Portal:Current events/2016 October 31

Current events of October 31, 2016 (2016-10-31) (Monday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Police kill eight Students Islamic Movement of India members after their prison escape in Bhopal, India. (Reuters)

Business and economy

• General Electric says it plans to merge its oil and gas business with the large oilfield services provider Baker Hughes. This follows the demise of a merger plan between Baker Hughes and Halliburton. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• At least 13 people are killed and 20 others are missing following a gas explosion in a coal mine in western China's Chongqing region. (AP)
• One person is killed and at least five others injured following an explosion and fire along one of Colonial Pipeline's conduits in rural Alabama (US), the second incident on this section of the line in less than two months. One pipeline reopened this evening while a second is expected to working by Saturday. (AP/NBC News) (WSB-TV)

Politics and elections

• Lebanese presidential election, 2014–2016
  • Michel Aoun is elected President of Lebanon following 29 months of parliamentary deadlock to fill the position. (Al Jazeera)
• Corruption in Pakistan
  • Over 1,500 supporters of opposition party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf are arrested ahead of a planned protest in the capital Islamabad against Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. (The Globe and Mail)
• Donald Trump presidential campaign, 2016
  • Kurt Eichenwald claims that Donald Trump and his businesses have been destroying documents, even in ongoing court cases and under subpoena, during the last decades. (Newsweek), (MSNBC)