Scientists announce through the journal Nature the discovery of a repeating fast radio burst known as FRB 180916 coming from a nearby spiral galaxy around 500 million light years from Earth.
senior ecclesiastical official of the Catholic Church
The United States Senate hears opening statements in the impeachment trial of Donald Trump.
The Cook Islands Ministry of Health issues an edict mandating that all expatriate workers receive MMR vaccines, or risk losing their permits.
National Counter Terrorism Policing Network
However, none of the cadets are believed to have assisted the gunman in the attack.
The Syrian Army, backed by Russian Air Force support, enters the largely deserted city of Ma'arrat al-Nu'man in the northern Idlib Governorate. Only light resistance is reported as most rebel groups, including Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, withdrew their fighters. The city had been under rebel control since October 2012.
Rock musician Ozzy Osbourne announces that he has been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.
2019 Guinea-Bissau presidential election
are secret subterrean passages used for the smuggling of goods and people
The Spanish Supreme Court revokes the immunity of jailed Oriol Junqueras declared by the European Court of Justice in a sentence on 19 December. This happens after the board of European Parliament recognized the former Vice President of Catalonia as a MEP since 3 July and was elected president of the Greens–European Free Alliance parliamentary group.
At least 44 people, including twenty elementary school children, are injured after Delta Flight 89, bound for Shanghai, dumped jet fuel over Los Angeles before making an emergency landing at Los Angeles International Airport.
Officials within Buckingham Palace announced that effective around Q2 2020, Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex will retain, but will no longer publicly use, the style His/Her Royal Highness, and will no longer receive public funds for royal duties.
Spain expressed concerns that these laws would encroach on its claims near the Canary Islands.
Five men, two women and two children were on board.
Brazil's antitrust authority ruled in favor of a pending acquisition of the commercial aviation division of Embraer S.A.
Malaysian human rights advocacy group Lawyers for Liberty sues Singaporean Home Minister K. Shanmugam in Malaysian High Court after his office invoked the country's anti-fake news law to censor the group's criticisms of the death penalty there. The plaintiff argues that the move represents "an attempt by Singapore to encroach upon, stifle or crack down on freedom of speech in Malaysia".
Taiwanese voters head to the polls to elect a president and a new session to the Legislative Yuan.
Their departure from the shareholder ranks is likely welcomed by Hyundai executives.
The patient visited at least three hospitals in three different cities before the diagnosis was established; contact tracing is underway.
The Sudanese Armed Forces says it has quelled a mutiny by soldiers loyal to ousted President Omar al-Bashir in the capital Khartoum. Former Director of the National Intelligence and Security Service Salah Gosh is accused of orchestrating the mutiny, which left two troops dead. His current whereabouts are unknown.
third planet from the Sun in the Solar System
transnational Sunni Islamist organization
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) bans all U.S.
air warfare branch of Saudi Arabia's military
bureau of the United States responsible for the census and related statistics
A funeral service for Qasem Soleimani, the Iranian Quds Force commander who was slain in a targeted killing in Baghdad last week, is attended by hundreds of thousands of people in Tehran, Iran.
The death toll of the floods in Jakarta, Indonesia, that started two days ago rises to 43.
fatal road traffic collision resulting in UK/US diplomatic controversy
Four children are killed in an al-Shabaab attack at a primary school in Garissa County, Kenya.
UN special rapporteurs Agnès Callamard and David Kaye demand an investigation into claims made by The Guardian yesterday that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman ordered the 2018 hacking of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos's phone. The hack was allegedly done months before the assassination of Jamal Khashoggi, who was employed at Bezos's newspaper The Washington Post and was a fierce critic of the Saudi government. The Saudi Foreign Ministry dismisses the allegations as "absurd".
The Virginia House of Delegates votes to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment decades after its deadline passed.
2020 Venezuelan National Assembly Delegated Committee election
After a standoff, police in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia shoot and kill a hostage taker who had taken three hostages with a homemade gun. The case comes less than a year after five were killed in a shooting in Inner Mongolia, and the case is under investigation.
Vigils in Iran that were held for the victims subsequently turn into protests. According to Twitter videos, hundreds of protesters in Tehran call for the resignation of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
theater-level Unified Combatant Command of the U.S. Department of Defense
The Ministry of Health of Spain confirms the first case of coronavirus in the country in La Gomera, Canary Islands, from a German tourist.
