Portal:Current events/2015 February 3

• In the town of Chuddogram in eastern Bangladesh, anti-government protesters firebomb a bus full of sleeping passengers, leaving seven people dead. (AFP via ABC News)
• Egyptian Army soldiers fire warning shots at the Gaza Strip after an explosion occurs on the Gaza side of the border near a convoy. (Reuters)
• Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
  • The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant posts pictures of Jordanian Air Force pilot Muath Al-Kasasbeh being burnt alive which Jordan believes are a month old. (BBC)

• American author Harper Lee announced plans to publish her second book, a sequel to To Kill a Mockingbird, that was completed in the 1950s but misplaced. July 14, 2015 will be the release date for Go Set a Watchman. (The Telegraph) (ABC News)

• 2014–15 Australian bushfire season
  • The Department of Fire and Emergency Services orders the evacuation of residents of the Western Australia town of Northcliffe as a bushfire approaches. (Perth Now)
• An explosion at the Galleria 220 shopping center in the Perth suburb of Morley kills at least one person and injures nine others. (News Limited)
• 2014–15 North American winter
  • Ten people die in Cook County, Illinois while shoveling snow. (Chicago Tribune)
• A collision between a commuter train and a passenger vehicle kills six in Valhalla, New York. (AP via MSN) (CBS Local)

• The Iranian parliament passes a new bill that requires the Rouhani administration to cancel the Geneva interim agreement on the Iranian nuclear program in case of new US sanctions, as a response to a similar action by the Congress. (Icana)

• Standard & Poor's reaches settlements totaling $1.5 billion with the U.S. Justice Department and several U.S. states for inflating ratings on subprime mortgage bonds in the lead-up to the 2008 financial crisis. (Bloomberg)
• The investigator into the death of Argentinian prosecutor Alberto Nisman states that Nisman had drafted a request that President Cristina Fernandez be arrested for allegedly attempting to derail his investigation of the 1994 AMIA bombing that killed 85 people. (Reuters)

• John Baird resigns as the Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs. (Daily Mail)