Portal:Current events/2015 February 13
February 13, 2015 (Friday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Internal conflict in Burma
- Several days of clashes with Kokang rebels in the north of the country kills forty-seven Myanmar Army soldiers with dozens wounded. (CNN)
- Assam conflict
- A grenade attack by the United Liberation Front of Assam on a family in the town of Sepon in India's Assam state kills two people. (NDTV)
- War in Donbass
- Ahead of the upcoming February 15 start of the agreed ceasefire, fighting in the past 24 hours kills eight Armed Forces of Ukraine service personnel. (Reuters)
- War in North-West Pakistan
- Pakistan announces the arrest of twelve Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan in relation to their alleged involvement in last year's school massacre. (Al Jazeera)
- Police and gunmen exchange gunfire in Peshawar after an explosion is reported at a nearby Shia mosque. (BBC)
- Boko Haram insurgency
Business and economy
- Fitch Ratings downgrades Ukraine's credit rating to junk bond status predicting it is likely to default on its debts. (AFP via France 24)[permanent dead link]
Disasters and accidents
- A bus crashes with a freight train in the Mexican state of Nuevo León, killing at least sixteen people and injuring 30. (Reuters)
Health
- Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa
- Sierra Leone quarantines 700 homes in the Aberdeen district of Freetown following the death of a fisherman. (AFP via West Australian)
International relations
- United Nations negotiators produce an early draft on an agreement to be put to a conference on climate change in Paris in December. (AP)
Law and crime
- An Egyptian court orders the release from prison of Canadian journalist Mohamed Fahmy in Cairo. (CP via CP24)
Politics and elections
- The Queensland Labor Party led by Annastacia Palaszczuk will be in a position to form a minority government after the polls are declared in the Queensland state election. (ABC Australia)
- Voters elect Wang Rong Chairman of the People's Political Consultative Conference of Guangdong province, in China, replacing Zhu Mingguo, who was dismissed for corruption. (SCMP)
- The Governor of Oregon John Kitzhaber resigns amid allegations his fiancee used taxpayer resources to aid her green-energy consulting business. Kate Brown moves up to Governor from being the Secretary of State. (AP) (AP²) (The New York Times)