Portal:Current events/2015 March 17
Armed conflicts and attacks
- In Jamaatul Ahrar, both claiming responsibility. (HuffPost)
- American-led intervention in Syria:
Disasters and accidents
- A military helicopter serving as part of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Mali crashes near Gao, killing two people. (BBC)
International relations
- Philippines v. China
- The sweeping claim over the resource-rich South China Sea. (GMA News)
- The
Law and crime
- In James Fletcher, in the 1970s. (ABC)
- According to the U.S. Secret Service, a white substance mailed in an envelope to the White House and received March 16, 2015, at the White House Mail Screening Facility, tests a "presumptive positive" for cyanide. (Reuters via MSN)
- Federal authorities arrest a Missouri man, Cameron James Stout, 24, of Stover, Missouri for threatening to shoot U.S. President Barack Obama. (Reuters via MSN)
- A drive-by shooting in Stockton, California kills three people and injures four more. (Reuters via MSN)
- American health insurer Premera Blue Cross announces that it was the victim of a cyberattack that exposed bank account numbers and other personal data of 11 million customers on May 5, 2014. (Reuters)
Politics and elections
- Israeli legislative election, 2015:
- The Likud party, led by incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, wins the most seats in the Knesset, winning 30 out of 120 seats. If asked by the President to form a government, Netanyahu will become the first Prime Minister to serve a fourth term. (The New York Times) (The Times of Israel) (AP via Fox News)
- Following a congressional and possible criminal investigation surrounding the redecoration of his office and the use of donors' private aircraft at taxpayers' expense, U.S. Representative Aaron Schock (R-IL) resigns effective March 31, 2015. (Peoria Journal Star)