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Portal:Current events/2017 April 7

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;Armed conflicts and attacks

;Arts and culture

;Business and economics

;Disasters and accidents

  • Six people are killed and two are missing after the Jhelum River in Kashmir overflows following heavy rain and snowfall. [https://www.reuters.com/article/us-india-floods-idUSKBN1791HW?il=0 (Reuters)]
  • Twenty people have died and more than a dozen missing after a ferry capsizes in Myanmar's Irrawaddy River delta. [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/04/08/ferry-capsizes-myanmar-killing-20-dozen-missing/ (AP via The Telegraph)]

;Law and crime

  • The U.S. Department of Homeland Security withdraws its order that Twitter unmask a user whose tweets are critical of President Donald Trump following the company's court filing to block the order on constitutional grounds. [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/04/06/the-government-is-demanding-to-know-who-this-trump-critic-is-twitter-is-suing-to-keep-it-a-secret/ (The Washington Post)] [http://www.cbsnews.com/news/twitter-fights-government-order-for-anti-trump-user-records/ (CBS News)]

;International relations

;Politics and elections

  • The Maldives Police Service arrests the country's opposition leader, Qasim Ibrahim, after his party's failed bid to impeach the Speaker of the People's Majlis. [https://www.reuters.com/article/us-maldives-politics-idUSKBN1791P3?il=0 (Reuters)]
  • Neil Gorsuch is confirmed as the 113th justice of the Supreme Court of the United States by a 54–45 vote in the United States Senate after invocation of the "nuclear option". [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/07/us/politics/neil-gorsuch-supreme-court.html?_r=0 (The New York Times)]
  • The governor of the State of Alabama, Robert Bentley, wins a court victory halting impeachment proceedings that were set to begin Monday to determine whether he should remain in office after it was discovered that he had a romantic relationship with a staffer. [http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_ALABAMA_GOVERNOR?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2017-04-08-02-02-51 (AP)]
  • President Joseph Kabila appoints Bruno Tshibala of the Union for Democracy and Social Progress as the Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Kabila's earlier announcement of his decision to appoint a new prime minister prompted Samy Badibanga to resign from the role after less than five months in office. [http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/04/kabila-names-bruno-tshibala-drc-prime-minister-170407201215507.html (Al Jazeera)]
  • Over 50,000 people participate in the ongoing Democratic Alliance protests in South Africa against President Jacob Zuma. [http://www.sowetanlive.co.za/news/2017/04/08/zumamustfall-campaign-to-hold-national-day-of-action (Sowetan Live)] [http://www.newstalk.com/Thousands-protest-in-South-Africa-against-President-Zouma (NewsTalk)]

;Science and technology

  • Artifacts from Triquet Island, south-west of Hunter Island in British Columbia, are found to date back 14,000 years, marking the discovery of the oldest village in North America. [http://vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca/14-000-year-old-village-unearthed-on-b-c-island-by-uvic-student-1.3358511 (CTV News)]

;Sports

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