Current events of February 1, 2015 (2015-02-01) (Sunday) |
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- The United Steelworkers union strikes against Royal Dutch Shell Plc at nine U.S. oil and chemical plants. Up until recently oil prices had undergone steep drops since June, but the union's action as part of the supply chain caused the market price to soar more than eight percent. (Reuters)
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Current events of February 2, 2015 (2015-02-02) (Monday) |
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Current events of February 3, 2015 (2015-02-03) (Tuesday) |
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Current events of February 4, 2015 (2015-02-04) (Wednesday) |
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- Armed conflict and attacks
- Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
- Libyan Civil War (2014–present)
- War in Donbass
- A shell hits a hospital in the rebel-held city of Donetsk killing at least three people with many injured. (BBC)
- Boko Haram
- Anthem Inc. discloses that criminal hackers have broken into its servers and potentially stolen over 80 million records that contain personally identifiable information from its servers. According to Anthem, the data breach extends into multiple brands Anthem uses to market its healthcare plans, including, Anthem Blue Cross, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Georgia, Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Amerigroup, Caremore, Unicare, Healthlink, and DeCare. Anthem says the medical information and financial data was not compromised. (NBC News),(AP)
- Business and the economy
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Current events of February 5, 2015 (2015-02-05) (Thursday) |
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- Armed conflicts and attacks
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- Business and economy
- Disasters and accidents
- A China shopping mall fire started by a nine-year-old boy at the city of Huizhou in Guangdong province kills at least 17 people. (BBC)
- Law and crime
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Current events of February 6, 2015 (2015-02-06) (Friday) |
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- Armed conflicts and attacks
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Current events of February 7, 2015 (2015-02-07) (Saturday) |
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- Armed conflicts and attacks
- Arts and culture
- Business and economy
- The management of Twentieth Century Fox considers granting permission to a group of investors, including some hedge funds, seeking to amend the company's charter and turn their type of voting shares of stock into non-voting shares, a conversion that might raise that type of shares' market price and that also would further concentrate control in the hands of Rupert Murdoch and his family. (Reuters)
- Disasters and accidents
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Current events of February 8, 2015 (2015-02-08) (Sunday) |
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- Armed conflicts and attacks
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Current events of February 9, 2015 (2015-02-09) (Monday) |
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- Armed conflicts and attacks
- Business and economy
- Disasters and accidents
- Law and crime
- Samsung reveals potential for next generation smart TVs to eavesdrop. (AP)
- Politics and elections
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Current events of February 10, 2015 (2015-02-10) (Tuesday) |
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- Armed conflicts and attacks
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- Business and economy
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- Law and crime
- The Federal Court of Malaysia rejects opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim's appeal against sodomy charges meaning he will start serving a five-year sentence. (Reuters)
- Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. states that a 50-person bribery case involves New York City inspectors, landlords, and contractors with payoffs to get safety violations dismissed and procure phony eviction orders. (AP)
- Politics and elections
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Current events of February 11, 2015 (2015-02-11) (Wednesday) |
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- Armed conflicts and attacks
- Iraqi clashes and attacks kill at least 31 people. (AP)
- Business and economy
- Disasters and accidents
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- Law and crime
- Science and technology
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Current events of February 12, 2015 (2015-02-12) (Thursday) |
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- Armed conflicts and attacks
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Current events of February 13, 2015 (2015-02-13) (Friday) |
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- Business and economy
- Disasters and accidents
- A bus crashes with a freight train in the Mexican state of Nuevo León, killing at least sixteen people and injuring 30. (Reuters)
- Health
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Current events of February 14, 2015 (2015-02-14) (Saturday) |
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- Armed conflicts and attacks
- War in Donbass
- Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko warns of a threat to a planned ceasefire tonight from heavy fighting today and accuses Russia of "significantly increasing" its offensive. In a live interview he ordered all Ukrainian forces to cease fire after midnight. (BBC)
- Internal conflict in Burma
- Myanmar launches air strikes against rebels in the Kokang area as dozens of soldiers have been killed and dozens more wounded in fightings in recent weeks. (AFP via France 24)
- 2015 Copenhagen attacks
- Arts and culture
- Disasters and accidents
- Health
- Twelve people die of swine flu in the Indian state of Gujarat taking the death toll to 136 since January with 130 new cases reported. (IBN live)
- International relations
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Current events of February 15, 2015 (2015-02-15) (Sunday) |
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- Law and crime
- A Turkish court remands seventeen police officers into custody for allegedly being part of an illegal wiretapping program targeting politicians, bureaucrats, and businessmen. (LBC)
