Portal:Current events/2016 October 5

October 5, 2016 (Wednesday)

Business and economy

Mexican tequila producer Jose Cuervo will delay its IPO until after the U.S. presidential election due to concern over potential market volatility. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

2016 Pacific typhoon season
- Typhoon Chaba heads for western Japan with the islands of Shikoku and Kyushu experiencing heavy rainfall. (AAP via SBS)
- Chaba leaves at least four people dead, and three others missing in South Korea. (The Korea Times)
An Israeli Air Force F-16 crashes while attempting to land at Ramon Airbase in southern Israel, killing the pilot. A navigator who was also in the aircraft successfully ejects and escapes the incident unharmed. (Haaretz)
2016 Atlantic hurricane season
- Hurricane Matthew kills at least 26 people on the island of Hispaniola; 22 in Haiti and four more in the Dominican Republic. The U.S. National Hurricane Center predicts the storm, currently a Category 3 with maximum sustained winds of 115 mph (185 km/h), will strengthen as it moves across the Bahamas tonight and tomorrow, and be near the east coast of Florida by tomorrow evening. (Reuters), (The National Hurricane Center), (The National Hurricane Center), (Reuters)
- Haiti's electoral council postpones the country's presidential election scheduled for October 9. (The Miami Herald)

International relations

Law and crime

2016 Turkish purges
- Turkish authorities detain 55 military and intelligence agency personnel over suspected links to U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gülen. (Reuters)
The United States Department of Justice charges a top secret security clearance National Security Agency contractor, Harold Thomas Martin III, with theft of government property and unauthorised removal of "highly classified" materials. (BBC)
Police in the western Indian city of Thane arrest more than 750 people suspected of defrauding U.S. citizens from a fake call center. (BBC)

Politics and elections

Curaçao general election, 2016
- Voters in Curaçao go to the polls to elect the 21 members of the Estates of Curaçao. The election had been delayed from September 30 due to Hurricane Matthew. (The Curaçao Chronicle)

Science and technology