Portal:Current events/2022 February 2

Armed conflicts and attacks

• 2021–2022 Russo-Ukrainian crisis
  • Belarus–Russia relations
    • A video is shown of troops from the Armed Forces of Belarus and the Eastern Military District of the Russian Armed Forces conducting military drills and "combat cohesions" in Belarus amid ongoing tensions between Russia and Ukraine. (TASS) (ABC News)
  • Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby announces that the Pentagon will deploy 3,000 troops to Eastern Europe in order to defend its allies and counter Russian aggression against Ukraine. (NBC News)
• Ituri conflict; 2021–2022 Democratic Republic of the Congo attacks
  • Plaine Savo massacre
    • Over 60 people are killed by CODECO militiamen during a mass stabbing at a camp for internally displaced people in Djugu, Ituri, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Al Jazeera)
• 2022 Guinea-Bissau coup d'état attempt
  • Guinea-Bissau President Umaro Sissoco Embaló says that gunmen tried to kill him and his entire cabinet at the government palace yesterday during the coup d'état attempt. The heavy gunfire, which lasted for five hours, resulted in the deaths of at least four attackers and two guards. The attackers are said to be "linked to drug trafficking in the country". (BBC News)
• Kurdish–Turkish conflict
  • Turkish airstrikes target PKK and SDF positions in Northern Iraq and Syria, killing 12 people and injuring 17 others. (Middle East Eye)

Business and economy

• CNN president Jeff Zucker resigns for failing to disclose that he was in a relationship with the network's executive vice president. The relationship was discovered during a misconduct investigation into the network's former anchor Chris Cuomo. (BBC News)

Disasters and accidents

• Kinshasa power cable collapse
  • A power cable collapse kills at least 26 people in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (BBC News)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Europe
    • COVID-19 pandemic in the Czech Republic
      • The Czech Republic reports a record 66,970 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours. (Radio Prague International)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in France
      • France begins to lift the mandatory outdoor mask wearing and work from home orders despite a high number of COVID-19 cases. (Euronews)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Germany
      • Germany surpasses ten million COVID-19 cases. (Reuters)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Tonga
    • Tonga enters a nationwide lockdown after the country reported its first locally transmitted COVID-19 cases. (NPR)

Politics and elections

• Canadian Opposition Leader Erin O'Toole is removed from his leadership position in a 73–45 no-confidence vote by his party. Deputy Leader Candice Bergen is announced as the interim leader of the party. (CBC)
• Human rights in Chechnya, Corruption in Russia
  • Mass government-organized protests against the Yangulbayev family occur in the Russian city of Grozny, Chechnya. The Chechen government claimed that protests were spontaneous and gathered 400,000 men, "not counting women," though the total population of Grozny is 325,000 people. Despite the COVID-19 restrictions, Rospotrebnadzor did nothing because they "couldn't find protest organizers." Earlier a member of the Russian State Duma, Adam Delimkhanov, stated that he will rip the heads off of Yangulbayevs and those who translate his speech from the Chechen language to Russian.

Sports

• Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sports
  • 2021–22 NHL season
    • 2022 National Hockey League All-Star Game
      • It is announced that Washington Capitals captain Alexander Ovechkin will miss the upcoming NHL All-Star game after testing positive for COVID-19. (ESPN)
  • Denmark at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Ice hockey at the 2022 Winter Olympics
    • Six players from the Danish men's national hockey team test positive for COVID-19 ahead of the upcoming Winter Olympics. (The Hill)
• Washington Redskins name controversy, Native American mascot controversy
  • It is announced that, starting in the 2022 NFL season, the Washington Football Team will be renamed as the Washington Commanders in order to replace the Redskins name, considered a racial slur, which was retired in mid-2020 following the nationwide George Floyd protests. (Reuters) (The Washington Post)