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Date: 26 February 2014
By JULIA MOSKIN
25 februari 2014 was een dinsdag onder het sterrenbeeld ♓. Het was de 55e dag van het jaar. President van de Verenigde Staten was Barack Obama.
Als je op deze dag bent geboren, ben je 12 jaar oud. Je laatste verjaardag was op woensdag 25 februari 2026, 107 dagen geleden. Je volgende verjaardag is op donderdag 25 februari 2027, in 257 dagen. Je hebt 4.490 dagen geleefd, of ongeveer 107.770 uur, of ongeveer 6.466.241 minuten, of ongeveer 387.974.460 seconden.
Date: 26 February 2014
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Researchers at Stanford University report that an extremely rare, polio-like disease has afflicted more than a dozen California children in the past year, producing paralysis in one or both arms or legs; public health officials have not yet identified any common causes connecting the cases.
Date: 25 February 2014
By GERRY MULLANY
The slashing of the former editor of the Ming Pao newspaper comes just a month after he was dismissed from a job in which he oversaw reporting that was critical of the mainland Chinese government.
Date: 26 February 2014
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet publishes information linking former Swedish military officer Bertil Wedin, who has connections with South African security services, to 1986 murder of Prime Min Olof Palme; evidence was submitted to police by novelist Stieg Larsson before his death in 2004; Wedin denies his involvement in killing.
Date: 26 February 2014
By RICK GLADSTONE
Lawyers for Matthew and Grace Huang, Americans held in Qatar on charges that they murdered their adopted African daughter, have formally asked the country's attorney general to open investigation into medical evidence used by the prosecution; lawyers claim evidence was fabricated.
Date: 26 February 2014
By ANDREW ROTH
Russian municipal court jails several Russian opposition leaders, including activist and blogger Aleksei A Navalny, for resisting arrest during rally near the Kremlin that ended with more than 400 demonstrators detained by police; protest, one of Moscow's largest in several months, evokes apprehensive comparison to Ukraine uprising.