Portal:Current events/2018 August 22

August 22, 2018 (Wednesday)

Business and economy

Senior industry sources say that the previously announced initial public offering of Saudi Aramco has been halted. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

2018 Pacific hurricane season
- Hurricane Lane strengthens to a Category 5 hurricane for around three hours as it heads toward Hawaii, before returning to Category 4. (CNN)
2018 Venezuela earthquakes
- A 5.8 magnitude earthquake hits close to yesterday's 7.3 earthquake, this one inland near Yaguaraparo, Venezuela. (AP)
- It is revealed that 5 people died from heart attack due to shock in yesterday's earthquake. (AP)
Earthquakes in 2018
- A 6.2 earthquake, 100 miles from the Oregon coast, rocks the Western States of America. (The Independent)

Law and crime

Personal and business legal affairs of Donald Trump
- List of lawsuits involving Donald Trump
  - The lawyer of Michael Cohen, ex-lawyer of U.S. President Donald Trump who pleaded guilty to eight felonies a day prior, says his client would refuse to accept a presidential pardon. (The Independent)
- Donald J. Trump Foundation § Investigations by New York State
  - New York state investigators subpoena Michael Cohen as part of their investigation into the Trump Foundation. (AP)
Terrorism in Germany
- In Berlin, police raid an apartment and arrest a suspected Russian Islamic extremist who had allegedly stored a large amount of TATP in October 2016 and plotted with a Frenchman to bomb an unspecified public place in Germany. (Reuters)
Human rights in Saudi Arabia
- According to human rights campaigners, Saudi Arabian prosecutors seek the death penalty for six activists for inciting anti-government protests and morally supporting rioters. (NBC News)
Killing of Mollie Tibbetts
- Cristhian Bahena Rivera, a Mexican man accused of killing University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts after entering the U.S. illegally, appears in a Poweshiek County court for arraignment on first-degree murder. His bail is set at US$5 million. If released by local police, he may be arrested by ICE. (CNN)
Corruption in Venezuela, Crisis in Bolivarian Venezuela
- The Venezuelan National Assembly supports and enforces a ruling made by exiled members of the Venezuelan Supreme Court, sentencing Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro to 18 years and 3 months in prison for a litany of charges largely related to corruption. The Maduro government calls the court "illegitimate". (El Telégrafo)

Politics and elections

Crisis in Venezuela
- Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro says that the wages for workers in Venezuela must be linked to the petro. (El Nacional) (El Universal)

Science and technology

Interbreeding between archaic and modern humans
- A bone fragment found in Denisova Cave, Denisova 11, is identified as that of a girl who died 50,000 years ago aged at least 13. Genome-wide signatures tell that she had a Neanderthal mother and a mostly-Denisovan father. This first find of a prehistoric first-generation mixed offspring shows that different archaic human subtypes sometimes migrated, and then mixed more frequently than previously thought. (NBC News) (Live Science)
2018 in spaceflight, Living Planet Programme
- The European Space Agency's ADM-Aeolus global wind mapping satellite is successfully launched via a Vega rocket from Guiana Space Centre. (BBC)