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)
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)