Portal:Current events/2017 February 18
Disasters and accidents
- 2017 Leuven derailment
- One person is killed and 20 are injured when a passenger train derails near Leuven, Belgium. (Sky News)
- A bus traveling to Chile overturns in Argentina's Mendoza Province, killing at least 19 people. (Reuters)
International relations
- China–North Korea relations, North Korea and weapons of mass destruction
- international sanctions against North Korea over its ballistic missile program. (The Washington Post)
- War in Donbass
- At the Minsk Protocol, takes effect Monday. Pending a permanent political agreement, Russian President Vladimir Putin orders that civil registration documents issued in separatist-held areas of Donetsk and Luhansk in eastern Ukraine be temporarily recognized. Ukrainian authorities say this violates provisions in the Minsk agreement. This is the third such agreement because the previous two in 2014 and 2015 were violated. Low-level fighting and artillery fire never fully stopped. (Al Jazeera) (CNN)
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Law and crime
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- Omar Abdel-Rahman, convicted in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, dies in his federal prison cell in Butner, North Carolina. (CNN)
Politics and elections
- As many as fifty thousand people Philippine Drug War. (International Business Times) (Fox News)
- Adama Barrow is officially sworn in as the Gambia's new President. (BBC)
Science and technology
- SpaceX CRS-10
- SpaceX delays the launch of a Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center in Florida due to a technical issue. The Falcon 9 will resupply the International Space Station. (CNBC)
Sports