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February 9, 2015
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Armed conflicts and attacks
War in Donbass
Fighting in the past 24 hours kills at least nine
Ukrainian
soldiers.
(Reuters)
An artillery shell causes a massive explosion at a chemical plant in
Donetsk
.
(ABC News)
Boko Haram
Boko Haram launch a raid on a prison in the town of
Diffa
in
Niger
. Authorities repel the attack.
(AP)
Hooded gunmen attack
French police
in the city of
Marseille
, which
Prime Minister
Manuel Valls
is due to visit.
(
The Telegraph
)
Several attacks
, including a suicide bombing, kill at least 22 in
Baghdad
,
Iraq
, in a predominantly Shiite part of the capital.
(AP)
Members of
Ireland's
police force
Garda Síochána
raid the
Dublin
home of former MEP
Paul Murphy
TD
, taking Murphy into custody along with three other
activists and politicians opposing the water-tax-rate change
, stirring nationwide speculation of "political policing." The police later release all four without charges.
(
Independent.IE
)
(
The Irish Times
)
(
The Irish Times
²)
Somali Civil War (2009–present)
Islamists from
al-Shabab
kill a member of the
parliament
Abdullahi Qayad Barre in the capital city of
Mogadishu
,
Somalia
.
(BBC)
Business and economy
A Canadian
gold mining
company,
Tahoe Resources
, agrees to buy
Rio Alto Mining
for more than
CAN$
1 billion, part of an ongoing consolidation in the
precious metals
mining industry.
(Reuters)
Disasters and accidents
Mountaineers
claim to have found in the
Andes
the wreckage of
LAN Chile Flight 210
that disappeared in August 1961 killing 24 people on board including eight members and two coaches of the
Club de Deportes Green Cross
football team.
(
The Independent
)
The U.S. city of
Boston
,
Massachusetts
, sets all-time records for amount of snow on the ground and amount of snow over 30-day and 40-day periods in 17 days.
(WCVB)
(NBC News)
Two buses crash head-on in
Bình Thuận
’s
Hàm Thuận Nam District
,
Viet Nam
, killing 10 people and injuring 9 others.
(Thanh Nien News)
Law and crime
Samsung
reveals potential for next generation smart TVs to eavesdrop.
(AP)
Politics and elections
Bahrain
suspends the newly launched
Alarab News Channel
. On February 1, 2015, Alarab's first day of operations,
Bahrain's Information Affairs Authority
had ordered the channel to cease broadcasting since it had not done enough to combat “extremism and terrorism.” Alarab had debuted with a Shia opposition politician interview.
(Al Jazeera)
(
The Nation
)
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