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Tuesday, 24 February 2026
2017 Falling tree results in the deaths of 13, injures 49 at a religious festival in Funchal, on Portuguese island of Madeira 
2017 Scientists genetic study of the apple reveal its origin was in Kazakhstan, published in "Nature Communications".
2017 Barack Obama 's tweet "No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin or his background or his religion..." in response to Charlottesville violence is recorded as becoming most-liked tweet ever
2017 Daniel Craig confirms he will play James Bond one more time
2018 Italian PM Giuseppe Conte declares a 12-month state of emergency in Liguria after the collapse of the Morandi Bridge.
2018 Boat overturns in floods near the Nile in Northern Sudan, leaving 25 dead, most of them school children.
2018 Suicide bomber attacks tuition centre in Kabul, Afghanistan, killing 48 and injuring 67.
2018 Australian Senator Fraser Anning evokes Nazi euphemism "a final solution to the immigration problem", in proposing outlawing Muslim immigration into Australia in parliament speech.
2018 Record 72000 Americans (up 10%) killed by drug overdoses in 2017 in new figures by Centers for Disease Control
2018 inaugural ever US execution by fentanyl of Carey Dean Moore at Nebraska State Penitentiary in Lincoln
2018 Bar-hopping for pintxos (Basque tapas) in San Sebastián, Spain, named world's best food experience in Lonely Planet's Ultimate Eatlist
2018 US President Trump revokes security clearance of former CIA Director and Trump critic John Brennan
2019 The European Central Bank shuts down PNB Banka after ruling it had become insolvent; this bank, previously called Norvik Banka, was Latvia's sixth-largest lender, and was a critic of the Baltic country's financial authorities
2020 The Japanese bulk carrier Wakashio, which stranded on a reef in Mauritius last month, breaks in half. Approximately 1000 tonnes of oil are spilled into the ocean, becoming the largest environmental disaster in the history of Mauritius
2021 Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau calls a snap election for 20 September, two years ahead of schedule
2021 2021 Taliban offensive: The Taliban capture Kabul; the Afghan government surrenders to the Taliban
2025 Three US military strikes in international waters of the eastern Pacific Ocean sink three suspected drug smuggling vessels and kill eight crewmen; the 23rd, 24th, and 25th missions since September.
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