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February 20, 2018 (2018-02-20) (Tuesday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

Business and economy

Disasters and accidents

2017–18 South Pacific cyclone season
- Sevenregions inNew Zealand declarestates of emergency asCyclone Gita makes landfall.(Newshub)
Iran Aseman Airlines Flight 3704
- Iranian forces have spotted the wreckage of the missing Aseman Airliner 30 meters below a hilltop on mountDena. Helicopters could not land yet at the crash site due to weather and topographical conditions. 65 people are feared dead.(PressTV)
2018 Mount Sinabung eruption
- Indonesia'sMount Sinabung has a massive eruption, completely destroying the volcano's peak, with ash reaching over 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) high. Much of the surrounding area is covered with ash.(Quartz)

Law and crime

Corruption in Latvia
- Latvia will ask theEuropean Central Bank not to renew the mandate ofECB Governing Council memberIlmārs Rimšēvičs, the head of the centralBank of Latvia since 2001, amid an ECBpayment moratorium and an U.S.graft investigation into Latvia's third-largestlender,ABLV. On 19 January, Rimšēvičs was released on bail.(Bloomberg)
Judiciary of Thailand
- A court inThailand awards aJapanese man paternity rights over 13 of his children from Thaisurrogate mothers.(BBC)
Gun politics in the United States
- U.S. President Donald Trump orders theDepartment of Justice to prepare regulations to ban devices that allowsemi-automatic rifles to become fully automatic, such as thebump stocks used in the2017 Las Vegas shooting.(The Hill)
U.S. Special Counsel investigation
- AttorneyAlex van der Zwaan pleads guilty in theU.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., to making false statements to theFBI duringthe special counsel investigation intoRussian interference in the 2016 United States elections. Specifically, the charges are that he lied to investigators about his interactions with political consultant and lobbyistRick Gates and an unidentified Ukrainian-based associate ofPaul Manafort.(The New York Times)

Politics and elections

Aftermath of theStoneman Douglas High School shooting
- Families and students fromParkland, Florida, begin arriving in Tallahassee, theFlorida State Capitol, for advocacy meetings with lawmakers and other State officials. During Tuesday's legislative session, the Republican-controlledFlorida House defeated, by aparty-line vote, a motion to debate assault weapons ban legislation, 71–36.(Tallahassee Democrat)(Miami Herald)
2017–18 Spanish constitutional crisis
- Anna Gabriel, former memberParliament of Catalonia forPopular Unity Candidacy and Catalan independentism leader, flees to Switzerland before declaring before the Supreme Court of Spain amid rebellion and desobedience crime.(Independent)

Sports

2017 NCAA Division I men's basketball corruption scandal
- Incollege basketball, theNCAA denies an appeal of sanctions imposed on theUniversity of Louisville stemming from asex scandal first publicized in 2015. The most significant sanction requires Louisville to vacate its2013 national title, making the Cardinals the firstDivision I men's or women's basketball team ever forced to vacate a national title.(ESPN)