At least 20 people are killed when a boat carrying wedding guests collides with a river barge in western Myanmar.
ground warfare branch of Pakistan's military
practice of destroying or otherwise abusing the quran for anti-islamic purposes, whether political or religious
2017 Democratic Party (Italy) leadership election
Suspected Maoist insurgents kill at least 24 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) officers in the Sukma district of Chhattisgarh, India.
Date: 16 March 2004 – present (18 years, 10 months, 1 week and 4 days)
April 2017 Turkish airstrikes in Syria and Iraq
Al-Malikiyah District, al-Hasakah Governorate, Syria Mount Sinjar, Nineveh Governorate, Iraq
Yesterday's terrorist attack in Paris disrupts campaigning for the elections. ,
Somali pirates hijack an Indian cargo ship off the coast of Puntland.
The 2017 White House Correspondents' Dinner is held while Donald Trump decides not to attend, becoming the first incumbent president to do so since Ronald Reagan, who did not attend the dinner while recovering from a 1981 assassination attempt.
Two earthquakes, with magnitudes of 5.6 and 6.0 and related to the April 4 magnitude 5.5 earthquake, hits Batangas, and are felt as far as Metro Manila.
American pipeline operator Williams Partners has agreed to sell an olefins plant in Louisiana to Canadian chemical company Nova Chemicals for $2.1 billion.
To be inducted as coaches are Robert Hughes, Muffet McGraw, and Bill Self.
sports teams of Wichita State University
independent city in Missouri, United States
former American multinational mass media corporation
Capital of the Colombian department of Putumayo
South Carolina defeats fellow Southeastern Conference team Mississippi State 67–55 for the Gamecocks' first national title.
British multinational oil and gas company
Unified combatant command of the United States Armed Forces responsible for the Indo-Asia-Pacific region
homicide of a member of a family or social group by other members, due to the belief that the victim has brought dishonor upon the family or community
North Korea announces its readiness to declare war on the United States after the country previously stated that they felt threatened as U.S. military forces approach the Korean Peninsula.
The pilot ejected and was recovered safely.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security withdraws its order that Twitter unmask a user whose tweets are critical of President Donald Trump following the company's court filing to block the order on constitutional grounds.
Washington State University professor Peter Engels and his team announce they have created a fluid that displays negative mass.
Arab ethnic group who mostly adhere to Islam
At least 17 people are killed after an Andean landslide strikes the Colombian city of Manizales.
group of Chiefs from each major branch of the armed services in the Republic of Korea Armed Forces
European Union leaders approve negotiating guidelines that seek to secure "sufficient progress" on the rights of European Union expatriates living in the United Kingdom, on the financial terms of the separation and on a "soft border" between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, before committing to talk about a new free trade deal.
Dozens of people in Vanuatu are in shelters as Cyclone Cook hits the island. It is due to pass through New Caledonia tomorrow.
Indonesian voters in Jakarta return to the polls for the second round of a gubernatorial election between incumbent Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, whose alleged blasphemy sparked mass protests in November, and Anies Baswedan. Opinion polls give Baswedan a narrow lead.
One NGO says "more would die" if they were not there.
controversies surrounding hijabs and burkas in Europe
Chinese president Xi Jinping visits Finland on his way to the United States.
motorsport involving the racing of cars for competition
The Maldives Police Service arrests the country's opposition leader, Qasim Ibrahim, after his party's failed bid to impeach the Speaker of the People's Majlis.
Kay Ivey is sworn in as Alabama Governor.
A boat carrying migrants sinks off the coast of Libya, with 97 people reported missing. 23 others were rescued by the Libyan coast guard.
political party in Australia (2016-2019)
United Airlines CEO Oscar Munoz issues an apology for the removal of a passenger from an overbooked flight on April 9, which has since gone viral. United Airlines stock drops more than 4%, a loss of £800 million to the company's value.
List of people executed in the United States in 2017
Arkansas becomes the first U.S. state since Texas in 2000 to hold two executions on the same day as executes convicted murderers Jack Jones, Jr. and Marcel Williams.
An attack on a Saint Petersburg Metro train at Sennaya Ploshchad station kills at least 11 people and injures more than 50 others. Authorities disarm another bomb, found at nearby Vosstaniya Square station.
Israeli Intelligence Minister Yisrael Katz states that the strike "corresponds completely with Israel's policy".
The Parliament of Montenegro votes 46–0 to ratify Montenegro's membership of NATO, while opposition politicians boycott the vote and hold protests.
Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of the opposition Labour Party, positions himself as an "anti-establishment" candidate as he vows to end the "rigged" system.
Indonesian politician and former governor of Jakarta
The New York Daily News and ProPublica win the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for reporting on nuisance abatement by police targeting minorities.
New polls show François Fillon and Jean-Luc Mélenchon neck and neck behind the frontrunners Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen ahead of the upcoming first round of the election.
international organization of states in the Americas
series of rallies and marches held in Washington, D.C. and over 500 cities across the world on April 22, 2017
2017 South Ossetian presidential election
A BP Alaskan North Slope oil well near Deadhorse Airport, that was leaking oil and natural gas since it was discovered on Friday, is successfully plugged, according to private and government reports.
The Afghan Minister of Defense, Abdullah Habibi and the Chief of Staff of the Afghan National Army, Qadam Shah Shahim, resign after a Taliban attack on Camp Shaheen near Mazar-i-Sharif that claimed over 140 lives.
Former French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin announces he is backing Emmanuel Macron in the election.
To be inducted as contributors are Mannie Jackson, Tom Jernstedt, Jerry Krause, and Rebecca Lobo.
ISIL supporter, Terrence J. McNeil, of Akron, Ohio, pleads guilty to five counts of soliciting to commit criminal violence and communicating interstate threats in calls to kill U.S. military personnel. He is scheduled to be sentenced in August and faces up to 20 years in prison.
Voters go to the polls for municipal elections in Finland.
Taliban insurgents attack an Afghan military base in Mazar-e-Sharif, Balkh Province, killing more than 140 soldiers.
Five people drowned while eleven are still missing after a boat capsized off the coast of Rumphi District on Lake Malawi.
Government-aligned militias kill 16 people during a raid in Wau, South Sudan.
Upper house of the Congress of the Philippines
national-conservative political party in Armenia
Queen of the United Kingdom from 1952 to 2022
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports a large explosion near Damascus International Airport followed by a fire.
The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals previously found that the law had the effect of discriminating against minority voters, and remanded the case to the district court for further action.
Somalia-based cell of the militant Islamist group al-Qaeda
One student is murdered and another injured in Mardan, Pakistan over alleged blasphemy.
According to the Russian Defence Ministry, two of its soldiers have been killed by a mortar attack in Syria while another was wounded. The ministry did not specify when or where the attack occurred.
terrorism in the region of United Kingdom
A state of emergency is declared and coastal areas are evacuated in the Coromandel Peninsula as Cyclone Cook sweeps across the North Island of New Zealand.
Pakistan's opposition interrupts Parliament's scheduled session demanding Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif resign during the investigation of his finances, per Thursday's Supreme Court ruling.
American businessperson and board member, former Chief Executive Officer United Airlines
republic of Russia, federal subject of Russia
More than 2,000 migrants are rescued from the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Libya.
North American professional sports league
American singer, songwriter, musician and activist
Authorities declare that the Republican Party, led by President Serzh Sargsyan, wins the Armenia election amid accusations by opposition parties and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe of voting irregularities.
American film director Jonathan Demme, winner of the Academy Award for Best Director for The Silence of the Lambs, dies of complications from esophageal cancer.
commemoration of the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem
Twenty-seven people are killed in Kenya's Makueni County when a bus and a truck collide on the Nairobi–Mombasa Road.
Afghan government ministry responsible for military and national defense matters
Pedro Hernandez, convicted in February 2017 for the May 25, 1979 death of Etan Patz in the SoHo neighborhood of Manhattan, was sentenced yesterday to 25 years to life imprisonment.
Alabama Governor Robert J. Bentley resigns as the Alabama House Judiciary Committee began impeachment proceedings against him over a relationship with a former aide. In addition, Bentley pleads guilty to two "failure to disclose" misdemeanors. Kay Ivey is sworn in as Alabama Governor. Under terms of the plea bargain, Bentley is forbidden from ever running for elected office in Alabama again.
On a Saint Petersburg Metro train between Sennaya Ploshchad and Tekhnologichesky Institut stations, Saint Petersburg, Russia
A landfill slide in Colombo, Sri Lanka, kills at least 16 people.
Thousands of German riot police are deployed to control protesters opposing the Alternative for Germany at the party's conference in Cologne.
Three senior figures in the Bharatiya Janata Party, L.K. Advani, Uma Bharati and Murli Manohar Joshi, will be tried for their alleged role in the destruction of the Babri Masjid Mosque in the northern Indian town of Ayodhya.
An Italian prosecutor says there are "telephone calls" between people smugglers in Libya and some non-governmental organizations. Frontex, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, says the practices amount to a "taxi service". One NGO says "more would die" if they were not there.
present phase of the Somali Civil War, concentrated in southern Somalia
In basketball, Russell Westbrook of the Oklahoma City Thunder ensures that he will average a triple-double for the 2016–17 NBA season in the Thunder's game against the Phoenix Suns. He becomes only the second NBA player to average a triple-double over a season, after Oscar Robertson with the Cincinnati Royals (now known as the Sacramento Kings) in 1961–62.
The accused include PNP chief Ronald dela Rosa, Justice secretary Vitaliano Aguirre, Edilberto Leonardo, Royina Garma, House speaker Pantaleon Alvarez, former Interior secretary Ismael Sueno, Sonny Buenaventura, Solicitor General Jose Calida, Dante Gierran, Senator Richard J. Gordon, and Senator Alan Peter Cayetano.
Archbishop Georg Gänswein who is Pope Benedict XVI's personal secretary since 2003 interviews with EWTN's German television branch on the occasion of the emeritus pope's 90th birthday.
Zoologists led by the University of Papua announce the first sighting of a pack of New Guinea highland wild dogs in the wild of New Guinea, near the Grasberg mine, in over four decades.
The release also includes programs targeting Microsoft Windows operating systems. Microsoft announces that it had already fixed most (but not all) of these exploits.
citizen as he sought to leave the country.
English computer scientist Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee is awarded the 2016 A.M. Turing Award for inventing the World Wide Web, the first web browser, and the protocols and algorithms that allow the Web to scale.
second largest island of the Philippines
The Supreme Court of the United States refuses to vacate a stay of execution issued by the Arkansas Supreme Court. Arkansas's highest court has also put on hold the execution of another inmate, Bruce Ward. The state had planned to execute eight inmates in eleven days. That schedule, as well as the use of the drug midazolam, sparked a broad range of legal challenges and humanitarian concerns about the executions. Today's planned execution of Don W. Davis would have been the state's first since 2005.
A ten-year-old boy from Florida with autism is arrested at school, and spends the night in a juvenile facility. Unknown to the family, the boy had an outstanding warrant for his arrest after kicking and scratching one of his educators. The Autism Society of America is looking into legal options.
group of people by practices, race, religion, ethnicity, or other characteristics who are fewer in numbers than the main groups of those classifications
American consumer goods company Post Holdings agrees to acquire British cereal maker Weetabix Limited from China's Bright Food for $1.8 billion.
An elementary school teacher and an 8-year-old student were shot and killed by the teacher's estranged husband, who then killed himself, at North Park Elementary School in San Bernardino, California.
combined military forces of the Philippines
2017 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship Game
French Interior Minister Matthias Fekl announces that police have foiled an "imminent and violent" attack in Marseille, arresting two suspects and confiscating weapons and bomb material.
Ten people are killed in Inabanga, Bohol, in the Philippines' Central Visayas, after the country's National Police and Armed Forces clash with suspected members of Abu Sayyaf.
most populous city in the United States of America
The United States announced it will end a six-year Central-African hunt for Joseph Kony the following day.
A second parchment manuscript of the United States Declaration of Independence is discovered by Harvard University researchers, in a record office in Chichester, United Kingdom.
conflict between NATO Western forces and the Taliban
Texas A&M University American football team
Federation of Quebec Maple Syrup Producers
airport in Chicago, Illinois, United States
That schedule, as well as the use of the drug midazolam, sparked a broad range of legal challenges and humanitarian concerns about the executions.
President Donald Trump's pick for the U.S. Supreme Court, Neil Gorsuch, is sworn in at the White House.
