Disasters and accidents

• Philippine authorities confirm that all four people aboard a Cessna 340 aircraft that crashed on February 18 on Mayon Volcano, Albay are dead. Retrieval operations have begun. (The Philippine Star) (CNN)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • 2023 Nablus clashes
    • Eleven Palestinians are killed and 102 more injured when Israeli troops storm Nablus, in the occupied West Bank. (Al Jazeera)

Disasters and accidents

• At least four people are killed and 49 others are reported missing following a collapse at a coal mine in Alxa League, Inner Mongolia, China. Search and rescue operations are underway. (Reuters)
• Five people are killed after a Beechcraft BE20 crashes shortly after takeoff near College Station, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States. (AP)
• Four people are killed in a plane crash near Trenčianske Stankovce, Trenčín Region, Slovakia. (AP)

International relations

• Moldova–Russia relations, Russia–Transnistria relations
  • Russian President Vladimir Putin revokes a 2012 foreign policy decree which underpinned Moldova's sovereignty in resolving the political status of the breakaway Transnistria region. (Reuters)
• Germany–Iran relations
  • Germany expels two employees of the Iranian embassy in response to Iran sentencing pro-monarchist dual German-Iranian Jamshid Sharmahd to death over a 2008 bombing in Iran. (Reuters)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Southern Ukraine campaign
    • Russian forces shell the city of Kherson, killing at least six people and injuring 12 others, according to local officials. (Reuters)
• Somali Civil War
  • The Somali National Army kills 42 al-Shabaab jihadists in an operation in Mahaday, Middle Shabelle, Somalia, which began overnight and lasted for several hours. (Xinhua)

Business and economy

• 2022–2023 food crises
  • Supermarkets in the United Kingdom, such as Asda and Morrisons, begin rationing fruit and vegetables, citing poor harvests in Spain and North Africa, and a domestic farming crisis. The shortages are expected to last several weeks. (The Telegraph)

Disasters and accidents

• 2023 São Paulo floods and landslides
  • The death toll from flooding and landslides in São Sebastião, São Paulo, Brazil, reaches 44 with many more missing. (AP)
• 2022–23 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season
  • Cyclone Freddy makes landfall in Madagascar, causing at least four deaths in the country. (Reuters)
• The Philippine Air Force and Navy locate on Mayon Volcano, Albay, the debris of a Cessna 340 aircraft that went missing after taking off from Daraga for Manila on February 18. However, the whereabouts of the two pilots and two Australian passengers on board have yet to be located due to inclement weather. (AP via ABC News)

International relations

• Russia–United States relations, Russia and weapons of mass destruction
  • Russian President Vladimir Putin suspends Russia's participation in the New START treaty, the last remaining nuclear arms control pact with the United States, citing the U.S.'s goal of defeating Russia in the ongoing war in Ukraine. (AP)

Law and crime

• He Jiankui affair
  • The Immigration Department of Hong Kong cancels Chinese scientist He Jiankui's work permit and initiates a criminal investigation into his failure to declare a three-year prison sentence over his unethical genome editing research conduct while applying for the permit. (AFP via The Japan Times)

Arts and culture

• British authorities repatriate 77 pieces of Khmer jewellery from indicted art trafficker Douglas Latchford's family to the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts of Cambodia. (AFP via The Jakarta Post)

Disasters and accidents

• Aftermath of the 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquake
  • A magnitude 6.4 earthquake strikes southeastern Turkey and Syria, killing eight people and injuring 600 others. The earthquake is also felt in Lebanon and Egypt. This aftershock comes fourteen days after the main earthquake killed more than 47,000 people. (Associated Press)

International relations

• Ukraine–United States relations
  • 2023 visit by Joe Biden to Ukraine
    • U.S. President Joe Biden makes an unannounced visit to Kyiv, Ukraine, where he meets with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. (The Guardian)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Libyan Crisis
  • The African Union announces the organization of a peace conference to address the instability in Libya. (AFP via France 24)

