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Current events of
February 25, 2015
(
2015-02-25
)
(Wednesday)
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Arts and culture
2015 Brit Awards
American entertainer
Madonna
falls off stage while performing "
Living for Love
" at the 2015 Brit Awards.
(PA via WA Today)
Mark Ronson
wins Best British single for "
Uptown Funk
" featuring American singer
Bruno Mars
.
(
The Guardian
)
Ed Sheeran
wins Best British album for
x
.
(
The Guardian
)
Disasters and accidents
At least
187 people are killed
in
avalanches
in northeastern
Afghanistan
(BBC News)
Health
The
Atlanta
-based U.S.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC), were so concerned about a study released today in
The New England Journal of Medicine
, that they are launching another new study about why so many people are becoming infected by or exposed to the
potentially deadly
Clostridium difficile
("
C. diff.
") bacterium after going to the doctor's or dentist's office.
(CNN)
(CDC)
(NEJM)
Law and crime
An arrest warrant is issued for
Khaleda Zia
, former
Prime Minister of Bangladesh
, after she fails to show up to face
graft
charges.
(BD News)
Film director
Roman Polanski
testifies at a closed to the media court hearing in
Kraków
,
Poland
, regarding a US request for his extradition over a
1977 child sex crime conviction
. The hearing is later postponed until April.
(The Guardian)
(CNN)
Morgan Stanley
agrees to pay $2.6 billion to settle with the
United States Department of Justice
over its sale of residential
mortgage
backed securities.
(Bloomberg)
The
Austrian Parliament
passes a bill, partly aimed at tackling Islamist radicalism, that gives Muslims more legal security but bans foreign funding for mosques and imams.
(BBC)
A
United States
district court
judge
orders documents turned over to
hedge fund
NML Capital
with regard to the flow of funds in a February 9 issuance of
Argentina
dollar denominated
sovereign bonds
.
(Reuters)
International relations
The
Argentine National Congress
approves installation of a Chinese satellite tracking station in
Patagonia
.
(AP)
Politics and elections
Faure Gnassingbé
, the
President of Togo
, announces his candidacy for the
forthcoming election
in April.
(AFP via Yahoo! News)
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