Portal:Current events/2007 February 18
February 18, 2007 (Sunday)
- Shane Gibson, the Minister for Immigration for the Bahamas, resigns over rumours of a relationship with Anna Nicole Smith after he had fast tracked her application for permanent residency. (AP via AccessHollywood)
- Bangladeshi Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus announces the name of the party he wants to found; it is to be called Citizens' Power. (Daily Times)
- Israeli Police Commissioner Moshe Karadi resigns after a Government commission finds that he ignored links between senior officers and underworld figures and failed to ensure a proper investigation of a 1999 killing of an alleged crime boss. (AP via Boston Globe)
- 2007 South Thailand bombings: 28 bombs explode in southern Thailand, killing three and injuring 50. Militants burn two public schools and shoot three people during the South Thailand insurgency. (New York Times)
- Islamist insurgency in Somalia: A car bomb explodes in Mogadishu killing at least four people. It is the first ever car bomb in the capital. (Somalinet)
- The U.S. and Israel will not work with a new Palestinian unity government unless it recognises Israel, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has said. (BBC)
- Iraq War:
- 18 February 2007 Baghdad bombings: At least 56 people are killed and more than 120 injured in two car bombs in a Shia district of Baghdad, police sources have said. (BBC)
- U.S. marine Robert Pennington is sentenced to eight years in military prison for his role in the killing of an Iraqi civilian. (BBC)
- War in Afghanistan (2001–present):
- Eight U.S. troops are killed and 14 wounded in a helicopter crash in south-eastern Afghanistan, the U.S.-led coalition has said. (BBC)
- Police in Pakistan detain 36 people, mainly Afghan refugees, over a suicide bombing inside a Quetta courtroom that killed a judge and 15 other people. (CNN)