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Juan Manuel Santos

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos (pictured) is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to end the Colombian conflict.
Hurricane Matthew kills more than 1,000 people, mainly in Haiti.
Bernard L. Feringa, Jean-Pierre Sauvage, and Sir J. Fraser Stoddart are awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the synthesis of molecular machines.
David Thouless, F. Duncan Haldane, and J. Michael Kosterlitz share the Nobel Prize in Physics for theoretical discoveries using topology to understand superconductors, superfluids, and other exotic states of condensed matter.
Japanese cell biologist Yoshinori Ohsumi is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy.

October 12, 2016 (Wednesday)

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October 11, 2016 (Tuesday)

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Armed attacks and conflicts

War in Afghanistan
- A gunman, reportedly wearing an Afghan police uniform, kills at least 14 people and wounds dozens more in the Shiite Karte Sakhi shrine in Kabul on the beginning of Ashura. Police kill the attacker. (UPI), (Reuters)

Business and economy

Samsung announces an end of production of the Galaxy Note 7 after continued problems with its battery. (The Verge)
Following the Brexit vote and the subsequent drop in the exchange rate of the British pound to U.S. dollar, the FTSE 100 Index reaches an all-time intra-day high of 7,129. (Sky News United Kingdom)

Disasters and accidents

A residential building collapses in the eastern China city of Wenzhou, leaving dead at least 22 people. (CNN)

Health

2015–16 Zika virus epidemic
- The World Health Organization warns that the Zika virus will continue to spread across Asia with cases already reported in Singapore and Thailand. (BBC)

Law and crime

The U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments in a patent dispute between Apple Inc. and Samsung concerning both company's smart phone designs (Samsung Electronics v. Apple (15-777)). (Reuters)
The Obama administration through the U.S. Department of Justice announces that they will file criminal contempt of court charges against Maricopa County, Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio for violating a judge's order to stop immigration patrols that led to a court finding of racial profiling. The charges carry a maximum penalty of six months in jail. (NPR), (Arizona Central)
The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Oklahoma City reports that an unarmed black man, Terence Crutcher, shot dead on September 16, by a white police officer, Betty Jo Shelby, had acute PCP intoxication. Authorities charged her with first-degree manslaughter. (AP via Fox News)

Science and technology

Astronomers announce that 2014 UZ224 is the third most distant Solar System object known from our Sun, currently over 90 times the Earth's distance from the Sun (90.8 AU or 8.44 billion miles), after Eris (96.2 AU) and V774104 (~103 AU). (The International Astronomical Union Minor Planet Center)

October 10, 2016 (Monday)

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War in Afghanistan (2015–present)
- A suicide bombing kills at least 14 people, mostly police officers, in Lashkargah, Helmand Province, as Taliban insurgents advance upon the Afghan city. (The Voice of America)
- A gunman kills 14 people at a Shi'ite shrine in Kabul on a holy day. (Reuters via ABC News Australia)
Rohingya insurgency in Western Myanmar
- A series of attacks in Rakhine State kill nine police officers and eight militants. (Al Jazeera)

Arts and culture

Polish film director and recipient of an Academy Honorary Award Andrzej Wajda dies at the age of 90. (BBC)

Business and economy

British-born American Oliver Hart and Finnish Bengt Holmström win the Nobel Prize in Economics for their work on the science of contracts. (BBC)
Samsung recalls and suspends production of its reformulated-version of Galaxy Note 7 smartphone due to the same persistent problem with battery fires and explosions. (The Japan Times)

Disasters and accidents

2016 Atlantic hurricane season, Hurricane Matthew
- The death toll in the United States from Hurricane Matthew rises to 27 with at least five people still missing in North Carolina. Governor Pat McCrory warns that the state's swollen rivers are still rising with flooding continuing to pose threats to life and property this week. The storm, downgraded to a post-tropical cyclone yesterday, moves away from the U.S. coastline on an east-northeast track. (The Washington Post), (The National Hurricane Center), (GPS locator)
- Matthew's death toll in Haiti rises to at least one thousand, with victims being buried in mass graves. An unknown number of people remain missing and authorities report that cholera is spreading in the hardest hit-areas in the country's southwest. (AP/Reuters via ABC News Australia)

October 9, 2016 (Sunday)

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Kurdish–Turkish conflict (2015–present)
- A suspected PKK car bomb kills at least 17 people, and injures 27 others in Turkey's southeast Hakkâri Province. (The Independent)
Israeli–Palestinian conflict (2015–present)
- A Palestinian gunman opens fire from a vehicle on people waiting at a train station and then the nearby police headquarters in Jerusalem, killing at least two people, including a police officer, and injuring six others. Israeli police kill the gunman. (BBC)
Yemeni Crisis (2011–present)
- Yemeni Iranian-backed Houthis rebels fire two missiles which are unsuccessful at hitting the United States Navy's destroyer USS Mason in the Red Sea, off the coast of Yemen. (Reuters)

