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This article covers breaking news and events in February 2018.

Daily events

Thursday 1st February 2018

• Calais / France : In brutal clashes between groups of Afghan and Eritrean migrants, several people are injured, some seriously. Interior Minister Gérard Collomb speaks of an "unbearable" situation and complains about an "unprecedented level of violence". Migrants stranded in Calais on their planned onward journey to the UK .
• Ottawa / Canada : The Canadian Senate decides that the English-language version of the national anthem O Canada will in future include all genders. This is already the case with the French-speaking variant.
• Washington, DC / United States : National Geographic Magazine reports on an American-European group of researchers who discovered the ruins of around 60,000 Mayan structures in the jungle of Guatemala , near Tikal . The researchers used lidar laser technology in their work .

Friday February 2, 2018

• Welkom / South Africa : All 955 miners of a gold mine near Welkom trapped by a power failure return safely to the surface.

Saturday 3rd February 2018

• Macerata / Italy : In the central Italian city , a neo-Nazi shoots African immigrants from a moving car . Six people are injured, the perpetrator is then arrested in front of a war memorial .

Sunday 4th February 2018

• Minneapolis / United States : Super Bowl 52 in American football between the Philadelphia Eagles and the New England Patriots ends 41:33. In the history of the Eagles, it will be their first victory in the Super Bowl when they take part for the third time.
• Nicosia / Cyprus : The current incumbent Nikos Anastasiadis wins the presidential election in Cyprus .
• San José / Costa Rica : In the presidential election in Costa Rica there will be a runoff between Carlos Alvarado Quesada and Fabricio Alvarado Muñoz , which will take place in April 2018. The parliamentary elections taking place at the same time in Costa Rica are largely won by parties left of the political center such as Partido Acción Ciudadana .

Monday 5th February 2018

• Malé / Maldives : President Abdulla Yameen imposed a state of emergency on the capital after days of riots between the opposition and the police. The country's chief judge, another supreme court judge and opposition leader, former President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom , are also arrested. The background to the political crisis is a ruling on the release and rehabilitation of several opposition politicians, including the former President Mohamed Nasheed , which the current head of state does not implement. If the rehabilitated opposition politicians were to resume their mandates and return to parliament, President Yameen would no longer have a majority there.

Tuesday February 6, 2018

Falcon Heavy

• Berlin / Germany : The two-day 21st European Police Congress begins in Berlin . The focus is on the fight against child abuse and sexual violence on the Internet.
• Cape Canaveral / United States : The private space agency SpaceX succeeds in launching the new Falcon Heavy launcher . Since the Soviet launch vehicle Energija in 1988, the Falcon Heavy has been the launch vehicle system with the greatest take- off thrust that has proven to be airworthy.
• Hualien / Taiwan : An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.0 occurs on the east coast of Taiwan .
• Warsaw / Poland : President Andrzej Duda signs the so-called Holocaust law . This is intended to punish the use of non-factual terms such as “Polish extermination camps”. There is international criticism that it could also open up the possibility of censorship , in particular of press releases about collaboration with the National Socialists and anti-Semitic acts of violence by Poland.

Wednesday 7th February 2018

• Berlin / Germany : "A new departure for Europe, a new dynamic for Germany, a new cohesion for our country" is the title of the coalition agreement that the negotiators of the Union parties and the SPD agree on 135 days after the 2017 federal election . The SPD intends to conduct a member survey before actually joining the new grand coalition agreed today .
• Strasbourg / France : After making insulting statements to MP Róża Thun , the European Parliament deposed its Vice-President Ryszard Czarnecki with the necessary two-thirds majority.

Thursday February 8, 2018

• Hamilton / Bermuda : Bermuda is the first region in the world to abolish marriage for everyone , which was introduced after a ruling by the Supreme Court in 2017 and was socially controversial on the archipelago. A law signed by Governor John Rankin has the support of British Foreign Minister Boris Johnson , who could have prevented the law with his veto but saw no justification for interfering with the self-government of the overseas territory. Same-sex marriages that have already been concluded remain valid.

