This Day One Year Ago in 2023

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January 30th. At least 59 people have been killed by a suicide bombing that apparently targeted policemen praying in a mosque in Peshawar, Pakistan. The mosque is within the tightly guarded police headquarters area.
"Terrorists want to create fear by targeting those who perform the duty of defending Pakistan," Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said.

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January 31st : Eurovision fever has hit Liverpool, with an official handover ceremony and the semi-final draw taking place in the city ahead of this year's song contest.

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February1st : Shetland's famous Up Helly Aa fire festival - with women and girls in the torchlit procession for the first time - has witnessed the burning of a replica Viking galley light up the sky over Lerwick.

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February 2nd. British Gas has been banned from forcing prepayment meters and is now under pressure to explain how it will compensate 'vulnerable' customers who faced debt collectors.
Energy regulator Ofgem has now issued a legal order barring British Gas from forcibly entering customers' homes until it can prove that it was complying with all its legal obligations.

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February 3rd : Police investigating the disappearance of mother-of-two Nicola Bulley believe she fell into a river. The 45-year-old was last seen next to the River Wyre in St Michael's on Wyre, Lancashire, on a dog walk a week ago. A major search for Ms Bulley continues, but no trace of her has been found.

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February 4th. The US has shot down a giant Chinese balloon that it says has been spying on key military sites across America. The Department of Defence confirmed its fighter jets brought down the balloon over US territorial waters.

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February 5th : The first images of Nicola Bulley on the day she went missing while walking her dog have been shared with the BBC by one of her friends. The 45-year-old was last seen walking next to the River Wyre in St Michael's on Wyre in Lancashire.

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February 6th. The death toll from a strong earthquake in south-eastern Turkey, near Syria's border, could rise eight-fold, the World Health Organisation has warned. The toll, which currently stands at more than 3,400 people, has increased rapidly since the first earthquake struck early on Monday morning.

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February 7th : A former senior civil servant who worked closely with Dominic Raab has described his behaviour as "nasty and difficult". In an anonymous interview with BBC Newsnight, he accuses the deputy prime minister and justice secretary of using "demeaning tactics to make himself the most powerful person in the room".

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February 8th. President Zelensky told King Charles 'in Ukraine today every air force pilot is a king' during a meeting with the monarch on a visit to the UK. The Ukrainian president met the King for the first time in a 'truly special' audience at Buckingham Palace after he mentioned the monarch's RAF career in his campaign to get British jets to Ukraine.

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February 9th : Labour's victory in the West Lancashire by-election shows the Conservatives have "run out of road," Rachel Reeves has said. The shadow chancellor said the result, which saw a 10.5% swing from the Tories, had sent a "clear message" to Rishi Sunak.

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February 10th. A World War Two bomb found in Great Yarmouth has detonated while work was being done to defuse it, causing a huge blast that was heard for miles. Army specialists were attempting to disarm it when there was an unplanned detonation at about 17:00 GMT.

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February 11th : A Finn Russell-inspired Scotland earned a record victory against Wales to continue a stunning start to their Six Nations with two wins from two.

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February 12th. Airspace at the U.S.-Canada border near Michigan was closed by the FAA on Sunday afternoon and another “flying object” was shot down, according to a Congressman from Michigan. In fact, the object was shaped like an octagon, according to a new report from the Wall Street Journal. The octagon was flying at roughly 20,000 feet, which means it posed a potential threat to civilian aircraft, according to the Journal.

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February 13th : Uefa bears "primary responsibility" for the chaotic scenes that "almost led to disaster" before last year's Champions League final between Liverpool and Real Madrid, says an independent report.

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February 14th. At least 73 migrants are missing and presumed dead after their boat sank off the Libyan coast, according to the UN's International Organization for Migration (IOM). Only seven people survived Tuesday's shipwreck but are in "extremely dire conditions" in hospital.