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2020 Tokyo Olympics mascot announced

On February 28, 2018 local time, Tokyo, Japan, the 2020 Tokyo Olympics mascot was announced. The futuristic robot mascot design with the Olympic emblem received the highest number of votes.

Voting for the mascots for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics in Japan closes on February 22. Voting began in December 2017, and in about three months, more than half of elementary schools and special support schools across Japan, as well as Japanese schools overseas, participated in the voting. ?

Syrian-Iraqi “refugee” lions fled the war and started a new life in South Africa

On February 28, 2018, local time, photos provided by the animal welfare organization Four Paws showed that a lion from Syria Saeed, the male lion from Aleppo Zoo, and Simba from Mosul, Iraq, have been successfully released into the local nature reserve in Bethlehem, South Africa. In 2017, Four Paws rescued animals such as Sayid and Simba from war-torn areas. The war caused serious damage to the zoo, the staff were evacuated, and the animals' living conditions were very serious. Now they will start a new life in South Africa. ?

A magnitude 6 earthquake occurred in Papua New Guinea

The earthquake occurred at 2:45 GMT on the 28th (10:45 Beijing time). According to reports, the epicenter of the earthquake was located near the area 111 kilometers southwest of Porgera, with a focal depth of 10 kilometers. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center has not yet issued a tsunami warning for the earthquake.

Experience the Arctic "heat" in the world's northernmost town

On February 27, in Longyearbyen, Norway, two pedestrians walked on a road where ice and snow had melted. Just as most of Europe is experiencing a sudden cold winter, the world's northernmost town, Longyearbyen, is experiencing unusually high Arctic "heat" weather. Longyearbyen is located on Spitsbergen, the largest island in the Svalbard archipelago of Norway. It is located at 78 degrees north latitude and only 1,300 kilometers from the North Pole. However, in this small town known as the northernmost in the world, the daytime temperature on the 26th was as high as 4 degrees Celsius above zero, and it did not break through the freezing point at night. Under normal circumstances, the city's average temperature in February is around minus 18 degrees Celsius.