Friday February 9, 2018

Logo of the XXIII. Winter Olympics in South Korea

The Olympic flame

• Berlin / Germany : The SPD - National Chairman Martin Schulz explained shortly after the announcement of his resignation as party leader and his waiver of entry into the planned federal government from his party and the opposition parties . Two days ago it was announced that Schulz would take over the office of foreign minister .
• Pyeongchang / South Korea : At the opening of the XXIII. At the Winter Olympics , the athletes from North and South Korea run as a team.

Saturday February 10, 2018

• Harduf / Israel : An Israeli F-16 fighter jet crashes in the north of the country. The pilots save themselves with the ejection seat. Military spokesmen for the Israel Defense Forces believe the plane was shot down after it carried out multiple attacks on positions in Syria . The force of Syria claim to have shot down the plane.

Sunday 11th February 2018

• Berlin / Germany : the title in the competition of men going in indoor hockey - World Cup to the team from Austria . In the women's competition, the winner is Germany .
• Monaco / Monaco : The List Primo! emerges from the parliamentary election as the winner.
• Ramenskoye / Russia : An Antonov An-148 aircraft of Saratov Airlines with 71 occupants disappears from the radar shortly after take-off in Moscow and crashes to the ground near Argunowo in Ramenskoye district.

Monday February 12, 2018

• Kuwait City / Kuwait : At the donor conference on the reconstruction of Iraq , Iraqi planning minister Salman al-Jumaili estimates that his country will need around 72 billion euros . In the years from 2014 onwards, the terrorist organization Islamic State temporarily occupied a third of Iraq.

Tuesday February 13, 2018

• Berlin / Germany : Martin Schulz completes the announced resignation as party leader of the SPD . The party presidium appoints his deputy Olaf Scholz as acting federal chairman.

Wednesday February 14, 2018

• Cologne / Germany : The Heinrich von Kleist Society awards the Kleist Prize to the Austrian writer Christoph Ransmayr .
• Parkland / United States : 17 people are killed in a rampage at a school in Florida . The gunman is a 19-year-old former student who was expelled from school for his behavior. An hour after the offense began, the emergency services managed to arrest him.
• Pretoria / South Africa : Jacob Zuma ( ANC ) announces his resignation as president of the country . Zuma was accused of corruption even before he took office around nine years ago .

Thursday February 15, 2018

• Addis Ababa / Ethiopia : Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn declares his resignation after nationwide protests against the government .
• Berlin / Germany : The 68th Berlin International Film Festival opens with the animated film Isle of Dogs - Atari's Journey by American director Wes Anderson .
• Cape Town / South Africa : The National Assembly elects the previous Vice President Cyril Ramaphosa ( ANC ) as the new President of South Africa .

Friday February 16, 2018

• Addis Ababa / Ethiopia : In Ethiopia, after the resignation of the head of government the day before, a state of emergency is imposed.
• Berlin / Germany : After more than a year in custody in Turkey , the journalist Deniz Yücel is returning to Germany on the day of his release.
• Munich / Germany : To kick off the three-day Munich Security Conference to comment on General Secretary of the United Nations António Guterres , the security situation in the world with the words: "The alarm signals light up dark red."
• Würzburg / Germany : Pope Francis appoints Franz Jung as the 89th bishop of the Diocese of Würzburg .

Saturday 17th February 2018

• Oaxaca / Mexico : The interior minister of the country Alfonso Navarrete Prida a picture of the damage of an earthquake of strength wants to 7.2 M _w in the state of Oaxaca make and travels by helicopter to the affected area. When the helicopter crashed near Santiago Jamiltepec, 13 people died. The interior minister remains unharmed. No people were killed by the earthquake itself.

Sunday February 18, 2018

Benjamin Netanyahu

• London / United Kingdom : The British Academy Film Awards 2018 are presented.
• Munich / Germany : At the Munich Security Conference , Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presented a wreckage that, according to his own information, belonged to a drone that Iran had operated over Israel via Syria and that was shot down by the local armed forces .

Monday 19th February 2018

• Maputo / Mozambique : The collapse of a garbage dump on the outskirts of the Mozambican capital kills 17 people.

Tuesday February 20, 2018

• Caracas / Venezuela : The sale of the alleged " crypto currency " Petro begins. The government promises the owners of the world's first state-issued cryptocurrency security through crude oil . The launch was obviously more of an attempt by the government to fend off or discredit cryptocurrencies.

