Portal:Current events/2015 February 27

Current events of February 27, 2015 (2015-02-27) (Friday)

Armed conflicts and attacks Somali pirates release four Thai hostages after nearly five years of captivity. (Reuters) Arts and culture American actor Leonard Nimoy, best known for his role as Spock from the Star Trek franchise, dies at the age of 83 from complications of COPD. (Variety via MSN) Law and crime Avijit Roy, an American writer and blogger from Bangladesh, is hacked to death by unknown attackers in Dhaka. (The Telegraph) A gunman kills seven people then himself in a series of shootings in Tyrone, Missouri. (NBC News) Assassination of Boris Nemtsov In Moscow, an unidentified attacker assassinates leading Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov, the former Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation and current member of regional parliament of Yaroslavl Oblast. (euronews) (BBC) An elderly man shoots and kills three people and then himself in the South Korean city of Hwaseong. (Yonhap News) (The Korea Herald) (Los Angeles Times) Mexican security forces arrest drug lord Servando Gómez Martínez in Morelia, Michoacán. (AP)