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Current events of March 2, 2015 (2015-03-02) (Monday)

Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant:
- A coalition of Iraqi Armed Forces and militia numbering around 30,000 launches an offensive against Islamic State positions in Tikrit. Troops seize control of the district of al-Tin and al-Abeid. (BBC)
Second Libyan Civil War (2014–present)
- Libya's council of Deputies agrees to resume peace talks. (Reuters via Daily Mail)

Murder of Boris Nemtsov
- Latvian lawmaker, vice-chair of the biggest bloc in the EU, Sandra Kalniete is refused entry into Russia at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport, having received no reasonable explanation for the ban is flown back to Brussels. (Yahoo! News)
- Russia's authorities deny Poland's Poland's Senate speaker Bogdan Borusewicz entry into Russia for the funeral of slain Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov. (abc news)
In response to joint exercises held by South Korea and the United States, North Korea fires two short-range missiles off its coast. (Reuters)

A man shoots a woman and a seven-year-old boy then himself in the Queensland town of Biddeston, west of Brisbane, Australia. (ABC News)

Durham Police arrest English and Sunderland footballer Adam Johnson due to suspected sexual activity with a girl under the age of sixteen. (BBC News)