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NATO-led ISAF forces in Afghanistan launch Operation Moshtarak, the largest offensive against the Taliban insurgency since 2001.
The Opening Ceremony of the 2010 Winter Olympics is held in Vancouver, Canada, hours after the death of Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili in an accident during practice.
NASA launches the Solar Dynamics Observatory (artist's impression pictured) on a five-year mission to observe the Sun.
British fashion designer Alexander McQueen is found dead at his home in London at the age of 40.
Viktor Yanukovych of the Party of Regions is elected President of Ukraine, with members of runner-up Yulia Tymoshenko's party contesting the result.

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14 February 2010 (Sunday)

Cyclone Rene heads for Tonga and Niue after brushing American Samoa. (The New Zealand Herald) (The Sydney Morning Herald)

February 14, 2010 Wikinews articles

Winning British EuroMillions lottery ticket worth £56 million claimed

13 February 2010 (Saturday)

Cyclone Rene approaches Manu'a at full force winds of 150 kilometres an hour. (Radio New Zealand International)
Eight people are killed in a bomb explosion at a popular tourist German bakery in Pune, India. (The Times of India) (The Hindu) (The Times)
Burma releases vice-chairman of the National League for Democracy (NLD), Tin Oo at the age of 82, after he has spent more than a decade in prison or under house arrest. (BBC)
Jabez Bryce, the longest-serving bishop in the worldwide Anglican Communion and first Pacific Islander to become an Anglican bishop, dies in Suva at the age of 75. (Radio New Zealand International) (Fiji Times)
The Côte d'Ivoire government is dissolved with President Laurent Gbagbo saying on state television that the peace process has broken down. (Al Jazeera) (The Sydney Morning Herald) (Reuters)
2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver:
- The men's downhill skiing is postponed due to "slushy conditions", with the women's super-combined event having already been postponed. (BBC) (Sky Sports)
- The luge event goes ahead following the untimely death of Nodar Kumaritashvili. (BBC) (The Times) (ABC)
Year of the Tiger:
- China prepares to celebrate its most important holiday with tens of millions of people travelling and fireworks anticipated. (The Daily Telegraph)
- Wen Jiabao delivers his New Year message in state newspapers. (Reuters)
NATO forces in Afghanistan launch Operation Moshtarak against the Taliban-controlled village of Marja in Helmand Province. (The New York Times)
Three people die and others are seriously injured after a Danish bus en route from Berlin to Munich hits a barrier and flips over on the Bundesautobahn 9 near Dessau, Saxony-Anhalt. The Autobahn is closed in both directions. (The Local) (IOL) (RTÉ)
The letters of J. D. Salinger reveal new details about how the author became reclusive and reluctant to engage with the "big shitty world". (The Times)

February 13, 2010 Wikinews articles

12 February 2010 (Friday)

Police in Mtwapa arrest five men accused of being homosexuals, two of whom had wedding rings and were attempting to marry in a first for Kenya. (BBC) (Daily Nation)
Thousands of people flee Mogadishu after 24 people are killed and 40 people are wounded in two days. (BBC) (CBC)
Russian security forces kill at least 20 people in Ingushetia. (BBC) (The Star) (The Scotsman)
Togo appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) over their ban from the next two Africa Cup of Nations in the aftermath of the Togo national football team attack. (BBC) (CNN) (The Guardian)
Mexican President Felipe Calderón's visit to a community centre in Ciudad Juárez where 13 teenagers and two adults were shot dead at a school party on 31 January is disrupted by murders, riot police and dozens of protesters. (BBC) (Latin American Herald Tribune) (Radio Netherlands Worldwide)
A shooting at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, United States, leaves at least three persons dead. (CNN)
2010 Winter Olympics:
- The XXI Olympic Winter Games competitions begin in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. (NBC Sports)
- Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili is killed after a crash at the Whistler Sliding Centre, during a training run for the 2010 Winter Olympics. (BBC) (The Times) (The Los Angeles Times)
- Nodar Kumaritashvili is remembered by the participants in the opening ceremony. (The Sydney Morning Herald)
The United States successfully shoots down a launching ballistic missile using the Boeing YAL-1, a military Boeing 747-400F aircraft mounted with a chemical oxygen iodine laser weapon. (Reuters)
Thailand deports the five-man crew detained in the country since December after transporting weapons from North Korea. (AFP) (Thai News Agency)
Campaigning for Iraq's parliamentary election begins. (Xinhua) (AFP) (Press TV)
Indonesia's former anti-corruption chief Antasari Azhar is sentenced to 18 years for the murder of a businessman. (Jakarta Post) (CNN)
A ceasefire is declared between Houthi fighters and the Yemeni government in northern Yemen. (The Guardian) (Al Jazeera) (Press TV)
Burma's leader General Than Shwe says the general elections will be held "soon". (Al Jazeera) (Press Trust of India)
Chinese human rights activist Feng Zhenghu, stranded at Japan's Narita International Airport after being refused entry to China for three months, returns home. (Bangkok Post) (BBC)

