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*[[Ballroom dancers]] and [[aerobics]] classes have popped up in the midst of an anti-China protest in [[Hanoi]], [[Vietnam]], in an apparent ploy by the [[Politics of Vietnam|government]] to break up the event. [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-26240489 (BBC)] |
*[[Ballroom dancers]] and [[aerobics]] classes have popped up in the midst of an anti-China protest in [[Hanoi]], [[Vietnam]], in an apparent ploy by the [[Politics of Vietnam|government]] to break up the event. [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-26240489 (BBC)] |
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Revision as of 03:09, 10 March 2022
February 18, 2014 (Tuesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- 2013–14 Thai political crisis:
- Protesters and police clash after a crackdown ordered by Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra with one policeman shot dead and dozens wounded. (BBC), (Sydney Morning Herald)
- Euromaidan:
Arts and culture
- A US$1 million vase made by Chinese dissident Ai Wei Wei is destroyed in Miami by a local vandal protesting the lack of exhibits promoting local art. (The New York Times)
Law and crime
- The Supreme Court of the Philippines declares the libel provisions in the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012 as legal. (Inquirer), (GMA News)
- Former Australian parliamentarian Craig Thomson is found guilty of theft and fraud during his time as national secretary of the Health Services Union. (Sydney Morning Herald), (The Australian)
- French police arrest a man in relation to a killing of a British family in the French Alps. (BBC)
- Former United States congressman Melvin Jay Reynolds is arrested in Zimbabwe for possession of pornography. (Fox News)
Politics and elections
- Justice Kenneth Hayne of the High Court of Australia voids the Senate election in the state of Western Australia due to the loss of ballot papers in a very close election. (Yahoo! News)
- Ballroom dancers and aerobics classes have popped up in the midst of an anti-China protest in Hanoi, Vietnam, in an apparent ploy by the government to break up the event. (BBC)