Arts and culture

• 76th British Academy Film Awards
  • The 76th British Academy Film Awards are held in London, with the German film All Quiet on the Western Front winning the most awards with seven, including Best Film. (BBC News)

Disasters and accidents

• 2023 Kallar Kahar bus accident
  • Fourteen people are killed and 63 others are injured when a bus crashes and overturns near Kallar Kahar, Chakwal District, Punjab, Pakistan. (AP)
• 2023 São Paulo floods and landslides
  • At least 43 people are killed in São Sebastião and another person is killed in Ubatuba during floods and landslides in São Paulo, Brazil. (Al Jazeera)

Law and crime

• Six people are killed, including the vice mayor of Aparri, Cagayan, Philippines, when their car is ambushed in Bagabag, Nueva Vizcaya, by unknown gunmen. (Philippine Daily Inquirer)

Sports

• 2023 NASCAR Cup Series
  • Ricky Stenhouse Jr. wins the 65th running of the Daytona 500. (ESPN)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Syrian civil war
  • 2023 Damascus airstrike
    • Five people are killed and fifteen others are injured by an Israeli airstrike on Kafr Sousa, Damascus Governorate, according to Syrian media. (Yahoo! News)
• North Korean missile tests
  • The South Korean military reports that North Korea has fired a presumed long-range ballistic missile into the Sea of Japan. (AFP via The News)

Politics and elections

• Iran International suspends all broadcasting from its London headquarters due to a security threat. (The Telegraph)
• The Carter Center announces that former United States President Jimmy Carter has begun receiving hospice care instead of additional medical intervention. (CNN)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Battle of Bakhmut
    • Russian forces shell Bakhmut with artillery and Grad rockets, killing five people and injuring nine others. (The Kyiv Independent via Yahoo! News)
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • 2023 Karachi police station attack
    • The Pakistani Taliban attack a police station in Karachi. Three militants, three police officers and a civilian are killed. (BBC News)
• Syrian civil war
  • 2023 Al-Sukhnah attack
    • Islamic State militants kill at least 68 people, including 61 civilians and seven soldiers, in Al-Sukhnah, Homs Governorate, Syria. (Barron's)
• Moro conflict
  • Four people are killed and two others are injured, including Mamintal Alonto Adiong Jr., governor of Lanao del Sur, when their convoy is ambushed in Maguing, Philippines, by unknown gunmen. (ABS-CBN News)
• Jihadist insurgency in Burkina Faso
  • Médecins Sans Frontières suspends its operations in Burkina Faso for an "indefinite" period, except when responding to lifesaving emergencies, following the killings of two of its Burkinabé aid workers by armed men near Dédougou on 8 February. (AFP via Barron's)

Disasters and accidents

• Aftermath of the 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquake
  • A Syrian family of seven, including five children, are killed by a fire that struck a home in Konya Province, Turkey, which they moved to after surviving the earthquake. Seven other people are injured during the fire. (Al Jazeera)

International relations

• Russia–South Africa relations, China–South Africa relations
  • The South African Navy hosts a ten-day joint military exercise in the Indian Ocean with Russia and China. The exercise is named "Mosi II" after the Tswana word for "smoke". (BBC News) (DW)

Law and crime

• Sofia lorry deaths
  • Eighteen people who have immigrated illegally from Afghanistan are found dead in an abandoned truck in Sofia City Province, Bulgaria. Thirty-five others are hospitalized. Four people have been arrested. (Reuters via The Guardian)
• 2023 Arkabutla shootings
  • Six people are killed in a spree shooting in Arkabutla, Mississippi, United States. A suspect has been arrested. (BBC News) (El País)

Science and technology

• Japanese space program
  • JAXA aborts the first launch attempt of the H3 rocket after some of its boosters failed to ignite during the first stage. It is Japan's second failed rocket launch since 2003. (AFP via The Korea Times)