Arts and culture

Pope Francis announces the upcoming creation of 17 new Cardinals; 13 of them will be under the age of 80 and thus able to vote in a future papal conclave to select the new Pope. (The Vatican Information Service)

Disasters and accidents

An Afghan Armed Forces Mi-17 helicopter crashes in northern Afghanistan with all seven people onboard, four crewmen and three passengers, dying. (AFP via The Bangkok Post)
A man driving the wrong way on Interstate 89 in Williston, Vermont, kills five people, all local high school juniors. (The Burlington Free Press), (AP via Fox News)

Law and crime

2016 Ethiopian protests
- Ethiopia's government declares a six-month state of emergency amid continuing protests, especially in the restive Oromia Region. (BBC)

Politics and elections

United States presidential election debates, 2016
- Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump hold the second presidential debate of the 2016 U.S. presidential election at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, in a "town meeting" format. (CBS News)
Lithuanian parliamentary election, 2016
- Voters in Lithuania vote to elect representatives for the 141-seat parliament. (Bloomberg via The Chicago Tribune)
A court sentences former Communist Party Secretary of Yunnan province, Bai Enpei, to death for corruption and amassing wealth of unclear origin. (The South China Morning Post)
Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej, 88, the world's longest reigning monarch, is in unstable condition after a hemodialysis treatment. (Reuters), (Al Jazeera)

October 8, 2016 (Saturday)

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Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen
- Saudi-led coalition jets launch airstrikes on civilians at the funeral of the father of the Houthi government's Interior Minister in Sana'a, killing at least 140 people, and injuring over 500 more. One of the dead is the mayor of Sana'a, Abdul-Qader Hilal. (The Independent), (BBC), (Reuters)
Terrorism in Bangladesh
- Raids by security forces on Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh in Gazipur leave 11 militants dead. (The Hindustan Times), (Reuters), (VOA News)

Business and economy

The Hungarian newspaper Népszabadság shuts down after 60 years amid significant financial losses. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

2016 Atlantic hurricane season
- Hurricane Matthew, responsible for killing 13 people and knocking out power to 2.2 million households and businesses in the Southeastern United States, is now a Category 1 hurricane (75 mph;120 km/h winds) approaching the North Carolina coast. (Reuters), (The National Hurricane Center), (ABC News)

International relations

Russian President Vladimir Putin deploys the nuclear-capable Iskander mobile short-range ballistic missile system to the Russian Kaliningrad exclave between Poland and Lithuania. (BBC)
Syrian civil war, Syrian peace process
- Russia vetoes a French-drafted United Nations Security Council resolution that calls for a ceasefire in Aleppo. China, which had backed Russia's four previous Syria-related vetoes, abstains. (NBC News/Reuters)

Law and crime

2016 Chemnitz terrorism plot
- After authorities in Chemnitz, Germany, uncover a suspected terrorist bombing plot, police seek the suspect. (BBC)
A gunman shoots three police officers in Palm Springs, California, leaving two dead and one injured. (The Los Angeles Times)

Politics and elections

Georgian parliamentary election, 2016
- Voters in Georgia go to the polls for a legislative election. (Reuters)

October 7, 2016 (Friday)

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Insurgency in Balochistan
- Two bombs explode on a train near the town of Machh, Pakistan, killing at least six people with nineteen more injured. (AP via The New York Times)

Business and economy

The pound sterling sustains a flash crash, dropping from an exchange rate of $1.23 per pound to $1.13 in a few minutes of trading today, then gaining much of it back. Observers blame this development on algorithmic trading. (MIT Technology Review)

Disasters and accidents

2016 Atlantic hurricane season
- Hurricane Matthew hits the southeastern United States as the death toll in Haiti rises to at least 877. (Reuters), (Sky News), (AP), (ITV)
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
- Authorities confirm that a wing part found in Mauritius in May is part of the aircraft from Malaysian Airlines Flight 370. (AP via The Miami Herald)

International relations

2016 Nobel Peace Prize
- The Nobel Prize committee awards Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos the Nobel Peace Prize for his resolute efforts to bring the country's more than 50-year-long civil war to an end, a war that has cost the lives of at least 220 thousand Colombians and displaced close to six million people. (Nobel Prize), (The Guardian)
Philippines–United States relations
- The Philippines Secretary of National Defense Delfin Lorenzana suspends participation in any joint patrols with the United States in the disputed South China Sea. Lorenzana will ask a detachment of 107 U.S. troops providing counterterrorism assistance on the southern island of Mindanao to leave as President Rodrigo Duterte requested. (The Philippine Star)
Myanmar–United States relations
- The Obama administration lifts U.S. sanctions on Myanmar by terminating an emergency order that deemed the policies of the former military government a threat to U.S. national security. (Reuters)
Russia-United States relations, Democratic National Committee cyber attacks
- The Obama administration formally accuses the Russian government of cyber attacks against the U.S. Democratic Party in influencing presidential election. (Reuters)

