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Portal:Current events/2017 April 24

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April 24, 2017 (2017-04-24) (Monday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

International relations

Law and crime

InParaguay, around 50 armed men, allegedly belonging to theBrazil-basedPrimeiro Comando da Capital criminal gang, storm a security vault and police headquarters inCiudad del Este, escaping with around $6 million in a daring cross-border raid.(The Guardian)
Philippine Drug War
- A Filipino lawyer files a complaint of "mass murder andcrimes against humanity" againstPhilippines presidentRodrigo Duterte and eleven other officials at theInternational Criminal Court inThe Hague,Netherlands.(The New York Times)
  - The accused includePNP chiefRonald dela Rosa,Justice secretaryVitaliano Aguirre, Edilberto Leonardo, Royina Garma,House speakerPantaleon Alvarez, formerInterior secretaryIsmael Sueno, Sonny Buenaventura,Solicitor General Jose Calida, Dante Gierran,Senator Richard J. Gordon, and SenatorAlan Peter Cayetano.(Philippine Daily Inquirer)
List of offenders executed in the United States in 2017
- Arkansas becomes the firstU.S. state sinceTexas in 2000 to hold two executions on the same day as executes convicted murderers Jack Jones, Jr. and Marcel Williams.(BBC)(AP via Yahoo! News)

Politics and elections

2017 French presidential election
- Presidential candidateMarine Le Pen announces she is stepping down as leader of theNational Front.(BBC)
Muhammad V is formally installed as the 15thKing of Malaysia.(Berita Harian)
United Kingdom general election, 2017
- TheCommunist Party of Britain announces it will not field any candidates in the upcoming general election for the first time since its formation in 1920, and endorsesLabour leaderJeremy Corbyn, saying victory for Mr Corbyn at the general election in June would be “the first step towards a formation of left-led government atWestminster”.(The Independent)

Science and technology

Peggy Whitson, commander of theInternational Space Station (ISS), breaks the record for most total days spent in space by anyNASA astronaut, at more than 534 days.(Mirror)