Portal:Current events/2016 October 3
October 3, 2016 (Monday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
- The Taliban launches an offensive entering the city of Kunduz which they briefly captured last year. (Nine Entertainment Company Now)
- A bomb kills one person and leaves two injured in Kabul. (Sputniknews)
- Syrian Civil War
- A suspected female suicide bomber kills at least 20 people at a Kurdish wedding in the Syrian city of Al-Hasakah. (Reuters)
- A United States Air Force drone strike kills a senior leader in the Syrian militant group Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, Egyptian-born Abu al-Faraj al-Masri, in Jisr al-Shughur, Idlib Governorate. (BBC)
Business and economy
- Bass Pro Shops acquires Cabela's for $5.5 billion, combining two retailers for outdoor enthusiasts. (Reuters)
Disasters and accidents
- 2016 Pacific typhoon season
- Typhoon Chaba, now a super typhoon with winds of 145 knots (165 mph), heads for Japan's southern islands with storm warnings of torrential rain followed by mudslides and flooding. (AAP via SBS), (Weather.com)
- A stone quarry collapses in Hubei province, China, leaving five people missing. (Sputniknews)
- 2016 Atlantic hurricane season
- Heavy rains from Hurricane Matthew's outer bands drench Haiti and Jamaica, killing a Haitian fisherman. The Category 4 storm, with 140 mph ((220 km/h) maximum sustained winds), is heading towards western Haiti, eastern Cuba, and the southeastern and central Bahamas. (CBS News), (The National Hurricane Center)
- European migrant crisis
- The Italian coast guard rescues more than 5,600 migrants, in one of the biggest operations in a single day. (BBC)
Health
- Japan's Yoshinori Ohsumi wins the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for experiments with yeast which exposed a key mechanism called autophagy in the body's defenses where cells degrade and recycle their components. (Reuters), (AP)
International relations
- Syrian civil war, Russia–United States relations
- The Obama administration through the U.S. State Department announces the suspension of bilateral talks with Russia about the cessation of hostilities in Syria, as Russia and the Syrian government continue to pursue a military course despite the ceasefire accord. (CNN), (UPI)
- Russia and weapons of mass destruction
- Russian President Vladimir Putin suspends the 2000 treaty with the United States on cleaning up weapons-grade plutonium (Plutonium Management and Disposition Agreement) (in Russian). (Reuters)
Law and crime
- The U.S. Supreme Court declines to rehear President Barack Obama's 2014 plan (Deferred Action for Parents of Americans) to spare from deportation millions of immigrants in the country illegally, a case in which the justices split 4–4 in June. The justices' June 23 decision (United States v. Texas) is final. (Reuters)
Politics and elections
- Colombian peace agreement referendum, 2016
- FARC leader Rodrigo Londoño (Timoleón) says his troops will honor its commitments to the Colombian government, including the permanent cease-fire, despite voters rejection of the peace accord in Sunday's referendum. President Juan Manuel Santos calls the country's political parties to an emergency meeting. (AP) (The Washington Post via The Chicago Tribune)