Portal:Current events/2017 February 11

Current events of February 11, 2017 (2017-02-11) (Saturday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• War in Afghanistan (2015–present)
  • A suicide bomber kills at least seven people outside a bank in Lashkargah. (Reuters)
• Syrian Civil War, Battle of al-Bab
  • Syrian rebels and Turkish troops enter al-Bab, with Syrian troops also approaching the town, prompting heavy clashes with ISIL militants. (Al Jazeera)

Disasters and accidents

• Severe flooding following five days of incessant rain causes landslides that have killed 13 people in Indonesia's West Nusa Tenggara Province. (AP)
• Over 70,000 people are evacuated from Thessaloniki, Greece, as authorities attempt to defuse a World War II-era unexploded ordnance, which was discovered last week. (The Guardian)

Politics and elections

• 2017 elections in India
  • Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election
    • Voters in Uttar Pradesh cast ballots in Phase 1 of the state's 2017 elections, with Phase 7, the final poll, to be held on 8 March. This will be an important test of India's November policy change that removed 86 percent of the cash then in circulation. (Reuters)
• Violence erupts at a protest rally in Baghdad, Iraq, killing at least four protesters and one police officer. Thousand of supporters of Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr gathered in the capital to demand an overhaul of the country's electoral system. (Al Jazeera)