Two people are killed in an attack in a Federal Security Service office in the Russian city of Khabarovsk. The gunman is also killed. The US-Israeli SITE Intelligence Group says Amaq News Agency claims the attack for Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. The Russian Federal Security Service says the native 18-year-old perpetrator was a known member of a neo-nazi group.
One person is killed and seven are injured in a shooting at a pool party in San Diego, California. The suspect is killed by police.
artillery weapon that launches explosive projectiles at high angles
United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
In ice hockey, SKA St. Petersburg wins the Gagarin Cup, the championship of the Kontinental Hockey League, with a 5–3 win over Metallurg Magnitogorsk in Game 5 to win the championship series 4–1.
Former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez, acquitted last week of a 2012 double murder but serving a life sentence for a 2013 murder, is found hanged in his prison cell, and is pronounced dead an hour later.
Office of the Vice President of the Islamic Republic of Iran
The death tolls from tornadoes and floods in the midwestern and southern United States rises to ten with two people missing.
The suspected gunman, who was already wanted for another murder four days earlier, and who expressed hatred of whites and the government, is arrested.
Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election
Both Paul Ryan and Tom Perez plan to campaign for the local candidates Karen Handel and Jon Ossoff respectively.
Jakarta's current governor, Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, concedes to Muslim former government minister Anies Baswedan.
A car bomb explodes outside the Ministry of Defence in Mogadishu, killing at least 15 people. Al-Shabaab claims responsibility for the attack.
capital and largest city of the United Kingdom
U.S. Congressional negotiators reach a bipartisan agreement on the FY 2017 federal government budget that, once approved by both Houses, will fund the entire fiscal year through September 30.
To be inducted as players are Zack Clayton, Nikos Galis, George McGinnis, and Tracy McGrady.
A U.S. member of the OSCE monitoring mission is killed and two others injured after their vehicle drives over a land mine near Luhansk.
Results, published in The Lancet medical journal, of the WOMAN (World Maternal Antifibrinolytic) international study that began in 2010, finds use of a cheap and widely available drug, tranexamic acid (Lysteda in the U.S.
4th President of South Africa (2009–2018)
Mortar rounds are fired in a neighborhood in Wadajir District, Somalia, killing three civilians. Al-Shabaab is suspected of being behind the attack.
The United States ended a six-year Central-African hunt for Joseph Kony.
List of offenders executed in the United States in 2017
Attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan
1981 shooting of US President Ronald Reagan and murder of then White House Press Secretary James Brady
Tens of thousands of people protest in Washington, D.C. to bring awareness to climate change.
neighborhoods of Cleveland in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States
Over 50,000 people participate in the ongoing Democratic Alliance protests in South Africa against President Jacob Zuma.
Sennaya Ploshchad (Saint Petersburg Metro)
metro station in Saint Petersburg, Russia
An affiliate of the NRA sues California for alleged discrimination.
People around the world gather during Earth Day to bring awareness to science.
department, group of municipalities, in Colombia
Pakistan sentences former Indian Navy officer Kulbhushan Yadav to death for espionage and sabotage.
Media reports indicate that former National Security Advisor Susan Rice improperly requested the unmasking of some American names, including those of Donald Trump's campaign staff, that had been incidentally collected during national security investigations.
In a move likely to cause concern in India, China and Nepal commenced last Sunday the first ever combined military exercises, focusing on counter-terror operations.
The American Airlines employee has been suspended.
The Moroccan Assembly of Representatives votes 208 to 91 in favor of approving of a coalition cabinet led by Saadeddine Othmani.
The airline’s Dubai hub, third-busiest in the world, is a major stop for travelers in countries affected by President Donald Trump’s travel ban, and is also one of several Middle East airports affected by a U.S.
Two U.S. service members are killed and a third is injured during a raid against ISIL militants in Afghanistan's Nangarhar Province.
A small Swiss-owned plane crashes in the Portuguese village of Tires, west of Lisbon, killing at least five people.
South Carolina Gamecocks women's basketball
women's basketball team of the University of South Carolina
Date: April 16, 2017 2:01 p.m. (killing of Godwin) April 18, 2017 (suicide of Stephens) (EDT)
A suicide bomber attacks a military training camp in Mogadishu, killing at least nine soldiers. Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for the attack.
Results, published in The Lancet medical journal, of the WOMAN (World Maternal Antifibrinolytic) international study that began in 2010, finds use of a cheap and widely available drug, tranexamic acid (Lysteda in the U.S. and Australia), could save the lives of thousands of women who die in childbirth from excessive bleeding. The medication is already in use for blood loss from major trauma, surgery, tooth removal, nose bleeds, and heavy menstruation.
Tornado outbreak and floods of April 28 – May 1, 2017
High Plains, Western United States (Rocky Mountains), Ohio Valley, Upper Midwest, Southeastern United States
A U.S. Navy F/A-18 Hornet crashes in the Celebes Sea off the Philippines during an attempted landing on the USS Carl Vinson. The pilot ejected and was recovered safely.
The United Kingdom House of Commons approves by 522 votes to 13 a snap general election to be held on June 8.
The Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office in Istanbul launches an investigation into 17 United States citizens in connection with the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt.
In auto racing, longtime NASCAR Cup Series star Dale Earnhardt Jr. announces that he will retire at the end of the 2017 season.
animal skin processed for writing or painting on
Electric Light Orchestra, Joan Baez, Journey, Pearl Jam, Tupac Shakur, and Yes are the six acts inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
The Bundestag approves a ban on burqas being worn by members of the German civil service.
The neighboring state of Georgia also faces the threat of severe weather.
The United Kingdom government agrees to sell the UK Green Investment Bank to a group led chiefly by Australian financial firm Macquarie Group for $3 billion, in a deal criticized as not securing the future of the bank.
American high-speed electronic trading company Virtu Financial agrees to buy its rival KCG Holdings for $1.4 billion.
Severe flooding caused by Cyclone Debbie forces the evacuation of Edgecumbe, New Zealand, and nearby areas.
intermontane valley in Jammu and Kashmir, bounded on the southwest by the Pir Panjal Range and on the northeast by the main Himalayas
protests against this change that turned violent
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
The militant Basque separatist group ETA begins handing over its remaining weapons during a ceremony in Bayonne, France, in which the group turned over to authorities an inventory of weapons and their locations.
legal declaration or de facto acts by a government allowing assumption of extraordinary powers
A United States Army UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter crashes on a golf course in Leonardtown, Maryland. At least one crew member is injured and taken to hospital.
Jihadist militant group in the Philippines
Venezuela's Supreme Court reverses their controversial ruling.
Date: July 1, 2016 – present (6 years, 6 months and 19 days)
Two openly gay candidates are elected to the Anchorage Assembly, becoming the first openly LGBT elected officials in Alaska. Approximately 20 percent of the city's population voted, a notably low turnout.
Russia suspends a pact with the United States to coordinate operations in Syrian airspace.
crime that covers some of the more extreme acts against one's sovereign or nation
An Egyptian excavation team discovers the remains of a pyramid dating back 3,700 years to the thirteenth Dynasty of Egypt at the Dahshur necropolis 40km south of Cairo.
One student is murdered and another injured in Mardan, Pakistan over alleged blasphemy. The student who died, Mashal Khan, was known on social media for his secular and liberal views.
In the other semifinal, North Carolina defeats Oregon 77–76.
Dicastery responsible for communications of the Holy See and the Vatican City
The United States Pacific Command deploys warships, including the USS Carl Vinson, to move towards the Korean Peninsula following North Korea's recent tests with weapons of mass destruction and opposition to the Sharyat missile strike. North Korea is also reclassified as a state sponsor of terrorism.
2016–17 North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team
For the first time, protesters were able to cross from the east to the western side of Caracas without being confronted by state security.
city in northern Iraq and capital of Nineveh Province
A toxic gas attack, allegedly by Syrian warplanes, kills at least 83 and injures many more in rebel-held Khan Shaykhun, Idlib.
Incumbent President Hassan Rouhani, chairman of Astan Quds Razavi Ebrahim Raisi and Tehran Mayor Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf is among the list.
Taliban insurgents attack an Afghan military base in Mazar-e-Sharif, Balkh Province, killing more than 140 soldiers. It is said to be the deadliest attack of its kind
Venezuela's Supreme Court reverses their controversial ruling. The court restores legislative power to the National Assembly. However, the court's decision still allows President Nicolás Maduro to enter joint-venture deals.
terrorist attack in Israel on 14 April 2017
A suicide bomber kills at least five people and injures ten more near government offices in Kabul. ISIL claims responsibility for the attack.
international court in Strasbourg, France, established by the European Convention on Human Rights
unicameral legislature of North Macedonia
Four Hellenic Army officers are killed and one is injured when their Bell UH-1 Iroquois border patrol helicopter crashes near Elassona in northern Greece.
A suicide bomber kills at least six people and injures 18 near a Pakistan Army vehicle taking part in the census in the city of Lahore.
property of a system to handle a growing amount of work by adding resources to the system
A mother and two children drown after their car plunges into the flooded Tweed River, raising the death toll to eight people. A ten-year-old girl escapes and alerts authorities.
Ilir Meta is elected the new President of Albania, winning 87 votes out of 140 members of the Assembly.
The bid for California independence ends.
Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales announces plans for a crowdfunded news website, Wikitribune, that will publish stories by journalists, with contributions, including fact checking, by volunteers to, among other goals, counter the recent spread of so-called "fake news".
Prominent Italian-born conservationist Kuki Gallmann is shot and injured in an ambush in northern Kenya.
Pope Francis expands the Secretariat for Communications and appoints 13 new consultants in addition to the 16 members added on July 13, 2016. The secretariat was established in June 2015.
President Joseph Kabila appoints Bruno Tshibala of the Union for Democracy and Social Progress as the Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Kabila's earlier announcement of his decision to appoint a new prime minister prompted Samy Badibanga to resign from the role after less than five months in office.
A British student is stabbed and killed during an attack on a light-rail train in Jerusalem, Israel. Two other passengers are injured. A Palestinian man with a history of mental problems and other issues is taken into custody by Israeli authorities. Israeli Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon linked the attack to terrorism.
borough of New York City, New York, United States
Executive Office of the President of the United States
A police Sikorsky S-70 helicopter crashes in Tunceli Province, Turkey, killing 12 people.
Three explosions occur near the Borussia Dortmund football team bus as it slowed down to turn a corner. Spanish player Marc Bartra was injured and has been taken to hospital. Dortmund's UEFA Champions League fixture against AS Monaco FC is subsequently postponed.
A United Airlines passenger is dragged off a flight at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago. The airline company is under fire because of the mistreatment of the passenger.
bike trail in Anchorage, Alaska named for the American politician
series of protests in Venezuela beginning in 2014
In Świebodzice, Poland, an old tenement house collapses killing at least six people, including two children, and injuring six.
At least ten Iranian border guards are killed in an ambush in the southeastern Sistan and Baluchestan Province on the border with Pakistan.
A ten-year-old girl escapes and alerts authorities.
Bongbong Marcos asks the Philippine Supreme Court to dismiss a counter-protest by current vice president Leni Robredo regarding her narrow victory in last year's national elections.
North Korea announces its readiness to declare war on the United States after the country previously stated that they felt threatened as U.S.
Joint bomb and gun attacks kill at least two in Narathiwat, Pattani, and Songkhla Provinces of Thailand, the latest in a long string of such attacks.
A wave of small-scale terrorist attacks, including tire burning and the bombing of the electric grid, hits the Thai provinces of Yala, Pattani, Narathiwat, and Songkhla in response to the new Constitution of Thailand.
In basketball, Russell Westbrook of the Oklahoma City Thunder sets a new record for most triple-doubles in an NBA season, collecting his 42nd of the 2016–17 season in the Thunder's 106–105 win over the Denver Nuggets.
in rugby union, RGC 1404 win the Welsh SWALEC National Cup for the first time in their short history.
The United Kingdom-based Jaeger fashion chain collapses into administration after failing to find a buyer.
Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
An explosion occurs at a carnival in Villepinte, Seine-Saint-Denis, France, injuring at least 18 people.
The United States deploys parts of its Terminal High Altitude Area Defense in South Korea amidst high tension caused by North Korea's escalation of its missile and nuclear weapons programs.
North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Han Song-ryol threatens to test missiles on a "weekly" basis, as United States Vice President Mike Pence warns the DPRK that the United States' "era of strategic patience" with the country was over.
Mexican drug cartel and organized crime syndicate
global system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet
type of natural disasters involving ground movements, often caused by slope instability triggered by specific event
Portuguese village located in the civil parish of São Domingos de Rana, in the coastal municipality of Cascais
At least 20 schoolchildren are killed after their minibus collides with a truck in Mpumalanga, South Africa.
