Portal:Current events/2015 February 17
Armed conflicts and attacks
- War in Donbass
- The office of the ceasefire. (AP) (New York Times)
- The office of the
- 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)
- 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 authorities also announce the indictment of former