Portal:Current events/2015 February 20

• Al Qubbah bombings
  • Multiple car bombs kill at least 45 and wound 30 in the eastern Libyan town of Al Qubbah. (BBC) (AP)
• Somali Civil War (2009–present)
  • At least 20 people are killed, including senior officials, in an attack on the Central Hotel in Mogadishu. (BBC)

• The government of Greece and the authorities of the Eurozone reach a tentative agreement about the extension of the bailout terms. (Yahoo! Finance)

• The International Longshore and Warehouse Union and the Pacific Maritime Association negotiate a tentative contract and will open docks at western U.S. ports beginning on February 21. (AP)

• 2014–15 Australian region cyclone season
  • Cyclone Marcia makes landfall near Shoalwater Bay in central Queensland as a Category 5 tropical cyclone with wind gusts of up to 285 kilometres per hour. (ABC News Australia)
  • Cyclone Lam makes landfall in Arnhem Land between Millingimbi and Elcho Island. The communities of Ramingining and Galiwinku have also been badly damaged. (ABC News Australia)
• Two trains collide in the Swiss town of Rafz resulting in as many as 49 people injured and Swiss Federal Railways cancelling some services. (Reuters)
• High tides cause the River Thames to flood in parts of southwest London. (Evening Standard)
• A fire rips through The Marina Torch apartment complex in Dubai, one of the tallest residential apartment buildings in the world. (BBC)
• At least 23 people die this week in the United States due to cold weather, with 18 dead in the state of Tennessee. (CNN)

• Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa
  • Liberia lifts curfews and reopens borders from Sunday as the epidemic starts to end. (Daily Star)

• Australian rugby star Karmichael Hunt is arrested on charges of supplying cocaine following a Queensland Crime and Corruption Commission operation. (NZ Newswire via Yahoo! 7)
• Thailand passes a law banning foreigners from hiring Thai women as commercial surrogate mothers. (BBC)
• Zambia's top prosecutor Mutembo Nchito refuses to prosecute himself for alleged abuse of office. (AFP via France 24)^{[permanent dead link‍]}

• Yemeni Crisis (2011–present)
  • The Houthis come to a preliminary agreement to form a new government in Yemen. (CNN)

• In motor sport, NASCAR indefinitely suspends former Cup Series champion Kurt Busch following a conviction for domestic violence against his girlfriend. (CNN)