Portal:Current events/2016 October 7

October 7, 2016 (Friday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

Insurgency in Balochistan
- Two bombs explode on a train near the town of Machh, Pakistan, killing at least six people with nineteen more injured. (AP via The New York Times)

Business and economy

The pound sterling sustains a flash crash, dropping from an exchange rate of $1.23 per pound to $1.13 in a few minutes of trading today, then gaining much of it back. Observers blame this development on algorithmic trading. (MIT Technology Review)

Disasters and accidents

International relations

2016 Nobel Peace Prize
- The Nobel Prize committee awards Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos the Nobel Peace Prize for his resolute efforts to bring the country's more than 50-year-long civil war to an end, a war that has cost the lives of at least 220 thousand Colombians and displaced close to six million people. (Nobel Prize), (The Guardian)
Philippines–United States relations
- The Philippines Secretary of National Defense Delfin Lorenzana suspends participation in any joint patrols with the United States in the disputed South China Sea. Lorenzana will ask a detachment of 107 U.S. troops providing counterterrorism assistance on the southern island of Mindanao to leave as President Rodrigo Duterte requested. (The Philippine Star)
Myanmar–United States relations
- The Obama administration lifts U.S. sanctions on Myanmar by terminating an emergency order that deemed the policies of the former military government a threat to U.S. national security. (Reuters)
Russia–United States relations, Democratic National Committee cyber attacks
- The Obama administration formally accuses the Russian government of cyber attacks against the U.S. Democratic Party in influencing presidential election. (Reuters)

Law and crime

Mylan pays US$465 million to settle its underpayment to U.S. government healthcare programs by misclassifying its epinephrine autoinjector emergency allergy treatment. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

2016 Moroccan general election
- Voters in Morocco go to the polls for a general election with the ruling Justice and Development Party winning the most seats. (AP), (Deutsche Welle)
2016 United States presidential election
- Donald Trump Access Hollywood controversy
  - A video shows U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump having a lewd conversation about women in 2005. (The Washington Post)
  - Donald Trump issues a statement calling the conversation "locker room banter" and writes, "I apologize if anyone was offended." (The Business Insider)
- WikiLeaks releases over 2000 emails from Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign chairman and former Counselor to the President John Podesta. (Fox News)