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February 22, 2022
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2022-02-22
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Armed conflicts and attacks
2021–2022 Russo-Ukrainian crisis
International recognition of the Donetsk People's Republic and the Luhansk People's Republic
Syria
voices support for
Russia
's recognition of the
Donetsk People's Republic
and the
Luhansk People's Republic
as independent states.
(Reuters)
Reactions to the 2021–2022 Russo-Ukrainian crisis
Anti-war protesters gather at the
Russian Embassy
in
Berlin
,
Germany
, to oppose
President
Vladimir Putin
's decision to send soldiers to separatist regions in
Ukraine
.
(CTV News)
Protesters also gather at the
Russian Embassy
in
Kyiv
to protest ongoing tensions between
Russia
and Ukraine.
(
Firstpost
)
The
United States
calls the Russian troop deployments in eastern Ukraine "an invasion".
(CTV News)
The
Russian parliament
ratifies the friendship and cooperation treaties with the DPR and LPR, following Putin's request made the previous day.
(TASS)
The foreign ministers of
European Union
member states agree on a package of new sanctions against Russia.
(Al Jazeera)
Germany
suspends the
Nord Stream 2
project in response to
Russia
's
recognition
of the
Donetsk People's Republic
and the
Luhansk People's Republic
as independent states.
(Deutsche Welle)
The
U.N. Security Council
unanimously passes a resolution declaring that
Iraq
is no longer required to pay out to victims of its
1990 invasion of Kuwait
. Iraq had paid out
US$
50 billion to 1.4 million claimants, including one claim to the
Kuwait Petroleum Corporation
that totaled US$14.7 billion, by the time of the resolution's passage.
(
Toronto Star
)
Health and environment
COVID-19 pandemic
COVID-19 pandemic in Asia
COVID-19 pandemic in Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Chief Executive
Carrie Lam
announces a citywide testing campaign due to surge of the cases caused by the
SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant
. It is planned to test each citizen three times during the campaign.
(ABC News)
COVID-19 pandemic in Singapore
Singapore
reports a record 26,032 new
COVID-19
cases in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 622,293.
(CNA)
Law and crime
Aftermath of the
2020 Nova Scotia attacks
A public inquiry into the 2020 shootings in
Nova Scotia
,
Canada
, that killed 22 people is opened.
(CBC News)
Persecution of Christians in North Korea
,
Religion in North Korea
A
South Korean
state commission confirms that retreating North Korean soldiers murdered over 1,150
South Korean Christian
civilians in the early stages of the
Korean War
due to a state anti-religion campaign.
(
The Korea Times
)
Politics and elections
20th National Congress of the People's Party (Spain)
The secretary general of the
People's Party
,
Teodoro García Egea
, resigns after a scandal over alleged spying on the
President of the Community of Madrid
Isabel Díaz Ayuso
.
(Swissinfo)
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