Portal:Current events/2017 November 10
Disasters and accidents
- A driver intentionally drives into a group of students near Toulouse, France. Three injured people are taken to hospital. A suspect has been arrested. Police are not treating this incident as connected to terrorism. (BBC) (CNN)
- Airborne radioactivity increase in Europe in autumn 2017
- France's nuclear safety institute (nuclear accident took place in either Russia or Kazakhstan, in late September and early October. (The Telegraph)
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International relations
- 2017 Lebanon–Saudi Arabia dispute
- Saudi Arabia, and subsequently the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait, urge all citizens currently in Lebanon to leave the country immediately. Recently, Saudi Arabia declared that a missile attack on its airport from Yemen was "an act of war" by Lebanon. (Al-Jazeera) (NPR)
- French President Emmanuel Macron makes an unscheduled visit to Saudi Arabia amidst an escalating crisis between the kingdom and Lebanon. France is a close partner of Lebanon. (BBC)
- accused of pressuring Hariri to resign in the first place. (Al Jazeera)
- Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development
- Pope Francis, at the start of a two-day nuclear disarmament conference at Vatican City, says countries should not stockpile nuclear weapons even for the purpose of deterrence. (Reuters) (Vatican Radio)