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

North Korea and weapons of mass destruction
- North Korea test fires a new "ultra-precision" intelligent anti-ship 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)
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
- Bombings in Baghdad kill at least 37 people hours before the city's curfew was due to end. ISIL 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 anchorman Brian Williams begins a temporary hiatus after he was caught lying about having been onboard an underfire helicopter which crashed during the 2003 invasion of Iraq. (AP)

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 February 4 crash of TransAsia Airways Flight 235 which killed at least 43 people. (AFP via Daily Mail)

Seven people shot, four killed, including several children, in Douglasville, Georgia, ending with the gunman commiting suicide. (FOX News)