Portal:Current events/2018 August 24
August 24, 2018 (Friday)
Art and culture
- The Spanish government passes a decree which amends the Historical Memory Law to allow the government to exhume Francisco Franco's remains from the Valle de los Caídos. (The Independent)
Business and economy
- Two weeks after Elon Musk expressed his intentions of making Tesla, Inc. private, he and the company's board announce that the company will remain publicly listed. (NPR)
Disasters and accidents
- A bus plunges off a bridge onto a train track due to a malfunction near Kuopio, Finland, killing four people and injuring 20 others. (Yle News)
International relations
- 2017–18 North Korea crisis, North Korea–United States relations
- U.S. President Donald Trump asks his Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to cancel a planned trip to North Korea, citing the country's insufficient progress in denuclearizing the Korean peninsula. (CNBC)"
- Palestine–United States relations
- The United States Department of State redirects more than $200 million in aid for the Palestinian National Authority to "high priority projects elsewhere". The Palestine Liberation Organization denounces the "use of cheap blackmail as a political tool". (Fox News)
Politics and elections
- Liberal Party of Australia leadership spills, 2018
- Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull loses spill motion and resigns. (Sky News)
- Treasurer Scott Morrison wins the second leadership spill, 45 votes to 40 against Peter Dutton, and becomes Prime Minister. (ABC)
- European migrant crisis
- Representatives from 12 European Union countries do not reach an agreement on Italy's request to take in the 150 migrants still remaining on the Diciotti-class vessel in Catania, Sicily, after their rescue by the Italian Coast Guard nine days ago. (Deutsche Welle) (ANSA)
- Democratic Republic of the Congo general election, 2018
- The electoral commission publishes the list of approved candidates. Jean-Pierre Bemba and two former prime ministers are excluded. (Reuters via Business Insider)
- Corruption in Venezuela, United States–Venezuela relations
- A United States court case gains new evidence and a guilty plea in relation to investigations of corruption and money laundering in Venezuela, adding a group who are suspected to be relatives of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro to the list of suspected accomplices. (Business Insider) (ABC News)
- U.S. Senator John McCain (R–AZ) has announced that he will not continue his cancer treatment. (CNN)