Portal:Current events/2017 April 16
April 16, 2017 (Sunday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Nine people are injured in a shooting at the J&R Party Hall after-hours club in Columbus, Ohio. Two are in critical condition. (CNN) (Daily Mail)
- Fatah–Hamas conflict
- 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. (Deutsche Welle)
Arts and culture
- 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. (Catholic News Agency)
International relations
- North Korea and weapons of mass destruction
- 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. (ABC News) (Reuters)
Law and crime
Politics and elections
- Turkish constitutional referendum, 2017
- 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. (The Washington Post) (AP via Yahoo!)
Sports
- 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. (ESPN)
- in rugby union, RGC 1404 win the Welsh SWALEC National Cup for the first time in their short history. (BBC News)