Alejandro Giammattei takes the oath of office as President of Guatemala for the next four years. Also 160 new members of Congress are installed for a new parliamentary period of four years.
Malaysian agriculture giant FGV Holdings Berhad announces it will increase its sugar imports from India from 88,000 tonnes to 133,000 in an attempt to resolve the palm oil trade dispute between the two nations.
stock exchange that is based in the city of Shanghai, China
More than a dozen Saudi military cadets are to be expelled from the United States, following a review by the Department of Defense in the aftermath of a shooting at Naval Air Station Pensacola last month by a Royal Saudi Air Force member.
United States officials say "strikes have been carried out against two targets linked to Iran in Baghdad".
After U.S. President Donald Trump sends birthday wishes to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, North Korea state media says that "although Chairman Kim Jong-un has good personal feelings about President Trump, they are, in the true sense of the word, 'personal'", and that it is not enough to resume denuclearization talks. It further stated that the country would not be led on the basis of Kim's feelings.
The high military council of Sultan of Oman's Armed Forces calls on the Omani royal family to convene to name a successor to the late sultan within three days. A three-day period of national mourning is declared.
The Virginia House of Delegates votes to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment decades after its deadline passed. As the amendment nonetheless now has enough states for it to be fully adopted, legal scholars are divided on whether this means the Constitution of the United States has been amended.
overview of the politics of Northern Ireland
The governing Democratic Progressive Party retains its majority in the Yuan, albeit with fewer seats. Most of the seats lost are taken by third parties instead of the KMT.
In a meeting at the White House, U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese Vice Premier Liu He sign "Phase 1" of a new trade deal in which the U.S.
Assembly of the Representatives of the People
The U.S. Department of the Interior halts its civilian drone program indefinitely out of concerns that China manufactured the fleet via the SZ DJI Technology Company for espionage.
The British government announces that rail firm Northern will be nationalized following public outcry over Arriva UK Trains handling of the firm. Arriva says it "understood the government's decision", but blames problems on "external factors" such as rail infrastructure.
Germany announces a partial withdrawal of the Bundeswehr troops positioned in Iraq, citing security concerns.
A bombing claimed by the Islamic State at a mosque in Quetta, Balochistan, Pakistan, kills at least 15 people and injures 18 others, three days after a motorcycle bombing in the city killed two.
Amid further heavy clashes in Baghdad rockets hit the United States embassy injuring at least one.
A UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter carrying 13 people crashes in New Taipei, Taiwan.
Austria's left-wing Green Party agrees to form a coalition with the ruling right-wing People's Party. This will be the first time the Green Party is part of a ruling government in the country.
A vehicle pile-up involving multiple semi-trucks and a tour bus on the Pennsylvania Turnpike in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, U.S. leaves five dead and 60 injured.
volcanic material formed during explosive eruptions with the diameter of the grains less than 2 mm
At least 30 people are killed in Gamboru, Borno State, in northeastern Nigeria after an improvised explosive device detonates at a market on a bridge. No group immediately took responsibility.
The Centers for Disease Control for Taiwan announces that the first case of novel coronavirus was identified at Taoyuan International Airport.
Hundreds of thousands march in Baghdad to protest the presence of the United States in Iraq.
Winter Storm Jacob makes landfall over the Pacific Northwest, bringing high winds and up to 22 inches (56 cm) of snow to the Olympic Peninsula and forcing widespread road closures and transport cancellations.
Somalia-based cell of the militant Islamist group al-Qaeda
A historic blizzard strikes Atlantic Canada, with St. John's in Newfoundland worst affected – over 30 inches (76 cm) of snow fell during the day, breaking the city's all-time daily snowfall record.
form of journalism in which reporters deeply investigate a single topic
Billie Eilish sweeps the major categories winning Song of the Year, Record of the Year, Album of the Year, and Best New Artist.
Thousands of protesters march in the Sheung Shui neighborhood; dozens are arrested.
The Syrian Army say that the armed forces are now in full control of the city of Maaret al-Numan, after they entered it yesterday with little resistance.
Iraqi politician and militia commander (1954-2020)
terrorism in the region of United Kingdom
Turkey summons its chargé d'affaires to Egypt after accusing the Egyptian security forces of raiding the Cairo offices of the state-run Anadolu News Agency and arresting four of its employees.
2020 Labour Party leadership election (UK)
British Labour Party leadership election
A roadside bomb strikes a bus in Toeni Department of Burkina Faso, killing fourteen people, including students on their way to school.
