Portal:Current events/2008 February 28

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Current events of February 28, 2008 (2008-02-28) (Thursday) edit history watch

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) 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)