Portal:Current events/2017 April 13

April 13, 2017 (Thursday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

Disasters and accidents

2016–17 South Pacific cyclone season
- A state of emergency is declared and coastal areas are evacuated in the Coromandel Peninsula as Cyclone Cook sweeps across the North Island of New Zealand. (BBC)
European migrant crisis
- A boat carrying migrants sinks off the coast of Libya, with 97 people reported missing. 23 others were rescued by the Libyan coast guard. (Al Jazeera)

International relations

Law and crime

The European Court of Human Rights rules that Russia had failed to protect students and teachers during the 2004 Beslan school siege, which left 334 people dead, and orders the Russian Government to pay 2,955,000 euros to 409 relatives of the victims. The ruling was quickly denounced by Russia as "unacceptable". (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)
One student is murdered and another injured in Mardan, Pakistan over alleged blasphemy. The student who died, Mashal Khan, was known on social media for his secular and liberal views. (BBC)

Politics and elections

2017 Venezuelan constitutional crisis
- Thousands of people take to the streets in Caracas as Venezuelan authorities acknowledge a fifth death in the protests. (AP)

Science and technology

NASA announces Saturn's moon Enceladus has the conditions in its global subsurface ocean to support life. (The Guardian)