In the video, Alvim seems to paraphrase a speech by Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Germany's Reichsminister of Propaganda.
The Virginia, Nevada, and Illinois state attorneys general file a lawsuit to get the Equal Rights Amendment added to the Constitution of the United States.
city in Bethel Census Area, Alaska, United States
capital and largest city of the province of Ontario, Canada
Remengesau is set to issue an executive order to that effect after a meeting with the National Emergency Committee.
After the conviction of serial rapist Reynhard Sinaga, Mohammad Idris, the mayor of Depok, West Java, Indonesia, says he plans to raid the local LGBT community and is condemned by human rights activists.
county in the state of Washington, United States
intentional deception made for unfair or unlawful gain or damaging or depriving a victim
North American professional sports league
prefecture-level city in Guangdong, China
North Korean state media condemn Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe for his attempts to reform the pacifist Japanese constitution. The state media say that "in the event of a constitutional revision, which gives [Japan's] self-defense forces legitimacy, the Japanese reactionaries will have all the preconditions necessary to realize military aggression overseas".
Icelandic fishing company Samherji announces it will cease operations in Namibia. The company was embroiled in a bribery scandal there that resulted in the resignation of Namibian Fisheries Minister Bernhardt Esau and Justice Minister Sacky Shanghala, as well as the arrest of two employees of South African banking corporation Investec.
Police shoot dead a Turkish man who tried to attack officers with a knife in the city of Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Afghan government ministry responsible for military and national defense matters
As the Knesset is currently deadlocked, they will likely not come to a decision until after the next election.
Date: 16 May 2014 – 23 October 2020 (6 years, 5 months and 1 week)
The U.S. Senate votes 89–10 to pass the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement.
21,000 homes are without power and one person is missing.
Retired NBA player Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna Bryant, baseball coach John Altobelli, and six other people are killed in a helicopter crash in Calabasas, California, U.S.
present phase of the Somali Civil War, concentrated in southern Somalia
unit of length used to express astronomical distances, defined as the distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year
combined military forces of Saudi Arabia
capital and largest city of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
Heads of state and dignitaries from around the world attend the fifth World Holocaust Forum at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz extermination camp and to address the resurgence of antisemitism worldwide.
General Secretary of the Communist Party of China Xi Jinping holds a special Party Politburo meeting where he says that the country faces a "grave situation" as he warns the virus is "accelerating its speed".
Iraqi security forces raid a protest site in Baghdad and try to remove protesters in southern cities, firing tear gas and live bullets, killing four and wounding dozens more. The raid comes after Muqtada al-Sadr ordered his followers to withdraw.
In Metz, Grand Est, France, an assailant shouting "Allahu Akbar" attempts to stab police officers with a knife before being shot and injured.
Milanović is elected. Grabar-Kitarović pledges a "civilised transfer" of power.
A fire at Krefeld Zoo, NRW, Germany, kills over 30 animals.
legislative, executive and judiciary powers of Iran
combined military forces of the Philippines
Nobody in the city will be able to leave starting from 10 a.m.
Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu withdraws a request for immunity to the Knesset.
short- or long-term loss of the electric power to an area
The Competition Commission of India launches an antitrust probe into Flipkart and the Indian subsidy of Amazon, alleging that they were promoting certain sellers at the expense of smaller merchants.
conflict between NATO Western forces and the Taliban
The bodies are then brought to Karbala and Najaf, where Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and the other Iraqis killed are to be buried.
Corruption trial of Israeli Prime Minister
The Lahore High Court, in Punjab, Pakistan, says the death sentence verdict against former ruler Pervez Musharraf last month is unconstitutional, casting into doubt the legitimacy of the verdict.
Robert Abela wins the Partit Laburista leadership election, succeeding Joseph Muscat as Prime Minister after Muscat's resignation.
The Supreme Leader of Iran Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei declares three days of national mourning in Iran.
Chinese authorities quarantine the entire city of Wuhan to prevent the further spread of the novel coronavirus as the death toll rises to 17.
While Prince Harry will lose all his military appointments, he will remain a prince.
A United States Air Force E-11A aircraft crashes and catches fire in Ghazni Province, eastern Afghanistan. All five people on board are killed.
In response to the death of Qasem Soleimani, U.S. President Donald Trump tweets an image of an American flag.
The trial of Satoshi Uematsu, a young Japanese man who admitted to stabbing 19 disabled people to death at a care center in 2016, begins.
