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July 18, 2017 (Tuesday)

A 7.7 magnitude earthquake strikes off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula, west of the Alaskan Aleutian Island of Attu, in the North Pacific Ocean. No immediate reports of casualties or damage; a tsunami warning was cancelled. (Reuters) (AP) (USGS)

Ukrainian crisis
- DPR leader Alexander Zakharchenko announced that the self-declared Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) and Luhansk People's Republic (LPR) would form a new state called Malorossiya (Little Russia) as an official successor to what he called the "failed state" of Ukraine, with Donetsk replacing Kiev as the country's capital. Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko and LPR leader Igor Plotnitsky denounced the plans. (ABC News) (The Telegraph)

Turkey arrests six people, including the director of Amnesty International, for allegedly "helping an armed terrorist organisation". (Al Jazeera)

Canadian-born Larissa Waters resigns as a Senator, and as deputy leader of the Australian Greens, after discovering she remains a dual citizen of Canada, rendering her election unconstitutional under section 44. The move comes four days after Scott Ludlam, Waters' co-deputy, resigned due to his New Zealand citizenship. (Australian Broadcasting Corp.)
Bermudian general election, 2017
- Voters in Bermuda go to the polls to elect their Premier and members of the House of Assembly. (The Royal Gazette)
Martial law in the Philippines
- President of the Philippines Rodrigo Duterte is planning to seek the approval of the Congress of the Philippines to extend Proclamation No. 216 (martial law on the whole of Mindanao in response to the Marawi crisis) until the end of 2017. According to the 1987 revision of the Constitution, under Section 18 of Article VII, any martial law proclamation should not exceed a period of 60 days (Proclamation No. 216 officially ends on 22 July); and upon the initiative of the President, Congress (voting jointly, by a vote of at least a majority of all its Members in regular or special session) may extend the proclamation for a period to be determined by Congress, if the current situation still persists and public safety requires it. (Yahoo News)
Efforts to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
- A Senate GOP bill to repeal and replace large portions of Obamacare fails to win enough support to pass. (The New York Times)

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 *[[Martial law in the Philippines]]
 **[[President of the Philippines]] [[Rodrigo Duterte]] is planning to seek the approval of the [[Congress of the Philippines]] to extend [[Proclamation No. 216]] (martial law on the whole of [[Mindanao]] in response to the [[Marawi crisis]]) until the end of 2017. According to the [[Constitution of the Philippines|1987 revision]] of the Constitution, under Section 18 of Article VII, any martial law proclamation should not exceed a period of 60 days (Proclamation No. 216 officially ends on 22 July); and upon the initiative of the President, Congress (voting jointly, by a vote of at least a majority of all its Members in regular or special session) may extend the proclamation for a period to be determined by Congress, if the [[Marawi crisis|current situation]] still persists and public safety requires it. [http://www.yahoo.com/news/philippines-duterte-seeks-martial-law-extension-south-093019912.html (Yahoo News)]
+*[[Efforts to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act]]
+**A Senate GOP bill to repeal and replace large portions of [[Obamacare]] fails to win enough support to pass. [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/18/us/politics/republicans-obamacare-repeal-now-replace-later.html (''The New York Times'')]
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