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The stock market had its worst week since 2008, signaling that one of the longest expansions in history could be ending. Policymakers said they were ready to act.
The accusations came as other elements of the federal government moved to head off a broader wave of infections like those in China.
After more than a year of talks, the agreement lays out the beginning of the end of the United States’ longest war. But many obstacles remain.
Developers are banking on attracting Moscow’s rising middle class. “But will they sell emotions, like Disneyland?” a mother of two girls asks.
After a quiet decade and a painful divorce, the singer has a new studio album, a whole new set of fans and a favorite 2020 candidate. (His name is Pete.)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 26, 2020, covering February 29, 2020.
Justin Bieber
A Boogie wit da Hoodie
Tame Impala
Roddy Ricch
Monsta X
2020Dieter Laser, German actor (born 1942)[†]
Klaus Dieter Laser was a German actor. Laser's career spanned over five decades, appearing in both German and English-language productions. He achieved recognition for his lead role in the 2009 film The Human Centipede and also starred in the third entry in 2015. On television, he had a recurring role on Lexx from 1998 to 2000.
2020Éva Székely, Hungarian Hall of Fame swimmer and 1952 Olympic champion (born 1927)[†]
Éva Székely was a Hungarian swimmer. She won the gold medal at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki and the silver medal at the 1956 Summer Olympics, set six world records, and won 44 national titles. She held the first world record in the 400 m individual medley in 1953.
2020During a demonstration, pro-government colectivos shoot at disputed President and Speaker of the National Assembly Juan Guaidó and his supporters in Barquisimeto, Venezuela, leaving five injured.[†]
Colectivos are far-left Venezuelan armed paramilitary groups that support the Bolivarian government, the Great Patriotic Pole (GPP) political alliance and Venezuela's ruling party, the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV). Colectivo has become an umbrella term for irregular armed groups that operate in poverty-stricken areas.
2020The United States and the Taliban sign the Doha Agreement for bringing peace to Afghanistan.[†]
The United States of America (USA), also known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It is a federal republic of 50 states and a federal capital district, Washington, D.C. The 48 contiguous states border Canada to the north and Mexico to the south, with the semi-exclave of Alaska in the northwest and the archipelago of Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean. The United States also asserts sovereignty over five major island territories and various uninhabited islands in Oceania and the Caribbean. It is a megadiverse country, with the world's third-largest land area and third-largest population, exceeding 340 million.
2020Muhyiddin Yassin is appointed as the 8th Prime Minister of Malaysia, amid the 2020 Malaysian political crisis.[†]
Mahiaddin bin Md Yasin, commonly known as Muhyiddin bin Mohd Yassin, is a Malaysian politician and civil servant who served as the eighth Prime Minister of Malaysia from 2020 to 2021. Appointed as prime minister amid a political crisis, Muhyiddin served for 17 months and resigned after losing parliamentary support.
2020Luxembourg becomes the first country in the world to render public transport free nationwide.[†]
Luxembourg, officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, is a landlocked country in Western Europe. It is bordered by Belgium to the west and north, Germany to the east, and France on the south. Its capital and most populous city, Luxembourg City, is one of the four institutional seats of the European Union and hosts several EU institutions, notably the Court of Justice of the European Union, the highest judicial authority in the EU.
In 2020, the world population was approximately 7,887,001,292 people[†]