At least two people are killed and dozens injured after Iraqi security forces fire upon protesters at Sinak bridge in central Baghdad.
political movement in Taiwan to found a state formally independent of, and not asserting sovereignty over, China
Winter Storm Jacob continues to move eastwards across the northern United States, bringing up to 26 inches (66 cm) of snowfall from Montana to Idaho and Utah and down into the Sierra Nevada of California.
Date: 8 January 2020, from about 1:30 a.m. to 4:00 a.m. (UTC+03:00)
reports a stock market capitalization of US$88 billion in response to strong performances in the third- and fourth-quarter, surpassing General Motors and Ford Motor Company to become the most valuable automobile company in North America.
The Syrian Army besieges the strategic rebel-held city of Ma'arrat al-Nu'man in the Idlib Governorate and cuts the M5 Highway between Ma'arrat al-Nu'man and Saraqib to the north.
The couple will also repay £2.4 million of public money spent on renovating Frogmore Cottage.
bilateral relations between Japan and Saudi Arabia
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announces he will seek immunity from his corruption cases. As the Knesset is currently deadlocked, they will likely not come to a decision until after the next election.
The Russian Ministry of Defence says that hundreds of rebels stormed Syrian Army positions in Idlib Governorate, the ensuing fighting left 50 rebels dead and 90 wounded while government forces reported 40 dead and 80 wounded.
potential union of Mainland China/Taiwan
Attack on the United States embassy in Baghdad
storming of the United States embassy in Baghdad, beginning starting on 31 December 2019
The Boeing 777X completes its first test flight near Seattle, Washington, United States, after two delayed attempts.
An elderly woman dies of suffocation while leaving a Brisbane, Queensland-originated Qantas plane at Canberra Airport. Canberra's air quality had been reported as the worst in the world because of heavy smoke from the bushfires in New South Wales.
chief legal officer of the State of Israel
national flag of the United States of America
capital city of Virginia, United States of America
province of Islamic Republic of Pakistan
An additional three deaths have been confirmed on the New South Wales South Coast while another man has been killed in Victoria's East Gippsland region.
COVID-19 pandemic by country and territory
details regarding the COVID-19 pandemic by country and territory
His successor is expected to be publicly announced next Thursday.
Eight people are shot, one fatally, following a dispute outside a McDonald's in downtown Seattle, Washington.
Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752
flight shot down by Iranian armed forces
Islamist militants kill over 25 Nigerien soldiers in an attack on an army base in Tillabéri Region, Niger. 63 militants are also killed in the ensuing shootout.
Ukraine demands the United Kingdom's National Counter Terrorism Policing Network remove the country's Tryzub coat of arms from a guide on hate symbols associated with white supremacy and Neo-Nazism. Counter Terrorism Policing says the coat of arms was included due to its use by National Action, a proscribed far-right terror group.
Two people are killed and 18 injured in a warehouse explosion in Houston, Texas, United States.
An 11-year-old student opens fire at his school in Torreón, Coahuila, Mexico, killing a teacher and wounding six others before committing suicide.
Vigils in Iran that were held for the victims subsequently turn into protests.
At the same time, withdraws immunity as MEP to jailed Oriol Junqueras that recognized the European Court of Justice on 19 December 2019.
His lawyer is expected to enter a plea of not guilty on grounds of diminished capacity.
The state media say that "in the event of a constitutional revision, which gives [Japan's] self-defense forces legitimacy, the Japanese reactionaries will have all the preconditions necessary to realize military aggression overseas".
The Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs rejects an earlier statement by Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Geng Shuang that China had territorial claims to the Spratly Islands as part of the Nine-Dash Line, stating it "[has] no legal basis and have never been recognized by the UNCLOS 1982". Indonesia had recalled its ambassador to China two days earlier after a Chinese coastguard vessel trespassed in its waters.
Russian economist and politician, Prime Minister of Russia
First Minister and deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland
Leaders of the Northern Ireland Executive
Three people, including former Mayor Frank Edwards and his wife Cinda, are killed in a plane crash near Springfield, Illinois, United States.
Eight people are killed, including the Chief of the General Staff Shen Yi-ming, the head of the Republic of China Armed Forces.
case of novel coronavirus in Snohomish County, Washington.
2019 coronavirus pandemic in mainland China
occupation of Poland by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union during the Second World War (1939–1945)
Responding to Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif's comments that Iran is "open to dialogue with its neighbors", Saudi Arabia's Adel al-Jubeir blames Iran for recent tensions in the Middle East and for attacks on ships and oil facilities; which Iran denies.