Wednesday February 21, 2018

• London / United Kingdom : At this year's BRIT Awards , the Grime - Rapper Stormzy named best male solo musician as well as for the best British music album of the year.

Thursday February 22, 2018

• Berlin / Germany : The result of the preliminary decision for the Eurovision Song Contest in May of this year is that Michael Schulte will compete for Germany .
• Hamburg / Germany : the price of the audience in the category "Best docutainment format 'is at the award ceremony of the Golden Camera in 2018 by Horst Lichter moderated ZDF telecast Bares for Rares .
• Leipzig / Germany : The 7th Appeal Senate of the Federal Administrative Court is negotiating the question of whether municipalities can already impose diesel driving bans under current law without nationwide regulation in the German Environmental Aid (DUH) cases against the State of North Rhine-Westphalia and the State of Baden-Württemberg and then announced that he would not announce his decision until February 27, 2018.

Friday 23rd February 2018

The exhaust scandal reached BMW with the 750d (long version in the picture)

• Djibouti / Djibouti : After large sections of the opposition boycotted the election to the National Assembly, President Ismail Omar Guelleh's party won 58 of the 65 parliamentary seats.
• Munich / Germany : Inadequate exhaust software was installed on some BMW N57 engines . After suspicious measurements by Deutsche Umwelthilfe in the context of the emissions scandal , the vehicle manufacturer was targeted by the Federal Motor Transport Authority . According to BMW , almost 12,000 vehicles with diesel engines would have to be recalled.
• Vienna / Austria : Brigitte Bierlein is sworn in as the new President of the Austrian Constitutional Court , Christoph Grabenwarter as her deputy.

Saturday February 24, 2018

• Berlin / Germany : The jury of the 68th Berlin International Film Festival honors the film Touch Me Not by Romanian director Adina Pintilie as the best contribution of the festival with the Golden Bear .
• Ghouta / Syria : The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has reported around 500 civilians killed in the eastern part of the city of Ghouta since last Sunday. Around 400,000 civilians have been completely encircled since 2013 . Eastern Ghouta is under the control of Jeysh al-Islam, which was supported by Saudi Arabia until 2017, and Falaq al-Rahman, which was formerly supported by Qatar and Turkey . It is besieged by the Syrian armed forces loyal to the government and attacked from the air in conjunction with the Russian armed forces .

Sunday 25th February 2018

End of the Winter Olympics

• Innsbruck / Austria : In the state elections in Tyrol , the Tyrolean People's Party (VP) ended up as the strongest political force far ahead of the second-placed SPÖ . The VP improves by 5% to now 44% and the SPÖ has slightly increased to 17%.
• Pyeongchang / South Korea : The 23rd Winter Olympics end with the traditional closing ceremony. The most successful nation is Norway with 39 medals. The athletes from Germany win 31 medals, the Swiss 15, the Austrians 14 and one goes to Liechtenstein .

Monday February 26, 2018

• Bratislava / Slovakia : The murder of investigative journalist Ján Kuciak and his fiancée intensifies the corruption debate in Slovakia.
• Mendi / Papua New Guinea : A severe earthquake, which was also felt in the Indonesian part of the island of New Guinea , claims property damage and at least 30 lives and over 300 injuries in the inaccessible highlands in Papua New Guinea.

Tuesday February 27, 2018

• Leipzig / Germany : The decision of the Federal Administrative Court to diesel - driving bans dissolves in the German economy according to the newspaper Handelsblatt "horror" of. The judges allow the municipal level to independently issue restricted driving bans if the European limit values for air pollution control have been exceeded. There is currently no statutory regulation by the federal government .

Wednesday February 28, 2018

• Berlin / Germany : The Federal Ministry of the Interior confirms successful cyberattacks on the computer network of the federal administration . The Sofacy Group , which is said to be under the control of the Russian intelligence service FSB , is suspected of being the originator of the attacks .
• Bratislava / Slovakia : After the journalist murder of Ján Kuciak , Minister of Culture Marek Maďarič , who as head of the department is also responsible for the media, declares his resignation.
• Kabul / Afghanistan : In order to resolve the 16-year-old civil war in Afghanistan, President Ashraf Ghani offers to recognize the Taliban as a legitimate political group without preconditions.

