Portal:Current events/2016 December 6
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Six Pakistani nationals fishing in the Red Sea, off the coast of Taiz Governorate of Yemen, are killed and another six are unaccounted for after a Saudi air raid on a boat carrying 12 Pakistani sailors. (The News), (The Nation, Pakistan)
- Battle of Mosul
- The Tigris River in Mosul. Fighting is occurring in the Salam neighbourhood less than 1.5 kilometres from the Tigris. (Al-Jazeera)
- The
Business and economy
- After a meeting with President-elect of the United States Donald Trump, Masayoshi Son of SoftBank Group pledges to invest $50 billion in the United States and create 50,000 jobs. (The New York Times)
- Seattle-Tacoma International Airport
- Airlines serving the regional hub cancel 87 flights into and out of Sea-Tac airport, due to ice on airport runways. Among the affected air carriers, Alaska Airlines has cancelled 35 flights. (KTUU-TV)
- Alaska Airlines
- The US$2.6 billion dollar merger. In exchange for approval, the DOJ requires Alaska Airlines to reduce its partnership with American Airlines. (The Wall Street Journal)
- The
Disasters and accidents
- Heavy flooding kills 14 people in Samui and Pha Ngan in the Gulf of Thailand. It has also severed the rail link to southern Thailand and Malaysia. (Reuters)
- A meteorite lands near Sayanogorsk, the Republic of Khakassia, Russia at 18:37 UTC+3. No one was hurt. (Russia Today)
Law and crime
- Amnesty International criticizes a Saudi court decision to impose the death sentence on 15 people in a case involving 32 people including 30 Saudis, one Iranian and one Afghan national in an alleged Iranian spy cell. (The New York Times), (Amnesty)
- The U.S. Supreme Court upholds an appeals court decision in an insider trading case, Salman v. U.S., holding that there is no requirement that a tipper receive any pecuniary consideration for a breach of faith in order to predicate the prosecution of the tippee. (Scotusblog)
Politics and elections
- 2017 French Presidential Election. (Reuters)
Sports
- 2015 FIFA corruption case
- The Court of Arbitration for Sport upholds former FIFA president Sepp Blatter's six-year ban from FIFA affairs. (AP via MSN)[permanent dead link]