Portal:Current events/2014 February 24
Armed conflict and attacks
- 2014 Ukrainian Revolution:
- The European Commission recognizes Oleksandr Turchynov as Ukraine‘s legitimate interim president. (DPA via Europe Online)
- Ukrainian economist and banker Stepan Kubiv, who worked as one of the commandants for the EuroMaidan demonstrations, is selected as governor of the National Bank of Ukraine. (Reuters)
- An arrest warrant is issued for the former President Viktor Yanukovych and other officials for their alleged role in killing protesters. (AP via Fox News)
- War in Afghanistan:
- Senior Taliban commander Asmatullah Shaheen Bhittani is killed in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. (The Hindu)
- South China Sea dispute:
- Filipino fishermen off the coast of the Philippines last January 27, according to the Philippine military. (BBC News)
- Post-civil war violence in Libya
- Israeli Air Force planes reportedly bomb a weapons shipment of SS-21 missiles destined for Hezbollah near a Hezbollah stronghold on the Lebanon-Syria border. (The Times of Israel)
Business and economy
- CNN cancels Piers Morgan Live, starring British presenter Piers Morgan, due to low ratings. (The Guardian)
- Pope Francis, in the most significant reform of the Roman Curia in 25 years, creates a second Secretariat, for Economic Affairs, headed by a Cardinal (which will work with the Vatican Secretariat of State, the reformed Vatican bank, or IOR, and the other economic departments of the Roman Curia), which will have an office with the power to audit any Vatican agency at any time. (AP via MSN News)
- hackers. (Wired)
Disasters and accidents
- The death toll in the Papua province of Indonesia reaches 11 as torrential rain continues to cause floods and landslides, occurring since Saturday. (News Corp Australia)
- At least seven mourners are killed and 37 are injured as a bridge collapses as they are transporting a coffin in Lai Chau Province. (AP via Philippine Daily Inquirer)
Law and Crime
- Gary Melius, owner of Oheka Castle in Huntington, New York, the second largest private residence in the United States, is shot in the head in the castle parking lot. The gunman is still at large. (Los Angeles Times)
- Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni signs a bill discriminating against the LGBT community. (Time)
Politics and elections
- 2013–14 Thai political crisis:
- Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra says she will not resign. (Straits Times)
- The government of Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to run for President. (Reuters)
- The Pentagon announces plans to reduce the size of the United States Army to pre-World War II levels. (BBC News)
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Science and technology
- Public health officials in the U.S. state of California are preparing a report of a polio-like disease whose cause is unknown. (Los Angeles Times)
- Two species of goblin spider are discovered by the Queensland Museum in Australia's Darling Downs region. (ABC via Yahoo!7 News)
- Nokia unveils Nokia X, an Android-based smartphone, at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. (NDTV)
- A 4.4-billion-year-old crystal from Western Australia has been confirmed as the oldest fragment of Earth's crust. (BBC News)