However, his direct rival Domingos Simões Pereira says he will challenge the results in court.
He says that the deal "ignores many of the Libyan army's demands".
Warplanes backed by the Syrian Government strike Ariha, Idlib Governorate, killing at least ten people.
Thousands of protestors march in Warsaw against a controversial law proposed by the Sejm that would allow the Polish government to discipline judges that question their reform policies. Critics say the law would undermine the independence of the judiciary, and risks Poland's membership in the European Union.
List of mass shootings in the United States in 2020
theme resort by Disney Parks, Experiences and Products
Birmingham Yardley MP Jess Phillips drops out of the UK Labour Party leadership race.
An attack by Al-Shabaab militants on an airfield used by Kenyan and U.S. troops in Lamu County, Kenya, is repelled, leaving four militants dead and five arrested.
Iran's Islamic Consultative Assembly formally designates the United States Department of Defense as a "terrorist organization" in response to the assassination of General Qasem Soleimani in a targeted killing in Baghdad, Iraq.
Date: 15 June 2014 – 9 December 2021 (7 years, 5 months, 3 weeks and 3 days)
Legislative, executive, and judicial powers of the Marshall Islands
Syrian government forces retake several cities in the Idlib Province area, amid a push from Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to recapture the last rebel strongholds.
Norway agrees to take in 600 refugees from Rwanda who were previously evacuated from Libyan detention camps. Rwanda last September signed an agreement with the United Nations to take in asylum seekers from Libya while their status was being processed, to cut down on human trafficking in the Mediterranean.
making amendments to 14 articles of the Constitution of Russia
Foreign Minister of the Maldives Abdulla Shahid says that his country could lose entire islands unless it can access cheap financing to fight climate change.
Thousands of protesters gather in Richmond to protest tighter gun laws in the U.S. state of Virginia.
Former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julian Castro drops out of the presidential race.
United States Department of the Treasury
United States federal executive department
In American football, LSU defeats Clemson to win the national championship.
Seoul-based NK News reports that North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho has been replaced. His successor is expected to be publicly announced next Thursday.
Republic of China Presidential and Vice Presidential election
The American-led coalition issues a statement saying that 11 U.S. service members were injured by the January 8, 2020 attack by Iran on U.S. forces in Iraq. The U.S. Department of Defense had initially assessed that there had been no injuries.
Subsequently, the Department for Exiting the European Union and the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union cabinet position are abolished with immediate effect upon leaving the EU.
Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve
Judge Ghassan Ouiedat, a Lebanese prosecutor, imposes a travel ban on former Chairman of Nissan Carlos Ghosn after he was summoned over an Interpol warrant issued by Japan seeking his arrest on financial misconduct charges.
China temporarily suspends plans to cross-link companies on the London and Shanghai Stock Exchange due to increased political tensions between the two nations, particularly Britain's stance on the Hong Kong protests.
largest Christian church, led by the pope
A Boko Haram female suicide bomber kills at least nine civilians in Kaiga-Kindjiria, western Chad.
A former special police officer and two militants are killed during a gun battle with Indian troops in the region of Jammu and Kashmir.
group of people from one state present in another state to represent the sending state
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps admits it mistakenly shot down the Ukraine International Airlines plane as it took off from Tehran, killing all 176 aboard.
The United Kingdom formally withdraws from the European Union at 23:00 GMT.
President Donald Trump announces a close of travel from China of non U.S. citizens or residents in response to the growing Coronavirus cases in Wuhan.
South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia
legal declaration or de facto acts by a government allowing assumption of extraordinary powers
A plane crashes near Santa Clarita, California, killing the pilot.
Jihadist militant group in the Philippines
Thai Army Chief Apirat Kongsompong and his Indonesian counterpart Andika Perkasa sign an intelligence-sharing agreement aimed at combating the insurgency in Thailand’s southern provinces.
act of coercing or physically forcing a person to engage in sexual activity
Protests continue for a second day despite a large deployment of security forces.
South Korean President Moon Jae-in says there is a "desperate need" for practical ways to improve ties with North Korea and says he is ready to meet repeatedly with Kim Jong-un in Pyongyang if necessary.
Counter Terrorism Policing says the coat of arms was included due to its use by National Action, a proscribed far-right terror group.
