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
- United Nations Secretary-General selection, 2016
- The United Nations Security Council affirms the first step in the election of Portuguese António Guterres as the next Secretary-General of the United Nations. If ratified by the General Assembly, he will take office on January 1, 2017. (CNN)
- Paris climate change agreement
- The Paris Agreement on climate change which governs greenhouse gas emissions will take effect in November. (Reuters)
- Russia and weapons of mass destruction, Russia–United States relations
- Russian President Vladimir Putin suspends the 2013 nuclear agreement with the United States concerning uranium research. (Reuters)
- Syrian peace process
- France seeks United States and Russian support for a Security Council resolution to impose a new truce that will allow aid into Aleppo, which has experienced two weeks of heavy Syrian and Russian bombing of rebel-held areas. (Reuters)
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
- Frenchman Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Scotsman Sir Fraser Stoddart, and Dutchman Ben Feringa win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their research into nanotechnology. (BBC)
- Aerospace manufacturer Blue Origin tests its New Shepard reusable launch system in Van Horn, Texas. (BBC)