Portal:Current events/2017 April 14

• War in Afghanistan
  • The Afghan Ministry of Defense reports as many as 36 suspected ISIL militants were killed while no civilians were harmed in yesterday's bombing in Nangarhar Province using the so-called "mother of all bombs" (GBU-43). The ministry spokesman added these deaths have not been independently verified. (Reuters)
• 2017 Jerusalem Light Rail stabbing
  • A British student is stabbed and killed during an attack on a light-rail train in Jerusalem, Israel. Two other passengers are injured. A Palestinian man with a history of mental problems and other issues is taken into custody by Israeli authorities. Israeli Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon linked the attack to terrorism. (Haaretz)
• Somali Civil War (2009–present)
  • The United States is to deploy troops to Somalia for the first time since 1994 to help train the Somali Armed Forces in their conflict with al-Shabaab insurgents. (BBC)

• A landfill slide in Colombo, Sri Lanka, kills at least 16 people. (RTÉ)

• Amtrak Police taser a man at New York's Penn Station after the man allegedly became agitated due to a delayed train. Bystanders, falsely believing a shooting had occurred, caused a stampede, injuring more than a dozen people. (New York Daily News) (Newsday)

• China–North Korea relations
  • Air China suspends all flights to North Korea's capital Pyongyang amid rising tensions between North Korea and the United States. (CNN)
• European migrant crisis
  • More than 2,000 migrants are rescued from the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Libya. (Reuters)
• Global surveillance disclosures (2013–present)
  • The Shadow Brokers group releases files allegedly from the National Security Agency which indicate efforts to monitor financial transactions made through the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication. (Reuters)
  • The release also includes programs targeting Microsoft Windows operating systems. Microsoft announces that it had already fixed most (but not all) of these exploits. (Engadget) (Motherboard)

• Iranian presidential election, 2017
  • President Hassan Rouhani seeks for a second term while one of his main rivals Ebrahim Raisi also registers with just one day remaining for the submission. (Al Jazeera) (Reuters)