List of secretaries of the Democratic Party (Italy)
Six people are killed and two are missing after the Jhelum River in Kashmir overflows following heavy rain and snowfall.
No candidate reaches a majority vote, so the first- and second-place finishers, Jon Ossoff (48.1%) and Karen Handel (19.8%), will face off in a runoff election on June 20, 2017.
In American football, the Cleveland Browns select Texas A&M defensive end Myles Garrett first in the 2017 NFL Draft.
head of government of the United Kingdom
Australia adds stricter requirements to its citizenship application process, including harder tests on English language skills and the requirement that a migrant be able to demonstrate "Australian values".
The Government of Egypt imposes a three-month state of emergency in response to the bombings.
Jean-François Jalkh, who replaced current presidential finalist Marine Le Pen as leader of the National Front, steps down from this role after three days following the reemergence of his comments questioning the logistics of Holocaust extermination camps, and is replaced by Steeve Briois.
An attack occurs at a Sufi shrine near Sargodha, Pakistan, killing more than 20 people. Authorities arrest a main suspect and several others.
parliamentary procedure of the United States Senate invoked to amend rules of discussion
U.S. District Court Judge William Orrick rules that President Donald Trump's executive order withholding federal funds from sanctuary cities is unconstitutional.
Achin District, Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan
Guardian Council announces names of six final candidates. Incumbent President Hassan Rouhani, chairman of Astan Quds Razavi Ebrahim Raisi and Tehran Mayor Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf is among the list. More than 1,600 nominees were disqualified, including all 137 female candidates and former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
In Paraguay, around 50 armed men, allegedly belonging to the Brazil-based Primeiro Comando da Capital criminal gang, storm a security vault and police headquarters in Ciudad del Este, escaping with around $6 million in a daring cross-border raid.
Political party in Ecuador "Creating Opportunities"
Wikipedia co-founder and American Internet entrepreneur
federal district court for southern Texas
The United States launches 60 Tomahawk cruise missiles aimed at the Ash Sha'irat air base in Homs Governorate in response to the Syrian government's alleged use of chemical weapons in its attack on the town of Khan Shaykhun. The Government of Syria claims the attack killed six soldiers and nine civilians, including four children.
The United States is to deploy troops to Somalia for the first time since 1994 to help train the Somali Armed Forces in their conflict with al-Shabaab insurgents.
Men's basketball Gonzaga defeats South Carolina 77–73 to advance to the title game on April 3.
A USAF F-16 crashes shortly after takeoff from Joint Base Andrews in Prince George's County, Maryland.
head of the United States Department of State
Three people die in a shooting spree in downtown Fresno, California. The suspected gunman, who was already wanted for another murder four days earlier, and who expressed hatred of whites and the government, is arrested.
Date: 8 August 2016 – c. 2019 (c. 3 years)
U.S. college athletic conference, 1979–2013
At least 7 people are killed in the US states of Missouri, Arkansas and Texas due to tornadoes and floods.
team sport played on a court with baskets on either end
Former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad registers to run in next month's election for a non-consecutive third term, according to state media.
Authorities cannot contact the South Korean cargo freighter Stellar Daisy. It is believed that the ship sunk off the coast of Uruguay.
Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Philippines from 2019 to 2020
An attack on a Saint Petersburg Metro train at Sennaya Ploshchad station kills at least 11 people and injures more than 50 others.
rugby union team founded in 2008, based in Colwyn Bay, Conwy
List of NCAA Division I conference changes since 2010
island country in the southwest Pacific Ocean
United States Secretary of State Rex Tillerson issues a statement saying "The United States has spoken enough about North Korea. We have no further comment."
Iraqi state-sponsored umbrella organization
British sports retailer Sports Direct agreed to acquire the American retail chains Bob's Stores and Eastern Mountain Sports for $101 million out of bankruptcy.
The death toll from flooding in the Philippine province of Cebu rises to nine with ten missing.
country in north-west Europe, part of the United Kingdom
Presidential candidate Marine Le Pen announces she is stepping down as leader of the National Front.
A Palestinian man with a history of mental problems and other issues is taken into custody by Israeli authorities.
Swiss mountain climber Ueli Steck dies in a mountaineering accident near Mount Everest.
Microsoft announces that it had already fixed most (but not all) of these exploits.
state-sponsored act constituting a serious violation of the laws of war
The United States launches 60 Tomahawk cruise missiles aimed at the Ash Sha'irat air base in Homs Governorate in response to the Syrian government's alleged use of chemical weapons in its attack on the town of Khan Shaykhun.
Saeed Karimian, the founder and director of GEM TV, a Persian language network based in Dubai, is shot dead in Istanbul, Turkey, along with his Kuwaiti business partner. Karimian had previously been tried in absentia by a Tehran court and sentenced to six years in prison for spreading propaganda against Iran.
A car bomb strikes a convoy of buses near Aleppo which were carrying evacuees from the pro-government towns of Al-Fu'ah and Kafriya. Over 100 people are killed.
2017 dissolution of Venezuelan National Assembly
2017 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament
United States top collegiate-level basketball tournament for 2017
At least 24 people are killed by a landslide in the small village of Ayu in southern Kyrgyzstan.
computer hacker group that released sensitive NSA data
The remarks come after United States president Donald Trump suggested that South Korea pay for the $1 billion system.
Nigerian spy chief Ayo Oke has been suspended by President Muhammadu Buhari after anti-corruption agents uncovered more than $43 million in cash at his flat in Lagos.
Local Republican candidate Karen Handel says she wants Donald Trump to campaign for her in the district.
U.S. President Donald Trump announces that he intends to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement, softening earlier claims that he would terminate the trade bloc.
Dressed in white, the Venezuela opposition march, in silence, to the headquarters of the country's Catholic archdiocese to honor the more than a dozen people killed in three weeks of protests. For the first time, protesters were able to cross from the east to the western side of Caracas without being confronted by state security.
Venezuelans continue their march against President Nicolás Maduro with thousands flocking into the streets of Caracas for a second day.
American professional women's basketball player
With polls showing a close race with Emmanuel Macron and Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Marine Le Pen of the National Front pledges to temporarily suspend all immigration, "legal and illegal", to France.
city in and county seat of Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States
social-democratic political party in Turkey
Authorities cannot contact the South Korean cargo freighter Stellar Daisy.
A Palestinian suspected of committing the attack is taken into custody.
Alternative for Germany chairwoman Frauke Petry announces that she will not lead the party in the September federal election, citing other party leaders' insistence on remaining a "fundamental opposition party", unwilling to join a coalition.
leader of the executive branch of the government of Pakistan
2017 South Ossetian name change referendum
Destruction of cultural heritage by the Islamic State
monuments destroyed by the Islamic State
Prime Minister of Norway Erna Solberg meets with Premier of the People's Republic of China Li Keqiang in Beijing to announce the end of a diplomatic freeze between the countries and the resumption of free trade negotiations between China and Norway.
Robert Bentley, the Governor of Alabama, declares a state of emergency due to forecasts of storms with the threat of tornadoes during the day. The neighboring state of Georgia also faces the threat of severe weather.
Yonhap reports that North Korea has detained a U.S. citizen as he sought to leave the country.
2013 murder in North Attleborough, Massachusetts
One team from Australia and two from South Africa will be axed, reducing the competition to 15 teams.
international efforts to resolve the Western Sahara conflict
Four inmates are killed at Kirkland Correctional Institution in South Carolina. Authorities have charged two inmates with the murders of the four men.
In rugby union, SANZAAR announces that three teams will be eliminated from Super Rugby after the current season. One team from Australia and two from South Africa will be axed, reducing the competition to 15 teams.
Roughly north to south: Houston to Canal Streets; and west to east: West Broadway or Sixth Avenue to Crosby Street or Lafayette Street Manhattan, New York City
House of Representatives of the Philippines
Lower house of the Congress of the Philippines
1974 multi-role fighter aircraft family by General Dynamics
higher education institution in Manokwari, Indonesia
Category 3 Cyclone Cook hits Grand Terre, the main island of New Caledonia.
Artifacts from Triquet Island, south-west of Hunter Island in British Columbia, are found to date back 14,000 years, marking the discovery of the oldest village in North America.
Strikes continue in the University of Puerto Rico because of university budget cuts from the Puerto Rico Oversight Board (PROMESA).
Voters in Turkey go to the polls for a referendum that seeks to replace the country's parliamentary system with an executive presidency, thereby giving President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan sweeping new powers.
Media reports indicate that former National Security Advisor Susan Rice improperly requested the unmasking of some American names, including those of Donald Trump's campaign staff, that had been incidentally collected during national security investigations. A National Security Adviser may request unmasking if specific criteria are met. A Rice associate denies that the unmasking was improper.
List of first overall National Football League Draft picks
In Świebodzice, Poland, an old tenement house collapses killing at least six people, including two children, and injuring six. The exploration teams are looking for 4 missing people.
All 78 crew aboard the ship were safely evacuated, according to Turkish officials.
2017 storming of the Macedonian Parliament
Date: 31 January 2009 – present (13 years, 11 months, 3 weeks and 6 days)
The five-day registration process of candidates begins for the elections to be held on 19 May.
In golf, Sergio García of Spain wins the 2017 U.S. Masters defeating Justin Rose of England in a sudden-death playoff. It is García's first major victory.
Russian politician and head of the Chechen Republic
act of murdering a large number of people
This death toll during the three weeks of anti-government protests is 20.
A magnitude 5.5 earthquake hits Batangas, causing damage to buildings and are felts as far as Metro Manila and Bulacan.
A 6.1 magnitude earthquake struck northeast Iran near the city of Mashhad, kills 1 person and at that least four were injured.
Russian military intervention in the Syrian civil war
global international and intergovernmental organization
Four inmates are killed at Kirkland Correctional Institution in South Carolina.
United States Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke says that Donald Trump plans to review U.S. national monuments.
conflict initiated by Rodrigo Duterte against drug lords and drug pushers
sovereign state in North Africa and Asia
Saudi Arabia's King Salman issues a number of royal decrees, one which restores financial allowances for civil servants and military personnel that had been cut seven months ago in response to the drop in oil prices.
United Airlines CEO Oscar Munoz issues an apology for the removal of a passenger from an overbooked flight on April 9, which has since gone viral.
A boiler explosion at a Missouri box company in St. Louis's historic Soulard neighborhood kills three people and injures four others.
Monitoring group Turkey Blocks reports that a provisional administrative order blocks access to all language editions of Wikipedia in Turkey.
Date: 16 October 2016 – 20 July 2017 (9 months and 4 days)
Paraguayan President Horacio Cartes says he will not be a candidate in next year's presidential election regardless of Congress's action on a constitutional amendment that would allow second terms. Cartes adds his decision was informed by Pope Francis's call for peace and dialogue in Paraguay following protests against this change that turned violent two weeks ago.
Unknown to the family, the boy had an outstanding warrant for his arrest after kicking and scratching one of his educators.
term referring to a homosexual person or the trait of homosexuality
At least 24 people are dead after a Leomarick Trans bus falls into a ravine in the Philippines province of Nueva Ecija.
The first six-man televised debate is held, which focused mostly on social issues.
process of verifying information in non-fictional text in order to determine its veracity and factual correctness
The Shadow Brokers group releases files allegedly from the National Security Agency which indicate efforts to monitor financial transactions made through the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication.
outdoor clothing and equipment retailer in the U.S.
monuments assigned protected status by presidents of the United States
David Hittner, U.S. District Court Judge for the Southern District of Texas, rules ExxonMobil Corporation should pay a $19.95 million penalty for pollution from its Baytown, Texas, refining and chemical plant complex for 16,386 days of violations and 10 million pounds (4.5 Gg) of pollutants that were released in violation of operating permits between 2005 and 2013.
List of presidents of the Assembly of the Republic of North Macedonia
conservative-democratic political party in Turkey
American Airlines announces it is investigating a viral video of an incident on a San Francisco to Dallas flight which shows a male flight attendant upsetting a female passenger, who he had allegedly forcefully taken a baby buggy from, and threatening to fight a male passenger. The American Airlines employee has been suspended.
highest court in the U.S. state of Arkansas
A freight train derails in Hunedoara County, Romania, killing both crew members on board.
The closely-watched CEVIPOF poll shows Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen clinging to a narrow lead heading into the first stage of the election, with Le Pen recently becoming embroiled in a spat with the European Commission after refusing to appear on TF1 while there remained a Flag of Europe in the background.
illegal trafficking or smuggling of contraband weapons or ammunition
He becomes only the second NBA player to average a triple-double over a season, after Oscar Robertson with the Cincinnati Royals (now known as the Sacramento Kings) in 1961–62.
