Portal:Current events
Topics in the news
- Cyclone Gabrielle (flood damage pictured) causes widespread damage and flooding across New Zealand.
- Nikos Christodoulides is elected President of Cyprus.
- In American football, the Kansas City Chiefs defeat the Philadelphia Eagles in the Super Bowl.
- A megadrought and heatwave cause forest fires and a state of emergency in Chile.
- After a derailment of a train carrying vinyl chloride near East Palestine, Ohio, US, residents are evacuated over health concerns from the subsequent controlled burn.
February 21, 2023
(Tuesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Southern Ukraine campaign
- Russian forces shell the city of Kherson, killing at least six people and wounding 12 others, according to local officials. (Reuters)
- Southern Ukraine campaign
- Somali Civil War
- The Somali National Army kills 42 al-Shabaab jihadists in an operation in the south of the country which began overnight and lasted several hours. (Xinhua)
International relations
- Russia–United States relations
- Russia and weapons of mass destruction
- Russian President Vladimir Putin suspends Russia's participation in the New START treaty, the last remaining nuclear arms control pact with the United States, citing the U.S.'s goal of Russia's defeat in Ukraine. (AP)
- Russia and weapons of mass destruction
February 20, 2023
(Monday)
Arts and culture
- British authorities repatriate 77 pieces of Khmer jewellery from indicted art trafficker Douglas Latchford's family to the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts of Cambodia. (AFP via The Jakarta Post)
Disasters and accidents
- Aftermath of the 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquake
- A magnitude 6.4 earthquake strikes southeastern Turkey and Syria, killing eight people and injuring 600 others. The earthquake is also felt in Lebanon and Egypt. This aftershock comes fourteen days after the main earthquake killed more than 47,000 people. (Associated Press)
International relations
- Ukraine–United States relations
- 2023 visit by Joe Biden to Ukraine
- U.S. President Joe Biden makes an unannounced visit to Kyiv, Ukraine, where he meets with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. (The Guardian)
- 2023 visit by Joe Biden to Ukraine
February 19, 2023
(Sunday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Libyan Crisis
- The African Union announces the organization of a peace conference to address the instability in Libya. (AFP via France 24)
Arts and culture
- 76th British Academy Film Awards
- The 76th British Academy Film Awards are held in London, with the German film All Quiet on the Western Front winning the most awards with seven, including Best Film. (BBC News)
Disasters and accidents
- 2023 Kallar Kahar bus accident
- Fourteen people are killed and 63 others are injured when a bus crashes and overturns near Kallar Kahar, Chakwal District, Punjab, Pakistan. (AP)
- 2023 São Paulo floods and landslides
- At least 35 people are killed in São Sebastião and another person is killed in Ubatuba during floods and landslides in São Paulo, Brazil. (Al Jazeera)
Law and crime
- Six people are killed, including the vice mayor of Aparri, Cagayan, Philippines, when their car is ambushed in Bagabag, Nueva Vizcaya, by unknown gunmen. (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
Sports
- 2023 NASCAR Cup Series
- Ricky Stenhouse Jr. wins the 65th running of the Daytona 500. (ESPN)
February 18, 2023
(Saturday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Syrian civil war
- 2023 Damascus airstrike
- Five people are killed and fifteen others are injured by an Israeli airstrike on Kafr Sousa, Damascus Governorate, according to Syrian media. (Yahoo! News)
- 2023 Damascus airstrike
- North Korean missile tests
- The South Korean military reports that North Korea has fired a presumed long-range ballistic missile into the Sea of Japan. (AFP via The News)
Politics and elections
- Iran International suspends all broadcasting from its London headquarters due to a security threat. (The Telegraph)
- The Carter Center announces that former United States President Jimmy Carter has begun receiving hospice care instead of additional medical intervention. (CNN)
February 17, 2023
(Friday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Battle of Bakhmut
- Russian forces shell Bakhmut with artillery and Grad rockets, killing five people and injuring nine others. (The Kyiv Independent via Yahoo! News)
- Battle of Bakhmut
- Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
- 2023 Karachi police station attack
- The Pakistani Taliban attack a police station in Karachi. Three militants, three police officers and a civilian are killed. (BBC News)
- 2023 Karachi police station attack
- Syrian civil war
- 2023 Al-Sukhnah attack
- Islamic State militants kill at least 68 people, including 61 civilians and seven soldiers, in Al-Sukhnah, Homs Governorate, Syria. (Barron's)
- 2023 Al-Sukhnah attack
- Moro conflict
- Four people are killed and two others are injured, including Mamintal Alonto Adiong Jr., governor of Lanao del Sur, when their convoy is ambushed in Maguing, Philippines, by unknown gunmen. (ABS-CBN News)
- Jihadist insurgency in Burkina Faso
- Médecins Sans Frontières suspends its operations in Burkina Faso for an "indefinite" period, except when responding to lifesaving emergencies, following the killings of two of its Burkinabé aid workers by armed men near Dédougou on 8 February. (AFP via Barron's)
Disasters and accidents
- Aftermath of the 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquake
- A Syrian family of seven, including five children, are killed by a fire that struck a home in Konya Province, Turkey, which they moved to after surviving the earthquake. Seven other people are injured during the fire. (Al Jazeera)
International relations
