Portal:Current events/2017 July 28

• 2017 Hamburg attack
  • One person is killed and four others are injured in a knife attack in an Edeka supermarket in Barmbek in the German city of Hamburg. Mayor Olaf Scholz said the attack was motivated by "hate". The attacker is reported to have shouted "Allahu Akbar" before attacking. (BBC)

• U.S. Appeals Court Judge Patricia Millett rejects the Federal Aviation Administration argument that seat size is unimportant when passengers exit a plane in an emergency, and orders the FAA to set minimum standards for the space airlines give passengers. (Reuters) (Bloomberg)

• 2017 Barcelona train crash
  • A passenger train crashes into a buffer stop at Barcelona França railway station, injuring 54 people, five seriously. (BBC)

• Charlie Gard case
  • Charlie Gard, an infant with a rare genetic condition known as mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome, dies at the age of 11 months. (BBC) (Sky News)

• North Korea and weapons of mass destruction
  • 2017 North Korean missile tests
    • North Korea launches an intercontinental ballistic missile that flies 620 miles horizontally in about 45 minutes, landing in the Sea of Japan, according to Japan, South Korea and the United States. (ABC News) (Reuters)
• Iran–United States relations
  • The United States Treasury Department imposes sanctions on six Shahid Hemmat Industrial Group satellite companies following a recent Iranian rocket launch that the U.S. says breached United Nations Security Council Resolution 2231. (Reuters) (CNN)

• 2017 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act replacement proposals
  • The American Health Care Act of 2017, an attempt to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, fails passage in the United States Senate. (Reuters)
• Politics of Pakistan
  • The Prime Minister of Pakistan, Nawaz Sharif resigns after the Supreme Court disqualifies him from holding public office following a verdict that he had been dishonest in not disclosing his employment in the Dubai-based Capital FZE company in his nomination papers. (Dawn (Pakistan)) (BBC)
• Political appointments by Donald Trump
  • U.S. President Donald Trump announces Homeland Security Secretary John F. Kelly will be White House Chief of Staff, replacing Reince Priebus. (ABC News) (Twitter) (The New York Times)