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March 1, 2018
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2018-03-01
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Business and economy
Presidency of Donald Trump
U.S. President
Donald Trump
announces plans to impose tariffs on steel and aluminium imports.
(BBC)
,
(
The Hill
)
Law and crime
Crime in Norway
,
Crime in the United States
Police in
Oslo
,
Norway
, say that the
FBI
is assisting in the investigation into two forged nominations of
Donald Trump
for the
Nobel Peace Prize
. The
impersonator
allegedly used the same
stolen identity
twice.
(
Newser
)
,
(
The Washington Post
)
Terrorism in Turkey
Dilek Öcalan
,
MP
for the pro-
Kurdish
HDP
party, is sentenced to two and a half years in jail on charges of terror propaganda related to her participation in the 2016 funeral of a
PKK
fighter. Nine HDP MPs are currently in jail.
(NRT)
Politics and elections
Politics of Iraq
The
Parliament of Iraq
votes to oblige the
federal government
to set a schedule for the withdrawal of
foreign troops
.
(
Iraq News
)
Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections
An alleged
Senate Intelligence Committee
report states that a
House Intelligence Committee
Republican
was behind the leak to
Fox News
of private text messages between a
Russian
-connected lawyer and Senator
Mark Warner
, the committee vice-chairman, concerning an attempt to contact
Christopher Steele
, author of the
Trump–Russia dossier
. Committee chairman
Richard Burr
later denied the leak report.
(
The New York Times
)
,
(Slate)
(
The Hill
)
2018 opening of regular sessions of the National Congress of Argentina
Argentine President
Mauricio Macri
delivers a speech in the Congress to start the regular sessions for 2018.
(Reuters)
Science and technology
Discoveries of exoplanets
NASA
astronomers
use the
Hubble
and
Spitzer
space telescopes
in research implying that "
hot Saturn
" (high surface-
atmosphere
temperatures
and
gas giant
-mass)
exoplanet
WASP-39b
, located 700
light-years
from
Earth
, has a large amount of
water
molecules
in its atmosphere.
(NASA)
Sports
2018 NHL Stadium Series
The
Washington Capitals
defeated the
Toronto Maple Leafs
in a special outdoor hockey match, 5–2, at the
Navy–Marine Corps Memorial Stadium
in
Annapolis, Maryland
.
(
The Washington Post
)
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