Tesla Motors announces the recall of 50,000 Tesla Model S and Tesla Model X cars for a "brake issue".
federal agencies to take measures aimed at protecting U.S.
Earth's highest mountain above sea level, located in the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas
Georgia's 6th congressional district special election, 2017
Bongbong Marcos pays ₱36 million, half of the required amount to hold a recount against Philippine vice president Leni Robredo.
Ten people have died, five are injured and four missing after a bus plunges into a river in China's Guizhou province.
Mexican Beltrán Leyva Cartel drug lord Alfredo Beltrán Leyva is sentenced to life in prison and ordered to forfeit $US529,200,000.
sovereign state in the South Caucasus region of Eurasia
Libyan fisherman discover the bodies of 28 migrants in a broken-down boat off the coast of Sabratha.
voting system used to elect a single winner where a second round of voting is used if no candidate wins an absolute majority in the first round
A suicide bomber kills at least five people and injures ten more near government offices in Kabul.
more northern, and smaller, of the two main islands of New Zealand
country in southwestern Europe with territories in Africa
sovereign state in West Africa and North Africa
Turkish air strikes kill 18 Kurdish YPG fighters and media officials in northeastern Syria. Also five Peshmerga fighters are killed during a Turkish attack on Sinjar in Iraq. Turkey also claims to have destroyed "terror hubs". Iraq denounces the strike as a violation of its sovereignty.
cultural region in the southeastern and south-central United States
General Motors halts production in Venezuela after the government seizes its plants.
commodity which is produced and subsequently consumed by the consumer
Syrian Scientific Studies and Research Center
automotive manufacturing corporation based in Detroit, Michigan, USA
Cleveland police search for a suspect identified in a Facebook video showing one man shooting an elderly man.
A US-led airstrike intended to kill ISIS soldiers mistakenly kills 18 members of the Syrian Democratic Forces.
Neil Gorsuch is confirmed as the 113th justice of the Supreme Court of the United States by a 54–45 vote in the United States Senate after invocation of the "nuclear option".
2017 NCAA Division I men's basketball championship game
After two weeks of social unrest in French Guiana, the French government promises €1 billion for education, healthcare, security, and justice.
Pope Francis expands the Secretariat for Communications and appoints 13 new consultants in addition to the 16 members added on July 13, 2016.
capital and most populous city of France
One of the largest tunneling machines in the world and currently used in Seattle, USA
bicameral legislature of the United States
diplomatic relations between the People's Republic of China and the Republic of Finland
former armed Basque terrorist group (1959–2018)
Voters in Serbia go to the polls for an election, which Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić of the conservative Serbian Progressive Party is expected to win. In projections, Vučić gets around 55% of the votes, avoiding a second round.
List of executive actions by Donald Trump
United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Consequences of heavy rain from Cyclone Debbie kill at least three people and force 20,000 others to leave their homes in New South Wales and Queensland.
Arkansas executes Ledell Lee, the first inmate executed in the state since 2005.
People's Republic of China detains Taiwanese political activist Lee Ming-che on suspicion of endangering national security and revokes his wife's travel permit.
Authorities have charged two inmates with the murders of the four men.
Karimian had previously been tried in absentia by a Tehran court and sentenced to six years in prison for spreading propaganda against Iran.
United States missile strike in Syria on April 7, 2017
land service branch of the United States Armed Forces
Department of the Interior and Local Government
Iraq denounces the strike as a violation of its sovereignty.
North Korea and weapons of mass destruction
A landslide hits the Indonesian island of Java and leaves more than two dozen people missing.
most populous city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Swiss mountaineer and rock climber (1976-2017)
The Supreme Court of Russia labels Jehovah's Witnesses as "extremists", effectively banning the religion.
city in Alameda County, California, United States
India inaugurates the 9.2-kilometer Chenani-Nashri Tunnel, in the state of Jammu and Kashmir.
Voters in the Gambia go to the polls for an election, the country's first legislative election since longtime President Yahya Jammeh resigned and left the country.
23 others were rescued by the Libyan coast guard.
Aspen Skiing Company and KSL Capital Partners agree to acquire Intrawest for $1.5 billion.
The NHL announces that it will not release its players to participate in the 2018 Winter Olympics.
United States Secretary of Health and Human Services
Ice hockey at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Men's tournament
men's ice hockey tournament during the 2018 Winter Olympics
United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Rep.
act of motivating another person to commit a crime
The court restores legislative power to the National Assembly.
software application for retrieving, presenting, and traversing information resources on the World Wide Web
series of military utility transport helicopters
Cartes adds his decision was informed by Pope Francis's call for peace and dialogue in Paraguay following protests against this change that turned violent two weeks ago.
violently rotating column of air that is in contact with both the earth's surface and a cumulonimbus cloud in the air
An Israeli soldier is killed during a car ramming attack near Ofra, in the West Bank.
Vice President of the Philippines from 2016 to 2022
Date: 30 September 2015 – present (7 years, 3 months and 4 weeks)
Flash flooding caused by torrential rain leaves at least 17 people dead and 20 others missing in northwestern Iran, according to state television.
The campaign period officially ends. French citizens living overseas begin voting a day ahead of when the polls open in France. Final opinion polling gives Emmanuel Macron a slight lead over Marine Le Pen. François Fillon and Jean-Luc Mélenchon are close behind.
Air China suspends all flights to North Korea's capital Pyongyang amid rising tensions between North Korea and the United States.
Bystanders, falsely believing a shooting had occurred, caused a stampede, injuring more than a dozen people.
president of the United States from 2017 to 2021
Two Iraqi Army pilots are killed when their Mi-24 helicopter is shot down by ISIS over the city of Mosul.
An Israeli soldier is killed during a car ramming attack near Ofra, in the West Bank. Another Israeli soldier was injured. A Palestinian suspected of committing the attack is taken into custody.
President Joseph Kabila appoints Bruno Tshibala of the Union for Democracy and Social Progress as the Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
In athletics, Jemima Sumgong, a Kenyan gold medallist in the women's marathon at the 2016 Summer Olympics, tests positive for the banned substance EPO.
India is to provide every cow with a biometric dog tag, in an effort to prevent cattle smuggling.
individual who has killed three or more people over a period of more than a month
Kenneth Williams is executed at the Cummins Unit, Arkansas, by injection of midazolam, marking the state's fourth execution within eight days before the drug passes its expiration date.
The Extraordinary African Chambers tribunal in Dakar, Senegal, upholds its conviction of former Chadian president Hissène Habré for crimes against humanity, but acquits him of rape.
political party in South Africa formed in 2000
The Government of Syria claims the attack killed six soldiers and nine civilians, including four children.
A general strike is held in Brazil, the first one in twenty years.
List of nuclear weapons tests of North Korea
Turkey also claims to have destroyed "terror hubs".
Voters in Armenia go to the polls for an election, the first since constitutional changes were approved in a referendum in 2015, which changed the country's governance from a semi-presidential system to a parliamentary republic. Opinion polls predict a tight race between the nationalist Republican Party, led by President Serzh Sargsyan, and the centre-right Prosperous Armenia, led by Gagik Tsarukyan. With votes from 64% of the polling stations counted, the Republican Party leads with 49.7% of votes.
No immediate report of damages or injuries; no tsunami warning has been issued.
rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in the United States
The medication is already in use for blood loss from major trauma, surgery, tooth removal, nose bleeds, and heavy menstruation.
31 bodies were taken to a hospital, according to a local doctor, while more continued to be found by morning.
the Australian Government's main research funding body for tertiary institutions
An Italian prosecutor says there are "telephone calls" between people smugglers in Libya and some non-governmental organizations.
15th and former Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia & 29th and current Sultan of Kelantan
He is scheduled to be sentenced in August and faces up to 20 years in prison.
U.S.-based monitoring group 38 North says satellite imagery of North Korea's Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site indicates that preparation for a sixth nuclear weapons test is underway.
member of the OSCE monitoring mission is killed and two others injured after their vehicle drives over a land mine near Luhansk.
A boat carrying migrants sinks off the coast of Libya, with 97 people reported missing.
American online social media and social networking service
ISIL claims responsibility for the attack although the claim is doubted.
The Macedonian Parliament is stormed by protesters opposing the election of Talat Xhaferi, an ethnic Albanian, as Speaker of the Assembly.
The first polls since April 20's attack indicate a slight bump for Marine Le Pen over Jean-Luc Mélenchon and François Fillon, though they still show her losing to Emmanuel Macron in the first and second rounds of the election.
maritime service branch of the United States Armed Forces
The U.S. Pacific Command and South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff report that a North Korean missile, tested near the city of Sinpo on the country's east coast, blew up almost immediately after the launch, just hours before U.S. Vice President Mike Pence was due in South Korea for talks about the North's arms program.
head of state and of government of Turkey
ocean between Asia, Australia and the Americas
The ministry did not specify when or where the attack occurred.
Republic of Ireland–United Kingdom border
United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes recuses himself from the committee’s probe into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election; Rep. Mike Conaway will take the lead in this investigation.
Tens of thousands of people march in dozens of U.S. cities and at President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, to demand that Trump release his tax returns and to show the public cares about the issue. There were clashes between Trump supporters and protesters at some locations, with 11 people injured and 21 arrested at a riot in Berkeley, California.
China's foreign minister Wang Yi calls for restraint and urges all sides to take part in the resumption of negotiations.
A 27-year-old man carrying several knives in a backpack is arrested at Parliament Square, London, near the site of last month's Westminster attack.
French voters are protected from a barrage of last minute campaign pushes, including those via tweets and/or other social media, by rules that prohibit such communications for 44 hours during elections, from Friday midnight until Sunday 8:00 p.m. CEST.
A National Security Adviser may request unmasking if specific criteria are met.
Julius Malema addresses a large, multi-racial crowd in Pretoria before their march on the Union buildings.
Final opinion polling gives Emmanuel Macron a slight lead over Marine Le Pen.
political situation in the Palestinian territory of Gaza since the 2007 takeover by Hamas
district in the south-central Banaadir region of Somalia
Islamist organization in Afghanistan (founded 1994)
The Australian Research Council reports that two thirds of the Great Barrier Reef have suffered from severe coral bleaching, denoting a second consecutive year of severe bleaching.
Twelve Saudi Arabian military officers die after their Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk crashes in Yemen's Ma'rib Governorate.
United States House of Representatives elections, 2018
List of coaches in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame
The European Commission, based on the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe report, calls on Turkey to launch an investigation into allegations of referendum voting irregularities.
With 94.18% of the votes counted, Moreno leads with 51.07%.
Venezuelan security forces clash with opposition demonstrators in the so-called "Mother of All Marches" against President Nicolás Maduro in Caracas. Two students and a National Guard sergeant are shot dead.
agency of the European Union tasked with external border control
Civilian police force of the Republic of Maldives
sovereign state situated on an island in the Caribbean Sea
air service branch of the United States Armed Forces
ISIL claims responsibility for the attack.
The Afghan Ministry of Defense reports as many as 36 suspected ISIL militants were killed while no civilians were harmed in yesterday's bombing in Nangarhar Province using the so-called "mother of all bombs" (GBU-43). The ministry spokesman added these deaths have not been independently verified.
President Donald Trump announces that he intends to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement, softening earlier claims that he would terminate the trade bloc.
private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Tens of thousands of people march in dozens of U.S.
aerial warfare branch of Syria's armed forces
2016–17 South Carolina Gamecocks men's basketball team
Amtrak Police taser a man at New York's Penn Station after the man allegedly became agitated due to a delayed train. Bystanders, falsely believing a shooting had occurred, caused a stampede, injuring more than a dozen people.
Amtrak Police taser a man at New York's Penn Station after the man allegedly became agitated due to a delayed train.
United Nations Commission on the Status of Women
functional commission of the United Nations
Iranian conservative politician, professor, and former air force pilot
Salafi jihadist terrorist organization based in Pakistan
A federal district court for southern Texas rules that the state's voter ID law was passed in 2011 with the intent to discriminate against minority voters. The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals previously found that the law had the effect of discriminating against minority voters, and remanded the case to the district court for further action.
disputed territory between China, India and Pakistan
Global surveillance disclosures (2013–present)
U.S. President Donald Trump's lawyers tell a federal court, in a case alleging negligence and incitement to riot during a 2016 campaign rally in Louisville, Kentucky, that he is "immune from suit because he is President of the United States." A lawyer for the plaintiffs responds that, in Clinton v. Jones, the Supreme Court found the president could be sued for events that occurred before he took office.