See also

• Nekrolog February 2018 for deaths this month
• List of annually recurring commemorative and action days in February
• Category for commemorative days, holidays or action days in February

Web links

Lower Austria in February 2018

Commons : February 2018  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

 Wikinews: Articles Published in February 2018  - News

Individual evidence

1. ↑ France's interior minister laments "unprecedented extent" of violence. In: Spiegel Online . February 2, 2018, accessed February 3, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Canada receives a gender-neutral national anthem. In: Zeit Online . February 1, 2018, accessed February 3, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Laser Scans Reveal Maya "Megalopolis" Below Guatemalan Jungle. In: nationalgeographic.com . February 1, 2018, accessed February 3, 2018 . 
4. ↑ 900 trapped miners freed from gold mine. In: Stuttgarter Zeitung . February 2, 2018, accessed February 3, 2018 . 
5. ↑ Raid razzista a Macerata, spari contro gli Africani: 6 Feriti. In: repubblica.it . February 3, 2018, accessed February 5, 2018 (Italian). 
6. ↑ NFL Play-offs: Super Bowl. In: kicker.de . February 4, 2018, accessed February 5, 2018 . 
7. ^ President Anastasiades can probably continue to rule in Cyprus. In: Süddeutsche.de . February 4, 2018, accessed August 27, 2020 . 
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10. ↑ Jürgen Webermann: Political Crisis - Bizarre Power Struggle in the Maldives. In: Tagesschau . February 6, 2018, accessed February 6, 2018 . 
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12. ↑ World's most powerful space rocket launched on maiden flight. In: afp.com . February 6, 2018, accessed February 7, 2018 . 
13. ↑ Two dead after a hotel collapsed. In: Deutschlandfunk . February 6, 2018, accessed February 7, 2018 . 
14. ↑ Poland's President Duda signs the controversial “Holocaust Law”. In: RTDeutsch. February 7, 2018, accessed February 8, 2018 . 
15. ↑ A new departure for Europe, a new dynamic for Germany, a new cohesion for our country. In: cdu.de . February 7, 2018, accessed on February 7, 2018 (coalition agreement). 
16. ↑ Deposed Vice President of the EU Parliament. In: Tagesschau . February 7, 2018, accessed February 9, 2018 . 
17. ↑ Bermuda abolishes same-sex marriage. In: Zeit Online . February 9, 2018, accessed February 9, 2018 . 
18. ↑ Martin Schulz renounces joining the federal government. In: vorwaerts.de . February 9, 2018, accessed February 9, 2018 . 
19. ↑ Pyeongchang Opening Ceremony: A Message of Peace. In: thueringer-allgemeine.de . February 9, 2018, accessed February 9, 2018 . 
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27. ↑ László Földényi awards the 2018 Kleist Prize to Christoph Ransmayr. In: heinrich-von-kleist.org. February 14, 2018, accessed February 15, 2018 . 
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29. ↑ End of an era: the life and times of Jacob Zuma. In: timeslive.co.za . February 14, 2018, accessed February 14, 2018 . 
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32. ^ Cyril Ramaphosa elected president of South Africa. In: heraldlive.co.za . February 15, 2018, accessed February 15, 2018 . 
33. ↑ Human rights activists fear arbitrariness in a state of emergency in Ethiopia. In: Deutsche Welle . February 16, 2018, accessed February 27, 2018 . 
34. ↑ Deniz Yücel leaves prison and is free. In: The world . February 16, 2018, accessed February 27, 2018 . 
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36. ^ Franz Jung becomes the new Bishop of Würzburg. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . February 16, 2018, accessed February 27, 2018 . 
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40. ↑ Mozambique rubbish dump collapse kills at least 17 people. In: bbc.com . February 20, 2018, accessed February 27, 2018 . 
41. ↑ Venezuela Launches Pre-Sale of Its Controversial Oil-Backed Cryptocurrency. In: fortune.com . February 20, 2018, accessed February 22, 2018 . 
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