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Children under 12 will 'very likely' be able to get a vaccine in early 2022, Fauci said

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EU to propose vaccine passports in March in time for summer

"This movie couldn't have been possible without my co-star: a fresh, new talent who came from nowhere and turned out to be a comedy genius. I'm talking, of course, about Rudy Giuliani," Sacha Baron Cohen said at the Golden Globes.

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Iran rejects early talks on nuclear deal with the United States and European Union

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Vaccine rollout for farmworkers is fraught with confusion and bad timing

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Coronavirus live news: proposal for digital EU-wide vaccine passports; Finland enters state of emergency.

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Two travel stocks could ride reopening wave as U.S. hits 70 million vaccine doses, strategists say (via @TradingNation)

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No one expected the Golden Globe Awards to be a beacon for diversity and inclusion. But no one expected it to try and skirt by its controversy either.

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ChargePoint CEO Pasquale Romano on when American cars will go all-electric

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Nicolas Sarkozy, who was president of France from 2007 to 2012, was convicted for having tried to illegally obtain information from a senior magistrate in 2014 about a legal action in which he was involved.

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Senate Democrats drop proposal to penalize companies for not providing $15 minimum wage

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“Seek out people who are like-minded and who may be going through something similar to yourself. I think that’s what saved me, finding other trans people and connecting with them,” Trace Lysette says, offering advice to transgender Americans.

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Golden Globe Awards, Tina Fey, 2021, Hollywood Foreign Press Association, Amy Poehler

OK, it was mostly virtual. But watching stars dress up again was actually a whole lot of fun.

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Golden Globes 2021

Netflix led the studios and networks in wins at the 78th Golden Globe Awards, a fitting coda to a year when streaming dominated the entertainment industry ...

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Donald Trump has no remorse about the deadly violence he incited with his lies about a stolen election in his uprising against the US Congress.

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After a blowout loss to the Los Angeles Lakers, the Golden State Warriors season-high winning streak is over. Here are three things to know.

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“It knocks me out to be introduced by Amy Poehler and Tina Fey, and to accept an award, this award in the name of Carol Burnett. I could not feel more blessed,” ...

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The governor said he will ask New York's attorney general and the state's chief judge to pick an independent investigator to review allegations against him ...

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TRUMP AT CPAC: on Biden, fake news and a 2024 run

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2021 Golden Globes: "Nomadland" and "Borat Subsequent Moviefilm" take top honors

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the way this water froze in my field

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47 Hong Kong Pro-Democracy Activists to Appear in Court Under Security Law

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2021 Armenian coup d'état attempt
- Protesters storm a government building in Yerevan, Armenia, to demand PM Nikol Pashinyan’s resignation. (Al Jazeera)

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COVID-19 pandemic
- COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines
  - COVID-19 vaccination in the Philippines
    - The Philippines begins its mass vaccination campaign against COVID-19 using the Sinovac CoronaVac vaccine donated by China, with the first doses administered to healthcare workers in Metro Manila. (Bloomberg)

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Aftermath of the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état
- Ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi appears in court to hear two more charges against her. The charges are a colonial-era penal code prohibiting publication of information that may "cause fear or alarm", and the other under a telecommunications law stipulating licenses for equipment. Meanwhile, police disperse protesters with tear gas and stun grenades. (Reuters)
Nicolas Sarkozy corruption trial
- Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy is sentenced to three years in jail for corruption, after being found guilty of trying to offer a job to a magistrate in return for informations about a criminal inquiry into his political party. (BBC)
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- Former president of FC Barcelona Josep Maria Bartomeu is arrested during the search of the FC Barcelona offices over Barça-Gate. Four other senior staffs are also arrested. (The Guardian)

February 28

Armed conflicts and attacks

2021 Myanmar protests
- Myanmar security forces begin violently dispersing anti-coup protesters and clearing makeshift road blocks, killing a total of 18 protesters in several cities. More than 30 others are wounded by live rounds, and several have been arrested. (Al Jazeera)
Allied Democratic Forces insurgency
- Ten civilians are killed, of whom eight are decapitated and two shot, in two ADF overnight attacks in Boyo and Kainama, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Al Jazeera)
Chadian security forces raid the home of opposition leader Yaya Dillo Djérou in N'Djamena, killing five of his relatives, including his mother and son. A government statement states that the raid was an operation to arrest Dillo. Two other people are also killed and five are wounded in the ensuing fight. (Al Jazeera)

Health and environment

COVID-19 pandemic
- COVID-19 pandemic in Oceania
  - COVID-19 pandemic in Australia
    - COVID-19 vaccination in Australia
      - Australia receives their first shipment of 300,000 doses of the Oxford–AstraZeneca vaccine. (ABC Australia)
  - COVID-19 pandemic in New Zealand
    - Auckland enters alert level 3 lockdown for seven days, with the rest of the country entering alert level 2. This comes after a new COVID-19 case of unknown origin was detected. (NZ Herald)
- COVID-19 pandemic in Europe
  - COVID-19 pandemic in Hungary
    - Prime Minister Viktor Orbán receives the first dose of the Sinopharm BBIBP-CorV vaccine. (AFP via Barron's)
  - COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom
    - COVID-19 vaccination in the United Kingdom
      - The number of people who have received their first dose of the vaccine in the United Kingdom reaches 20 million, making it the fastest vaccination program in Europe. (The Independent)
    - The United Kingdom reports their first cases of the Lineage P.1 variant first detected in Manaus, Brazil in three people from England and three people from Scotland. (BBC)
- COVID-19 pandemic in Asia
  - COVID-19 pandemic in Iran
    - Iran surpasses 60,000 deaths from COVID-19, the highest death toll of a Middle Eastern country. (Al-Arabiya English)
    - Iran receives their first shipment of 250,000 doses of the Sinopharm BBIBP-CorV vaccine. (Tasnim News Agency)
  - COVID-19 pandemic in Japan
    - Japan officially lifts the COVID-19 state of emergency in Aichi, Gifu, Kyoto, Osaka, Hyogo and Fukuoka prefectures due to a decrease in the number of cases, while Tokyo and surrounding areas will remain in a state of emergency until at least March 7. (NHK World)
  - COVID-19 pandemic in Malaysia
    - Malaysia surpasses 300,000 cases of COVID-19. (New Straits Times)
  - COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines
    - COVID-19 vaccination in the Philippines
      - The Philippines receives its first shipment of 600,000 doses of the Sinovac CoronaVac donated by China. (AP)
  - COVID-19 pandemic in Thailand
    - Thailand begins a vaccination campaign against COVID-19 using the Sinovac CoronaVac vaccine. Government ministers and health workers are among the first to receive doses of the vaccine. (Bloomberg)
- COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa
  - President Cyril Ramaphosa announces that South Africa's alert level will be lowered to level one effective midnight following a decrease in the number of COVID-19 cases. (Timeslive)
  - South Africa signs an agreement with Johnson & Johnson to secure 11 million doses of their vaccine. (Reuters)
- COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
  - The Centers for Disease Control's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recommends Johnson & Johnson's single-shot vaccine for people over the age of 18, a day after the Food and Drug Administration approved the emergency use of the vaccine. (CBS News)

Law and crime

Hong Kong national security law
- Police charge 47 out of the 55 arrested last month during a mass raid with "subversion". Those charged include Professor Benny Tai, former legislator James To, activist and district councillor Lester Shum and League of Social Democrats politicians and activists Leung Kwok-hung and Jimmy Sham, who was particularly defiant in court. (BBC)