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Brazilian former firefighter Maxwell Simoes Correa, suspected of involvement in the 2018 assassination of Rio de Janeiro city councilor Marielle Franco, is escorted by federal police agents upon his arrival in Brasilia, where he will remain under arrest. IMAGES
Hong Kong's leader John Lee announces that the city will fully scrap the mask mandate: "I have an announcement to make, the mask mandate will be fully scrapped starting tomorrow, 1st March." SOUNDBITE
WASHINGTON D.C., — The suspect in the murder of a Washington, D.C. family of three and their housekeeper fled to New York after the killings, then took a costly ride back to the nation’s capital in a taxicab when he realized police were closing in on him.
Trial opens for six teenagers for their role in the 2020 beheading of French teacher Samuel Paty, the first of two trials in a case that horrified France. The suspects, who were between the ages of 13 and 15 at the time of the murder, are accused of having been on the lookout for Paty, identifying him to the killer in exchange for money, or for making false accusations. Paty, a 47-year-old history and geography teacher, was stabbed and then beheaded near his secondary school in the Paris suburb of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine. His attacker was shot dead at the scene by police. IMAGES
More than 1,000 European Union citizens were evacuated from conflict-hit Sudan over the weekend, the bloc's foreign policy chief Josep Borrell says. "It has been a complex operation and it has been a successful operation," Borrell tells journalists. SOUNDBITE