Armed conflict and attacks

2014 Ukrainian revolution: o Ukraine's acting interior minister Arsen Avakov says the elite Berkut police unit, blamed for the deaths of protesters, has been disbanded. (CNN)

February 25, 2014 (Tuesday)

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Armed conflict and attacks

Islamist insurgency in Nigeria: o Boko Haram Islamists kill 59 students in an attack on the Federal Government College in the town of Buni Yadi in Yobe State. (Reuters), (Sky News)

Arts and culture

1,427 gold coins from the mid-19th century that were buried in eight cans are discovered by an anonymous couple while walking their dog in Gold Country, California. The find dubbed the Saddle Ridge Hoard is expected to be worth over $10 million dollars (USD) and is the largest known hoard of gold coins ever found in the United States.(USA Today)

Disasters and accidents

2013 Asiana Airlines accident: o Asiana Airlines is fined US$500,000 for failing to promptly assist families of passengers aboard the flight. (Associated Press)

International relations

2014 Ukrainian revolution: o The United States administration formally declares that it no longer recognizes Viktor Yanukovych as Ukraines president as "his actions have undermined his legitimacy". (Guardian)

Law and crime

A court in the UK rules that a man arrested in connection with the 1982 Hyde Park and Regent's Park bombings will not be prosecuted for his involvement.(Sky News)

Politics and elections

The Parliament of Ukraine removes the five-pointed red star from its spire in a measure aimed at erasing the nations Soviet legacy. (RIA Novosty) Russia's leading opposition activists Boris Nemtsov, Alexei Navalny, Ilya Yashin are

jailed for 7-10 days for disobeying a police officer while protesting against the Bolotnaya square case. The previous day, in Moscow police detained over 400 people, including Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina. (RAPSI) (RFE/RL) (The Moscow Times) (Euronews) Science and technology

China's National Meteorological Center of CMA warns of heavy smog in northern and central China over the next two days. (Xinhua)

February 24, 2014 (Monday)

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2014 Ukrainian Revolution: o The European Commission recognizes Oleksandr Turchynov as Ukraines legitimate interim president. (DPA via Europe Online) o Ukrainian economist and banker Stepan Kubiv, who worked as one of the commandants for the EuroMaidan demonstrations, is selected as governor of the National Bank of Ukraine. (Reuters) o An arrest warrant is issued for the former President Viktor Yanukovych and other officials for their alleged role in killing protesters. (AP via Fox News) War in Afghanistan: o Senior Taliban commander Asmatullah Shaheen Bhittani is killed in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. (The Hindu) South China Sea dispute: o Chinese vessels reportedly harassed Filipino fishermen off the coast of the Philippines last January 27, according to the Philippine military. (BBC News) Israeli Air Force planes reportedly bomb a weapons shipment of SS-21 missiles destined for Hezbollah near a Hezbollah stronghold on the Lebanon-Syria border. (The Times of Israel)

Arts and culture

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni signs a bill discriminating against the LGBT community. (Time)

Business and economy

CNN cancels Piers Morgan Live, starring British presenter Piers Morgan, due to low ratings. (The Guardian) Pope Francis, in the most significant reform of the Roman Curia in 25 years, creates a second Secretariat, for Economic Affairs, headed by a Cardinal (which will work with the Vatican Secretariat of State, the reformed Vatican bank, or IOR, and the other economic departments of the Roman Curia), which will have an office with the power to audit any

Vatican agency at any time. (AP via MSN News) Mt Gox, an exchange of central importance in the history of the crypto currency bitcoin, closes down for an indefinite period under pressure from hackers. (Wired)

Disasters and accidents

The death toll in the Papua province of Indonesia reaches 11 people as torrential rain continues to form floods and landslides, occurring since Saturday. (News Corp Australia) At least seven mourners are killed and 37 are injured as a bridge collapses as they are transporting a coffin in Vietnam's Lai Chau Province. (AP via Philippine Daily Inquirer)

Politics and elections

201314 Thai political crisis: o Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra says she will not resign. (Straits Times) The government of Egypt resign en masse, allowing Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to run for President. (Reuters) The Pentagon announces plans to reduce the size of the United States Army to pre-World War II levels. (BBC News) In Russia, police arrested over 400 people in Manege Square hours after picking up some 200 people outside the court where the Bolotnaya square case defendants were being tried. (BBC) (RFE/RL) (The Moscow Times)

Science and technology

Public health officials in the U.S. state of California are preparing a report of a polio-like disease whose cause is unknown. (Los Angeles Times) Two species of goblin spider are discovered by the Queensland Museum in Australia's Darling Downs region. (ABC via Yahoo!7 News) Nokia unveils Nokia X, an Android-based smartphone, at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. (NDTV) A 4.4-billion-year-old crystal from Western Australia has been confirmed as the oldest fragment of Earth's crust. (BBC News)

