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Portal:Current events/2016 May 2

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;Armed conflicts and attacks

;Business and economy

  • The Philippines stock market suffers the biggest drop since February amid uncertainty about the upcoming elections. [https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-05-02/election-jitters-send-philippine-stock-investors-to-sidelines (Bloomberg)]
  • Australian tech entrepreneur Craig Steven Wright claims he is Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of the Bitcoin currency. There are about 15.5 million bitcoins in circulation. However, questions have been raised as to authenticity of his assertion. [https://www.economist.com/news/briefings/21698061-craig-steven-wright-claims-be-satoshi-nakamoto-bitcoin (The Economist)] [https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-36168863 (BBC)] [https://www.economist.com/news/briefings/21698066-onus-on-craig-wright-provide-better-evidence-satoshi-nakamoto (The Economist²)] [https://web.archive.org/web/20160504124649/http://www.charlotteobserver.com/article75233707.html (AP via The Charlotte Observer)]
  • Puerto Rican government-debt crisis
  • Puerto Rico defaults on a $422 million debt payment. The Governor of Puerto Rico Alejandro García Padilla calls the situation a "humanitarian crisis". This is the third time Puerto Rico has defaulted on bond payments. [http://money.cnn.com/2016/05/02/investing/puerto-rico-default-may-1/ (CNN)]

;Disasters and accidents

  • The bodies of mountaineer Alex Lowe and photographer David Bridges are found on the Himalayan mountain Shishapangma after being buried in an avalanche in 1999. [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/02/remains-of-climbing-legend-alex-lowe-found-on-tibetan-mountain (The Guardian)]

;International relations

;Law and crime

  • Papua conflict
  • Police in the Indonesian provinces of Papua and West Papua arrest scores of protesters as planned demonstrations to mark the anniversary of the incorporation of the region with Indonesia were to take place today. [http://www.radionz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/302841/mass-arrests-in-west-papua-ahead-of-demos (Radio New Zealand)]
  • Honduran authorities arrest four men in the March 3 home invasion killing of Goldman Environmental Prize-winning environmental activist Berta Cáceres. One of the suspects was an active duty army officer while the others worked for Desarrollos Energeticos SA, whose hydroelectric project Cáceres had opposed since 2006. The four also face charges on the attempted murder of Mexican environmental activist Gustavo Castro Soto, who was injured in the attack. [http://bigstory.ap.org/article/109431f864214ad5a7f429c169af3dce/4-arrested-slaying-honduran-environmental-activist (AP)] [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/02/berta-caceres-murder-four-men-arrested-honduras (The Guardian)]
  • A United Nations arbitration court rules India must allow an Italian marine, facing charges of murdering two fishermen during an anti-piracy mission in 2012, to return home pending the Permanent Court of Arbitration's decision over jurisdiction. The suspect, who will remain under the authority of the Supreme Court of India, has been staying in the Italian embassy in New Delhi; his co-defendant returned to Italy with health problems in 2014. [http://in.reuters.com/article/italy-india-arbitration-marines-idINKCN0XT0SO (Reuters)] [http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Italian-marine-Salvatore-Girone-can-return-home-India/articleshow/52080541.cms (The Times of India)] [http://www.firstpost.com/india/italian-marine-italy-un-arbitration-tribunal-rules-in-favour-2760774.html (Firstpost)]

;Politics and elections

;Science and technology

  • Discoveries of exoplanets
  • Researchers report in the journal Nature the discovery of three potentially habitable, Earth-like exoplanets orbiting TRAPPIST-1, an ultracool dwarf star 40 light-years away in the constellation Aquarius. [http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/02/health/three-habitable-planets-earth-dwarf-star/ (CNN)] [https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/05/astronomers-have-found-planets-in-the-habitable-zone/480690/ (The Atlantic)] [http://www.nature.com/articles/nature17448.epdf?referrer_access_token=iiEdYLP4HdMl6uPKm2T7G9RgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0MIFXhO48LwbcrnV_fG0uzdTXDH0U-GZiE_QhzwpCK3vvWAYKfh9dBqs7si1lc7aEfLj8EfY1mfB67qKa1pyy8EZbcYsGLGzKGi6-g-aRae6zCv6otzBHGaSV8SdhZT3_-SiNixjmizRm-uSgxwruni9Sa8aVEslAVfuHK3JAtq1A%3D%3D&tracking_referrer=www.cnn.com (Nature)]

;Sport

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