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Tuesday, 24 February 2026
2019 2019 Hong Kong anti-extradition bill protests: Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam announces the official withdrawal of the controversial Fugitive Offenders and Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Legislation (Amendment) Bill 2019, and setting up of an independent study to probe social and economic inequality within the territory. 
2020 Pope Benedict XVI is recorded as becoming the longest-lived pope at 93 years, four months, and 16 days, surpassing Pope Leo XIII, who died in 1903.
2020 The La LÃnea highway tunnel, the longest road tunnel in South America at a length of 8.65 kilometres (5.37 mi), is opened in Colombia after 14 years of construction and several delays.
2020 Kosovo and Serbia announce that they will normalize economic relations. The two countries will also move their Israeli embassies to Jerusalem, becoming the third and fourth countries to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital.
2020 Bahrain and Israel agree to normalise relations, marking the fourth Israel–Arab peace deal.
2021 Nigerian government announces it is suspending Twitter indefinitely after it removed a post by President Muhammadu Buhari
2025 22nd known lethal US military strike in international waters of suspected drug smuggling vessel results in the deaths of four in the eastern Pacific Ocean.
