Portal:Current events/2019 February 26
February 26, 2019 (Tuesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- 2019 Balakot airstrike
- Pakistan reports Indian military aircraft violated their airspace near Muzafarabad and "released a payload" which landed near Balakot. After this, Pakistan scrambled their own jets, but state no casualties or damage has been inflicted. India claims the incident was an airstrike on a Jaish-e-Mohammed camp in Balakot in retaliation to the Pulwama attack days earlier. (Reuters), (CNN-News18)
Law and crime
- Catholic Church sexual abuse cases in Australia, Pope Francis's response to sexual abuse in the Catholic Church
- Australian cardinal George Pell is convicted of sexually assaulting two 13-year-old choirboys at Melbourne’s St Patrick’s Cathedral. The verdict has been suppressed by a gag order until now. He is the Catholic Church's most senior official to be convicted of a sexual crime in history. (The Age) (The Age2)
Politics and elections
- Nuclear warfare, Russia–United States relations
- Following Vladimir Putin's warning that Russia would deploy nuclear missiles in Europe if the United States deploys intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Europe, Putin's ally Dmitry Kiselyov lists what he claims are the targets in the United States, which includes The Pentagon, Camp David, Fort Ritchie, McClellan Air Force Base, and Jim Creek Naval Radio Station. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov denies the existence of the target list. (Reuters), (TASS)
- 2019 North Korea–United States Hanoi Summit
- North Korean leader Kim Jong-un visits his country's embassy in Hanoi on Tuesday in preparation for the summit. (Reuters)
- U.S. President Donald Trump lands in Vietnam's capital for the summit. (The Wall Street Journal)
- Russian Presidented Vladimir Putin lands in China's capital for the summit.
- 2019 Venezuelan presidential crisis, United States–Venezuela relations
- Two United States military officials tell CNN that the U.S. military has flown reconnaissance flights in international airspace off the coast of Venezuela during the last several days to gather classified intelligence about President Nicolás Maduro. (CNN)
- The United States Department of the Treasury imposes sanctions on governors of four states of Venezuela, all of them members of the ruling United Socialist Party. (United States Department of the Treasury)
- Colombia's Immigration Agency says 274 military personnel from different branches of the Venezuela's Armed Forces, Venezuela's National Police, and Venezuela's National Guard have defected to Colombia. (CNN)
- Trump administration family separation policy
- An oversight committee is expected to vote on whether to subpoena Trump administration officials over family separations at the southern border. (AP News)