Portal:Current events/2017 July 9
< Portal:Current events
July 9, 2017 (Sunday)
Arts and culture
- World Heritage Sites
- UNESCO declares eight new sites as World Heritage Sites; including Lake District in North West England and Iran's Historic City of Yazd. (BBC) (UNESCO)
International relations
- Russia–United States relations
- U.S. President Donald Trump says he and Russian President Vladimir Putin "discussed forming an impenetrable cyber security unit so that election hacking, and many other negative things, will be guarded and safe." Trump later says he does not think this will happen. (BBC)
Law and crime
- 2017 Beckton acid attack
- The chief suspect in an attack on June 21, 2017, turns himself in to the police. (BBC)
Politics and elections
- 2017 March for Justice
- The 450 km-long Turkish March for Justice concludes in Istanbul at a mass rally attended by hundreds of thousands of people. (BBC)