Law and crime

Mylan pays US$465 million to settle its underpayment to U.S. government healthcare programs by misclassifying its epinephrine autoinjector emergency allergy treatment. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

Moroccan general election, 2016
- Voters in Morocco go to the polls for a general election with the ruling Justice and Development Party winning the most seats. (AP), (Deutsche Welle)
United States presidential election, 2016
- Donald Trump Access Hollywood controversy
  - A video shows U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump having "an extremely lewd conversation about women" in 2005. (The Washington Post)
  - Donald Trump issues a statement calling the conversation "locker room banter" and writes, "I apologize if anyone was offended." (The Business Insider)
- WikiLeaks releases over 2000 emails from Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign chairman and former Counselor to the President John Podesta. (Fox News)

October 6, 2016 (Thursday)

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War in Somalia (2009–present)
- An al-Shabaab attack on a village near the Kenyan town of Mandera results in six deaths. (Reuters), (Capital FM Kenya)
A bombing in rebel controlled Atme, Idlib Governorate, near the Syria–Turkey border, kills at least 29 people, mostly rebel fighters, and injures dozens more. ISIL claims responsibility. (BBC), (Scroll.in)
A motorcycle bomb in the Yenibosna neighborhood of Istanbul, Turkey, injures 10 civilians. (Reuters)
Unknown assailants attack a refugee camp near the village of Tassalit, in Niger's Tahoua Region, killing at least 22 soldiers. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

2016 Atlantic hurricane season
- Hurricane Matthew moves towards the United States with hundreds of thousands of people being evacuated from the states of Florida and South Carolina. (USA Today)
- Matthew gains strength and again becomes a Category 4 storm with 140 mph (220 km/h) maximum sustained winds. (AP via Philly.com), (The National Hurricane Center)
- The death toll is at least 140 people with 136 in Haiti. (Reuters)
- President Barack Obama declares a state of emergency for Florida, freeing up federal money and personnel to protect lives and property. (The Miami Herald)
- The eye of the hurricane moves over the western end of Grand Bahama, the northernmost island in The Bahama Archipelago. (The National Hurricane Center)

Law and crime

Pakistan's government removes a loophole allowing those behind so-called honor killings to go free with the new legislation instead requiring a mandatory life sentence. (BBC)

Politics and elections

An altercation with a fellow UKIP MEP inside the European Parliament leaves UK Independence Party, Member of the European Parliament, and current UKIP party leadership favorite Steven Woolfe hospitalized. (The Daily Telegraph)

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Recent deaths
October 9: Aaron Pryor 9: Andrzej Wajda 7: John Gleeson 7: Alistair Urquhart 7: Rebecca Wilson 5: Michal Kováč 5: Josh Samman 5: Rod Temperton (reported on this date) 3: Trịnh Thị Ngọ 2: Neville Marriner 1: Daphne Odjig September 30: Mike Towell 29: Miriam Defensor Santiago 29: Jamshid Amouzegar 28: Agnes Nixon 28: Shimon Peres 28: Max Walker 26: Herschell Gordon Lewis 25: José Fernández 25: David Padilla 25: Arnold Palmer 25: Jean Shepard 24: Mel Charles 24: Bill Mollison 24: Bill Nunn 24: Buckwheat Zydeco 23: Marcel Artelesa 20: John D. Loudermilk 20: Jack Garman 20: Curtis Hanson 19: Karl Dietrich Bracher 18: Rose Pak 17: Charmian Carr 17: Bahman Golbarnezhad 16: Edward Albee 16: Carlo Azeglio Ciampi 16: Ali Javan 15: Rose Mofford edit sidebar

