Portal:Current events/2014 February 18
February 18, 2014 (Tuesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- 2013–14 Thai political crisis:
- Protesters and police clash after a crackdown ordered by Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra with one policeman shot dead and dozens wounded. (BBC News) (Sydney Morning Herald)
- Euromaidan:
- Violent clashes between police forces and opposition demonstrators reignite in Kyiv, Ukraine. The death toll rises to 14, six of them policemen who were shot dead during the confrontation. (CNN) (BBC News) (Reuters)
Arts and culture
- A US$1 million vase made by Chinese dissident Ai Wei Wei is destroyed in Miami by a local vandal protesting the lack of exhibits promoting local art. (The New York Times)
Law and crime
- The Supreme Court of the Philippines declares the libel provisions in the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012 as legal. (Inquirer) (GMA News)
- Former Australian parliamentarian Craig Thomson is found guilty of theft and fraud during his time as national secretary of the Health Services Union. (Sydney Morning Herald) (The Australian)
- French police arrest a man in relation to a killing of a British family in the French Alps. (BBC News)
- Former United States congressman Melvin Jay Reynolds is arrested in Zimbabwe for possession of pornography. (Fox News)
Politics and elections
- Justice Kenneth Hayne of the High Court of Australia voids the Senate election in the state of Western Australia due to the loss of ballot papers in a very close election. (Yahoo! News)