Portal:Current events/2024 February 28

February 28, 2024 (Wednesday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

The Chadian government announces that an overnight attack on Chad's security services headquarters in N'Djamena has resulted in the deaths of several individuals, and accuses the Socialist Party without Borders of carrying out the attack. In response the Chadian Army besieges the party's headquarters with several people killed including its president Yaya Dillo Djérou amid internet restrictions around the capital. (BBC News) (Al Jazeera English) (The Washington Post)

Disasters and accidents

Oil begins to wash ashore on Bonaire, Leeward Antilles, believed to have originated from the ship Gulfstream with around 35,000 barrels of oil on board that capsized near Tobago earlier this month. (BBC News)
At least 17 people are killed after two buses collide in San Juan de Opoa, Copán Department, Honduras. (Reuters)

International relations

Russia–NATO relations
- Russia announces that it will take retaliatory "military-technical" steps in response to Sweden joining NATO. (Al Arabiya)
China urges the world's largest nuclear states to negotiate a "no first use" treaty. China and India are currently the only two nuclear powers to formally maintain a no first use policy. (Reuters)
Officials in the Russia-backed breakaway region of Transnistria, internationally recognised as a part of Moldova, appeal to the Russian Duma for more intervention in Transnistria amid increasing tension with the government of Moldova. (Associated Press)
The Canadian government releases its report into the high-profile firings of two scientists from the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg, Manitoba, in 2021, stating that the pair worked closely and covertly with the Chinese government. (National Post)

Law and crime

Federal prosecution of Donald Trump
- The United States Supreme Court agrees to decide whether former President Donald Trump can claim immunity in special counsel Jack Smith's 2020 presidential election subversion case. Arguments are scheduled to begin in April. (The New York Times)
LGBT rights in Ghana
- The Parliament of Ghana passes a bill making the promotion or advocacy of LGBT rights punishable by five years in prison. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

Megxit
- In the United Kingdom, High Court of Justice Judge Peter Richard Lane rejects a legal challenge from Prince Harry against the government's decision to take away the prince's automatic right to police protection when he is in the country. (Sky News)
U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell announces that he will step down as Senate minority leader in November, having served as the Senate GOP leader since 2007. (ABC News)

Sports

Red Bull Formula One leader Christian Horner is cleared of wrongdoing in an internal probe looking into allegations of "inappropriate" behavior made by a female staffer. Horner will remain in the position of team leader. (NBC News)