Portal:Current events/2017 August 5
Disasters and accidents
- 2017 V-22 Osprey crash
- Searches are underway for three members of the MV-22 Osprey crashed off the coast of the Australian state of Queensland. Twenty three of the twenty six people on board have been rescued. (AP) (9 News)
- Searches are underway for three members of the
International relations
- North Korea and the United Nations, United Nations Security Council Resolution 2371
- The United Nations Security Council votes 15–0 to impose sanctions on North Korea for its intercontinental ballistic missile tests. (Reuters)
Law and crime
- Crime in Minnesota
- An FBI is investigating the case. (CNN)
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Politics and elections
- Mauritanian constitutional referendum, 2017
- Voters in Senate and addition of red bands to the flag of Mauritania among the most significant proposed changes. The OCHR has criticised Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz's government for apparent suppression of opposition protests. (Al Jazeera)
- Voters in
- Second inauguration of Hassan Rouhani
- Iranian President Hassan Rouhani takes the oath of office to start his second four-year term. (Financial Tribune)
- Indian vice-presidential election, 2017
- Vice-President of India.(NDTV)
- 2017 Venezuelan constitutional crisis
- The new Constituent Assembly votes to remove Attorney General Luisa Ortega Díaz, a prominent critic of President Nicolás Maduro, from her post. The move comes hours after troops from the National Guard surrounded her home in Caracas. (Al Jazeera)
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