February 12, 2010 Wikinews articles

11 February 2010 (Thursday)

A European Union summit takes place to discuss a possible bailout for Greece's economy. (Reuters) (The Guardian)
The European Parliament rejects an agreement that would have granted the United States Terrorist Finance Tracking Program unlimited access to the SWIFT bank transactions database. (BBC News)
Protests continue in Sri Lanka after the arrest of opposition candidate Sarath Fonseka. (AFP) (Bernama)
British fashion designer Alexander McQueen is found dead at his home in London at the age of 40, on the eve of his mother's funeral, in an apparent suicide. (BBC News) (The Sydney Morning Herald) (The New York Times) (Irish Independent) (The New Zealand Herald)
A court in Beijing upholds a sentence against Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo who was sentenced to 11 years imprisonment on charges of subversion. (Xinhua) (The Times) (Al Jazeera)
Iran:
- President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces that Iran is now a nuclear state, following a successful 20% uranium enrichment. (New York Times)
- Reformists clash with police forces in Iran, during protests held at the 31st anniversary of the overthrow of shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. (New York Times) (Al Jazeera)
Sergey Aleynikov, a former computer programmer for Goldman Sachs, is indicted for three counts by a U.S. federal court in Manhattan for theft of trade secrets, transportation of stolen property in interstate and foreign commerce, and unauthorized computer access. (Wall Street Journal)
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton undergoes heart surgery at the NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital in New York City, after chest pains. (New York TImes)
Haiti announces that the 10 American missionaries accused of attempted kidnapping will be released from custody. (Sky News)
A large eruption occurs at the Soufrière Hills volcano in Montserrat after a partial lava dome collapse, sending ash to a height of 50,000 feet. (Montserrat Volcano Obeservatory)

February 11, 2010 Wikinews articles

10 February 2010 (Wednesday)

Hundreds of Somali citizens flee the capital Mogadishu as hundreds of insurgents enter the city ahead of a government announcement of an offensive against them. (BBC) (News24.com)
Frank Bainimarama, leader of the 2006 Fijian coup and current Prime Minister of Fiji, announces that he will retire in 2014. The report is denied by Fiji's Permanent Secretary for Information. (RNZI)
The Court of Appeal of England and Wales rules that open air funeral pyres can be accommodated under the 1902 Cremation Act as amended. (BBC)
A 3.8-magnitude earthquake strikes near Chicago, United States. No reports of major damage. (CNN)
Officials in Haiti state that at least 230,000 people died in the 2010 Haiti earthquake, but that number may yet grow, approaching the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake as the deadliest natural disaster of the 21st century thus far. (BBC)
Vice President Goodluck Jonathan is appointed acting President of Nigeria in place of Umaru Yar'Adua. (NEXT) (AllAfrica.com) (BBC)
Nationwide strikes led by Communist and Socialist parties take place in Greece to protest the government's handing of the country's debt. Most of the country was brought to a standstill as factories, schools, airports and hospitals closed down or reduced capacity (BBC) (Deutsche Welle) (Al Jazeera)
Prominent Uzbek photographer Umida Akhmedova is found guilty on charges of "slandering the nation" in her work, but is immediately pardoned under an amnesty. (BBC) (The Moscow Times)
Afghan officials report that at least 150 bodies were pulled from vehicles buried by avalanches in the Salang Pass in the Hindu Kush mountains earlier this week. (UPI.com)

February 10, 2010 Wikinews articles

9 February 2010 (Tuesday)

The recently-elected President of Sri Lanka Mahinda Rajapaksa dissolves his country's parliament one day after the arrest of Sarath Fonseka. (BBC)
The Italian Embassy in Iran is attacked by protesters unhappy with Italy's decision to scale back economic dealings and push for tighter sanctions and protests are also held outside French and Dutch embassies. (The Jerusalem Post)
Andal Ampatuan, Jr., former ally of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, and 196 other people are charged with murder in the Philippines, in connection with the Maguindanao massacre in November 2009. (ABS-CBN News) (AFP)
China sentences Tan Zuoren, who investigated poor construction after the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, to five years in prison for "inciting subversion of state power". (BBC) (The Washington Post) (Radio Television Hong Kong)

