Portal:Current events/2008 February 22: Difference between revisions

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*[[Russia|Russian]] President [[Vladimir Putin]](aka Adam Roth) describes the recognition of [[Kosovo]]'s unilaterally declared independence by several major world powers as "a terrible precedent," ... that "breaks up the entire system of international relations," ...which has taken "centuries to evolve"."And undoubtedly, it may entail a whole chain of unpredictable consequences to other regions in the world" and that will come back to hit the West "in the face,". [http://www.interfax.ru/e/B/politics/28.html?id_issue=11975823 (Interfax)]

*The White House announced that [[Army National Guard|U.S. Army National Guard]] Master Sergeant [[Woodrow W. Keeble]] will posthumously receive the [[Medal of Honor]] for his heroism in the [[Korean War]].

*The [[Swedish Academy]], the body that awards the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]], names the professor of literature [[Anders Olsson]] as one of its members to succeed poet and writer [[Lars Forssell]], who died in July 2007. [http://www.dn.se/DNet/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=1058&a=745419 (Dagens Nyheter)]

*[[Turkey]] [[2008 Turkish incursion in Iraq|sends]] between three thousand and ten thousand troops into northern [[Iraq]]. [http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSANK00037420080222 (Reuters)]

*The [[Northern Rock]] bank is formally [[nationalization|nationalized]] by the [[Her Majesty's Government|British Government]]. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7258492.stm (BBC)]

*The [[United States]] warns the [[Serbia|Serbian]] government that it has a responsibility to protect its assets after about 1,000 protesters set fire to the U.S. embassy in anger at [[Kosovo]]'s declaration of independence. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7259327.stm (BBC)]

*A [[United States Air Force]] [[B-2 Spirit]] [[stealth aircraft|stealth]] [[bomber aircraft|bomber]] crashes at [[Anderson Air Force Base]] on [[Guam]]. The two pilots [[ejection seat|ejected]], with one hospitalized.[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7260231.stm (BBC)]

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