Portal:Current events/2016 October 5

{{Short description|Wednesday in October 2016}}

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;Business and economy

• Mexican tequila producer Jose Cuervo will delay its IPO until after the U.S. presidential election due to concern over potential market volatility. [https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mexico-jose-cuervo-exclusive-idUSKCN12528I (Reuters)]

;Disasters and accidents

• 2016 Pacific typhoon season
• Typhoon Chaba heads for western Japan with the islands of Shikoku and Kyushu experiencing heavy rainfall. [http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2016/10/05/typhoon-chaba-closing-western-japan (AAP via SBS)]
• Chaba leaves at least four people dead, and three others missing in South Korea. [https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2016/10/116_215460.html (The Korea Times)]
• An Israeli Air Force F-16 crashes while attempting to land at Ramon Airbase in southern Israel, killing the pilot. A navigator who was also in the aircraft successfully ejects and escapes the incident unharmed. [http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.745980 (Haaretz)]
• 2016 Atlantic hurricane season
• Hurricane Matthew kills at least 26 people on the island of Hispaniola; 22 in Haiti and four more in the Dominican Republic. The U.S. National Hurricane Center predicts the storm, currently a Category 3 with maximum sustained winds of 115 mph (185 km/h), will strengthen as it moves across the Bahamas tonight and tomorrow, and be near the east coast of Florida by tomorrow evening. [https://www.reuters.com/article/us-storm-matthew-idUSKCN1250G2 (Reuters)], [http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATCPAT4+shtml/052038.shtml (The National Hurricane Center)], [http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATCPAT4+shtml/060012.shtml (The National Hurricane Center)], [https://www.reuters.com/article/us-storm-matthew-idUSKCN1250G2?il=0 (Reuters)]
• Haiti's electoral council postpones the country's presidential election scheduled for October 9. [http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weather/hurricane/article106163162.html (The Miami Herald)]

;International relations

• United Nations Secretary-General selection, 2016
• The United Nations Security Council affirms the first step in the election of Portuguese António Guterres as the next Secretary-General of the United Nations. If ratified by the General Assembly, he will take office on January 1, 2017. [http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/05/world/un-secretary-general-antonio-guterres/index.html?adkey=bn (CNN)]
• Paris climate change agreement
• The Paris Agreement on climate change which governs greenhouse gas emissions will take effect in November. [https://www.reuters.com/article/us-climatechange-paris-idUSKCN12523G (Reuters)]
• Russia and weapons of mass destruction, Russia–United States relations
• Russian President Vladimir Putin suspends the 2013 nuclear agreement with the United States concerning uranium research. [https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-usa-nuclear-uranium-idUSKCN12521J (Reuters)]
• Syrian peace process
• France seeks United States and Russian support for a Security Council resolution to impose a new truce that will allow aid into Aleppo, which has experienced two weeks of heavy Syrian and Russian bombing of rebel-held areas. [https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-idUSKCN12522M (Reuters)]

;Law and crime

• 2016 Turkish purges
• Turkish authorities detain 55 military and intelligence agency personnel over suspected links to U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gülen. [https://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-security-arrests-idUSKCN1250YP (Reuters)]
• The United States Department of Justice charges a top secret security clearance National Security Agency contractor, Harold Thomas Martin III, with theft of government property and unauthorised removal of "highly classified" materials. [https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-37568879 (BBC)]
• Police in the western Indian city of Thane arrest more than 750 people suspected of defrauding U.S. citizens from a fake call center. [https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-37564408 (BBC)]

;Politics and elections

• Curaçao general election, 2016
• Voters in Curaçao go to the polls to elect the 21 members of the Estates of Curaçao. The election had been delayed from September 30 due to Hurricane Matthew. [http://curacaochronicle.com/main/update-curacao-votes-2016/ (The Curaçao Chronicle)]

;Science and technology

• Frenchman Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Scotsman Sir Fraser Stoddart, and Dutchman Ben Feringa win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their research into nanotechnology. [https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-37486374# (BBC)]
• Aerospace manufacturer Blue Origin tests its New Shepard reusable launch system in Van Horn, Texas. [https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-37568540 (BBC)]

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