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Revision as of 07:11, 17 February 2018
February 16, 2018 (Friday)
Disasters and accidents
Law and crime
- A teenager is arrested for allegedly planning a school shooting in Everett, Washington. Police found a semi-automatic rifle hidden in a guitar case along with bomb making equipment. (CBS News)
Politics and elections
- Special Counsel investigation (2017–present)
- U.S. President Donald Trump's former chief strategist Steve Bannon is interviewed over two days this week as part of the investigation into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. (BBC)
- Thirteen Russian nationals are indicted by a grand jury on conspiracy charges. (CNN) (BBC)
- Ethiopia declares a national state of emergency one day after the unexpected resignation of Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn. (BBC)
- Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh
- Bangladeshi home minister Asaduzzaman Khan meets with his Burmese counterpart, Kyaw Swe, in Dhaka to discuss the repatriation of Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh to Myanmar. The Burmese delegation accepts a list of 8,032 Rohingya refugees (1,673 families) who are to be repatriated. (Washington Post)