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2017, due to constitutional constraints as well as the ongoing Marawi crisis. A 7.7 magnitude earthquake strikes off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula, west of the Alaskan Aleutian Island of Attu, in the North Pacific Ocean. A shrinking glacier in Switzerland has revealed two frozen bodies believed to be of a couple who went missing in 1942 and had never been found, despite extensive searches. Ukraine, with Donetsk replacing Kiev as the country’s capital. Turkey arrests six people, including the director of Amnesty International, for allegedly “helping an armed terrorist organisation”. No immediate reports of casualties or damage; a tsunami warning was cancelled. Swiss authorities said that a DNA test will be conducted in several days’ time. Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko and LPR leader Igor Plotnitsky denounced the plans.
The U.S. Department of Justice charges 412 individuals with health care fraud. Prominent Chinese dissident and Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo dies. Hawaii District Judge Derrick Watson extends the definition of “close family members” to include grandparents, aunts, and uncles, thereby exempting them from President Donald Trump’s travel ban on six Muslim-majority nations. Collectively, these individuals are accused of collectively defrauding $1.3 billion from the U.S. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that in ten years the federal budget of U.S. The U.S. Senate releases a revised version of the American Health Care Act, the Better Care Reconciliation Act.
Nobel Peace Laureate Liu Xiaobo, who has been incarcerated in China for organizing the pro-democracy manifesto “Charter 08,” is suffering from late-stage liver cancer which is worsening. The Chinese hospital treating him and foreign doctors, who examined Liu the weekend, disagree on future treatment. A bill allowing same-sex marriage in Malta gets approved by Parliament. Representative Brad Sherman files the first articles for the formal impeachment of Donald Trump in his position of President of the United States. Germany, the United States, UK, and other countries have appealed that Liu be allowed to go to the hospital of his choice.
Poland has a month to respond. A man wielding a machete attacks the home of Kenya’s Deputy President William Ruto, injuring one guard, 10 days before national elections. Ruto and his family were not home at the time. Monsignor Arnel Lagarejos, a Catholic priest from the Roman Catholic Diocese of Antipolo, Philippines was arrested in Marikina for sexually abusing a 13-year-old girl, by inviting her to a motel with a 16-year-old pimp. Australian federal police conduct raids in four separate suburbs of Sydney, detaining individuals and confiscating materials involved in a suspected terrorist plot to bomb an aircraft.
