2025-02-27 — Hefoki

Armed conflicts and attacks

A grenade attack at an M23 rally in Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, celebrating their recent victory over government forces in the city, kills at least eleven people and wounds 65 others. (Reuters)
- https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/blasts-m23-rally-eastern-congo-kill-11-wound-65-rebel-leader-says-2025-02-27/
Armed conflicts and attacks

Jailed Kurdish leader and Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) founder Abdullah Öcalan calls for an end to the conflict with Turkey and asks the group to disarm and disband, amid peace efforts between the Turkish government and the PKK led by the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party. (Rudaw) (Reuters) (DW)
Armed conflicts and attacks

Somali forces regain control of Balad after Al-Shabaab launches a coordinated attack, detonating roadside bombs and briefly seizing the town. (Hiiraan Online)
- https://www.hiiraan.com/news4/2025/Feb/200443/somali_forces_regain_control_of_bal_ad_after_deadly_al_shabaab_attack.aspx
Armed conflicts and attacks

Villa Somalia security guards open fire on civilians at Lido Beach in Mogadishu while attempting to clear the beach ahead of a visit from Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, killing a teenage boy and wounding several others. (Idil News) (HBN)
- https://www.idilnews.com/teenager-shot-dead-as-somali-security-forces-clear-beach-for-ethiopian-pms-visit/
- https://hbnonlinetv.com/khasaare-dhimasho-oo-ka-dhashay-rasaas-lagu-kala-ergayey-dad-shacab-ah-muqdisho/
Disasters and accidents

A fire at a three-story residential building in Quezon City, Philippines, kills eight people and injures one other. (AP)
- https://apnews.com/article/philippines-deadly-building-fire-ee49c46908c2d074b5a229faf773b170
Disasters and accidents

Two Russian tourists are killed in a shark attack while scuba diving in the Verde Island Passage off Batangas, Philippines. (Fox News)
- https://www.foxnews.com/world/philippines-shark-attack-2-tourists-killed-popular-diving-spot
Politics and elections

The Social Democratic Party, the Austrian People's Party, and the NEOS party in Austria agree to form a coalition government, leaving out the far-right Freedom Party, who won the most seats in the National Council in the 2024 legislative election. The coalition agreement ends Austria's longest period without a government since World War II. (DW) (Euractiv)
- https://www.dw.com/en/austria-centrist-parties-form-coalition-without-far-right/a-71765298
- https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/austria-centrist-parties-agree-on-coalition-government/
Politics and elections

The Trump administration bans NASA scientists and US government officials from attending the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change conference that started this week in Hangzhou, China, which are focused on the seventh IPCC Assessment Report on climate change. (Nature)
- https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00596-0
Science and technology

Meta Platforms says it has fixed an error that resulted in Instagram users' Reels feeds displaying violent and graphic videos despite these users having content filters enabled. (Al Arabiya)
- https://english.alarabiya.net/News/world/2025/02/27/meta-fixes-error-that-flooded-instagram-reels-with-violent-videos
Science and technology

OpenAI releases their latest large language model, GPT-4.5. (The Verge)
- https://www.theverge.com/news/620021/openai-gpt-4-5-orion-ai-model-release