Portal:Current events/2018 February 27
February 27, 2018 (Tuesday)
International relations
- Foreign relations of North Korea
- Five unnamed Western European security sources say that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and his father Kim Jong-il used fraudulently obtained Brazilian passports in order to apply for visas to visit Western countries in the 1990s. (Reuters)
Law and crime
- Terrorism in the United States
- A letter containing an unknown substance opened at a U.S. military base in Arlington, Virginia, leaves 11 people ill, with three being hospitalized. (Reuters)
Politics and elections
- Government of Saudi Arabia
- Saudi King Salman replaces top army commanders and reshuffles key security and government ministries. (Al Jazeera)
- Donald Trump presidential campaign, 2020
- U.S. President Donald Trump names Brad Parscale as his 2020 presidential campaign manager as he formally declares he is running for re-election, a record 980 days before the election. (CNBC)
- 2016–2018 investigations involving Benjamin Netanyahu
- The Israeli Prosecutor's Office links Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a corruption case. (Times of Israel)
- Democratic Republic of the Congo general election, 2018
- In a public statement, the foreign ministry of Botswana urges Joseph Kabila, the President of DR Congo, to step down since his term expired in December 2016, and hold the long-delayed new election. (Voice of America)