February 9, 2010 Wikinews articles

8 February 2010 (Monday)

Dr. Conrad Murray is charged with involuntary manslaughter in pop singer Michael Jackson's death.(BBC)
The sodomy trial of Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim is halted after his lawyers attempt to have the judge removed. (Bernama) (Al Jazeera) (UPI)
Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych appears to win the 2010 presidential election, with 98% of the ballots counted. (Kyiv Post) (The New York Times) (The Hindu)
At least 17 Indian soldiers are killed in an avalanche in Kashmir. (Indian Express) (BBC)
Space Shuttle Endeavour launches successfully from Kennedy Space Center at 4:14 EST, marking the beginning of STS-130, a two-week mission to the International Space Station. (UPI)
The World Health Organisation confirms that a cholera outbreak which has spread along the north coast of Papua New Guinea has hit more than 2,000 people, killing around 50 of them. (The Sydney Morning Herald)
A colony of Galapagos Islands sea lions relocate 1,500 kilometres, the first time they have set up a colony outside the islands. (BBC)
The Boeing 747-8 takes its maiden flight, lasting just under four hours.
A series of avalanches at the Salang tunnel in Afghanistan is presumed to kill 64 people, with at least 400 injuries reported. (The New York Times) (Toronto Sun)

February 8, 2010 Wikinews articles

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Ongoing events
Economic Automotive industry crisis Financial crisis Greek Economic Crisis PIIGS state financial troubles Worldwide recession Medical West African meningitis outbreak HIV/AIDS in Africa Political Canadian anti-prorogation protests Honduran constitutional crisis Constitutional crisis in Niger Nigerian presidential power crisis U.S. health care reform debate Scientific Expedition 22 Humanitarian 2010 Haiti earthquake edit sidebar

Recent deaths
February 12: Nodar Kumaritashvili 11: Irina Arkhipova 11: Jabez Bryce 11: Alexander McQueen 10: K. N. Raj 10: Charlie Wilson 9: Walter Frederick Morrison 8: Antonio Giolitti 8: James Heuga 8: John Murtha 7: Franco Ballerini 7: André Kolingba 6: John Dankworth 5: Brendan Burke 5: Ian Carmichael 5: Galimzyan Khusainov 5: Harry Schwarz 4: Tomás Mac Giolla 3: Frank Fasi 3: Frances Reid 3: Princess Regina of Austria 2: Futa Helu 2: Ng Teng Fong 2: Cochin Haneefa edit sidebar

Ongoing conflicts
Africa / Middle East Darfur conflict Fourth Chadian Civil War Iraq War Israeli–Palestinian conflict Maghreb insurgency Niger Delta conflict Sa'dah insurgency South Yemen insurgency Somali Civil War Turkey–PKK conflict Asia War in Afghanistan Balochistan conflict Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir Insurgency in the Philippines Ethnic conflict in Nagaland Naxalite-Maoist insurgency War in North-West Pakistan South Thailand insurgency Americas Colombian Civil War Mexican Drug War Internal conflict in Peru edit sidebar

Elections
Recent: February 3: Greece, President 7: Costa Rica, General 7: Ukraine, President (2^nd Round) Upcoming: February 15: Anguilla, General 21: São Tomé and Príncipe, Parliament 22: Catalonia, Independence referendums 27: Nauru, Constitutional referendum 28: Tajikistan, Parliament edit sidebar

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Recently concluded Burma: Aung San Suu Kyi Italy: Amanda Knox, Raffaele Sollecito Peru: Alberto Fujimori Republic of China: Chen Shui-bian Sweden: The Pirate Bay United Arab Emirates: Issa bin Zayed Al Nahyan United States: William J. Jefferson, Sheila Dixon Ongoing Cambodia: Khmer Rouge Tribunal China: Organized crime in Chongqing France: Church of Scientology, Air France Flight 4590 Germany: Heinrich Boere, John Demjanjuk Iraq: Supreme Criminal Tribunal Malaysia: Anwar Ibrahim Netherlands: Thomas Lubanga (ICC), Radovan Karadžić (ICTY), Geert Wilders Palau: Tommy Remengesau Russia: Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Platon Lebedev Sierra Leone: Charles Taylor (SCFSL) Singapore: Tak Boleh Tahan Thailand: Thaksin Shinawatra United States: Jena Six, Joseph Bruno, David Headley Upcoming Sudan: Lubna al-Hussein United States: Viktor Bout, Noshir Gowadia, Allen Stanford, Ehren Watada edit sidebar

Holidays and observances
February 2010 Ongoing 13 evening - 15: Rosh Chodesh Adar (Judaism) 14 - 17: Losar (Tibetan Buddhism) 14 - 17: Tsagaan Sar (Mongolia) Current 14: Valentine's Day and Singles Awareness Day 14: Quinquagesima (Western Christianity) 14: Admission Day (Arizona, Oregon) 14: Chinese New Year's Day (China) 14: Korean New Year's Day (Korea) 14: Vietnamese New Year's Day (Vietnam) Upcoming 15: Parinirvana Day (Mahayana Buddhism) 15: Martyrdom of Imam Reza (Shia Islam) 15: Ash Monday (Western Christianity) 15: Family Day/Islander Day/Louis Riel Day/Heritage Day (Canada) 15: Liberation Day (Afghanistan) 15: National Flag of Canada Day (Canada) 15: National Day (Serbia) 15: Total Defence Day (Singapore) 15: President's Day (United States) 15: Susan B. Anthony Day (United States) 15: John Frum Day (Vanuatu) edit sidebar

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