March 1, 2023: Greece train collision, Murdaugh, COVID, Tinubu wins, Lightfoot loses in Chicago

March 1, 2023: Greece train collision, Murdaugh trial, FBI on Covid, Tinubu wins, Lightfoot

1. At least 36 people were killed in Greece when a passenger train and a cargo train collided head-on, throwing entire carriages off the tracks on Tuesday night in the country's deadliest rail crash in living memory.

2. Closing arguments are set to start on Wednesday in the trial of Richard "Alex" Murdaugh, the now-disbarred South Carolina lawyer charged with gunning down his wife and son in a complex and grisly case that has garnered international attention.

3. The FBI has assessed that a leak from a laboratory in the central Chinese city of Wuhan likely caused the COVID pandemic, director Christopher Wray said, a claim China said had "no credibility whatsoever.”

4. Nigeria's ruling party candidate, Bola Tinubu, was declared president-elect of Africa's most populous nation in the early hours of Wednesday after a weekend election that the main opposition parties have disputed.

5. Chicago's incumbent Mayor Lori Lightfoot lost her re-election bid, with vote totals showing that two of her rivals will face each other in an April runoff ballot.

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