Chilean general election, 2017 Sebastian Piñera takes office for the second time as President of Chile.
2018 National People's Congress China's National People's Congress approves the removal of presidential term limits, in a move that allows current president Xi Jinping to remain president for life.
2018 Vienna embassy stabbing An Austrian soldier was stabbed and injured in front of the Iranian embassy in Vienna. The attacker, which had Islamist sympathies according to the authorities, was shot dead.
Visa policy of the United Kingdom Far-right activist and journalist Lauren Southern is detained at Calais and prevented from entering the United Kingdom, with the reason given by the UK Home Office that her presence 'was not conducive to the public good'.
2018 Bombardier Challenger 604 crash A private plane from Sharjah to Istanbul crashes in the Zagros Mountains in Iran, killing Turkish socialite Mina Başaran along with, according to Iranian state media, ten other people on board.