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Portal:Current events/2016 October 3

October 3, 2016 (2016-10-03) (Monday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
Business and economy
Disasters and accidents
Health
  • Japan's Yoshinori Ohsumi wins the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for experiments with yeast which exposed a key mechanism called autophagy in the body's defenses where cells degrade and recycle their components. (Reuters), (AP)
International relations
  • Syrian civil war, Russia–United States relations
    • The Obama administration through the U.S. State Department announces the suspension of bilateral talks with Russia about the cessation of hostilities in Syria, as Russia and the Syrian government continue to pursue a military course despite the ceasefire accord. (CNN), (UPI)
  • Russia and weapons of mass destruction
Law and crime
  • The U.S. Supreme Court declines to rehear President Barack Obama's 2014 plan (Deferred Action for Parents of Americans) to spare from deportation millions of immigrants in the country illegally, a case in which the justices split 44 in June. The justices' June 23 decision (United States v. Texas) is final. (Reuters)
Politics and elections
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