The state of the Pope Francis “remains critical,” the Vatican press service said on the evening of February 22. The report said that on Saturday morning he suffered a protracted asthma-like attack, because of which he needed oxygen therapy with a high flow. An 88-year-old pontiff also required a blood transfusion due to the low level of platelets and anemia.

In the northeast of France in the city of Muluz, a man with a knife attacked people. One person died, five police officers were injured, reports Le Figaro. The attack occurred in the region of 16:00 local time (18:00 Moscow time) at the demonstration in support of the Congo patrolled by the police. The attacker was 37-year-old Algeria, he was detained. According to Le Figaro, the attacker seriously wounded two policemen with a knife - one in the neck, the other in the chest.

The film "Dreams" of the Norwegian director Dag Johan Höogerud became the owner of the Golden Bear-the main prize of the 75th Berlin Film Festival. The awarding ceremony of the festival winners was held on February 22 at the Berlinal Palace. “Dreams” is the last part of the trilogy (previous films “Sex” and “Love”), in which the director “ explores the difficulties of human relationships, sexuality and social norms”.

Now Hamas has returned their bodies - and in the IDF they say that the children were "killed with bare hands" Jack Guez / AFP / Scanpix / Leta Mural with the image of the Bibasian family in Tel Aviv. 19 February 2025 The Bibasov family-34-year-old yarden, 32-year-old Shiri, four-year-old Ariel and nine-month-old Kfir-were abducted by terrorists from their home in Kibbutz Nir-OZ during the attack of Hamas and other groups to the south of Israel on October 7, 2023. Parents were widely killed.

Ukraine received on February 21 from the Donald Trump administration a new version of the agreement on the use of natural resources. The draft agreement turned out to be tougher than the first option, according to the Ukrainian edition of NV ("New Time") and The New York Times with reference to sources. The previous version of the agreement stated that Ukraine should agree to create a joint -joint fund to which the rights to develop subsoil would be introduced.

Oleksandr Roshchyn On the Berlin Film Festival on February 20, the film was shown Ukrainian Katerina Ekhinostai “Time of Time” - a documentary about the life of Ukrainian schools during the war. His heroes are students and teachers from all over Ukraine: some school has been destroyed by bombing, others train drones, others study and even receive diplomas remotely.

The Migration Service of Sweden decided to deport anti -war activist and researcher from Russia Daria Rudneva. This was reported by Sveriges Radio (Swedish radio) the activist herself. The Swedish security police considered that the presence of a Russian woman in the country is a "threat to security." Rudneva came to Sweden in 2021 from Moscow under the exchange program in order to conduct research in mathematics and physics at Stockholm University.

One of the richest businessmen of Hungary, the son-in-law of the country's prime minister Viktor Orban Istvan Tibornz is interested in the purchase of the Russian unit of the Austrian banking group Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI). This was reported by the Austrian newspaper Der Standard with reference to sources. According to the interlocutors of the publication, “rather serious” negotiations between RBI and Torn are currently underway.

Rolf Vennenbernd / DPA / Scanpix / Leta supporters of the CDU / CSS at the election campaign in Oberhausen (North Rhine-Westphalia). February 21, 2025 On Sunday, February 23, early parliamentary elections will be held in Germany. According to polls , among the parties participating in them , four will definitely overcome the five percent barrier and will go to the new composition of the Bundestag.

Brief history (rather long) conflict Pavlo Gonchar / Sopa Images / Lightroket / Getty Images Vladimir Zelensky at a press conference in Kyiv in 2019 Donald Trump and Vladimir Zelensky over a week moved from discussing the conditions of American support of Ukraine to a public conflict - and even swearing. On February 12, Zelensky refused to sign the US accession to Ukrainian minerals.

A thousand ninety -fifth day. European countries are preparing a military assistance package for Ukraine for 20 billion euros, Great Britain - new sanctions against Russia Valentyn Ogirenko / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta Medusa from February 24, 2022 lives on the Russian-Ukrainian war on the air. In our daily materials, we publish your letters, because we are sure: we must continue to talk about the war.

The film "Turkish Gambit" for 20 years. We publish a fragment of the book of Anton Dolina “Bad Russians” about the first Russian historical blockbuster On February 22, 2005, the film “Turkish Gambit” was released in the Russian rental - a film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Boris Akunin from the detective series about the detective of Erast Fandorin.

The militants of the Hamas terrorist group handed over five Israeli hostages to employees of the Red Cross, reports The Times of Israel. This time, the hostage transmission took place in different places. First, the militants handed over 39-year-old Tal Shoham and 38-year-old Aver Mengist, this happened in Rafakh in the south of the Gaza sector.

Tatyana Sergeyeva was appointed the new head coach of the Russian national rhythmic gymnastics team, the Minister of Sports of the Russian Federation Mikhail Degtyarev agreed on its candidacy. This was announced by Interfax with reference to the press service of the Ministry of Sports. For 17 years, Sergaeva was the senior coach of the Russian team in group exercises.

The results of the experiment in the United States are encouraging On February 19, 2025, a small text was released in the scientific publication of The New England Journal of Medicine, dedicated to intrauterine treatment of severe genetic disease - spinal muscle atrophy. This is the first such case in history. We tell how it became possible. In 2015, a child with spinal muscle atrophy (SMA) of the 1st type was born in a family of US residents.