Portal:Current events/2016 December 5

December 5, 2016 (Monday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

At least 31 are killed in clashes in Kasai, DR Congo. (Reuters)
Two Russian army medics are killed after around a dozen shells hit a mobile hospital in Aleppo. (Russia Today) (France24)
Mexican war on drugs
- Police report 14 suspected criminals, who attacked a police patrol, are killed in a gunbattle with police and Mexican Marines in Veracruz, Mexico. An unknown number fled. (Reuters) (AP via The Washington Post)

Business and economy

Alaska Airlines cancels 20 flights into and out of Seattle due to inclement weather forecast in the Pacific Northwest area. (US Daily Mail)

Disasters and accidents

At least 12 people are killed and 75 others injured as a fire erupts in Karachi's Regent Plaza Hotel. (The Express Tribune Pakistan), (Dawn News)
2016 Oakland warehouse fire
- Authorities report the death toll has risen to 36. Alameda County Sheriff Gregory Ahern told the Associated Press they don't believe additional bodies will be found in the debris. (San Francisco Chronicle) (AP via Arizona Daily Star)

Politics and elections

The chief minister of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, Jayalalithaa, dies of cardiac arrest after being hospitalized since 22 September 2016. (The Indian Express)
John Key resigns as the Prime Minister of New Zealand and leader of the National Party after 8 years as PM and 10 years as party leader due to personal reasons. (AAP via SBS)
Impeachment process against President Park Geun-hye
- The South Korean National Assembly begins hearings ahead of an impeachment vote against President Park Geun-Hye. (AFP via Daily Mail)
2016 United States presidential election recounts
- A federal judge in Michigan, Mark A. Goldsmith, rules that a recount in the Presidential Election vote in that state must begin on Monday, December 5. (The San Diego Union-Tribune)
Presidential transition of Donald Trump
- President-elect Donald Trump nominates Ben Carson for United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. (The Guardian)
Italian constitutional referendum, 2016
- Following the result of the constitutional referendum, Matteo Renzi will resign from his office as Prime Minister of Italy. With most ballots counted, the "No" vote leads with 60%. (BBC News)
French presidential election, 2017
- Manuel Valls, the Prime Minister of France, announces his candidacy for the Socialist Party nomination. He will step down as PM on Tuesday. (AFP via Channel News Asia)

Science and technology

Tests, by a team of international archaeologists, of mummified legs found in QV66 in Egypt's Valley of the Queens indicate they most likely belong to Queen Nefertari, Pharaoh Ramesses II's first and favorite wife. (Phys.org) (NPR) (PLOS ONE)

Sports

In association football, CONMEBOL officially awards Chapecoense the 2016 Copa Sudamericana title in the wake of the plane crash that killed almost the entire team. Atlético Nacional, which would have faced Chapecoense in the final and had campaigned for the Brazilians to be awarded the title, receives a fair play award from CONMEBOL. (ESPN FC)