Portal:Current events/2016 July 17

July 17, 2016 (Sunday)

At least one person is reportedly killed and others are taken hostage after an armed group seized control of the police headquarters in the Erebuni District of Yerevan, Armenia. The gunmen are demanding the release of jailed opposition figure, Jirair Sefilian, according to Armenia's National Security Service. (RT)
Syrian Civil War
- Syrian Government forces reach the main road in the rebel held city of Aleppo. (Reuters)
Second Libyan Civil War
- UN-backed talks are underway in Tunis regarding the future of Libya, including discussions on forming a unified army for the Government of National Accord. (RTE)

Protesters in Pakistan take offense to the honour killing of internet celebrity Qandeel Baloch. (Al Jazeera)

The Prime Minister of Australia, Malcolm Turnbull said that his country would open up trading with the United Kingdom in a post-EU trade deal. Some see this as a harbinger of the post-Brexit future. (BBC)

Local officials report eight people were killed when, on Friday, their elevator in an under-construction apartment building fell 18 stories in the port city of Longkou in Shandong province of eastern China. (AP)

Territorial disputes in the South China Sea, Philippines v. China
- Vietnamese police bus away about two dozen would-be protestors who gathered at Hoàn Kiếm Lake in central Hanoi to rally in support of the Permanent Court of Arbitration's South China Sea decision, and against China's rejection of the tribunal's ruling. This preemptive action, in effect, squashed the No-U group protest. (AP) (AAP via News.com.au)