Portal:Current events/2017 October 29

October 29, 2017 (Sunday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

Northern Rakhine State clashes
- More than 2,000 people march in Yangon to show support for the military, urging the military to secure the country's sovereignty, protect national security and stop illegal intruders (referring to the Rohingya people). (ABC News)
Libyan Civil War
- In coordination with Libya’s internationally recognized government, American special operations forces and FBI agents capture Mustafa al-Imam, a militant who allegedly was involved in the 2012 Benghazi attack, at an unknown location in Libya. (Fox News)

Disasters and accidents

October 2017 Northern California wildfires
- Archives from Hewlett-Packard founders William Hewlett and David Packard are among those destroyed by fires in a Santa Rosa neighborhood. (Quartz)
A pickup truck crashes into an Amish horse-drawn buggy, killing three preteen children and injuring six other passengers in Bushnell Township, Michigan. Police say the survivors' injuries are life-threatening. (The Detroit News) (FOX17) (AP)

Politics and elections

Politics of Iraqi Kurdistan
- Massoud Barzani, the president of the Kurdistan Region in Iraq since 2005, announces that he will step down after November 1. The Iraqi Kurdistan Parliament now has to redistribute the authorities of the presidency. (AFP via SBS)
2017 Spanish constitutional crisis
- Hundreds of thousands of supporters for a unified Spain gather in Barcelona, the capital and largest city of Catalonia, in one of the biggest shows of force against Catalan independence. (The Washington Post) (Reuters)

Sports