Portal:Current events/2008 February 19
February 19, 2008 (Tuesday)
- 2008 United States presidential election:
- Arizona Senator John McCain wins the Wisconsin and Washington Republican Party primary election. (The New York Times) (The New York Times)
- Illinois Senator Barack Obama wins the Democratic Party Wisconsin primary and the Hawaii caucus. (Reuters via The Melbourne Age) (AFP)
- At least eight Iraqi police are killed attempting to defuse a cache of rockets. (BBC News)
- Fidel Castro retires, resigning as the President of Cuba (after 49 years in office) and as Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces, effective 24 February 2008 upon the election of his successor. (AFP via News Limited) (Granma) (Reuters UK)
- Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, the chairman of Pakistan's governing party, the pro-Musharraf Pakistan Muslim League (Q) (PML-Q) concedes defeat after preliminary results show that it cannot retain a majority in the Parliament of Pakistan. (AFP/AP via The Melbourne Age)
- Serbian national selection for Eurovision Song Contest is cancelled after eruption of mass protests due to Kosovo's unilateral independence declaration 2 days earlier.