Wikinews:2018/February

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February 1

• Football: Manchester United announces extending Juan Mata's contract

February 2

• Football: Arsenal signs Aubameyang from Dortmund

February 3

• India: Head of Delhi Commission on Women calls for prompt capital punishment for child rape
• Football: Giroud leaves Arsenal to sign eighteen-month deal with cross-town rivals Chelsea

February 4

• United States: Four injured in Los Angeles school shooting

February 5

• North Korea to send head of state to South Korea for Olympics

February 7

• Dutch Football Association appoints Ronald Koeman manager of men's national team
• Margot Duhalde, Chile's first female military pilot, dies aged 97
• SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket blasts Elon Musk's personal Tesla into solar orbit
• United States: Two killed, more than a hundred injured in Amtrak train collision in South Carolina

February 8

• Chinese Foreign Ministry confirms arrest of bookseller Gui Minhai

February 9

• Poet, lyricist, and digital activist John Perry Barlow dies, aged 70

February 10

• Russia: ex-governor of Sakhalin region Alexander Khoroshavin sentenced to thirteen years for bribery
• Pakistan court sentences one man to death penalty, and life imprisonment to five others for Mashal Khan lynching incident
• Dhaka court sentences former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Khaleda Zia to five years on corruption charges

February 11

• Competition Commission of India fines Google ₹1.36 billion for 'search bias'

February 12

• Former Irish footballer Liam Miller dies at 36

February 15

• United States: Jet loses engine cover over Pacific en route to Honolulu from San Francisco

February 16

• United States: Berkeley, California declares itself a sanctuary city for recreational cannabis

February 18

• Fourth U.S. state governor orders net neutrality in government contracts

February 19

• Oxfam produces action plan after revelation of prostitution scandal on Haiti

February 21

• Iran: Wreckage found of plane crashed in mountains; all believed dead

February 24

• Bus crash in Ocoña District of Peru costs over 40 lives

February 27

• Pixar Studios animator Bud Luckey, designer of Toy Story's Woody, dies aged 83