In auto racing, longtime NASCAR Cup Series star Dale Earnhardt Jr.
Indonesian voters in Jakarta return to the polls for the second round of a gubernatorial election between incumbent Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, whose alleged blasphemy sparked mass protests in November, and Anies Baswedan.
Two students and a National Guard sergeant are shot dead.
head of the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps
ice hockey team based in Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia
Voter identification laws in the United States
The United States Pacific Command deploys warships, including the USS Carl Vinson, to move towards the Korean Peninsula following North Korea's recent tests with weapons of mass destruction and opposition to the Sharyat missile strike.
American international chain of convenience stores
highest federal executive body in the Russian Federation, headed by the Prime Minister
regency in Central Papua Province, Indonesia
former Leader of the British Labour Party, MP for Islington North
2017 Georgia's 6th congressional district special election
One person is killed and seven are injured in a shooting at a pool party in San Diego, California.
At least 45 people have been killed and 50 injured in explosions near two Coptic Christian churches packed with worshippers on Palm Sunday in the Egyptian cities of Tanta and Alexandria.
racially motivated shooting spree in Fresno, California
American multinational oil and gas corporation
Somali government ministry responsible for military and national defense matters
2016–17 Gonzaga Bulldogs men's basketball team
The student who died, Mashal Khan, was known on social media for his secular and liberal views.
The United States Air Force drops the GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast in Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan, reportedly on an ISIL complex of tunnels and caves. This is the first use of the weapon on the battlefield.
term for the legal opinion or learned interpretation that a qualified jurist or mufti can give on issues pertaining to the Islamic law
United States Declaration of Independence
The US-Israeli SITE Intelligence Group says Amaq News Agency claims the attack for Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports a large explosion near Damascus International Airport followed by a fire. The Syrian government says Israel struck the military site with several missiles. Israeli Intelligence Minister Yisrael Katz states that the strike "corresponds completely with Israel's policy".
The Israeli Air Defense Command shoots down a Syrian Air Force drone using a MIM-104 Patriot missile.
In basketball, Russell Westbrook of the Oklahoma City Thunder sets a new record for most triple-doubles in an NBA season, collecting his 42nd of the 2016–17 season in the Thunder's 106–105 win over the Denver Nuggets. Westbrook surpassed Hall of Famer Oscar Robertson, who had 41 in the 1961–62 season.
The secretariat was established in June 2015.
An elementary school teacher and an 8-year-old student were shot and killed by the teacher's estranged husband, who then killed himself, at North Park Elementary School in San Bernardino, California. Another student, a 9-year-old boy who was also behind the teacher, was wounded.
type of sexual assault usually involving sexual intercourse without consent
state since Texas in 2000 to hold two executions on the same day as executes convicted murderers Jack Jones, Jr.
manslaughter of a wounded Taliban insurgent by Alexander Blackman
disclosures of NSA and related global espionage
Dutch businessman Guus Kouwenhoven is found guilty of war crimes and arms trafficking for using his lumber business to sell weapons to Liberia's former president Charles Taylor during the country's civil war between 2000 and 2003 and is sentenced to 19 years in prison.
government support of violent, typically non-state actors engaged in terrorism (commonly: terrorists), which act on the territory of the state itself or in another country
major mountain range in western North America
The search for the suspect in the killing of an elderly man in Cleveland, whose murder was posted to Facebook, expands beyond Ohio, with the FBI urging residents in Indiana, Michigan, New York, and Pennsylvania to be on alert for the suspect.
syrup usually made from the xylem sap of sugar maple, red maple, or black maple trees
Describes the diplomatic relations between the Federal Republic of Germany and the State of Israel
The United States imposes sanctions on 271 employees of the Syrian Scientific Studies and Research Center for their alleged role in developing weapons used in the Khan Shaykhun chemical attack.
long-distance running event with an official distance of 42.195 km
The Afghan Ministry of Defense reports as many as 36 suspected ISIL militants were killed while no civilians were harmed in yesterday's bombing in Nangarhar Province using the so-called "mother of all bombs" (GBU-43).
1776 assertion of colonial America's independence from Great Britain
political situation in which opposing political parties find common ground through compromise
Germany arrests and charges a suspected perpetrator, 28-year-old Sergej W. The federal prosecutor says the suspect held put options on Borussia Dortmund shares.
town in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States
Pope Francis, while honoring Christians killed under Nazism, communism, dictatorships, and terrorism at Rome's Basilica of St. Bartholomew, adds to those named the wife of a Muslim he met in Lesbos, Greece, who was killed by terrorists because she wouldn't throw down her crucifix. Francis referred to the Lesbos camp as a 'concentration camp' noting, despite the good will of local communities, many refugee camps are overcrowded and little more than prisons.
United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
current United States federal appellate court
head of government of the Italian Republic
The United States test launch a Minuteman III missile from California to the Marshall Islands.
A mother and two children drown after their car plunges into the flooded Tweed River, raising the death toll to eight people.
Muhammad V is formally installed as the 15th King of Malaysia.
The six approved candidates, including the incumbent Hassan Rouhani, begin campaigning.
service members are killed and a third is injured during a raid against ISIL militants in Afghanistan's Nangarhar Province.
United States Vice President Mike Pence visits Alaska, where he meets with Governor Bill Walker and discusses stationing F-35 squadrons in the state. Pence is beginning a 10-day trip to South Korea, Australia, Indonesia and Japan.
The White House dismisses U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy in its continuing transition from the prior presidential administration. The current Deputy Surgeon General, Rear Admiral Sylvia Trent-Adams, will serve as the acting SG.
A speculative study hypothesizes that a species of Homo may have lived in California 130,000 years ago.
Two people are killed in an attack in a Federal Security Service office in the Russian city of Khabarovsk.
one of the fourteen American Pulitzer Prizes in Journalism
Queen Elizabeth II celebrates her 91st birthday.
Sergeant Alexander Blackman, also known as Marine A, a Royal Marine who shot dead a wounded Taliban insurgent in 2011 during Operation Herrick, is released from HM Prison Erlestoke after serving more than three years of a seven-year sentence.
rule of law usually issued by a head of state
2016–17 Mississippi State Bulldogs women's basketball team
Also five Peshmerga fighters are killed during a Turkish attack on Sinjar in Iraq.
At least 16 people are killed amid fresh fighting in Raga, according to a SPLM-IO spokesperson. The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said that over 60 humanitarian aid workers were forced to flee.
President of Afghanistan from 2001 to 2014
2010–2013 Big East Conference realignment
A Forsa Institute poll shows the lowest level of support for the Greens in nearly 15 years, weakening the chances of a left-leaning coalition taking power from the CDU/CSU.
The National Assembly of Hungary passes a bill that undermines the functioning of the Central European University (CEU).
police who are organized, deployed, trained or equipped to confront crowds, protests or riots
2014 JO25, a near-Earth asteroid discovered by the Catalina Sky Survey in May 2014, passes within 1.8 million kilometers of the planet, the largest such asteroid to transit close to Earth since 2004.
A Brazilian federal judge orders Petrobras to suspend the sale to Norway's Statoil of its stake in an offshore prospect, in response to the National Federation of Oil Workers petition there should have been an open bidding process for this transaction.
2006 multi-role combat aircraft family by Lockheed Martin
Sheila Abdus-Salaam, an incumbent associate judge of the New York Court of Appeals and the first African-American woman to serve on the Court of Appeals is found dead in the Hudson River.
Opinion polls give Baswedan a narrow lead.
county seat of Dallas County, Texas, United States
second-highest constitutional office in the United States
Visa category applies to people who wish to perform services in a specialty occupation, services of exceptional merit and ability
Nazi death camps established during World War II to primarily murder Jews
National Security Advisor (United States)
Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities (Egypt)
The European Court of Human Rights rules that Russia had failed to protect students and teachers during the 2004 Beslan school siege, which left 334 people dead, and orders the Russian Government to pay 2,955,000 euros to 409 relatives of the victims. The ruling was quickly denounced by Russia as "unacceptable".
city in Harris County, Texas, United States
consolidated city and county in California, United States
A U.S. special forces service member is killed while taking part in an operation against ISIL militants in Afghanistan's eastern Nangarhar Province.
A landslide in Colombia's southwestern border department of Putumayo sends mud and debris crashing onto houses killing over 250 people and injuring at least 400 others. In addition, 200 people are missing.
President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 2001 up to 2018
The current Deputy Surgeon General, Rear Admiral Sylvia Trent-Adams, will serve as the acting SG.
The state had planned to execute eight inmates in eleven days.
Everett McKinley Dirksen United States Courthouse
Ploshchad Vosstaniya (Saint Petersburg Metro)
Utah representative Jason Chaffetz, chairman of the House Oversight Committee, announces that he will not run for re-election next year.
NASA announces Saturn's moon Enceladus has the conditions in its global subsurface ocean to support life.
American basketball player and executive
diplomatic relations between China and North Korea
A United States Army UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter crashes on a golf course in Leonardtown, Maryland.
special collectivity of France in the southwest Pacific Ocean
series of water waves caused by the displacement of a large volume of a body of water
A 5.7 magnitude earthquake strikes 250 kilometers (155 miles) northwest of the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu. No immediate report of damages or injuries; no tsunami warning has been issued.
The death toll according to a Nangarhar official source now stands at 94 militants, including 4 commanders. Former president Hamid Karzai says the strike was in violation of national sovereignty.
United States Secretary of State Rex Tillerson issues a statement saying "The United States has spoken enough about North Korea.
Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails — activists say up to 1,500 are participating — begin an open-ended hunger strike to protest poor conditions and the Israeli policy of detention without trial.
Another body has been found after flooding in eastern Queensland, raising the death toll to twelve.
county seat of Hampden County, Massachusetts, United States
city and seat of Juárez Municipality, Chihuahua
Authorities arrest a main suspect and several others.
Ciudad Juárez-based newspaper Norte closes its print edition, citing a lack of security in Mexico.
One policeman has been killed and another has been critically injured after a man opened fire at police officers at the Champs-Élysées in central Paris.
Emma Morano, the last person living who was born before 1900, dies at the age of 117.
Saudi Arabia's King Salman issues a number of royal decrees, one which restores financial allowances for civil servants and military personnel that had been cut seven months ago in response to the drop in oil prices. [permanent dead link]
head of state of Albania and commander-in-chief of the Albanian military
false or misleading information presented as news
A Rice associate denies that the unmasking was improper.
West Azerbaijan Province East Azerbaijan Province Kurdistan Province
President Hassan Rouhani seeks for a second term while one of his main rivals Ebrahim Raisi also registers with just one day remaining for the submission.
Peggy Whitson, commander of the International Space Station (ISS), breaks the record for most total days spent in space by any NASA astronaut, at more than 534 days.
Twenty people have died and more than a dozen missing after a ferry capsizes in Myanmar's Irrawaddy River delta.
Sodimejo, an Indonesian man who made an unverified claim to have been born in 1870, which would have made him 146 years old, has died.
The United Nations Security Council extends the MINURSO mission for another year and attempts to restart Western Sahara peace process negotiations after both sides retracted their military from a standoff position in Guerguerat, near the border with Mauritania.
first of golf's four major championships in 2017
government office building in Chicago, Illinois
U.S. region consisting of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Iowa, South Dakota, and North Dakota
Erdoğan's AK Party has claimed victory while the opposition CHP has said that it will challenge the result.
A bus carrying around 50 school children rolls over on a highway south of Sveg in the northern region of Härjedalen, Sweden, killing three people.
The Autism Society of America is looking into legal options.
Voters in Serbia go to the polls for an election, which Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić of the conservative Serbian Progressive Party is expected to win.
According to security sources, dozens of people are killed in an overnight attack in Tikrit by suspected ISIL militants.
Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame
A 5.7 magnitude earthquake strikes 250 kilometers (155 miles) northwest of the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu.
bilateral relations between United States and Syria
air warfare branch of Turkey's armed forces
Wichita State University will leave the Missouri Valley Conference after the 2016–17 school year to join the American Athletic Conference. The Shockers will become the first full but non-football member of The American since the 2013 split of its predecessor, the original Big East Conference.
Wichita State University will leave the Missouri Valley Conference after the 2016–17 school year to join the American Athletic Conference.
List of notable tornadoes occurring in 2017
defensive position in the sport of American and Canadian football
United States House of Representatives election
underground railway system in Saint Petersburg and Leningrad Oblast, Russia
An Aerogaviota-operated Antonov An-26 plane crashes in western Artemisa Province, Cuba, killing eight troops on board.
