Portal:Current events/2020 February 22 - Wikipedia

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Kashmir conflict
  • Two Kashmiri civilians alleged to be Lashkar-e-Taiba militants are killed by Indian soldiers at Anantnag, Jammu and Kashmir, in a counter-terrorism operation. (DNA India) (ARY News)
• Five terrorists are killed in Peshawar, Khyber Paktunkhwa, Pakistan, by the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) in a heavy exchange of fire during a search operation. (Geo News)

Disasters and accidents

• Daredevil and flat Earth conspiracy theorist Mike Hughes dies after crashing in his homemade rocket near Barstow, California. He was attempting to prove the Earth was flat as part of a documentary series with Science Channel. (BBC News)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Italy
    • Italy confirms that a 78-year-old man in Padua, Veneto, and a woman in her 70s in Codogno, Lombardy, have died after contracting the virus. They are the first two coronavirus deaths in Italy. (Tgcom24)
    • 58 more coronavirus cases are confirmed in Italy, bringing the number of cases to 79. (Open)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in South Korea
    • South Korea confirms that 229 more people have contracted the coronavirus in the country, raising the total number to 433. (BBC News)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
    • The United States reports 34 confirmed cases of the illness and expects more. (The New York Times)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Iraq
    • The first coronavirus case is confirmed in Iraq. (Anadolu Agency)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Oceania
    • Samoa bans all cruise ships from visiting the country amid growing efforts to keep the virus away. (RNZ)

• France shuts down its first nuclear power reactor, at the Fessenheim Nuclear Power Plant. (Deutsche Welle)

Law and crime

• Lesotho PM Tom Thabane is granted sick leave until 27 February when he is due to appear in court for the murder of his former wife. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• 2020 Dominican Republic municipal elections
  • The Dominican Republic government wants the Organization of American States to investigate what occurred in the controversial February 16 elections. (Dominican Today)
• 2020 Togolese presidential election
  • Voters in Togo head to the polls to elect the country's president. Incumbent president Faure Gnassingbé, accused of an authoritarian rule, seeks to run for a fourth term which was made possible by a constitutional amendment in 2019. (DW)
• 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries
  • Senator Bernie Sanders wins the Nevada Caucus. (CNN)