Portal:Current events/2017 April 23
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April 23, 2017 (Sunday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- War in Donbass
- A U.S. member of the OSCE monitoring mission is killed and two others injured after their vehicle drives over a land mine near Luhansk. (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)
International relations
- North Korea–United States relations
- Yonhap reports that North Korea has detained a U.S. citizen as he sought to leave the country. (BBC)
Law and crime
- Prominent Italian-born conservationist Kuki Gallmann is shot and injured in an ambush in northern Kenya. (BBC)
- European migrant crisis
- An Italian prosecutor says there are "telephone calls" between people smugglers in Libya and some non-governmental organizations. Frontex, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, says the practices amount to a "taxi service". One NGO says "more would die" if they were not there. (Deutsche Welle) (BBC)
Politics and elections
- 2017 French presidential election
- Voters in France go to the polls to elect a new president; Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron qualify for the second round. (The Wire) (The Washington Post)