Portal:Current events/2016 June 3

June 3, 2016 (Friday)

Disasters and accidents

2016 European floods
- The flood waters for the Seine River are expected to peak at six metres above its normal level. Flooding in France and Germany has so far claimed at least 11 lives. (BBC)
- A sixth body is recovered in Bavaria near the Austrian border. (AP)
European migrant crisis
- Bodies of 117 people, including 75 women, 36 men and six children, are recovered from a beach near Zuwarah, Libya, possibly from yesterday's capsize in the Mediterranean Sea. (CNN)
- Greek authorities rescue 340 people from a boat carrying around 700 migrants that capsized 75 nautical miles off the Greek island of Crete. So far nine bodies have been recovered. (U.S. News & World Report) (CNN)
May 2016 United States storm complex
- The four missing Fort Hood soldiers from the overturned Light Medium Tactical Vehicle are found dead, bringing the death toll from the accident to nine. (AP via Los Angeles Times) (UPI)
2016 Union Pacific oil train fire
- Eleven cars from a 96-car Union Pacific oil train derail, and at least one catches fire, in the Columbia River Gorge near Mosier, Oregon, within about 20 feet of the city's sewage plant. Coincidentally, a Wasco County Planning Department public hearing is scheduled for Tuesday concerning a Union Pacific proposal to expand an existing railroad siding on either side of Mosier. (The Oregonian) (Wasco County Planning Commission)
At least eight people are hospitalized after lightning struck at the Rock am Ring music festival near Mendig, Germany. (AP)
A helicopter crashes in Nabire, Papua, Indonesia, killing a pilot and three passengers. (Detik.com)

Health and medicine

A study by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting in Chicago, reports 26 percent of cancer patients can't afford to pay for their treatment, and 18 percent can't afford their prescriptions. (UPI) (ASCO) (Meeting)

Law and crime

2015 FIFA corruption case
- FIFA shares results of their investigation with legal authorities showing former president Sepp Blatter and two others gave themselves nearly $80 million over the past five years via annual raises and World Cup bonuses. (NPR)

Politics and elections

Venezuela's National Election Council cancels a planned meeting to determine the validity of 1.85 million signatures on a petition for a referendum to oust President Nicolás Maduro. (UPI)

Sports

In boxing, heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali, dies of respiratory complications in a hospital in the American city of Phoenix, Arizona. (NBC News)
A ten person team of refugees will compete in the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. (Al Jazeera)