The world on
Friday 28 February 2025
18 stories, region by region.
Africa
2025 disease outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
At least 60 fatalities and nearly 1,100 symptomatic cases are reported to be a result of a disease outbreak of unknown etiology in the Province of Équateur, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Democratic Republic of the Congo–Rwanda conflict
The East African Community (EAC) and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) postpone the joint summit of their foreign ministers that would have agreed on a ceasefire plan for the conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Congolese and Rwanda governments never received invitations to the meeting.
Americas
2025 United States federal mass layoffs
The United States Social Security Administration announces it will lay off over 7,000 jobs to align with President Donald Trump's executive order, despite its workforce already being at a 50-year low.
Crime & Justice
Mexico extradites 29 alleged cartel members to the United States, including Rafael Caro Quintero, Miguel Treviño Morales, Omar Treviño Morales, Vicente Carrillo Fuentes and Jose Rodolfo Villarreal-Hernandez.
Mexican drug war
At least four people are shot dead in a mechanical workshop in Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, Mexico. This is the second massacre this week in the state, the other in Perote, which left three workers dead and one wounded.
Mexican drug war
Three policemen and a civilian are killed in two attacks in Guanajuato, Mexico, the first in Celaya and the second in Apaseo el Alto.
Economic Blackout
A 24-hour consumer spending boycott takes place across the United States, in protest of wealth and income inequality, high prices of essential goods, and the rollback of diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives by the Trump administration.
Asia-Pacific
2025 Darul Uloom Haqqania bombing
Five people, including Hamid Ul Haq Haqqani, the head of a faction of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (S) party and son of Sami-ul-Haq, are killed and twenty others are injured in a suicide bombing inside of a mosque in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
2025 Uttarakhand avalanche
5 construction workers are trapped, 48 others are rescued and 4 people are killed after a group of 57 people are swept away by an avalanche near the Mana Pass, Uttarakhand, India.
2024–25 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season
Three people are killed as tropical cyclone Garance makes landfall in Réunion in the Indian Ocean.
Politics
Following the 2024 quota reform movement in Bangladesh, students who led the protests announce the formation of a new political party, the National Citizen Party, led by Nahid Islam, a student activist and the chief coordinator of the Students Against Discrimination movement.
Europe
2025 Trump–Zelenskyy meeting
U.S. president Donald Trump, U.S. vice president JD Vance and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy end their talks early after their meeting in the White House turns into a "heated" exchange. Trump rejects any discussion of specific security guarantees for Ukraine, being interested solely in discussing the Ukraine–United States Mineral Resources Agreement.
Russia–United States relations
Russia appoints Alexander Darchiev as its new ambassador to the U.S. following talks between the two countries in Istanbul on restoring regular diplomatic contacts and embassy staffs. The post has been vacant for several months.
2025 Trump–Zelenskyy meeting
The U.S. State Department terminates U.S. support of Ukraine's energy grid restoration amid an ongoing energy crisis.
Politics
Greeks organize a 24-hour nationwide general strike on the second anniversary of the Tempi train crash, Greece's deadliest railway disaster.
Middle East
Colombia–Israel relations
Colombian president Gustavo Petro, Malaysian prime minister Anwar Ibrahim, and South African president Cyril Ramaphosa release a joint statement announcing they will close their ports to any ship carrying weapons supplied to Israel.
Global
Stories adapted from Wikipedia’s Current events portal for 28 February 2025, by Wikipedia contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0.