Portal:Current events/2017 October 11
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Syrian Civil War
- Three suicide bombers attack a police command center in Damascus, killing two people and injuring six others. (Reuters)
- ISIL activist and recruiter Sally Jones was killed in a U.S. drone strike in June along with her 12-year-old son while they were fleeing Raqqa in Syria. (The Guardian)
Arts and culture
- Boy Scouts of America membership policies
- The Eagle Scout beginning in 2019. (AP)
- The
Disasters and accidents
- October 2017 Northern California wildfires
- The death toll grows to 23 people with 285 people still missing. (BBC) (Los Angeles Times)
- The property destruction now includes more than 3500 homes and businesses. (Reuters)
- Mount Kirishima
- Shinmoedake volcano erupts for the first time in six years. (The Japan Times)
Law and crime
- Cybercrime
- Last year a hacker stole non-classified information about Australia’s Joint Strike Fighter program and other military hardware after breaching the network of a defense contractor. (Reuters)
- Kidnapping of Joshua Boyle and Caitlan Coleman
- Pakistani troops rescue Joshua Boyle and Caitlan Coleman, who have been held captive since 2012, and their three children from the Taliban. (The Guardian)
Politics and elections
- Politics of Peru
- The tongue cancer, has applied for a pardon unsuccessfully on two occasions. (RPP Noticias) (El Comercio) (Diario Correo)
- The
Science and technology
- Discovery and exploration of the Solar System
- Granada, Spain, describing the discovery that a ring system orbits the trans-Neptunian dwarf planet Haumea. (The Verge) (Nature)
- 2017 in spaceflight
- EchoStar 105 for U.S.-headquartered EchoStar. It's the third time when a Falcon 9 first stage is re-used. (Space Flight Now)