewsDemocratic Republic of the Congo–Rwanda conflict

    The East African Community (EAC) and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) postpone the joint summit of their foreign ministers that would have agreed on a ceasefire plan for the conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Congolese and Rwanda governments never received invitations to the meeting.

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    Politics

    Following the 2024 quota reform movement in Bangladesh, students who led the protests announce the formation of a new political party, the National Citizen Party, led by Nahid Islam, a student activist and the chief coordinator of the Students Against Discrimination movement.

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    MoneyEconomic Blackout

    A 24-hour consumer spending boycott takes place across the United States, in protest of wealth and income inequality, high prices of essential goods, and the rollback of diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives by the Trump administration.

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    News2025 Trump–Zelenskyy meeting

    The U.S. State Department terminates U.S. support of Ukraine's energy grid restoration amid an ongoing energy crisis.

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    Politics

    Greeks organize a 24-hour nationwide general strike on the second anniversary of the Tempi train crash, Greece's deadliest railway disaster.

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    Science2025 Southwest United States measles outbreak

    The number of measles cases in Texas, United States, increases to 146 with 20 people hospitalized, spanning nine counties in the state.

Stories adapted from Wikipedia’s Current events portal for 28 February 2025, by Wikipedia contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0.