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Current events of February 16, 2015 (2015-02-16) (Monday) |
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- Business and economy
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- Health
- EBioMedicine publishes research by University of Leuven scientists describing their findings of a so-called Cuban variant of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) (the virus that causes A.I.D.S.) which is an aggressive strain that can rapidly progress to AIDS. (FOX News)
- Law and crime
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Current events of February 17, 2015 (2015-02-17) (Tuesday) |
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Current events of February 18, 2015 (2015-02-18) (Wednesday) |
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Current events of February 19, 2015 (2015-02-19) (Thursday) |
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- Business and economy
- Greece requests its partners in the eurozone for a six month loan program extension in an apparent compromise attempt; Germany has rejected the request. (BBC News)
- Disasters and accidents
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Current events of February 20, 2015 (2015-02-20) (Friday) |
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Current events of February 21, 2015 (2015-02-21) (Saturday) |
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- Science and technology
- NASA astronauts perform one of three ISS spacewalks to reroute cables needed in preparation for the 2017 arrival of the first commercial spacecraft capable of transporting astronauts. (AP)
- Sports
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Current events of February 22, 2015 (2015-02-22) (Sunday) |
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Current events of February 23, 2015 (2015-02-23) (Monday) |
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Current events of February 24, 2015 (2015-02-24) (Tuesday) |
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- The President of Indonesia Joko Widodo says the execution of 11 convicts from overseas, most on drug charges, will not be delayed. A court has rejected the appeals of Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan, two Australians on death row. (Reuters), (Voice of America)
- Former Prime Minister of Egypt Ahmed Nazif and former Interior Minister Habib el-Adly are cleared of graft charges in a retrial. (Al-Jazeera)
- A Czech gunman opens fire at a restaurant in Uherský Brod, killing at least eight people. (AP)
- The British Parliament's House of Lords gives final approval to a bill that earlier in February had been approved in the House of Commons, refusing to block the plan by a majority of 232, that would allow, through a modified form of in vitro fertilization (IVF), the creation of three-person babies, to treat certain mitochondrial disorders (mitochondria are parts of cells that convert nutrients into useful cellular energy to fuel vital processes), by using a very small segment of mitochondrial DNA from another woman to replace the mother's defective DNA; the U.K. is the first to authorize the still ethically controversial procedure. (MSN)
- Eddie Ray Routh is found guilty of the 2013 murder of United States Navy SEALs' sniper Chris Kyle and Kyle's friend Chad Littlefield in Texas. Routh is automatically sentenced to life imprisonment without parole. (BBC), (AP)
- Politics and elections
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Current events of February 25, 2015 (2015-02-25) (Wednesday) |
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- Health
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Current events of February 26, 2015 (2015-02-26) (Thursday) |
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- Armed conflicts and attacks
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Current events of February 27, 2015 (2015-02-27) (Friday) |
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Current events of February 28, 2015 (2015-02-28) (Saturday) |
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Ongoing events |
Economic
- Eurozone crisis
- Financial crisis in Russia
Health
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- Syrian and Iraqi civil wars
- Military intervention against ISIL
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Recently concluded
- Australia: Brett Peter Cowan, Craig Thomson, Robert Hughes
- Brazil: Mensalão scandal
- Canada: Michael Thomas Rafferty, Luka Magnotta
- China: Liu Tienan, Li Daqiu, Bo Xilai
- Croatia: Ivo Sanader
- Egypt: Hosni Mubarak, Peter Greste
- Germany: Bernie Ecclestone, Uli Hoeness, Christian Wulff, Breno Borges
- Iran: Mohammad Reza Rahimi
- Israel: Hussam Qawasmeh
- Italy: Silvio Berlusconi
- Jordan: Abu Qatada
- Malaysia: Anwar Ibrahim
- Russia: Leonid Khabarov, Vladimir Kvachkov, Pussy Riot
- South Africa: Shrien Dewani, Oscar Pistorius, Chris Mahlangu
- Turkey: Kenan Evren, Tahsin Şahinkaya
- United Kingdom: Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale, Ali Dizaei, Antoni Imiela, Brian Regan, Donna Air, Ched Evans, Clayton McDonald, Titus Bramble, Dan Penteado, John Terry, Iftikhar and Farzana Ahmed, Asil Nadir, Justin Lee Collins, Kweku Adoboli, Tony McCluskie, Kevin Hutchinson-Foster, Chris Huhne, Nicola Edgington, Vicky Pryce, Derek Rose, Mick Philpott, Mairead Philpott, Paul Mosley, Kevin Liverpool, Junior Bradshaw, Aggro Santos, Stuart Hazell, Mark Bridger, Andrew Lancel, Dale Cregan, Ray Wilkins, Michael Le Vell, Liam Adams, R v Grillo and Grillo, Ian Watkins, William Roache, Dave Lee Travis, Nicholas Jacobs, Nigel Evans, Max Clifford, Stuart Hall, Dappy, Rebekah Brooks, Andy Coulson, Rolf Harris, Tulisa Contostavlos, Chris Denning, Ray Teret, Gary Glitter, Fred Talbot
- United States: Abu Hamza al-Masri, Michael Grimm, Bob McDonnell, Vilma Bautista, George Huguely, Allen Stanford, Roger Clemens, Jerry Sandusky, Jared Lee Loughner, Lauryn Hill, Kermit Gosnell, George Zimmerman, Chelsea Manning, Ariel Castro, Whitey Bulger, Robert Bales, Nidal Malik Hasan, Crystal Mangum
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Upcoming
- Libya: Saif al-Islam Gaddafi
- Spain: Lionel Messi
- United Kingdom: Dane Bowers, Andy Coulson
- United States: Paul Anthony Ciancia, Javaris Crittenton, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Dylan Quick, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, James Eagan Holmes, Aaron Hernandez, Graham Spanier, Tim Curley, Gary Schultz, Anas al-Libi, Justin Bieber, Chris Brown, Rick Perry
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