US Supreme Court justice since 2017 (born 1967)
Ethnic conflict in the Kasaï region of the DRC
coral reef system located in the Coral Sea, World Heritage Site
city in Western Asia, claimed by both Israel and the Palestinian Authority as its capital
alliance of militias fighting against ISIL and other Islamist extremists in the Syrian Civil War
Law Enforcement Agency in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Russian authorities discover and deactivate an explosive device in a Saint Petersburg flat, during ongoing raids occurring in response to the bombing.
device that uses chemicals to harm or kill people
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said that over 60 humanitarian aid workers were forced to flee.
workers, boost protections for some U.S.
There were clashes between Trump supporters and protesters at some locations, with 11 people injured and 21 arrested at a riot in Berkeley, California.
geographic region that includes Australasia, Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia
Voters in Turkey go to the polls for a referendum that seeks to replace the country's parliamentary system with an executive presidency, thereby giving President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan sweeping new powers. Erdoğan's AK Party has claimed victory while the opposition CHP has said that it will challenge the result.
robotic spacecraft that is designed to resupply a space station
province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
A British student is stabbed and killed during an attack on a light-rail train in Jerusalem, Israel.
Saeed Karimian, the founder and director of GEM TV, a Persian language network based in Dubai, is shot dead in Istanbul, Turkey, along with his Kuwaiti business partner.
Sudan People's Liberation Movement-in-Opposition
street in Manhattan, United States of America
The Gaza Strip's sole power plant is shut down due to running out of fuel, amid unpaid bills and a dispute over tax bills on fuel imports to the blockaded Palestinian territory.
American market-making and electronic trading firm
The death toll from Cyclone Debbie and the associated flooding in the Australian states of New South Wales and Queensland rises to five people.
Tens of thousands of people protest in Washington, D.C.
More than 1,600 nominees were disqualified, including all 137 female candidates and former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Date: 17 June 1970 – present (52 years, 7 months, 1 week and 3 days)
South African-born English professional golfer
Incident in which a passenger was forcibly removed from an aircraft.
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
As expected, during a visit to Kenosha, Wisconsin, President Donald Trump signed an executive order requiring U.S. federal agencies to take measures aimed at protecting U.S. workers, boost protections for some U.S. products, and examine the H-1B visa program which affords foreign workers opportunities for employment in U.S. specialty fields.
The pro-government Popular Mobilization Forces militia takes control of the mostly destroyed ancient city of Hatra in Iraq's Nineveh Governorate, following clashes with ISIL, who seized the ruins in 2014.
Chechen Republic leader Ramzan Kadyrov's spokesperson said this report contains “absolute lies and disinformation” since there are no homosexuals in Chechnya.
2017 Iranian presidential election debates
legislative, executive and judiciary authority of India
Two political parties with federal representation in Australia merge as the Australian Conservatives absorbs the Family First Party.
official residence and workplace of the President of the United States
terror attack which occurred on 22 March 2017 in Westminster, London, England, UK
1961 intercontinental ballistic missile family by Boeing
events in a specific year or time period
At least 17 new mass graves are discovered by United Nations investigators in Kasaï-Central, Democratic Republic of the Congo, mostly around the town of Tshimbulu.
A ten-year-old boy from Florida with autism is arrested at school, and spends the night in a juvenile facility.
Pence is beginning a 10-day trip to South Korea, Australia, Indonesia and Japan.
Israeli Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon linked the attack to terrorism.
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead and Sweat by Lynn Nottage win the Pultizer Prizes for Fiction and Drama respectively.
lower house of the United States Congress
head of government of Norway and the most powerful person in Norwegian politics
At least 16 people are killed amid fresh fighting in Raga, according to a SPLM-IO spokesperson.
an election called earlier than expected
Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Philippines from 2016 to 2018
Nine people are injured in a shooting at the J&R Party Hall after-hours club in Columbus, Ohio.
armed conflict in the Donbas region of Ukraine
Yesterday's terrorist attack in Paris disrupts campaigning for the elections.
international airport serving Damascus, Syria
landlocked territory near the Mediterranean coast of Western Asia
A vehicle is driven into a group of people on a street in Stockholm, Sweden, killing four people.
family of computer operating systems developed by Microsoft
Kabila's earlier announcement of his decision to appoint a new prime minister prompted Samy Badibanga to resign from the role after less than five months in office.
Venezuela says it will withdraw from the Organization of American States after the organization decided to call a meeting without Venezuela.
Steve Stephens, the suspected "Facebook killer" accused of killing 74-year-old Robert Godwin, kills himself after a brief pursuit with the Pennsylvania State Police.
policy in which countries' governments do not restrict imports from, or exports to, other countries
gastrointestinal system cancer that is located in the esophagus
With votes from 64% of the polling stations counted, the Republican Party leads with 49.7% of votes.
minister in the Federal Republic of Germany
Federal Member State in northeastern Somalia
A Russian Navy spy ship sinks off the coast of Turkey after colliding with a Togo-flagged freighter. All 78 crew aboard the ship were safely evacuated, according to Turkish officials.
Rashideen District, western Aleppo, Syria
The Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities announces the discovery of eight mummies, 10 colorful sarcophagi, and numerous figurines in a 3,500-year-old tomb near the Valley of the Kings in Luxor.
cyclone season in the South Pacific ocean
Date: 15 December 2013 – 22 February 2020 (6 years, 2 months, 1 week and 1 day)
president who exercises active executive power in an organization
collegiate athletics conference operating primarily in the southeastern United States
July 2016 attempted military junta coup in Turkey
sovereign state in northern South America
The death toll rises to five after a woman who fell into the River Thames dies in hospital.
city in Russia, administrative center of the Khabarovsk Krai
Democratic candidates face off with Republican candidates in a primary for a U.S. House seat vacated by Tom Price, now Health and Human Services Secretary, in a suburb of Atlanta, Georgia.
Coal accounted for just 9 percent of the electricity generated last year.
A spokeswoman for tennis star Serena Williams confirms rumors that Williams is pregnant.
A U.S. Navy F/A-18 Hornet crashes in the Celebes Sea off the Philippines during an attempted landing on the USS Carl Vinson.
American automotive, energy storage and solar power company
region comprising the westernmost states of the United States
Salafi jihadist militant Sunni Islamist group
The United Nations MONUSCO reports that 20 Chowe-Pende community members have been killed in clashes with the Lulua-Luba community in Kasaï-Central, Democratic Republic of Congo.
21st Century Fox, the parent company of Fox News, announces the firing of Fox News commentator Bill O'Reilly.
Robert Bentley, the Governor of Alabama, declares a state of emergency due to forecasts of storms with the threat of tornadoes during the day.
Scientists announce, through the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, that live specimens of the rare Kuphus polythalamia (giant shipworm) have been discovered for the first time in the Philippines.
time of human offspring development in mother's body
American multinational technology corporation
Germany arrests and charges a suspected perpetrator, 28-year-old Sergej W.
military strategy during the Cold War with regard to the use of nuclear weapons
The Government of India revokes the Public Health Foundation of India's registration, allegedly for foreign-funded lobbying practices.
Zambian opposition leader and presidential election runner-up Hakainde Hichilema is charged with treason and "trying to overthrow the government".
Dozens of people in Vanuatu are in shelters as Cyclone Cook hits the island.
political and economic union of 27 European states
organization that sanctions and governs multiple auto-racing sports events
François Fillon and Jean-Luc Mélenchon are close behind.
consolidated city-county in Richmond County, Georgia, United States
Russian authorities arrest more than 100 gay men in Chechnya, including television personalities and religious figures, for "nontraditional sexual orientation." The Novaya Gazeta newspaper reported that three of the arrested men have been killed, while others reportedly were released for family honor killing.
Solar System object whose orbit brings it into proximity with Earth
transcontinental country straddling Western Asia and Southeastern Europe
Date: April 29, 2017 (except April 22 for Madison, Wisconsin)
principal security agency of Russia (FSB)
county seat of Jefferson County, Kentucky, United States
small store that stocks a range of everyday items
Frontex, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, says the practices amount to a "taxi service".
English computer scientist, inventor of the World Wide Web (born 1955)
2016–17 Oregon Ducks men's basketball team
It is due to pass through New Caledonia tomorrow.
breakdown of relations between the coral host and zooxanthallae, leading to loss of colour
A 6.8 earthquake strikes off the coast of Mindanao, Philippines triggering tsunami warnings.
tribunal to try international crimes committed in Chad from 1982 to 1990
landmark U.S. civil rights and labor law
The United Nations MONUSCO reports that 20 Chowe-Pende community members have been killed in clashes with the Lulua-Luba community in Kasaï-Central, Democratic Republic of Congo. [permanent dead link]
individual act constituting a serious violation of the laws of war
Greek-American professional basketball player
In a meeting for the NRA, U.S. president Donald Trump criticizes Democratic candidate Jon Ossoff.
In an interview, U.S. President Donald Trump says the U.S. dollar is "getting too strong" and wants to keep interest rates low, causing the U.S. Dollar Index to fall.
Former Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi regains the role of Secretary of the Democratic Party, after his resignation in February, in an open primary election.
discrimination that occurs in the workplace or during the hiring process
investment company based in Edinburgh, Scotland
The Shockers will become the first full but non-football member of The American since the 2013 split of its predecessor, the original Big East Conference.
The Syrian government says Israel struck the military site with several missiles.
Games of the XXXI Olympiad, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
most populous city in the United Arab Emirates
Sunni militant group Jaish ul-Adl claims responsibility.
2018 United States House of Representatives elections
elections held to choose members of the United States House of Representatives for the 116th Congress
economic measure of US dollar exchange rates
Westbrook surpassed Hall of Famer Oscar Robertson, who had 41 in the 1961–62 season.
A spokeswoman for tennis star Serena Williams confirms rumors that Williams is pregnant. The 23-time Grand Slam singles champion, who was apparently pregnant when she won this year's Australian Open, is expected to give birth in September, and will not play again until 2018.
United States law on Puerto Rico's debt crisis
wood that has been processed into beams and planks
ethnic group in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
military forces approach the Korean Peninsula.
Branch of the Islamic State operating in Afghanistan and Pakistan
funerary figurine used in ancient Egyptian religion
An Iraqi airstrike near Al Qaim, Anbar province, Iraq, kills Ayad al-Jumaili, believed to be ISIL's second-in-command.
urban area in Härjedalen Municipality, Sweden
American director, producer and screenwriter (1944–2017)
place that limits cooperation with national immigration law
diplomatic relations between the People's Republic of China and the Kingdom of Norway
The Communist Party of Britain announces it will not field any candidates in the upcoming general election for the first time since its formation in 1920, and endorses Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, saying victory for Mr Corbyn at the general election in June would be “the first step towards a formation of left-led government at Westminster”.
modular space station in low Earth orbit
The USS Michigan docks at Busan, South Korea, amid growing concerns over North Korean weapons development.
The governor of the State of Alabama, Robert Bentley, wins a court victory halting impeachment proceedings that were set to begin Monday to determine whether he should remain in office after it was discovered that he had a romantic relationship with a staffer.
Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections
The U.S. Pacific Command and South Korean defense officials report that a North Korean missile was fired in the early morning, but quickly failed and did not travel beyond North Korea, echoing a similar failed attempt by North Korea thirteen days ago.
Thousands of people take to the streets in Caracas as Venezuelan authorities acknowledge a fifth death in the protests.
The Alabama Ethics Commission finds there is probable cause that Governor Robert J. Bentley violated the state's ethics and campaign finance laws, and refers the case to Montgomery County District Attorney Daryl Bailey.
The ruling was quickly denounced by Russia as "unacceptable".
The United Kingdom, on Friday, did not derive energy from any coal-fired source, the first continuous 24-hour, coal-free period for the UK since use of the fossil fuel began.
United States Department of Homeland Security
A USAF F-16 crashes shortly after takeoff from Joint Base Andrews in Prince George's County, Maryland. The pilot inside ejected safely and was taken to a local hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
group of entertainment satellite channels
U.S. Congressional negotiators reach a bipartisan agreement on the FY 2017 federal government budget that, once approved by both Houses, will fund the entire fiscal year through September 30. The current spending authorization expires Friday, May 5.
men's college basketball tournament game
Venezuelan security forces clash with opposition demonstrators in the so-called "Mother of All Marches" against President Nicolás Maduro in Caracas.
The airline company is under fire because of the mistreatment of the passenger.
