< Portal:Current events
August 19, 2018 (Sunday)
Disasters and accidents
- Earthquakes in 2018
- A deep-focus earthquake of magnitude 8.2 (the strongest recorded in 2018) strikes the South Pacific Ocean near Fiji. No threat of tsunami is immediately detected. (KATU)
- 19 August 2018 Lombok earthquake
- A 6.3-magnitude earthquake strikes the Indonesian island of Lombok, killing 14. (The Guardian)
- 2018 Pacific typhoon season
- Tropical Storm Rumbia kills nine people in Anhui and Henan provinces, China. (Xinhua)
- 2018 Pacific hurricane season
- Hurricane Lane weakens to a Category 3 storm and is expected to pass south of Hawaii throughout the next few days. (CBS News) (Honolulu Star-Advertiser)
International relations
- European migrant crisis
- Italy Interior Minister Matteo Salvini threatens to return 177 migrants who have been aboard an Italian coast guard ship for days to Libya. (Time)
- War In Afghanistan
- Afghan President Ashraf Ghani calls for a conditional cease-fire with Taliban insurgents for the duration of the Eid al-Adha holiday. (Fox News) (Al Jazeera)
- Bolivarian diaspora
- Brazilians attack Venezuelan migrants at a border camp, the Brazilian military is deployed to stem the conflict. (The Telegraph)
- Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Colombia, and Chile tighten border controls for Venezuelan migrants. Over 7% of Venezuela’s total population has fled the nation in two years. (The Guardian)
- Colombia-Venezuela relations
- The Venezuelan armed forces send two attack helicopters and a brigade of 30 soldiers across the Colombia-Venezuela border. Colombia denounces the "violation of sovereignty" but takes no further action against the country. (NTN24)
- Premiership of Justin Trudeau, Illegal immigration to Canada
- Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau shuts down a woman who heckled him about illegal immigration, telling her that “racism has no place” in Canada. (The Hill)
Sports
- 2018 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final
- In hurling, Limerick defeat Galway in the 2018 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final at Croke Park to win the Liam MacCarthy Cup for the first time since 1973. (BBC Sport) (Sky Sports)
- Cincinnati Masters
- Novak Djokovic beats Roger Federer in Cincinnati, becoming the first player to win singles titles in all nine ATP World Tour Masters 1000 tournaments in his career. (The Star)
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