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Portal:Current events/2017 August 7
August 7, 2017 (Monday)
Arts and culture
- Godzilla in popular culture
- Haruo Nakajima, who portrayed the monster Godzilla from 1954 to 1972, dies at the age of 88. (Daily Mail)
Business and economy
- Airline bankruptcies in the United States
- Air carrier PenAir declares Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the United States, and ends service to Denver, Colorado, and Portland, Oregon. (The Wall Street Journal)
Law and crime
- Media of the Philippines
- Two more Filipino journalists are murdered in a span of two days adding to toll of more than a hundred journalists killed since 2000. (The Straits Times) (The Committee to Protect Journalists)
Politics and elections
- Mauritanian constitutional referendum, 2017
- Results from Saturday's constitutional referendum show Mauritanians have voted to abolish the Senate. Turnout was 53.73%, with 85% of voters supporting the change, according to officials. (BBC)
- Corruption in South Africa
- The Speaker of the National Assembly of South Africa, Baleka Mbete, announces that a vote of no confidence in President Jacob Zuma will be held by secret ballot. The vote, to be held on 8 August 2017, will be the eighth vote of no confidence against the president and the first by secret ballot. (CNN)
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