The ministry spokesman added these deaths have not been independently verified.
head of state and elective constitutional monarch of Malaysia
General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party
Bertha, once the world's largest tunnel boring machine, completes its 9,270-foot-long (2,830 m) tunnel under Seattle, Washington, after four years of digging and a lengthy delay near the beginning of the project.
Seven & I Holdings Co., the parent company of the 7-Eleven convenience store chain, agrees to acquire the retail operations of Sunoco for $3.3 billion.
Police in Anchorage, Alaska, confirm that James Dale Ritchie, killed by an Anchorage police officer whom Ritchie had tried to kill in the fall of 2016, was a serial killer who had used the same gun to kill 5 people, apparently at random.
British Prime Minister Theresa May proposes that a snap election for the House of Commons will be held on the 8th of June. A two-thirds majority of the House of Commons is needed to approve this, eventually tomorrow. The Labour and Liberal Democrats party leaders have expressed their support.
former United States Secretary of Health and Human Services; former Congressman of Georgia
Arms trader Jacques Monsieur is to defend himself again at a Brussels court against accusations of arms trafficking to Libya, Chad, Guinea-Bissau, Pakistan and Iran between 2006 and 2009.
a small village in the far south west of Western Sahara
Venezuelan authorities report 12 people were killed overnight in the capital Caracas, mostly in the El Valle working class neighborhood where 54 people, including newborn babies, were forced to evacuate a maternity hospital. Others have fled to Colombia. This death toll during the three weeks of anti-government protests is 20.
China launches its first cargo spacecraft, the Tianzhou 1, carried by a Long March 7 rocket.
president Donald Trump criticizes Democratic candidate Jon Ossoff.
Joint offensive by Iraqi government forces with allied militias to retake the city of Mosul from ISIL
combustible fuel containing hydrocarbons formed by natural processes such as anaerobic decomposition of buried dead organisms, examples being coal, petroleum and natural gas
Paraguayan President Horacio Cartes says he will not be a candidate in next year's presidential election regardless of Congress's action on a constitutional amendment that would allow second terms.
state-organized genocide of Jews by Nazi regime during World War II
cities and at President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, to demand that Trump release his tax returns and to show the public cares about the issue.
absolutist or autocratic ruler who assumes sole power over the state
commercial enterprise based in Aspen, Colorado in the United States
Yonhap reports that North Korea has detained a U.S.
Richard Vallières, convicted of stealing 3,000 tonnes of maple syrup from a Federation of Quebec Maple Syrup Producers warehouse in 2012, is sentenced to eight years in prison and fined $9.4 million, adjustable to fourteen years on non-payment of the fine.
Former president Hamid Karzai says the strike was in violation of national sovereignty.
Tehran Mayor Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf and First Vice President Eshaq Jahangiri submit their candidacies as registration closes. The final list of approved candidates will be announced on April 27.
election that narrows the field of candidates before an election for office
The gunman was killed while attempting to escape, and a bystander has been injured.
North Korea is also reclassified as a state sponsor of terrorism.
strike action in which a substantial proportion of the total labour force in a city, region, or country participates
A United Airlines passenger is dragged off a flight at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo suspends its military cooperation with Belgium.
Thai King Vajiralongkorn signed into law a new Constitution of Thailand that paves the way for democratic reforms while allowing the Royal Thai Army to retain its influential role in Thai politics.
locality in Whakatāne District, Bay of Plenty Region, New Zealand
A South Korean adviser says it is "impossible" for South Korea to purchase the THAAD missile complex since control of its operation would remain with the United States. The remarks come after United States president Donald Trump suggested that South Korea pay for the $1 billion system.
Voters in the breakaway state of South Ossetia go to the polls for an election and a referendum.
Democratic Party (Italy) leadership election, 2017
self-governing Palestinian territory next to Egypt and Israel
Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu cancels a visit with the foreign minister of Germany Sigmar Gabriel after the latter's refusal to cancel a meeting with the Israel Defense Forces veterans NGO Breaking the Silence saying the group "slanders IDF soldiers as war criminals"
capital city of Razavi Khorasan Province, and second largest city in Iran
The United Kingdom, on Friday, did not derive energy from any coal-fired source, the first continuous 24-hour, coal-free period for the UK since use of the fossil fuel began. Coal accounted for just 9 percent of the electricity generated last year.
A congress of female Islamic clerics in Cirebon, Indonesia, issues several fatwas, one of which opposes child marriage.
current rise in Earth's average temperature and related large-scale shifts in weather patterns
Russian authorities arrest more than 100 gay men in Chechnya, including television personalities and religious figures, for "nontraditional sexual orientation." The Novaya Gazeta newspaper reported that three of the arrested men have been killed, while others reportedly were released for family honor killing. Chechen Republic leader Ramzan Kadyrov's spokesperson said this report contains “absolute lies and disinformation” since there are no homosexuals in Chechnya.
Greek island located in the northeastern Aegean Sea
eastern portion of the Southern United States
The United Nations announces expansion of civilian camps for people fleeing Mosul, following resumption of airstrikes on ISIL-held portions of the Iraqi city.
Bomb Coptic Churchs in the Nile Delta City of Tanta and Alexandria
terrorist attack in Stockholm, Sweden on 7 April 2017
explosive weapon, concealed under or on the ground
Hyundai (Sonata and Santa Fe) and Kia (Optima, Sorento, and Sportage) are recalling 1.5 million cars, over 1.3 million in United States and 170,000 in South Korea, over an engine defect.
city in Alaska, United States of America
American petroleum and petrochemical manufacturer
United States Executive Order limiting refugees from Muslim-majority countries
upper house of the United States Congress
governing body of the Russian Armed Forces
North Korea fires a medium-range ballistic missile about 60 kilometers (37 miles) into its eastern waters, in the direction of Japan according to United States and South Korean officials.
ballistic missile with a range of 3,000–5,500 km
At least one crew member is injured and taken to hospital.
American Airlines announces it is investigating a viral video of an incident on a San Francisco to Dallas flight which shows a male flight attendant upsetting a female passenger, who he had allegedly forcefully taken a baby buggy from, and threatening to fight a male passenger.
city in and county seat of King County, Washington, United States
North Carolina defeats Gonzaga, 71-65, for the 2017 men's basketball national title.
The full 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago rules (8-3) that the 1964 Civil Rights Act protects LGBT employees from workplace discrimination.
American conservative cable television news channel
festive season which occurs immediately before Lent
capital of the Punjab province, Pakistan
An attack occurs at a Sufi shrine near Sargodha, Pakistan, killing more than 20 people.
American consumer packaged goods holding company
electric sedan produced and sold by Tesla Motors
ongoing multi-sided civil war in Syria since 2011
site for the disposal of waste materials by burial
Liberian former politician who was the 22nd President of Liberia
form of confiscation of assets by the state
full-size crossover utility vehicle developed by Tesla Motors
American convicted murderer and football player (1989-2017)
announces that he will retire at the end of the 2017 season.
Three people die in a shooting spree in downtown Fresno, California.
land warfare branch of Greece's military
pope of the Catholic Church from 2005 to 2013 (1927–2022)
online news outlet associated with the so-called Islamic State
According to security sources, dozens of people are killed in an overnight attack in Tikrit by suspected ISIL militants. 31 bodies were taken to a hospital, according to a local doctor, while more continued to be found by morning.
American professional tennis player (born 1981)
American political commentator, television host and writer
A car bomb explodes outside the Ministry of Defence in Mogadishu, killing at least 15 people.
form of team game played with an oval ball on a field marked out as a gridiron
Solukhumbu District, Province No. 1, Nepal; Tingri County, Xigazê, Tibet Autonomous Region, China
group of public universities supported by an individual state in the United States
45th presidential administration and cabinet of the USA (2017-2021)
United Nations peacekeeping force in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
The National Assembly of Hungary passes a bill that undermines the functioning of the Central European University (CEU). Academics and academic institutions worldwide have expressed support for CEU.
systematic or threatened use of violence to create a general climate of fear
Alabama Governor Robert J. Bentley resigns as the Alabama House Judiciary Committee began impeachment proceedings against him over a relationship with a former aide.
Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for the attack.
Turkish air strikes kill 18 Kurdish YPG fighters and media officials in northeastern Syria.
act of mass impulse among herd of animals or a crowd of people
capital city and smallest province of Indonesia
Two of the murders were double homicides, with some of the deaths occurring along Anchorage's expansive Tony Knowles Coastal Trail.
The federal prosecutor says the suspect held put options on Borussia Dortmund shares.
British military operation in Afghanistan
Military head of state of Nigeria, 1983–1985 and President of Nigeria since 2015
city and administrative centre of Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine
Srinagar (Lok Sabha constituency) by-election, 2017
Francis referred to the Lesbos camp as a 'concentration camp' noting, despite the good will of local communities, many refugee camps are overcrowded and little more than prisons.
2010s migrant crisis in the European Union
subregion of the Great Plains mostly in the Western United States
nonprofit investigative journalism organization based in New York City
branch of governmental service or employees of a government agency
Dressed in white, the Venezuela opposition march, in silence, to the headquarters of the country's Catholic archdiocese to honor the more than a dozen people killed in three weeks of protests.
combined military forces of the Syrian Arab Republic
Taliban attack on a northern Afghan military base
relations between the People's Republic of China (Mainland China) and Republic of China (Taiwan)
United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas
team sport played on ice using sticks, skates, and a puck
Tekhnologichesky Institut (Saint Petersburg Metro)
Admiralteysky District Saint Petersburg Russia
fascist, antisemitic, nationalist, anti-communist, totalitarian ideology of the regime that ruled Germany from 1933 to 1945
April 10, 2017 fatal school shooting in San Bernardino, California, USA
Three explosions occur near the Borussia Dortmund football team bus as it slowed down to turn a corner.
ceremonial county of England (use Q21694746 for administrative unitary authority)
intergovernmental military alliance between 30 member states
state whose primary territory consists of one or more islands or parts of islands
interconnected network for delivering electricity from suppliers to consumers
project to discover comets and asteroids, and to search for Near-Earth objects
Saudi Arabia is among twelve countries newly elected to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, despite the nation's conflicts with women's rights.
capital and the largest city of Afghanistan
generally refers to the spot price of a barrel of benchmark crude oil—a reference price for buyers and sellers of crude oil
products, and examine the H-1B visa program which affords foreign workers opportunities for employment in U.S.
In golf, Sergio García of Spain wins the 2017 U.S.
successful 2016 US presidential campaign
state being member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Police search for four missing people in southeast Queensland as the Logan River reaches record levels.
four prestigious annual tournaments in professional golf
The 23-time Grand Slam singles champion, who was apparently pregnant when she won this year's Australian Open, is expected to give birth in September, and will not play again until 2018.
city in and county seat of Kenosha County, Wisconsin and part of the Chicago metropolitan area, known as Chicagoland
Spanish player Marc Bartra was injured and has been taken to hospital.
withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union
The Labour and Liberal Democrats party leaders have expressed their support.
city in San Bernardino County, California, United States
At least ten Iranian border guards are killed in an ambush in the southeastern Sistan and Baluchestan Province on the border with Pakistan. Sunni militant group Jaish ul-Adl claims responsibility.
Six people are killed in clashes between protesters and police near Srinagar in the disputed region of Kashmir Valley, during a by-election for a vacant seat in the Indian Lok Sabha.
Citing a drop in demand, the Dubai-based, United Arab Emirates-owned airline Emirates Air announces a cut in flights to five of its 12 U.S.
failure to exercise the care that a reasonably prudent person would exercise in like circumstances
Premier of the People's Republic of China
town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States
US government’s list of countries alleged to repeatedly support international terrorism
East 93rd Street Glenville, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.
tennis term for winning all four major championships
DNC Chair and 26th United States Secretary of Labor
Voters in Ecuador return to the polls for the second round of a presidential election, which Lenín Moreno of the socialist PAIS Alliance is predicted to narrowly win over the center-right Creating Opportunities's Guillermo Lasso.
French citizens living overseas begin voting a day ahead of when the polls open in France.
Nine people are injured in a shooting at the J&R Party Hall after-hours club in Columbus, Ohio. Two are in critical condition.
Tornado outbreak and floods of April 28–30, 2017
A car bomb strikes a convoy of buses near Aleppo which were carrying evacuees from the pro-government towns of Al-Fu'ah and Kafriya.
