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Portal:Current events/2016 November 1

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;Armed attacks and conflicts

  • Battle of Mosul (2016)
  • United Nations Human Rights Council spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani says ISIL militants killed 40 former Iraqi Security Forces members and threw their bodies in the Tigris river near Mosul on Saturday. [https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-iraq-mosul-un-idUSKBN12W3PV?il=0 (Reuters)]
  • Iraqi Special Operations Forces have fought their way into the outskirts of Mosul. [http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-iraq-mosul-islamic-state-20161101-story.html (Chicago Tribune)]
  • The predominantly African American Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church in Greenville Mississippi burned down to brick walls and spray painted with "Vote Trump" in what appeared to be a political hate crime. Andrew McClinton, a black member of the church was arrested, charged and later pleaded guilty to burning the church in a race hoax [https://web.archive.org/web/20190330124717/http://wreg.com/2019/03/29/mississippi-man-pleads-guilty-in-vote-trump-church-arson/ (WREG)]

;Disasters and accidents

  • Gadani ship-breaking yard
  • At least 14 people are killed and 59 burned when a gas cylinder explosion aboard an oil tanker causes a major fire at the ship-breaking yard in Gadani in Pakistan's Balochistan Province. Dozens other workers remain missing as many injured are transferred to hospitals in nearby Karachi. [http://www.dawn.com/news/1293624/rescue-workers-struggle-to-put-out-fire-at-gadani-shipbreaking-yard (Dawn News)] [http://tribune.com.pk/story/1217107/casualties-feared-fire-erupts-gadani-shipbreaking-yard/ (The Express Tribune)]
  • Robert J. Bentley, the Governor of Alabama, declares a state of emergency following Monday's gas explosion in a Colonial Pipeline pipeline. The explosion killed one person and injured five. [http://www.breakingnews.com/item/2016/11/01/breaking-gov-bentley-declares-state-of/ (BreakingNews.com)] [http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/11/01/deadly-pipeline-blast-in-alabama-triggers-2nd-shutdown-in-2-months.html (Fox News)]
  • A fire at a karaoke bar in Hanoi's Cầu Giấy district kills 13 people. [http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/vietnam-opens-probe-into-deadly-karaoke-fire/3254482.html (Channel NewsAsia)]

;International relations

;Politics and elections

;Sport

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