Portal:Current events/2011 July 17
July 17, 2011 (Sunday)
Armed conflict and attacks
- Arab Spring
- 2011 Egyptian revolution: Ousted Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak suffers stroke, falls into coma. (Haaretz) (ABC)
- 2011 Syrian uprising:
- Syrian forces mass in the east of the country near the Iraqi border where dozens of soldiers have defected. (New York Times)
- Troops storm a town near the border with Lebanon, rounding up more than 500 people. (Al Jazeera)
- 2011 Libyan civil war: NATO planes destroy a military storage facility and other targets on the outskirts of Tripoli. (Al Jazeera)
- 2011 Bahraini uprising: The Shia al-Wafiq opposition group quits national talks aimed at ending the political crisis in the country. (BBC)
Arts and entertainment
- Warner Bros. has reported that Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2, the final instalment of the Harry Potter film series has broken box office records, taking $92.1m (£57m) in North America on Friday, its opening day. (Box Office Mojo)
Disasters
- The United Nations delivers aid to parts of Somalia controlled by al-Shabab militants for the first time since they ended the ban on food supplies. (BBC)
- A passenger bus collides with a truck near Mashkovo in Russia's Tambov Oblast with at least 5 people dead and 17 injured. (UPI)
- Mount Lokon, a volcano on Sulawesi in Indonesia erupts again sending ash 3,500 metres in the air. (AFP via Google News)
- Tropical Storm Bret forms off the coast of the Bahamas. (National Hurricane Centre)
- At least two people are killed and 35 injured due to a bus crash on Interstate 390 near the US town of Bath, New York. [http://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/20110717/NEWS01/110717009/Two-people-dead-following-tour-bus-crash-390-near-Bath?odyssey=tab