Wikinews:2019/February

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February 1

• Toronto serial killer Bruce McArthur pleads guilty to eight murders

February 2

• Paris court jails two police in high-profile rape case
• Report indicates Mexican monarch butterfly population at ten-year high, reasons unclear

February 5

• Block of flats collapses in Aleppo, killing eleven

February 6

• Bus carrying children overturns in Babyninsky, Russia; at least seven die

February 7

• Nevada becomes first state in U.S. with majority-female legislature

February 11

• Bishop Emeritus Dinualdo Gutierrez of Marbel, Philippines dies
• Pioneering oceanographer Walter Munk dies of pneumonia in California
• Thai political party withdraws nomination of princess for prime minister

February 12

• German migrant rescue charity renames ship after drowned Syrian toddler

February 13

• Hotel fire kills at least seventeen in Karol Bagh, New Delhi

February 16

• Study indicates as great white shark disappears, living fossil moves in

February 17

• Francis D'Souza, former Deputy Chief Minister of Goa, dies aged 64

February 18

• Fire kills nine, injures dozens in Chittagong, Bangladesh slum

February 21

• Sixteen states sue U.S. President Trump to stop declaration of emergency for border wall

February 23

• Zebra stripes may 'dazzle' pathogen-packing horse flies, say scientists

February 25

• Texas federal judge says drafting only men violates United States Constitution