February 21, 2022: Biden-Putin summit, Ukraine, Ottawa, Australia reopens, Iran, Bernie Madoff

February 21, 2022: Biden-Putin summit over Ukraine, Ottawa clean-up, Australia reopens, Iran, Bernie Madoff’s sister

1. U.S. President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin have agreed in principle to a summit over Ukraine, the French leader said, offering a possible path out of one of the most dangerous European crises in decades.

2. Canadian police secured the downtown core of the capital with fencing as city workers cleaned up trash and snow plows cleared streets after two days of tense standoffs and 191 arrests ended a three-week occupation of Ottawa.

3. Australia fully reopened its international borders to travelers vaccinated against the coronavirus after nearly two years of pandemic-related closings as tourists returned and hundreds of people were reunited with family and friends.

4. Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said that talks in Vienna on reviving Tehran's 2015 nuclear deal with world powers cannot succeed unless the United States is prepared to lift sanctions on the Islamic Republic.

5. The sister of fraudster Bernie Madoff, who was convicted of masterminding the largest known Ponzi scheme in history, and her husband died last week from an apparent murder-suicide, authorities said.

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