Portal:Current events/2010 November 5
Armed conflicts and attacks
- A suicide bomber kills at least 50 people and injures around 90 in a mosque near Darra Adam Khel region, 30 kilometers from Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. (CNN) (Xinhua) (Dawn)
- At least five people are killed after two clans clash in Sindh's Khanur Mahar region of Pakistan. (Dawn)
Arts and culture
- In the United Kingdom, members of the National Union of Journalists at the BBC begin a 48 hour strike in a dispute over proposed changes to the Corporation's pension scheme. BBC News operates a reduced service. (BBC) (The Guardian)
- political donations to three Democratic Party candidates. (AP)
- Ready Steady Cook, thought to be the longest running cookery show currently on television, is axed by the BBC. (The Guardian) (RTÉ) (Daily Record) (Daily Mail)
Business and economy
- A final funding deal for the military transport aircraft has been agreed to by the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, Spain and Turkey. (BBC)
- Thomas Hoenig, a member of the Federal Reserve Board, gives some indication of the split within that body in a speech to the National Association of Realtors. Though the Fed announced a new round of quantitative easing on Wednesday, Hoenig said that the Fed risks inflation and another boom-bust. (Bloomberg)
Disasters and accidents
- The death toll from the Mount Merapi eruption in Indonesia rises to 122 as at least 78 bodies were removed from homes and streets blanketed by ash up to 30-centimeters deep. (The Jakarta Globe)
- An Aero Caribbean passenger plane crashes in the central Cuban province of Sancti Spíritus, killing all 68 on board. (BBC) (CNN)
- A small plane carrying 21 people Karachi Airport in Pakistan. (Times of India)
- 12 people are dead after a 41-vehicle traffic accident on an expressway in East China's Jiangxi province. (Shanghai Daily)
- At least one person dies in Hurricane Tomas, adding to the fourteen people who died in Saint Lucia. (BBC)
- A concrete mixer lorry
International relations
- Georgian police arrest 13 people allegedly belonging to a Russian spy network. (France 24)
- The Chinese embassy in Oslo implicitly warns foreign diplomats not to attend the Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony for Liu Xiaobo. (BBC)
- The
Law and crime
- A Peruvian judge orders that United States born militant Lori Berenson be released from prison in Lima. (AP via The News Tribune)[permanent dead link]
- Mexican drug cartel leader Ezequiel Cardenas Guillén is shot dead by Mexican security forces in Matamoros following a gun fight of several hours. (BBC)
- Violent protests occur in Oakland police chief Anthony Batts expecting to make 150 arrests. (New York Times), (CNN)
Politics and elections
- Protests against the visit of Pope Benedict XVI to Spain take place. (euronews)
- A specially convened 2010 general election campaign in Oldham East and Saddleworth, the constituency of ex-immigration minster Phil Woolas, after he is found guilty of making false statements against an opponent during the original campaign. (BBC)
- re-elected as the leader of the UK Independence Party. (BBC)
- A protest by
- The reelected to a second term despite allegations of vote-rigging. (ABC News Australia)