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April 16, 2017
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2017-04-16
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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
Shooting of Robert Godwin
Cleveland
police search for a suspect identified in a
Facebook
video showing one man shooting an elderly man.
(NPR)
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)
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