Portal:Current events/2010 February 21
February 21, 2010 (Sunday)
- Six Abu Sayyaf Islamic militants, including "most wanted" leader Albader Parad, die after coming into contact with troops at the foot of Mount Tucay in Maimbung, Sulu on Jolo in the Philippines. (Al Jazeera) (Reuters) (BBC)
- The venue for an AC/DC concert upsets WWF Austria environmentalists in Wels who fear it will "smash" endangered species. (The Sydney Morning Herald)
- Foreign direct investment (FDI) into China rose for the sixth consecutive month in January, up 7.79 percent year-on-year to $8.13 billion, Chinese Ministry of Commerce announced. (China Daily)
- King Mohammed of Morocco requests structural examinations of all the country's old mosques after a minaret collapse kills 41 people. (BBC)
- Japanese Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada dismisses Australia's threat to take the country to the International Court of Justice over Japan's whaling in the Antarctic. (BBC)
- Prime Minister of the Netherlands Jan Peter Balkenende says the country will begin pulling out of Afghanistan in August and be gone by the end of the year following the collapse of Balkenende-4 over the issue. (CBC) (The Press Association)
- Prime Minister Gordon Brown battles a book published in The Observer which makes claims of bullying, including grabbing a secretary, stabbing with a pen and shouting expletives as members of his own staff contact the National Bullying Helpline to express their "concerns". (The Daily Telegraph) (BBC) (Deutsche Welle) (CBC)