- Russia–South Africa relations, China–South Africa relations
- The South African Navy hosts a ten-day joint military exercise in the Indian Ocean with Russia and China. The exercise is named "Mosi II" after the Tswana word for "smoke". (BBC News) (DW)
Law and crime
- Sofia lorry deaths
- Eighteen people who have immigrated illegally from Afghanistan are found dead in an abandoned truck in Sofia City Province, Bulgaria. Thirty-five others are hospitalized. Four people have been arrested. (Reuters via The Guardian)
- 2023 Arkabutla shootings
- Six people are killed in a spree shooting in Arkabutla, Mississippi, United States. A suspect has been arrested. (BBC News) (El País)
Science and technology
- Japanese space program
- JAXA aborts the first launch attempt of the H3 rocket after some of its boosters failed to ignite during the first stage. It is Japan's second failed rocket launch since 2003. (AFP via The Korea Times)
February 16, 2023
(Thursday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- 2018–2023 Haitian crisis
- Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
- Armenia submits a peace treaty to Azerbaijan in an effort to end the decades-long conflict between the two countries. (Daily Sabah)
Business and economy
- YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki announces that she will step down and will be succeeded by chief product officer Neal Mohan. (The Verge)
- The CAC 40, the benchmark stock market index for the 40 largest market caps on the Euronext Paris, Europe's second-largest stock exchange market, reaches a record intraday value of 7,387.29 points. (CNBC)
Disasters and accidents
- 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquake
- The death toll from the earthquakes in Turkey increases to 43,850, as the World Health Organization declares northwestern Syria as the zone of greatest concern, citing the slow delivery of humanitarian aid. (Al Jazeera)
Health and environment
- Climate change in Antarctica
- The National Snow and Ice Data Center of the United States reports that the Antarctic sea ice decreased to 1.91 million square kilometers (740,000 sq mi) within the week, the smallest remaining ice area since records began in 1979. (AFP via ABS-CBN News)
Law and crime
- A Da Nang court sentences four South Korean men to imprisonment for smuggling around 200 South Koreans into Vietnam during the COVID-19 pandemic when the country suspended the entry of all foreigners from 2020 to 2021. (AFP via Al Arabiya)
Politics and elections
- Russia in the Council of Europe
- Lawmakers in the State Duma vote to withdraw Russia from 21 conventions of the Council of Europe. (RFE/RL)
- The Portuguese government announces the end of the Portugal Golden Visa investor program, as well as a ban on new licenses for Airbnbs, due to a severe housing shortage and rising rents. (Reuters)
Sports
- 2022–23 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup
- FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2023
- American alpine skier Mikaela Shiffrin wins her seventh career alpine world championships gold medal in the women's giant slalom of the 2023 edition in the French Alps, making her the most successful skier in the modern era with an overall tally of 13 medals from 16 career world championship races. (AP via The Guardian)
- FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2023
February 15, 2023
(Wednesday)
Business and economy
- World Bank President David Malpass announces he will resign by the end of June. (AFP via RFI)
- The FTSE 100 Index, the main share index of the 100 most highly capitalized companies listed on the London Stock Exchange, ends its trading day at a record value of 8,003.65 points, surpassing the previous record value of 7,906.58 points recorded on February 3, 2023. (AFP via Deccan Herald)
Disasters and accidents
- Gualaca bus crash
- At least 39 migrants are killed in Gualaca District, Chiriquí Province, Panama, when their bus, heading to the United States, falls off a cliff. (Reuters)
- 2022–23 South Pacific cyclone season
- Five people are killed by Cyclone Gabrielle in New Zealand. (AFP via RTÉ)
- Eleven people are killed and 73 others are missing and presumed dead after a boat carrying migrants sinks off the Libyan coast. (BBC News)
- At least 10 people are killed by avalanches in Tajikistan. (RFE/RL)
- Two people are killed after a Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter crashes in Madison County, Alabama, United States. (AP)
International relations
- A United Nations report says that former Egyptian Army colonel Saif al-Adel has become the new leader of Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda and is currently residing in Iran (AFP via France 24)
Law and crime
- 2022 Buffalo shooting
- Payton Gendron receives ten life sentences without the possibility of parole. (NBC News)
- 2023 El Paso shooting
- One person is killed and three others are injured after a mass shooting in a shopping mall in El Paso, Texas, United States. (Reuters)
- An investigation by a consortium of journalists uncovers a major disinformation campaign by an Israeli firm named Team Jorge, led by ex-Israeli special forces member Tal Hanan, which is alleged to have influenced more than 30 elections in several countries. (The Guardian)
Politics and elections
- Nicola Sturgeon announces that she is resigning as First Minister of Scotland and Leader of the Scottish National Party once a new leader is elected. (The Washington Post)
- Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev signs a law annulling many privileges of his predecessor Nursultan Nazarbayev, including lifetime financial support from the state, and the right to address the nation and propose ideas to officials, and also deprives Nazarbayev's immediate family of legal immunity. (RFE/RL)
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