Portal:Current events/2018 February 27
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;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. [https://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-kim-passports-exclusive/exclusive-north-korean-leaders-used-brazilian-passports-to-apply-for-western-visas-sources-idUSKCN1GB2AY (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. [https://www.reuters.com/article/us-virginia-security/three-taken-to-hospital-after-letter-opened-at-virginia-military-base-idUSKCN1GB366 (Reuters)]
;Politics and elections
- Government of Saudi Arabia
- Saudi King Salman replaces top army commanders and reshuffles key security and government ministries. [https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/02/saudi-arabia-fires-top-army-chiefs-military-shake-180227054218368.html (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. [https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/27/trump-names-campaign-manager-for-2020-reelection-bid.html (CNBC)]
- 2016–2018 investigations involving Benjamin Netanyahu
- The Israeli Prosecutor's Office links Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a corruption case. [https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-first-prosecution-points-finger-at-netanyahu-in-case-4000-bribes/ (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. [https://www.voanews.com/a/botswana-blames-congo-humanitarian-crisis-on-kabila-/4272082.html (Voice of America)]
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