Portal:Current events/2018 October 17

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza–Israel conflict
  • Palestinians in the Gaza Strip launch two rockets at Israel, one landing in the southern city of Beersheba, causing serious damage to a house but no injuries, and the other landing in the sea. (The Times of Israel)
  • In response to rocket fire, Israeli Air Force jets attack targets in Gaza including a tunnel crossing into Israel, tunnel digging sites, a factory storing components used for tunnel building and another for the manufacturing of aerial weaponry. (The Washington Post)

Arts and culture

• Medal of Honor recipients for the Vietnam War
  • Retired
    John Canley receives the Medal of Honor award from U.S. President Donald Trump for his contributions in the Vietnam War. (Fox News) (USA Today)

• 2018 Atlantic hurricane season
  • Over 1,000 people remain missing a week after
    Florida Panhandle. (Huffington Post)
• 2018 European floods, Hurricane Leslie
  • The death toll of the heavy floods in France rises to 14, while another person is missing. (Le Soir)

Law and crime

• Kerch Polytechnic College massacre
  • A double bombing-mass shooting attack leaves 20 dead in a college in Kerch, Crimea. An 18-year-old student carried out the gun and bomb attack and then committed suicide. The attacker "hated the technical school very much" and had vowed "revenge" on his teacher. (BBC)
• Cannabis in Canada
  • Canada becomes the first G20 nation to fully legalise cannabis. (Yahoo! Canada)
• Macedonia naming dispute
  • Macedonia Accord. (Ekathimerini)
• 2016 German terror plot
  • ISIL terrorism plot which had been foiled in 2016. (Süddeutsche Zeitung)