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Tuesday, 24 February 2026
2018 Canada legalizes the sale of recreational cannabis, the second country after Uruguay 
2018 Australian state of Queensland decriminalizes abortion.
2018 The revived "The Connors" debuts on ABC TV starring Sara Gilbert, Laurie Metcalf and John Goodman , without fired former star Roseanne Barr
2018 Student shoots and detonates a bomb killing 20 with 40 injured at Kerch polytechnic college, Crimea.
2019 UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson announces new Brexit deal with the EU, removes the Northern Ireland backstop clause.
2019 Turkey agrees to a ceasefire in Northern Syria for 5 days to allow withdrawal of Kudish troops, after talks between US VP Mike Pence and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
2019 Lana Del Rey 's ballad "Video Games" named song of the decade at Q Awards in London.
2019 Shootouts erupt in Culiacán, Mexico, after the arrest of El Chapo's son, Ovidio Guzmán López, on an arrest warrant for drug dealing in the United States. Eight people are killed and 56 convicts escape from prison; 7 are recaptured by October 18. Guzmán López is released in an effort to restore peace and to prevent more bloodshed
2020 Labour Party headed by Jacinda Ardern re-elected in a landslide in New Zealand's general election.
2020 In this year, 2020 New Zealand general election: Jacinda Ardern's Labour Party claims a landslide second term in office, defeating the National Party led by Judith Collins and gaining the country's inaugural parliamentary majority since the introduction of the MMP voting system.
2021 November 14 - The 2021 ICC Men's T20 World Cup is held in the United Arab Emirates and Oman, and is won by Australia
2023 China's President Xi Jinping celebrates 10 years of its Belt and Rod project at summit in Beijing attended by Russian leader Vladimir Putin [1].
2024 In this year, Israel claims to have killed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar , one of the masterminds of the 7 Oct Hamas attack on Israel, during battle in Rafah, Gaza [1]
2025 26th US military lethal strike in international waters of a suspected drug smuggling vessel results in the deaths of four
2025 Thousands of dinosaur footprints dating back 210 million years are are discovered on a mountain in Stelvio National Park in northern Italy [1]
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