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Added on the 26/02/2022 15:01:04 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
Russia successfully launches an unmanned space freighter carrying supplies to the International Space Station from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Soyuz rocket carrying the Progress spacecraft launched at 02:27 am Moscow time (2327 GMT) from the Kazakh steppes and reached its target orbit, according to the Roscosmos space agency. IMAGES
A Russian training ship of the Baltic Fleet Smolniy arrives in Venezuela and is received with honors at the port of La Guaira, near the capital, as part of a working visit to the Caribbean nation amid a climate of tension after the last presidential election. IMAGES
The Open Arms boat loaded with aid bound for Gaza returns to Cyprus after an Israeli air strike killed seven staff of the US-based food charity World Central Kitchen (WCK) in the Gaza Strip. IMAGES
Images of 'Jennifer' and two tugs, the' Open Arms' and the 'Ledra Dynamic', one of which is transporting the floating platform 'MMS ARIS', and the French frigate 'Courbet' which is escorting the boats, as 'Jennifer' set sail from Cyprus carrying aid to war-torn Gaza. IMAGES
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says the UK has sanctioned officials running the Arctic penal colony where Russian opposition figure and critic of President Vladmir Putin Alexei Navalny died, saying Britian and its allies were considering "all options to hold Russia and Putin to account". "He died for a cause to which he dedicated his whole life - freedom - and to return home knowing that Putin had already tried to have him killed is one of the most courageous acts of our time," he tells members of parliament. SOUNDBITE