December 3, 2016 (Saturday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
Disasters and accidents
- An Indonesian police plane, reportedly carrying 13 people, goes missing near Singapore en route to Batam. (AP via Fox News) (Koran Tempo)
- At least 17 are killed in a coal mine explosion in China. (Fox News)
- 2016 Oakland warehouse fire
- Recovery efforts continue in the US city of Oakland, California, after a fire at a music party in a converted warehouse kills at least nine people with dozens missing. (NBC News) (East Bay Times)
- At least three first responders are injured battling a 10-alarm fire that's spread to seven buildings in Cambridge, Massachusetts (US). (CBS News)
- A house fire in Akron, Ohio (US), kills four people, including two young girls. One woman safely fled her attic bedroom. A seriously injured 12-year-old girl is revived and rescued. (AP) (Akron Beacon Journal)
International relations
- Rohingya insurgency in Western Myanmar
- The Government of Malaysia claims that violence against Myanmar's Muslim Rohingya minority is "ethnic cleansing" ahead of a march in Kuala Lumpur led by Prime Minister Najib Razak. (Reuters via Trust)
- China–United States relations
- The People's Republic of China lodges a complaint with the United States after President-elect of the United States Donald Trump speaks with President of Taiwan Tsai Ing-wen. The PRC and the United States view Taiwan as a breakaway province. (BBC)
Law and crime
- 2012 Pakistan garment factory fires
- A man believed responsible for starting a devastating factory fire in Karachi has been arrested in Bangkok. (AFP via France 24)[permanent dead link]
- Murder of Maria Ladenburger
- German police arrested a 17-year-old asylum seeker from Afghanistan in the rape and murder case of Maria L. in Freiburg while a similar case nearby is still under investigation. (Der Spiegel) (Die Welt)
Politics and elections
- 2016 United States presidential election recounts
- Jill Stein, the 2016 presidential candidate for the Green Party, withdraws her lawsuit in the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania for a statewide recount of votes in Pennsylvania due to the cost. (NPR)
- Dakota Access Pipeline protests
- Groups of U.S. military veterans join the protest as human shields against possible clashes between demonstrators and law enforcement when the United States Army Corps of Engineers' eviction deadline expires on Monday. They are building barracks for shelter in North Dakota's winter weather. (Reuters) (NBC News)
Sports
- 2016 International V8 Supercars Championship
- In motor sport, Shane van Gisbergen of Triple Eight Race Engineering wins his first V8 Supercars Championship. Van Gisbergen is the first New Zealand driver to win a supercars title since Jim Richards. (AAP via Yahoo!)
- American college football
- 2016 SEC Championship Game
- Alabama defeats Florida, 54-16, to win their seventh Southeastern Conference championship game. (CBS)
- 2016 Big Ten Football Championship Game
- Penn State defeats Wisconsin, 38-31, to win the Big Ten Conference. (SB Nation)
- 2016 ACC Championship Game
- Clemson defeats Virginia Tech, 42-35, to win the Atlantic Coast Conference title. (Bleacher Report)
- 2016 SEC Championship Game