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Portal:Current events/2017 April 25
April 25, 2017 (Tuesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- April 2017 Turkish airstrikes in Syria and Iraq
- 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. (Reuters) (Hurriet Daily News)
Arts and culture
- 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". (NBC News) (Nieman Foundation for Journalism)
Business and economy
- United States Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke says that Donald Trump plans to review U.S. national monuments. (The Washington Post)
Disasters and accidents
- Twenty-seven people are killed in Kenya's Makueni County when a bus and a truck collide on the Nairobi–Mombasa Road. (The Standard)
International relations
- 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. (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
- North Korea–United States relations
- The USS Michigan docks at Busan, South Korea, amid growing concerns over North Korean weapons development. (BBC)
- Germany–Israel relations
- 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"(New York Daily News)
Law and crime
- India is to provide every cow with a biometric dog tag, in an effort to prevent cattle smuggling. (Times of India)
- The United States announced it will end a six-year Central-African hunt for Joseph Kony the following day. (AFP via Pulse.ng)
- Gun politics in the United States
- An affiliate of the NRA sues California for alleged discrimination. (Fox News)
- Immigration policy of Donald Trump
- U.S. District Court Judge William Orrick rules that President Donald Trump's executive order withholding federal funds from sanctuary cities is unconstitutional. (The Washington Post)
Sports
- In auto racing, longtime NASCAR Cup Series star Dale Earnhardt Jr. announces that he will retire at the end of the 2017 season. (ESPN)
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