Portal:Current events/2017 October 8
October 8, 2017 (Sunday)
Disasters and accidents
- Rohingya genocide
- A refugee boat en route to Bangladesh from Myanmar capsizes, resulting in at least 12 deaths. (Global News)
- 2017 Atlantic hurricane season
- Hurricane Nate
- Hurricane Nate weakens to a tropical storm, and causes flooding and power outages in Mississippi and Alabama. (ABC News)
- Hurricane Nate
International relations
- Turkey–United States relations
- The U.S. Mission in Turkey suspends all non-immigration visa services in the country citing security concerns. (Reuters)
- In a reciprocal action of retaliation, the Turkish mission in the United States suspends all non-immigration visa services in the country, via a reversed-role copy of the U.S. statement. (Reuters)
- The Turkish lira (TRY) falls 3.2% intraday on worries for tourism in Turkey. (Reuters) (Bloomberg)
Politics and elections
- 2017 Spanish constitutional crisis
- At least 350,000 people attend a rally in Barcelona to oppose Catalan independence. (BBC)