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Tuesday, 24 February 2026
2018 Google fined record $5.1 billion by the EU for abusing its power in mobile phone market. 
2018 44 Forest fires in Sweden as far north as the Arctic Circle prompt Swedish government to request extra assistance, with drought and warm weather to blame
2018 Turkey ends its two-year State of Emergency.
2018 New Earth geological age announced, the Meghalayan Age 4200 years ago to the present, by the International Commission on Stratigraphy
2018 Seventeen men charged with the gang-rape of a 12-year old girl in Chennai, India.
2018 Lava from Kilauea volcano eruption has now destroyed 700 homes and added 700 acres to Big Island confirms Hawaii National Guard.
2018 Nicaraguan government announces Masaya is back under its control after violent clashes with anti-government protesters.
2018 In this year, Cliff Richard claims privacy case against the BBC, for reporting he was being investigated over historic child sexual assaults
2019 36 people are killed and more than 30 others injured after an arson attack at an animation company in Kyoto, Japan. It is one of the deadliest massacres in the country's history since the end of World War II and the deadliest building fire in the country in 18 years, since the Myojo 56 building fire in 2001
2020 Indian actor Amitabh Bachchan and his son Abhishek are hospitalized with COVID-19 in Mumbai.
2020 [COVID-19 pandemic] The worldwide death toll from COVID-19 exceeds 600000
2021 British Open Men's Golf, Royal St George's GC: American Collin Morikawa is recorded as becoming inaugural male in history to win his debut at 2 separate major events [2020 PGA C'ship]; beats Jordan Spieth by 2 strokes.
2021 An international investigation reveals that spyware sold by Israel's NSO Group to different governments is being used to target heads of state, along with thousands of activists, journalists and dissidents around the world
2023 Wildfire season in British Columbia is recorded as becoming the most destructive on record, burning 14100 square kilometers of land, with 390 fires still alight (surpassing 2018 record) [1].
2024 Chinese Third Plenum, a five-yearly decision-making summit, ends with a focus on "Chinese Modernisation" and lays groundwork for an unprecedented fourth term for Xi Jinping [1]
2025 27th and 28th US military strikes in international waters of the eastern Pacific Ocean sink two suspected drug smuggling vessels and kill five, bringing total deaths in the program to over 100
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