Ongoing conflicts
Africa Algeria and Tunisia Maghreb insurgency ISIL insurgency in Tunisia Cameroon, Chad, Niger, and Nigeria Boko Haram insurgency Central African Republic Civil war Democratic Republic of the Congo Kivu conflict ADF insurgency Ituri conflict Lord's Resistance Army insurgency Libya Civil war Mali Northern Mali conflict Somalia Civil war South Sudan Ethnic violence (South Sudanese Civil War) Sudan War in Darfur South Kordofan conflict Sudanese nomadic conflicts Americas Mexico Mexican War on Drugs Peru Internal conflict in Peru Asia Afghanistan Afghanistan War China Xinjiang conflict India Naxalite–Maoist insurgency Insurgency in Northeast India India and Pakistan Kashmir conflict Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines Moro conflict Cross border attacks in Sabah Indonesia and Papua New Guinea Papua conflict Myanmar Internal conflict in Burma Pakistan War in North-West Pakistan Balochistan conflict Philippines CPP-NPA-NDF rebellion Thailand South Thailand insurgency Europe Armenia and Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh conflict Georgia Abkhaz–Georgian conflict Georgian–Ossetian conflict Russia Chechen–Russian conflict North Caucasus insurgency Ukraine War in Donbass Russian military intervention in Ukraine Middle East Egypt Sinai insurgency Egypt, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, and Syria Arab–Israeli conflict Iran Iran–PJAK conflict Iraq American-led intervention in Iraq Iranian intervention in Iraq Iraq and Syria (map) Military intervention against ISIL Israel and Lebanon Israeli–Lebanese conflict Israel and Palestine Gaza–Israel conflict Israeli–Palestinian conflict Saudi Arabia and Yemen Yemeni Civil War Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen Syria American-led intervention in Syria Russian military intervention in the Syrian Civil War Syrian Civil War spillover in Lebanon Turkey Turkey–PKK conflict Turkey–ISIL conflict Yemen Houthi rebellion Al-Qaeda insurgency South Yemen insurgency edit sidebar

Elections and Referendums
Recent September 18: Russia, State Duma 20: Jordan, House of Representatives 22: Isle of Man, House of Keys 25: Switzerland, Referendum October 2: Cape Verde, President 2: Colombia, Referendum 2: Hungary, Referendum 5: Curaçao, Estates 7: Morocco, House of Representatives 8: Georgia, Parliament 9: Lithuania, Seimas Upcoming October 15: Afghanistan, House of the People 16: Montenegro, Parliament edit sidebar

Trials
Recently concluded Australia: Brett Peter Cowan, Craig Thomson, Robert Hughes, Roger Rogerson and Glen McNamara Brazil: Mensalão scandal Canada: Luka Magnotta China: Ji Jianye, Li Chuncheng, Jiang Jiemin, Liao Shaohua, Ni Fake, Ling Jihua, Chen Baihuai, Zhou Yongkang, Gu Junshan, Yao Mugen, Guo Boxiong Egypt: Hosni Mubarak, Peter Greste, Mohamed Morsi Germany: Bernie Ecclestone, Uli Hoeness, Christian Wulff Iran: Mohammad Reza Rahimi Israel: Hussam Qawasmeh Jordan: Abu Qatada Philippines: Gloria Macapagal Arroyo Romania: Liviu Dragnea, Dan Diaconescu, Gheorghe Ștefan, Gabriel Sandu, Dorin Cocoş, Dumitru Nicolae Russia: Eston Kohver South Africa: Shrien Dewani, Oscar Pistorius Spain: Lionel Messi Turkey: Kenan Evren, Tahsin Şahinkaya United Kingdom: Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale, Kevin Hutchinson-Foster, Ray Wilkins, Liam Adams, R v Grillo and Grillo, Ian Watkins, William Roache, Dave Lee Travis, Nicholas Jacobs, Nigel Evans, Max Clifford, Stuart Hall, Dappy, Rebekah Brooks, Andy Coulson, Rolf Harris, Tulisa Contostavlos, Chris Denning, Ray Teret, Gary Glitter, Fred Talbot, Adam Johnson United States: Abu Hamza al-Masri, Michael Grimm, Jesse Jackson Jr., Bob McDonnell, Vilma Bautista, Kermit Gosnell, Chris Brown, Justin Bieber, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, James Eagan Holmes, Sheldon Silver, Javaris Crittenton, Dylan Quick International ECCC: Nuon Chea, Khieu Samphan ICC: Germain Katanga ICTY: Radovan Karadžić Ongoing China: Bai Enpei, Guo Youming, Pan Yiyang, Wan Qingliang, Yang Weize, Zhu Zuoli Germany: Beate Zschäpe Indonesia: Mary Jane Veloso Iran: Babak Zanjani Netherlands: Geert Wilders Philippines: Andal Ampatuan, Jr., Leila de Lima, Jovito Palparan Romania: Darius Vâlcov, Dan Șova, Elena Udrea, Radu Mazăre, Gheorghe Nichita, Marian Vanghelie, Cătălin Voicu Russia: Alexei Navalny South Korea: MV Sewol crew members United Kingdom: Ched Evans United States: Paul Anthony Ciancia, Dean Skelos International ICTY: Ratko Mladić Upcoming China: Wu Changshun Estonia: Edgar Savisaar Libya: Saif al-Islam Gaddafi United Kingdom: Rolf Harris United States: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Aaron Hernandez, Graham Spanier, Tim Curley, Gary Schultz, Rick Perry, Bill Cosby International ICC: Laurent Gbagbo edit sidebar