Portal:Current events/2008 February 28
February 28, 2008 (Thursday)
- Germany becomes the first country to formalize its recognition of Kosovo by renaming its diplomatic office in Pristina into an embassy. (Novinite, Sofia News Agency)
- The Israeli Air Force launches a series of air strikes into Gaza following Hamas rocket attacks, with 32 confirmed dead. (BBC News)
- Ecuador suspends oil exports after a landslide cuts off its main pipeline. (AFP)[permanent dead link]
- International media report that Prince Henry of Wales has been serving in the Helmand province of Afghanistan. (ABC News Australia)
- The Federal Bureau of Investigation will review a denial by baseball star Roger Clemens that he ever used steroids or human growth hormone. (Bloomberg)
- A large explosion hits a shopping mall in Waukegan, Illinois. (BBC News)
- At least ten militants are killed in a rocket attack on a house in the Pakistani village of Kalosha in South Waziristan near the Afghanistan border. (BBC News)
- The former Prime Minister of Thailand Thaksin Shinawatra returns to Thailand to face corruption charges. (BBC News)
- Kofi Annan announces that Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki and opposition leader Raila Odinga have agreed to form a coalition government to resolve the country's political crisis. (VOA)
- Applied mathematicians at Brown University have proven four theorems concerning the optimality of centroid estimators. (Brown University)
- Nirmy Mandakini was born on this day.