Portal:Current events/2015 February 7

February 7, 2015 (Saturday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

North Korea and weapons of mass destruction
- North Korea test fires a new "ultra-precision" intelligent anti-ship missile which is to be deployed across its navy. (AFP via France 24)
War in Donbass
- The leaders of France, Germany and Russia agree to work on a peace plan to be put to the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko on Sunday. (BBC)
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
- Bombings in Baghdad kill at least 37 people hours before the city's curfew was due to end. ISIL claims responsibility. (AP via Los Angeles Times) (AP via KSL)
Islamist insurgency in Nigeria
- Nigeria postpones its general election for six weeks to allow its armed forces to take control of the Boko Haram-controlled parts of the country. (Irish Times)

Arts and culture

NBC Nightly News anchorman Brian Williams begins a temporary hiatus from broadcasting after he was caught lying about having been on board an underfire helicopter which crashed during the 2003 invasion of Iraq. (AP)

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

TransAsia cancels dozens of flights to retrain its pilots following the February 4 crash of TransAsia Airways Flight 235 which killed at least 43 people. (AFP via Daily Mail)

Law and crime

A gunman shoots six people, killing four, including several children, in Douglasville, Georgia, ending with the gunman committing suicide. (AP via FOX News)
A 17-year-old male opens fire on a man at the Monroeville Mall in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area, striking his intended target as well as two bystanders hospitalizing three people. (AP via News24) (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

Politics and elections

Queensland Liberal National Party voters elect Lawrence Springborg as their leader with John-Paul Langbroek as deputy leader. (ABC News Australia)
Slovak same-sex marriage referendum
- Although greater than 90% vote in favor of the referendum, Slovak election officials deem the result invalid due to a low 21% voter turnout, far short of the 50% or greater turnout required for the results to be legally binding. (The Slovak Spectator)