Portal:Current events/2015 April 14

Current events of April 14, 2015 (2015-04-14) (Tuesday)

Armed conflicts and attacks Iraqi insurgency At least seven people are dead after a car bomb blast south of Baghdad. (AP via Irish Times) War in Somalia al-Shabab gunmen enter the Higher Education Ministry building in Mogadishu after a large explosion is reported. (Voice of America) Business and economy The Wall Street Journal reports that European Union regulators have announced plans to file charges against American Internet company Google following a European Union investigation. (CNBC) Disasters and accidents An Asiana Airlines Airbus A320 en route from South Korea to Japan skids off the runway at Hiroshima Airport injuring 20 of the 74 passengers. (AP via News24) 2015 Libya migrant shipwreck Up to 400 people may have died as a boat capsizes in the Mediterranean Sea between Libya and Italy with up to 550 passengers on board. (AFP/Reuters via ABC News Australia) Health More than 100 passengers out of 1,100 on the cruise ship Crown Princess may be suffering from symptoms of Norovirus. (Reuters) International relations President of the United States Barack Obama endorses a proposal to remove Cuba from a list of countries that sponsor terrorism. (New York Times) Yemeni Civil War (2015) The United Nations Security Council votes to impose sanctions on Yemen's Houthi rebels. (Los Angeles Times) Law and crime A court in Japan's Fukui Prefecture issues a landmark injunction against restarting reactors 3 and 4 of the Takahama Nuclear Power Plant. (AFP via Yahoo! News Australia) Science and technology SpaceX's latest attempt at recycling its Falcon 9 rocket by landing it on an ocean platform fails. (AFP via Yahoo! News) Stone tools found at Lomekwi 3 are dated to 3.3 million years ago, which, if confirmed, would represent the oldest known stone tools. (Science)