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Current events of
February 17, 2015
(
2015-02-17
)
(Tuesday)
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Armed conflicts and attacks
War in Donbass
The office of the
President of Ukraine
calls on the
European Union
and
NATO
to condemn the
Russian-backed rebels
for military action in
Debaltseve
.
The self-proclaimed rebel government officials
claim the town was not part of the recently established
ceasefire
.
(AP)
(New York Times)
Dissident Irish Republican campaign
Police Service of Northern Ireland
received a phone call in the early hours allegedly from a
dissident republican
group claiming to have planted an explosive in a Curryneirin neighborhood outside
Derry
,
Northern Ireland
. Police evacuated 12 homes before finding a device, describing it as "'It's a bomb and designed to kill".
(Belfast Telegraph)
(Derry Journal)
Around 20
Okba Ibn Nafaa
Islamist militants attack a checkpoint in
Tunisia
's central
Kasserine region
, killing four police officers and stealing their weapons.
(Reuters)
Business and economy
South Korean
company
Samsung Electronics
says that they have
$
56 billion in cash and plan to use some of it for
mergers and acquisitions
.
(Reuters)
Disasters and accidents
Carnival
festivities are cancelled after at least twenty people are
killed
in a
float
accident in
Port-au-Prince
.
(
Miami Herald
)
International relations
North Korea
says that it will respond "very strongly" to a conference held in
Washington, D.C.
about
human rights
abuses.
(AP)
Law and crime
Chinese
prosecutors say that they are investigating former top
Communist Party
official
Su Rong
for alleged corruption.
(AP)
Chinese authorities also announce the indictment of former
Guangdong
official
Zhu Mingguo
, former
Jinan
CPC party chief
Wang Min
, and former
Taiyuan
party chief
Chen Chuanping
, all on charges of corruption.
(SCMP)
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