Portal:Current events/2016 October 27

October 27, 2016 (Thursday)

Arts and culture

Japan's Prince Mikasa, the oldest member of the Imperial Family, dies at the age of 100. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

United States Republican Party vice presidential candidate Mike Pence's campaign plane skids off the runway at LaGuardia Airport with no injuries reported. The runway is said to have sustained damage causing the closure of the airport; a planned fundraiser was also canceled. (Reuters)(CNN)(ABC)

International relations

Canada–European Union relations, Belgium–Canada relations
- Belgian politicians, including those from the dissident Wallonia region, agree on Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement language that addresses Walloon concerns. This ends the deadlock on CETA, though the revised text must again be approved by the other 27 EU member states. (Reuters)
India-Pakistan relations
- India and Pakistan each expel a diplomat from the other country as tensions grow over Kashmir. (AP via The New York Times) (Reuters via SwissInfo.ch)
Philippines–United States relations
- The San Francisco Police Department halts a training program between itself and the Philippine National Police over allegations of civil rights violations committed under the guise of the Philippine Drug War. (Rappler)

Law and crime

Occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge
- Seven members of the militia who occupied the wildlife refuge, including the leader Ammon Bundy, was acquitted of all federal charges related to the takeover. (New York Times) (BBC)

Science and technology

NASA announces the return of the final piece of data collected during New Horizons' flyby of Pluto in July 2015. The data, taking about five hours at light speed to travel across 5.5 billion kilometers (3.4 billion miles), arrived at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory on the morning of October 25. (NASA)