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Current events of February 7, 2015 (2015-02-07) (Saturday)

North Korea test fires a new "ultra-precision" intelligent missile which is to be deployed across its navy. (AFP via France 24)
War in Donbass
- The leaders of France, Germany and Russia agree to work on a peace plan to be put to the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko on Sunday. (BBC)
Iraqi insurgency (2011–present)
- Bombings in Baghdad kill at least 37 people hours before the city's curfew was due to end. Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant claims responsibility. (AP via Los Angeles Times), (AP via KSL)
Islamist insurgency in Nigeria
- Nigeria postpones its general election for six weeks to allow its armed forces to control parts of the country currently controlled by Boko Haram. (Irish Times)

NBC Nightly News host Brian Williams stands aside temporarily after he was caught lying about having been involved in a helicopter crash during the 2003 invasion of Iraq. (National Post)

The management of Twentieth Century Fox considers granting permission to a group of investors, including some hedge funds, seeking to amend the company's charter and turn their type of voting shares of stock into non-voting shares, a conversion that might raise that type of shares' market price and that also would further concentrate control in the hands of Rupert Murdoch and his family. (Reuters)

TransAsia cancels dozens of flights to retrain its pilots following the crash of TransAsia Airways Flight 235 earlier in the week. (AFP via Daily Mail)