Portal:Current events/2016 October 5

October 5, 2016 (Wednesday)

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. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

2016 Pacific typhoon season
- Typhoon Chaba heads for western Japan with the islands of Shikoku and Kyushu experiencing heavy rainfall. (AAP via SBS)
- Chaba leaves at least four people dead, and three others missing in South Korea. (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. (Haaretz)
2016 Atlantic hurricane season
- Bahamas tonight and tomorrow, and be near the east coast of Florida by tomorrow evening. (Reuters), (The National Hurricane Center), (The National Hurricane Center), (Reuters)
- Haiti's
  presidential election scheduled for October 9. (The Miami Herald)

United Nations Secretary-General selection, 2016

The
General Assembly, he will take office on January 1, 2017. (CNN)

Paris climate change agreement
- The Paris Agreement on climate change which governs greenhouse gas emissions will take effect in November. (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. (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. (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. (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. (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. (BBC)

Politics and elections

Curaçao general election, 2016
- Voters in
  Estates of Curaçao. The election had been delayed from September 30 due to Hurricane Matthew. (The Curaçao Chronicle)