Portal:Current events/2017 June 28
June 28, 2017 (Wednesday)
Business and economy
- Type 055 destroyer
- China's state-run Global Times newspaper reports the launching of the first Type 055 destroyer, a 10,000-ton "new generation" warship, at the Jiangnan Shipyard in Shanghai. (Reuters)
Disasters and accidents
- Aftermath of the Hillsborough disaster
- Six people are charged with various offences including manslaughter by gross negligence following the Hillsborough disaster in 1989. (BBC)
International relations
- China–North Korea relations
- Fearing lack of payment, China National Petroleum Corporation stops selling oil to North Korea. (International Business Times)
Politics and elections
- Nepalese local elections, 2017
- Nepalis vote in the second round of local elections, a major step in the near decade-long transition from monarchy to democratic government. The first round was held on May 14, and the final round is scheduled for September 18, after the monsoon season. Parliamentary elections are expected later this year. (Reuters)
- 2017 Venezuelan constitutional crisis
- The Supreme Court of Venezuela bars Luisa Ortega Díaz, the chief prosecutor and outspoken critic of president Nicolás Maduro, from leaving the country and freezes her assets. (Sputnik)
Sports
- NCAA Division I conference realignment
- The Horizon League announces that IUPUI (full name Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis) will join the conference on July 1. The Jaguars will move from the Summit League to replace Valparaiso University, moving from the Horizon to the Missouri Valley Conference on the same date. (CBS Sports)