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Reuters / Tuesday, February 23, 2021

Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputies inspect the vehicle of golfer Tiger Woods, who was rushed to hospital after suffering multiple injuries, after it was involved in a single-vehicle accident in Los Angeles, California, February 23, 2021. REUTERS/Gene Blevins

Sheriff Alex Villanueva told reporters during a Facebook Q&A there was no indication Woods was impaired by alcohol or any other substances at the time of the incident, which is why no tests were taken and why no criminal charges will be laid. “He was lucid, no odour of alcohol, no evidence of any medication, narcotics or anything like that,” Villanueva said. “That was not a concern so no field sobriety test and no drug expert needed to respond. This is what it is — an accident.
 
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Maxwell was born in France and grew up in Oxford.

Ghislaine Maxwell has offered to renounce her British and French citizenship to assure a New York judge that she will not flee if she is granted bail. Lawyers for Maxwell made the offer to Judge Alison Nathan yesterday in a third attempt to secure her release from the Brooklyn jail before her trial later this year. She has been held since last summer, accused of grooming minors for Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted sex offender. She denies wrongdoing.
 
Reuters / Wednesday, February 24, 2021
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A view inside the Saint-Jean-Baptiste au Beguinage church where illegal migrants, requesting to be regularised by the Belgian government to have access to heathcare, reside amid the coronavirus outbreak, in Brussels, Belgium February 23. REUTERS/Yves Herman
 
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Ireland: A Banksy-like image has appeared overnight on the wall of the former St Clares convent in Cavan town. The building, formerly an orphanage was the scene of a fire on February 23rd, 1943 in which 35 children and one adult lost their lives. No permanent memorial has been made to commerate the deaths. Photograph: Lorraine Teevan
 
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Flowers are laid at the grave of Joseph Stalin near Red Square outside the Kremlin to mark the 68th anniversary of his death
Photograph: Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP/Getty Imates

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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
People squatting in a former factory wait for food that is being distributed by charities during the coronavirus pandemic. Photograph: Silvia Izquierdo/AP
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A student is reunited with her family in Jangebe, Nigeria, after being kidnapped, along with nearly 300 others, at a boarding school on 26 February. More than 600 students have been abducted from schools in north-west Nigeria since December as criminals look to cash in on ransom demands.

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This handout photo by the Myitkyina News Journal shows a nun pleading with police not to harm protesters in Myitkyina, in Myanmar's Kachin state, March 8, 2021.

Those members old enough may remember the prison camp run by the Japanese in WW2 and their shocking treatment of allied troops to build the Burma Railway. I hope these good people find resolution to this tragic situation.
 
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Peyo and his owner once competed at dressage events. Now they spend their time doing rounds in a French hospital, often staying with sick people until the end. All photographs by Jeremy Lempin/Divergence

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In the palliative care centre at Calais Hospital in northern France, Marion, 24, who has metastatic cancer, cuddles her seven-year-old son, Ethan, as Peyo nuzzles them both. ‘With Peyo, we try to recreate life at the end of life, in order to fight, and create an energy to accompany families and caregivers,’ says his trainer, Hassen Bouchakour. Peyo and Bouchakour work with Les Sabots du Coeur, an organisation devoted to therapy, and with scientists who are studying Peyo’s ability to reduce patients’ anxiety and comfort people in pain
 
Melbourne, Australia
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The city launches its annual food and wine festival with the World’s Longest Lunch. With no local Covid community transmissions, more than 1700 diners ate in the Treasury Garden. Photograph Sydney Low/Zuma/Rez/Shutterstock
 
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Kashmiri Muslim women pray as the head priest displays a relic at the Hazratbal shrine on the occasion of Mehraj-u-Alam, believed to mark the ascension of Prophet Muhammad to heaven, in Srinagar, Indian-controlled Kashmir.
 
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Chicago’s mayor has turned the river that runs through the city into an Irish stew for St. Patrick’s Day — dyeing it bright green as per a tradition that was nixed last year because of COVID-19.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot had cancelled the annual dyeing in 2020 — and vowed to do the same this year — because of the coronavirus, citing social-distancing concerns over the crowds it typically draws.

But she changed course at the last minute this year in a bid to uplift local spirits — and businesses — and boat crews began dumping the dye into the Chicago River around 7 a.m. Saturday.
 

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