Voters in France go to the polls to elect a new president; Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron qualify for the second round.
part of the United Kingdom situated on the island of Ireland
According to the national election commission, it was a transparent and successful election.
security-oriented intergovernmental organization
mountain range running along the western side of South America
Laws regarding the IDs that are required for voting in the US
Date: 7 October 2001 – 30 August 2021 (19 years, 10 months, 3 weeks and 2 days)
United States Vice President Mike Pence visits Alaska, where he meets with Governor Bill Walker and discusses stationing F-35 squadrons in the state.
ethnoreligious group indigenous to North Africa
Opinion polls predict a tight race between the nationalist Republican Party, led by President Serzh Sargsyan, and the centre-right Prosperous Armenia, led by Gagik Tsarukyan.
Two openly gay candidates are elected to the Anchorage Assembly, becoming the first openly LGBT elected officials in Alaska.
armed conflict involving Pakistan and armed militant groups
In addition, Bentley pleads guilty to two "failure to disclose" misdemeanors.
policies regarding immigration of the Trump administration
tanker ship converted to bulk carrier which sank in 2017
flag carrier of the People's Republic of China
legal affairs of Donald Trump in his personal and business life
Under terms of the plea bargain, Bentley is forbidden from ever running for elected office in Alabama again.
marine corps and amphibious infantry of the United Kingdom
The release also includes programs targeting Microsoft Windows operating systems.
National Football League franchise in Cleveland, Ohio
chemical compound used to treat or prevent blood loss
2016–2017 season of the National Basketball Association
use of violence as a form of political, economic and religious coercion
Davis would have been the state's first since 2005.
long-range, subsonic cruise missile by Raytheon
Starting this spring, the state of New York will offer free four-year public college tuition for residents whose families make less than $100,000, the first state in the country to do so.
It is believed that the ship sunk off the coast of Uruguay.
In rugby union, SANZAAR announces that three teams will be eliminated from Super Rugby after the current season.
Police in Anchorage, Alaska, confirm that James Dale Ritchie, killed by an Anchorage police officer whom Ritchie had tried to kill in the fall of 2016, was a serial killer who had used the same gun to kill 5 people, apparently at random. Two of the murders were double homicides, with some of the deaths occurring along Anchorage's expansive Tony Knowles Coastal Trail.
ban on tablets, laptops, and similar devices in the passenger cabin.
mine located in the province of Papua in Indonesia
One policeman has been killed and another has been critically injured after a man opened fire at police officers at the Champs-Élysées in central Paris. The gunman was killed while attempting to escape, and a bystander has been injured. ISIL claims responsibility for the attack although the claim is doubted. The President of France Francois Hollande says that all leads indicate that the attack was of a "terrorist nature".
system of government in which a president exists alongside a prime minister and a cabinet
Approximately 20 percent of the city's population voted, a notably low turnout.
flag of Europe at large created by the Council of Europe, then adopted as one of the official symbols of the European Communities and later of the European Union
62nd season of Europe's premier club football tournament organised by UEFA
Overview of history and contents of Paraguay's constitution
History and regulations of Australian citizenship
United States military facility and census-designated place in Prince George's County, Maryland
Citing a drop in demand, the Dubai-based, United Arab Emirates-owned airline Emirates Air announces a cut in flights to five of its 12 U.S. destinations. The airline’s Dubai hub, third-busiest in the world, is a major stop for travelers in countries affected by President Donald Trump’s travel ban, and is also one of several Middle East airports affected by a U.S. ban on tablets, laptops, and similar devices in the passenger cabin.
1969 transport aircraft family by Antonov
information office documenting human rights abuses in the Syrian Civil War
large ancient cemetery with elaborate tomb monuments
Another student, a 9-year-old boy who was also behind the teacher, was wounded.
A federal district court for southern Texas rules that the state's voter ID law was passed in 2011 with the intent to discriminate against minority voters.
Ohio-class nuclear-powered guided missile submarine
organization independent of any government, usually created to aid those in need
city in San Diego County, California, United States; second-largest city in California
According to the Russian Defence Ministry, two of its soldiers have been killed by a mortar attack in Syria while another was wounded.
2016–17 South Carolina Gamecocks women's basketball team
person who has served in the armed forces
Dortmund's UEFA Champions League fixture against AS Monaco FC is subsequently postponed.
unsaturated chemical compound containing one carbon-to-carbon double bond
Al-Shabaab claims responsibility for the attack.
Presidential elections in Serbia in May 2017
The White House dismisses U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy in its continuing transition from the prior presidential administration.
Tehran Mayor Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf and First Vice President Eshaq Jahangiri submit their candidacies as registration closes.
As expected, during a visit to Kenosha, Wisconsin, President Donald Trump signed an executive order requiring U.S.
Devin Nunes recuses himself from the committee’s probe into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election; Rep.
Former Pakistani three time Prime Minister, businessman, corruption master and politician
city and county seat of Cook County, Illinois, United States of America
French voters are protected from a barrage of last minute campaign pushes, including those via tweets and/or other social media, by rules that prohibit such communications for 44 hours during elections, from Friday midnight until Sunday 8:00 p.m.
American history museum and basketball hall of fame
and Australia), could save the lives of thousands of women who die in childbirth from excessive bleeding.
A South Korean adviser says it is "impossible" for South Korea to purchase the THAAD missile complex since control of its operation would remain with the United States.
The current spending authorization expires Friday, May 5.
United States House Committee on Oversight and Accountability
Standing committee of the United States House of Representatives
federal city in and former capital of Russia
This is the first use of the weapon on the battlefield.
head of state and head of government of the United States of America
List of NCAA Division I non-football programs
Voters in Ecuador return to the polls for the second round of a presidential election, which Lenín Moreno of the socialist PAIS Alliance is predicted to narrowly win over the center-right Creating Opportunities's Guillermo Lasso. With 94.18% of the votes counted, Moreno leads with 51.07%. According to the national election commission, it was a transparent and successful election.
American professional basketball team based in Oklahoma City, United States
municipality of the Philippines in the province of Bohol
country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
The exploration teams are looking for 4 missing people.
Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of China
National Football League franchise in Foxborough, Massachusetts
music museum in Cleveland, Ohio, United States
In projections, Vučić gets around 55% of the votes, avoiding a second round.
Muslim jurist and theologian, generally Sunni
lower house in the Parliament of the United Kingdom
The final list of approved candidates will be announced on April 27.
United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara
Pope Francis, while honoring Christians killed under Nazism, communism, dictatorships, and terrorism at Rome's Basilica of St. Bartholomew, adds to those named the wife of a Muslim he met in Lesbos, Greece, who was killed by terrorists because she wouldn't throw down her crucifix.
North Korea's military development for weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear, chemical, and biological
head of government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
capital of the Colombian department of Caldas
Upper house of the Parliament of Australia
country in Northwestern Europe with territories in the Caribbean
Explosion on a train in Saint Petersburg, Russia, April 2017
American diplomat, policy advisor, and public official
president of the United States from 1981 to 1989 and actor
city and the county seat of Summit County, Ohio, United States
The pilot inside ejected safely and was taken to a local hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
vice president of the United States from 2017 to 2021
Arkansas's highest court has also put on hold the execution of another inmate, Bruce Ward.
German market and opinion research institute
Nicolás Maduro's political oppression on the opposition
highest court in the U.S. state of New York
sixth planet from the Sun and the second-largest planet in the Solar System, after Jupiter
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2016 to 2019
result of a sudden release of energy in the Earth's crust that creates seismic waves
NFL selection meeting for new American football players
Category 4 Australian region cyclone in 2017
The Russian Federal Security Service says the native 18-year-old perpetrator was a known member of a neo-nazi group.
machine used to excavate circular tunnels through a variety of soil and rock strata
metrics related to an individual's characteristics
North American professional ice hockey league
Authorities disarm another bomb, found at nearby Vosstaniya Square station.
river in Northern New South Wales, Australia
Union for Democracy and Social Progress (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
List of members of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame
A Russian Navy spy ship sinks off the coast of Turkey after colliding with a Togo-flagged freighter.
marriage or informal union entered into by an individual before reaching the age of 18
overview of rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in Russia
county seat of Fresno County, California, United States
Hatra District, Nineveh Governorate, Iraq
combustible sedimentary rock composed primarily of carbon
racket sport played on a court bisected by a net
1974 transport helicopter family by Sikorsky
special election to the United States House of Representatives
Voters in the breakaway state of South Ossetia go to the polls for an election and a referendum. The referendum will ask voters if the country's official name should be changed to "Republic of South Ossetia–the State of Alania".
Mike Conaway will take the lead in this investigation.
In basketball, Russell Westbrook of the Oklahoma City Thunder ensures that he will average a triple-double for the 2016–17 NBA season in the Thunder's game against the Phoenix Suns.
sports club football club in Dortmund, Germany
District Court Judge William Orrick rules that President Donald Trump's executive order withholding federal funds from sanctuary cities is unconstitutional.
method of non-violent resistance or pressure
military actions against Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
prefecture-level city in Tibet Autonomous Region, China
Organizaton of the press corps to the President
Regulatory body in the Islamic Republic of Iran
However, the court's decision still allows President Nicolás Maduro to enter joint-venture deals.
Tianzhou 1 is a unmaned cargo spacecraft created by China.
A two-thirds majority of the House of Commons is needed to approve this, eventually tomorrow.
right-wing populist, in parts extreme right-wing political party in Germany
Armenian politician, 3rd President of Armenia
municipality in the Netherlands, seat of the Dutch government
separatist/religious insurgency being waged against the government of Iran
systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge, and the set of knowledge produced by this enterprise
highest public office in the Chechen Republic
Academics and academic institutions worldwide have expressed support for CEU.
Voters in Armenia go to the polls for an election, the first since constitutional changes were approved in a referendum in 2015, which changed the country's governance from a semi-presidential system to a parliamentary republic.
head of state and head of government of Venezuela
attack in which the attacker knows they will die
Deputy head of state and head of government of the Philippines
McNeil, of Akron, Ohio, pleads guilty to five counts of soliciting to commit criminal violence and communicating interstate threats in calls to kill U.S. military personnel.
Masters defeating Justin Rose of England in a sudden-death playoff.
General Directorate of Security (Turkey)
Al-Shabaab is suspected of being behind the attack.
Indian reserve force assisting the State/Union Territories in police operations to maintain law and order and counter insurgency
commune in Bouches-du-Rhône, the second largest city of France
The referendum will ask voters if the country's official name should be changed to "Republic of South Ossetia–the State of Alania".
human settlement in St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
Venezuelan authorities report 12 people were killed overnight in the capital Caracas, mostly in the El Valle working class neighborhood where 54 people, including newborn babies, were forced to evacuate a maternity hospital.
The European Court of Human Rights rules that Russia had failed to protect students and teachers during the 2004 Beslan school siege, which left 334 people dead, and orders the Russian Government to pay 2,955,000 euros to 409 relatives of the victims.
List of players in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame
Enhancing Public Safety in the Interior of the United States
ground force component of the Iraqi Armed Forces
Guardian Council announces names of six final candidates.
United States civil space and aeronautics agency
The President of France Francois Hollande says that all leads indicate that the attack was of a "terrorist nature".
The death toll according to a Nangarhar official source now stands at 94 militants, including 4 commanders.
city and departmental capital of Alto Paraná, Paraguay
electroshock weapon sold by Taser International
measure of earthquake size, in terms of the energy released
President of the Philippines from 2016 to 2022
sovereign state in Eastern Europe and Northern Asia
Australian investment bank and financial services company
A landslide in Colombia's southwestern border department of Putumayo sends mud and debris crashing onto houses killing over 250 people and injuring at least 400 others.
National U.S. historic landmark mansion estate
British Prime Minister Theresa May proposes that a snap election for the House of Commons will be held on the 8th of June.
U.S. budget from October 1, 2016 to September 30, 2017
52nd United States Secretary of the Interior and former Congressman from Montana
region of the Australian state of Queensland
United Airlines stock drops more than 4%, a loss of £800 million to the company's value.
one of the six principal organs of the UN, charged with the maintenance of international peace and security
The United States Air Force drops the GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast in Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan, reportedly on an ISIL complex of tunnels and caves.
A suicide bomber attacks a military training camp in Mogadishu, killing at least nine soldiers.
public university in Pullman, Washington, USA
The Supreme Court of the United States refuses to vacate a stay of execution issued by the Arkansas Supreme Court.
Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication
judge appointed by a federal level of government as opposed to the state/provincial/local level
1100 S. Ocean Blvd., Palm Beach, Florida, United States
Mortar rounds are fired in a neighborhood in Wadajir District, Somalia, killing three civilians.
Date: 30 December 2013 – 9 December 2017 (3 years, 11 months, 1 week and 2 days)