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)
- Insurgency in the Maghreb
- An apparent ambush in Niger near the Malian border leaves three U.S. Green Berets and five Nigerien soldiers dead during a joint patrol. (Reuters),(RT)
- Syrian Civil War
- According to the Russian Defense Ministry's spokesman Major General Igor Konashenkov, ISIS has undertaken several attacks on Syrian positions from U.S.-controlled areas, using sophisticated data. (RT)
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 facing his life sentence prison term for four murders in the 1970s. (Reuters)
- Cybercrime
- U.S. fast-food chain operator Sonic Drive-In may have had a malware attack at some of its drive-in outlets and may have allowed hackers to access customers’ debit and credit card information. (Reuters)
Politics and elections
- 2017 Spanish constitutional crisis
- Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy deploys the 41st Logistic Support Group of the Spanish Armed Forces in Catalonia to support riot police in Barcelona. (The Sun)
Science and technology
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- The Nobel 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) (Nobelprize.org)