Portal:Current events/2015 April 15
April 15, 2015 (Wednesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
- Fierce clashes in Iraq's Anbar province as Islamic State captures three villages near the provincial capital Ramadi. (The Eagle)
Business and economy
- Nokia announces plans to buy telecommunications equipment maker Alcatel-Lucent for €15.6 billion (US$16.6 billion). (The Verge)
- The European Union formally charges Google with antitrust breaches. (Sky News)
International relations
- Benjamin Netanyahu demands that any final agreement on the Iranian nuclear program include a "clear and unambiguous Iranian recognition of Israel's right to exist." (CNN) (Haaretz)
- The European Parliament approves a resolution to mark the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide. (AP via Boston Herald)[permanent dead link]
- Jamal Benomar resigns as the United Nations peace envoy to Yemen after losing support from the Gulf nations. (AFP via Straits Times)
Law and crime
- British police arrest six people on suspicion of terrorism after Turkish authorities stop a group crossing the Syrian border. (Al Arabiyah)
- Former American football player Aaron Hernandez is convicted of murder in the first degree in the town of Fall River, Massachusetts. Hernandez shot a former friend Odin Lloyd in 2013. He was automatically sentenced to life in prison without parole. (CNN)
- In Arizona, dashcam video showed a police officer intentionally running over an armed suspect. The suspect had stolen a rifle from a nearby Walmart, and had discharged the weapon in a neighborhood. (CNN)
- A mailman from Florida was arrested after he made an unauthorized landing of a small gyrocopter with postal service markings on the Capitol West Front Lawn. He had told a newspaper that a terrorist would not have informed the public that he planned a non-violent protest flight for campaign finance reform. (Washington Post)
- Two former Colombian ministers Sabas Pretelt and Diego Palacio are sentenced to six years in prison for corruption in bribing lawmakers to support the 2006 re-election bid of former President Alvaro Uribe. (AP via WTOP)