Portal:Current events/2017 November 6

November 6, 2017 (Monday)

Business and economy

2017 Saudi Arabian anti-corruption arrests
- Investors react poorly to the arrest of Saudi billionaire Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal, one of the world's wealthiest men. (BBC)

International relations

Law and crime

Sutherland Springs church shooting
- Officials from the FBI and Texas law enforcement are searching for the motive of the gunman who opened fire in a Baptist church, killing 26 people and injuring 20 others. (Todays)
Immigration to the United States, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services
- United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions intends on stripping the U.S. citizenship of four Somali Americans allegedly abusing the Diversity Immigrant Visa by pretending to be a family. The Trump Administration earlier said it plans to scrap the visa program. (Washington Free Beacon)
- The United States Department of Homeland Security announces that it will end temporary protected status for thousands of Nicaraguan migrants while decisions await for thousands more from El Salvador, Haiti and Honduras. (BuzzFeed)

Politics and elections

Politics of the Solomon Islands
- Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare is narrowly ousted in a vote of no confidence by 27 to 23 votes. (Radio New Zealand International)
Icelandic parliamentary election, 2017
- Left-Green Movement leader Katrín Jakobsdóttir fails to form a government after the breakdown of talks with her proposed four-party coalition. (Sky News)
Politics of Zimbabwe
- Emmerson Mnangagwa is fired as Vice President by Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe. The public and the media widely perceives Mugabe's wife Grace as his likely successor after his death with Mnangagwa having been seen as her rival. (The Guardian)