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Current events of April 17, 2017 (2017-04-17) (Monday)

The death toll from flooding in the Philippine province of Cebu rises to nine with ten missing. (GMA Network)
Ten people have died, five are injured and four missing after a bus plunges into a river in China's Guizhou province. (AP via Ynetnews)
A small Swiss-owned plane crashes near a Lidl supermarket in the Portuguese village of Tires, west of Lisbon, killing at least five people. (BBC)
Five people drowned while eleven are still missing after a boat capsized off the coast of Rumphi District on Lake Malawi. (BBC)

China–Nepal relations
- In a move likely to cause concern in India, China and Nepal commenced last Sunday the first ever combined military exercises, focusing on counter-terror operations. (South China Morning Post)
North Korea's top diplomat Han Song-ryol has threatened to test missiles on a "weekly" basis, as United States Vice President Mike Pence warned the North that the United States' "era of strategic patience" with the country was over. (BBC)

Shooting of Robert Godwin
- The search for the suspect in the killing of an elderly man in Cleveland whose murder was posted to Facebook expands beyond Ohio, with the FBI urging residents in Indiana, Michigan, New York, and Pennsylvania to be on alert for the suspect. (Fox News)