WORLD AGENDA

November 2016

Nov 8, United States: Will Democrat Hillary Clinton become the first woman President of the United States? Or can controversial Republican candidate Donald Trump, with no political experience,
beat the odds to become the 45th Commander-in-Chief?

Nov 20-27, France: The centre-right Les Republicains (formerly UMP) party holds its first ever
public primary election to choose its 2017 presidential candidate. A run-off will be held
on Nov 27 if necessary. Former prime minister Alain Juppé leads former president Nicolas Sarkozy
in the polls

Nov 4, UN: The 2015 Paris agreement to reduce carbon emissions and global warming comes into force, and the implementation stage begins. The double threshold of 55 countries representing 55% of global emissions was reached on October 5

Nov 5, China: The launch of its Long March-5 rocket from Wenchang on Hainan Island will give China a booster powerful enough to carry components of the country’s planned space stations and serve eventual interplanetary missions

Nov 8, Hungary: Hungary’s parliament could amend the constitution to reject the European Union’s mandatory migrant resettlement rules following a referendum vote against the quotas even though turnout was too low to make the vote valid

Nov 27, Switzerland: A Green Party proposal to ban new nuclear power stations and shut down three existing ones next year goes to a popular vote. Switzerland became the first European country to announce plans to phase out nuclear power in the wake of the Fukushima accident in Japan in 2011

Nov, Philippines: President Rodrigo Duterte is expected to extend a ban on smoking in all public places across the country, further strengthening some of the toughest tobacco regulation in Asia

Nov 10-11, UK: Sotheby’s in London will auction the eclectic art collection of David Bowie, who confessed in at least one interview that he collected it “obsessively” and “addictively”.

Sources: Newsahead, Julie Mullins

Pictures: Associated Press, Sotheby’s