Portal:Current events/2017 July 27
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July 27, 2017 (Thursday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- War in Donbass
- Ukraine's domestic intelligence service, the SBU, reports that the March 2017 explosions at Balakliia military base in Eastern Ukraine were caused by a drone carrying a ZMG-1 thermite grenade. The explosions resulted in 1 death and 5 injuries. (Popular Mechanics)
Business and economy
- Chantiers de l'Atlantique
- France nationalises the STX Europe-owned Chantiers de l'Atlantique shipyard in Saint-Nazaire, Pays de la Loire, to prevent Italian shipbuilding firm Fincantieri taking majority control. Italian Minister of Economy and Finances Pier Carlo Padoan calls the French decision to nationalise the shipyard "grave and incomprehensible". (Reuters)
Health and medicine
- Electronic cigarette
- A new study, published in the The BMJ medical journal, finds that electronic cigarettes may help smokers stop their habit. The researchers found that a substantial increase in e-cigarette use among American adult smokers was associated with a statistically significant increase in the smoking cessation rate. (ABC News) (The BMJ)
Politics and elections
- Russia and the United Nations
- Russian President Vladimir Putin appoints Vasily Nebenzya to be the new Permanent Representative of Russia to the United Nations following the sudden death of Vitaly Churkin in February. (Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty)
- 2017 Venezuelan protests
- At least three protesters are killed across the country amid clashes with police as a two-day national strike called by the opposition begins. (Al Jazeera)
- Anna Johansson and Anders Ygeman resign in the wake of controversy surrounding a 2015 data leak of the Swedish Transport Agency. (Politico)