Portal:Current events/2016 October 28

October 28, 2016 (Friday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

Iraqi Civil War (2014–2017)
- Battle of Mosul (2016–2017)
  - The UN reports 232 civilians have been murdered in and near Mosul by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. (CNN) (NBC News)
Syrian Civil War, Aleppo offensive
- More than 15 civilians are reported killed and another 100 injured as Syria's Army of Conquest and other jihadist rebels launch an offensive to break the government-led siege on eastern Aleppo. (Reuters) (ARA News)
- Russian President Vladimir Putin rejects the Russian military’s request to resume airstrikes in eastern Aleppo, instead letting the humanitarian pause continue. (RT) (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

American Airlines Flight 383 (2016)
- An American Airlines Boeing 767 catches fire after an aborted takeoff at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. Seven passengers and one flight attendant were injured, and taken to area hospitals. (CNN)
A fire destroys the historic Royal Clarence Hotel in Exeter, Devon, which is described as the oldest hotel in England. (BBC)

International relations

At an annual meeting of the Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources in Hobart, Australia, twenty-four countries and the European Union agree to create the world's largest marine park in Antarctica's Ross Sea. The marine park will cover more than 12 percent of the Southern Ocean, and will be protected from commercial fishing for 35 years. (Reuters)

Law and crime

Philippine Drug War
- Datu Saudi-Ampatuan mayor Samsudin Dimaukom, publicly accused by Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte of involvement in the illegal drug trade, is killed, along with nine others, by Philippine police at a highway checkpoint in what police describe as an anti-drug operation. (The New York Times) (The Philippine Star)
Bernard Madoff
- Irving Picard, a court-appointed trustee liquidating the Madoff asset management firm, says that he has reached a settlement with the family of the late Stanley Chais, in connection with monies that had been funneled from California investors, through Chais, into Madoff's Ponzi scheme. (Reuters)

Politics

Hillary Clinton email controversy
- James Comey informs Congress that "the FBI has learned of the existence of emails that appear pertinent to the investigation." He says the FBI has not yet assessed the importance or significance of these emails. (CNN)
- Representatives in the Trump and Clinton campaigns call for Comey to reveal more information about this new investigation. (Observer)
- Law enforcement officials say the emails in question were found during the course of an investigation into illicit texts sent to a fifteen year old girl by former Congressman Anthony Weiner, on electronic devices formerly shared by Weiner and his estranged wife, Huma Abedin. (The New York Times)