Portal:Current events/2017 July 14

July 14, 2017 (Friday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

2017 Temple Mount shooting
- Two Druze Israeli police officers are killed in an attack at Temple Mount in Jerusalem. (BBC)
Insurgency in Egypt (2013–present)
- Gunmen shoot dead five police officers near Giza. (ABC News)
- 2017 Hurghada attack
  - Two female tourists are killed and four others are wounded in a mass stabbing attack at a hotel in Hurghada, Red Sea Governorate. The attacker is detained. (BBC)

Disasters and accidents

Marco Polo condo fire
- At least three people are killed and two hospitalized, one in serious condition, from a fire in a condominium tower in the U.S. city of Honolulu, Hawaii. An unknown number of residents are reportedly still trapped in their apartments. (AP via Fox News) (Reuters)
Ten people are killed after a bus and a truck collided head-on in Probolinggo, Indonesia. (Tribunjateng.com (in Indonesian)

Law and crime

Presidency of Donald Trump
- The White House releases unredacted emails of people concerned about the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity. Sensitive information revealed in the emails prompts immediate backlash and privacy concerns. (The Washington Post) (The New York magazine)
Aftermath of the Mamasapano clash
- Former President of the Philippines Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III is indicted (among others) by the Office of the Ombudsman for his failure in handling the 2015 Mamasapano clash, which resulted in the deaths of 44 members of the Special Action Forces of the Philippine National Police. Aquino's legal team has vowed to appeal for a motion for reconsideration; as well as the group Volunteers Against Crime and Corruption (representing the victims' families), against what they call a "weak case" (citing Aquino's charges of "graft" & "usurpation of authority", instead of "reckless imprudence resulting in multiple homicide") (Rappler) (ABC News.go)

Corruption in Peru, Operation Car Wash
- A court of Lima orders 18 months of pre-trial imprisonment for former president Ollanta Humala and his wife Nadine Heredia for alleged money laundering. Both have turned themselves in. (BBC)

Executive Order 13780, Hawaii v. Trump
- The Trump Administration asks the U.S. Supreme Court to stop implementation of yesterday's ruling by Hawaii District Judge Derrick Watson that expanded the State Department's definition of "close family" used to implement the Supreme Court's June order that permits admission to the U.S. of those with a bona fide relationship. (Reuters) (U.S. State Department via Reuters)

Politics and elections