February 23, 2014 (Sunday)

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Ukrainian Revolution of 2014: o Former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych is blocked by Ukraine's customs in Donetsk from taking a plane to Russia. (Moscow Times) 201314 Thai political crisis: o At least two people have been killed and 41 injured in an attack on an opposition rally in the Khao Saming District in Trat Province. (Reuters) Taliban insurgency:

The Taliban attack an Afghan Armed Forces base in Kunar province, killing 19 soldiers and kidnapping seven. (Reuters) Syrian Civil War: o Seven people are killed and 50 wounded in a car bombing near a field hospital in northern Syria, close to the border with Turkey. (BBC)

Politics and elections

Estonian Prime Minister Andrus Ansip announces that he will be leaving office before scheduled parliamentary elections in 2015. (Deutsche Welle)

Sport

2014 Winter Olympics: o The Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia officially concludes. (Sydney Morning Herald) In NASCAR, Dale Earnhardt, Jr. eventually wins the Daytona 500, ending a 55-race winless streak in the Sprint Cup Series, after the race is red flagged for several hours due to heavy rain, while a tornado warning is put into effect for the area. (Fox News)

February 22, 2014 (Saturday)

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Armed conflicts and attacks

Euromaidan: o The Ukrainian parliament votes to free Yulia Tymoshenko, the former prime minister jailed for more than two years for what supporters say are politically tainted charges. She is released later in the day. (The Irish Times), (BBC) o Protesters claim control of the capital Kiev with reports that President Viktor Yanukovych has fled to eastern Ukraine. (AP) o The Ukrainian parliament votes to remove President Viktor Yanukovych from his position. From his current base in Kharkiv, Yanukovych denounces the events in Kiev as a "coup". (USA Today) o Ukrainian economist and writer Oleksandr Turchynov is voted Speaker of the Parliament, and in that capacity acting President of Ukraine. (Kyiv Post)

Arts and culture

Pope Francis creates 19 new cardinals in a ceremony at St Peter's Basilica in Rome. In addition, the Pope emeritus Benedict XVI makes his first public appearance at the Vatican since his resignation in 2013. (BBC)

Disasters and accidents

One person is dead and 28 are ill from a carbon monoxide leak at the Walt Whitman

Shops in Huntington, New York. (NBC) Law and crime

The Sinaloa cartel drug lord Joaqun Guzmn Loera, also known as "El Chapo", is arrested in Mexico. (BBC)

Politics and elections

Matteo Renzi is sworn in as the Prime Minister of Italy. (BBC) Tens of thousands of people gather in the Venezuelan capital of Caracas to protest against the government of Nicols Maduro. (Los Angeles Times)

Sport

2014 Winter Olympics: o Marit Bjrgen of Norway becomes the most successful female Winter Olympian of all time when she wins a sixth gold medal in the Women's 30 kilometre freestyle cross-country skiing event. She has won ten Olympic medals in total. (AP via Yahoo! News)

February 21, 2014 (Friday)

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Armed conflicts and attacks

Euromaidan: o The Ukrainian government and opposition agree to form a unity government and to hold early elections. (The Telegraph) 2014 Venezuelan protests: o 22-year-old Venezuelan beauty queen Gnesis Carmona is shot in the head and killed while participating in a student protest against Nicols Maduro's socialist government. (The New York Times)

Arts and culture

Venezuelan president Nicols Maduro threatens to expel CNN from the country, alleging that they are helping the opposition. (BBC) Books related to Anne Frank are vandalized across public libraries in Tokyo, Japan. (The New York Times)

Business and economy

G Asset Investment, a private investment management firm, reports that it has offered to buy a majority of the equity of Barnes & Noble or to buy its digital books business,

Nook. (Reuters) Disasters and accidents

11 people are killed when a Libyan Air Force plane crashes from a suspected engine fire in Nabeul Governorate, Tunisia. (CNN)

International relations

Chinese-U.S. relations: o The President of the United States, Barack Obama, meets with the Dalai Lama despite warnings from China to cancel the meeting. (BBC)

Law and crime

Sudan puts a married Ethiopian woman to trial after being gang-raped because she waited before she reported it. She faces the death penalty for adultery. (The Daily Mail)

Science and technology

A linguists professor from the University of Bedfordshire manages to decipher 10 of the words in the enigmatic Voynich manuscript. (BBC)

Sport

2014 Sochi Olympics: o A petition in Change.org is launched for the investigation of Adelina Sotnikova's win over Yuna Kim. (The Washington Times) Aogan O' Fearghail is elected as the 38th President of the GAA, and the first from Cavan in the organisation's 130-year history. (The Score) (BBC)