Portal:Current events/2017 October 4
October 4, 2017 (Wednesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Iraqi Civil War (2014–present), Battle of Hawija
- The Iraqi Army and allied paramilitary fighters storm the ISIL-held city of Hawija in the Kirkuk Governorate. Hawija is one of the last remaining ISIL strongholds in Iraq. (BBC)
Law and crime
- Brazilian police detain fugitive Italian former left-wing guerrilla and convicted murderer Cesare Battisti, as he was attempting to flee across the border into Bolivia to avoid extradition back to Italy and face his life sentence prison term for four murders in the 1970's. (Reuters)
Politics and elections
- 2017 Spanish constitutional crisis
- Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy sends the Spanish Legion Logistic Support Group of armed forces into Catalonia to support riot police in Barcelona. (The Sun)
Science and technology
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- The Nobel Prize committee awards Swiss Jacques Dubochet, German Joachim Frank, and British Richard Henderson the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structural determination of biomolecules in a solution. (The Guardian) (Nobel Prize.org)