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Portal:Current events/2017 November 18
November 18, 2017 (Saturday)
Disasters and accidents
- Disappearance of ARA San Juan
- The Argentine Navy continues searching in the South Atlantic for the ARA San Juan submarine, which went missing on 15 November 2017. (Reuters via U.S. News and World Report)
- A fire in a low-rent apartment in a suburb of Beijing kills 19 people and injures 8. (Xinhua net) The Beijing municipal government then launches a fire safety crackdown in which thousands of migrant workers are evicted from their homes within days. (Caixin)
International relations
Politics and elections
- 2017 Zimbabwean coup d'état
- Thousands of people celebrate the expected downfall of Robert Mugabe in the streets of Harare. (BBC) (Reuters)
- Politics of Northern Ireland
- Gerry Adams, the long-term leader of Sinn Féin, announces that he will step down as party leader next year. (Reuters via News Limited)
- 2017 Spanish constitutional crisis
- The Spanish Attorney General José Manuel Maza unexpectedly dies of an illness in Buenos Aires at the age of 66. (BBC)
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