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Portal:Current events/2019 October 27

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;Armed conflicts and attacks

;Business and economy

  • The Hong Kong economy enters into a recession, as a result of continuous protests from the past five months. [https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-hongkong-protests/hong-kong-enters-recession-as-protests-show-no-sign-of-relenting-idUKKBN1X706B?il=0 (Reuters)]

;Disasters and accidents

  • 2019 California wildfires
  • Further evacuations are ordered, with 180,000 people now affected. Power companies are scheduled to cut supplies for a million people today, doubling the size of what is already the biggest blackout in California history in a bid to prevent further fires igniting from damaged electric cables. [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-50196185 (BBC News)]

;International relations

  • North Korea–United States relations
  • The government of North Korea says that it is "running out of patience with the U.S." due to "unilateral hostile disarmament demands" and warns that the cordial relationship between Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump would not prevent the talks from derailing. [https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/north-korea-running-patience-us-66555929 (ABC News)]
  • Since convening on 6 October, the synod of Catholic bishops from Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Venezuela, and Suriname gather with Pope Francis in Rome. According to the bishops, "a deep personal, social and structural conversion" is needed in response to the "unprecedented" environmental and social crisis in the Amazon. [https://www.catholicnews.com/services/englishnews/2019/caring-for-common-home-requires-deep-ecological-conversion-synod-says.cfm (Catholic News Service)]

;Law and crime

;Politics and elections

;Science and technology

  • The uncrewed Boeing X-37B spacecraft returns to Earth after spending a record 780 days in orbit. The nature of the X-37B's mission remains classified information. [https://www.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/1999734/x-37b-breaks-record-lands-after-780-days-in-orbit/ (United States Air Force)] [https://www.space.com/x-37b-space-plane-otv5-lands-after-780-days.html (Space)]

;Sports

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