Portal:Current events/2016 October 16

Current events of October 16, 2016 (2016-10-16) (Sunday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Turkey–ISIL conflict
  • A suicide bomber kills three police officers and wounds at least nine people in the southern Turkish city of Gaziantep during a police raid on a suspected ISIL safehouse. (Reuters)
• Syrian Civil War
  • Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army rebels seize control of the symbolic town of Dabiq, Aleppo Governorate, following clashes with ISIL militants. (NBC News)
• War in Donbass
  • A bomb placed in an elevator shaft kills Pro-Russian, high-ranking officer of the Donetsk People's Republic's special forces, Arseny Pavlov, also known as "Motorola", in Donetsk. (TASS), (The Kyiv Post)

Arts and culture

• The Simpsons, the longest-running American, prime time, scripted television series, airs its 600th episode. (CNN)
• Pope Francis declares seven new saints. {Vatican Radio)

Disasters and accidents

• The collapse of a footbridge connecting the islands of Lembongan and Ceningan, near Bali, Indonesia, leaves 9 dead and 30 injured. (The New York Times)

International relations

• Yemeni Crisis
  • The United States and the United Kingdom call for, "within hours," an immediate and unconditional ceasefire in Yemen to end the violence following last week's Saudi airstrikes, based on bad information, that killed around 140 people. (Reuters), (The Guardian)

Law and crime

• An arsonist firebombs a Republican Party office in Hillsborough, North Carolina, and leaves a graffiti message reading, "Nazi Republicans get out of town or else." (CNN)

Politics and elections

• Montenegrin parliamentary election, 2016
  • With over 95 percent of votes counted, Prime Minister Milo Đukanović's Democratic Party of Socialists receives the most votes in this quadrennial election, but, by five seats, fails to gain an absolute majority. Djukanovic says he will seek a coalition with parties of national minorities. (Reuters)

Science and technology

• ExoMars project
  • The European Space Agency-Roscosmos operated Schiaparelli EDM lander successfully separates from the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter spacecraft, beginning a three-day descent to the surface of Mars. (Reuters)

Sports

• Anthony Foley, coach of Irish rugby union team Munster, dies suddenly at the age of 42 in a hotel near Paris. Officials postpone Munster's European Rugby Champions Cup match against Racing 92. (BBC)