Portal:Current events/2016 December 5

Current events of December 5, 2016 (2016-12-05) (Monday)

Business and economy

• Alaska Airlines cancels 20 flights into and out of Seattle due to inclement weather forecast in the Pacific Northwest area. (US Daily Mail)

Disasters and accidents

• At least 11 people are killed and 30 others are injured as a fire erupts in Karachi's Regent Plaza Hotel. (The Express Tribune Pakistan)

Politics and elections

• John Key resigns as the Prime Minister of New Zealand and leader of the National Party after 8 years as PM and 10 years as party leader due to personal reasons. (AAP via SBS)
• Impeachment process against President Park Geun-hye
  • The South Korean National Assembly begins hearings ahead of an impeachment vote against President Park Geun-Hye. (AFP via Daily Mail)
• 2016 United States presidential election recount and audit
  • A federal judge in Michigan, Mark A. Goldsmith, rules that a recount in the Presidential Election vote in that state must begin on Monday, December 5. (The San Diego Union-Tribune)
• Presidential transition of Donald Trump
  • President-elect Donald Trump nominates Ben Carson for United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. (The Guardian)
• Former Actress and current chief minister of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, Jayalalithaa dies of cardiac arrest after being admitted in Hospital since 22 September 2016 .[indianexpress.com/article/india/jayalalithaa-dies-of-heart-attack-tamil-nadu-chennai-cardiac-arrest-aiadmk-4410487/ ("Indian Express")]