Portal:Current events/2015 April 15
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;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. [http://www.theeagle.com/news/world/fierce-clashes-in-iraq-as-is-seizes-villages-near-ramadi/article_6a29e420-d1db-5c05-8a31-29cd409bf45a.html (The Eagle)]
;Business and economy
- Nokia announces plans to buy telecommunications equipment maker Alcatel-Lucent for €15.6 billion (US$16.6 billion). [https://www.theverge.com/2015/4/15/8418709/nokia-alcatel-lucent-merge (The Verge)]
- The European Union formally charges Google with antitrust breaches. [http://www.skynews.com.au/news/top-stories/2015/04/15/eu-charges-google-with-market-abuse.html (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." [http://edition.cnn.com/2015/04/03/middleeast/iran-nuclear-netanyahu/ (CNN)] [http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/1.650803 (Haaretz)]
- The European Parliament approves a resolution to mark the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide. [http://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinion/international/europe/2015/04/eu_parliament_oks_resolution_to_remember_armenian_genocide (AP via Boston Herald)]{{Dead link|date=August 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
- Jamal Benomar resigns as the United Nations peace envoy to Yemen after losing support from the Gulf nations. [http://www.straitstimes.com/news/world/middle-east/story/un-peace-envoy-yemen-resigns-after-losing-support-gulf-countries-201504 (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. [http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2015/04/15/Six-arrested-in-UK-on-suspicion-of-terrorism.html (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. [http://edition.cnn.com/2015/04/15/us/aaron-hernandez-verdict/ (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. [http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/14/us/arizona-police-run-over-suspect/index.html (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. [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/local/wp/2015/04/15/a-gyrocopter-just-landed-on-the-capitol-lawn/ (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. [https://web.archive.org/web/20151127214925/http://wtop.com/latin-america/2015/04/ex-colombia-ministers-convicted-of-bribes-on-behalf-of-uribe/ (AP via WTOP)]
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