Chinese premier Li Keqiang has urged decisive and effective efforts to prevent and control the epidemic.
The Houthis release six Saudi prisoners as part of a United Nations-mediated deal struck last month.
2020 relinquishment of "senior" royal status by the Duke and Duchess of Sussex
1-year term for government and business financial reporting
activity by an individual or group which aims to influence decisions within systems and institutions
Forces loyal to Khalifa Haftar say they accept a ceasefire starting on 12 January, conditional on their rivals' acceptance.
checkpoint erected to monitor and control the movement of people and materials
galaxy having a number of arms of younger stars that spiral out from the centre containing older ones
government agency of the People's Republic of China
bans chartered flights from China and suspends charter flights from Macau and Hong Kong until further notice.
A bushfire leads to the residents of Eden, New South Wales, to evacuate.
last day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 31 December
A man stabs three people in Villejuif, Île-de-France, killing one person and wounding two others. The attacker is shot dead by police.
At least 39 people are dead in the Brazilian states of Minas Gerais and Espírito Santo after heavy rains hit the country's southeast region.
Protesters squat an oil terminal in the eastern Libyan town of Zuwetina at the request of tribal leaders, who claim that the Government of National Accord is using oil revenue to pay for foreign fighters, a reference to Turkey's sending of troops and arms in support of the GNA. The protesters are swiftly condemned by the state-owned National Oil Corporation.
sexual activities involving men who have sex with men, regardless of their sexual orientation or sexual identity
People in Peru head to the polls to elect the members of the country's congress after its dissolution in September 2019.
Throughout Iran, in 29 provinces, 104 cities and 719 places.
A magnitude 6.4 earthquake strikes Puerto Rico, killing one and injuring nine others
The fifth-ever case of Brazilian hemorrhagic fever, caused by the Sabiá virus, is reported in São Paulo, Brazil. The patient visited at least three hospitals in three different cities before the diagnosis was established; contact tracing is underway.
After having announced it the previous month, Boeing temporarily stops production of the new 737 MAX planes.
Then-Major of the Mossos Josep Lluís Trapero, Pere Soler and Cèsar Puig face 11 years of imprisonment for rebellion, while Teresa Laplana is accused of sedition, facing four years of imprisonment.
The nominees for this year’s Academy Awards are announced.
Despite trying to enter and vote, self-declared interim president Juan Guaidó is denied entry to the Assembly. Dissident opposition politician Luis Parra is sworn in as National Assembly president after an impromptu vote. Opposition supporters call it a "parliamentary coup"; the United States denounce a "farce". State broadcasters label Parra as the new speaker of parliament.
Two women, one of them pregnant, are killed and seven others are injured when artillery hits a Rohingya village in Rakhine State.
details of ongoing viral outbreak in Singapore
digital medium of exchange using cryptography on a ledger to secure transactions and to verify transfer of ownership
U.S. President Donald Trump announces new sanctions against Iran in response to the attack.
Two judicial sources announce that the trial of seven Cameroonian soldiers has begun for the killing of two women and two children in July 2018, in a case that sparked international outcry. Six of the soldiers admit to the charges, but say they were given the order to open fire.
regulations governing international relations
The U.S. Department of the Treasury de-lists China as a currency manipulator.
Northwestern Syria offensive (December 2019–March 2020)
military operation of the Syrian civil war
An airplane with 195 Americans coming back from China is quarantined.
Thirty-six people are killed and others injured after a building under construction collapses in Kep, Cambodia.
Canada's Chief of the Defence Staff General Jonathan Vance announces that some of its military personnel in Iraq will be moved to neighboring Kuwait over safety reasons.
United States Department of the Interior
unmanned aerial vehicle that is usually armed
phase of flight in which a vehicle leaves contact with the land or water surface
Gunmen kill 19 in Kogi State of Nigeria. A church, a school and other buildings are torched.
At least 57 people are killed and others are missing after avalanches in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir over the last 24 hours, senior government officials say. In Indian-administered Kashmir, at least 10 are killed.
Neil Peart dies from glioblastoma, a form of brain cancer, in his home in Santa Monica, California. He had been diagnosed three years earlier but had kept details secret until his family officially announced his death on January 10, 2020.
ongoing civil war in the country of Yemen
MEP and Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage applauds its passage by saying "we'd be better off out", while UK Labour MEP Judith Kirton-Darling tearfully states it "attacks the very foundation of our identity".
Shanghai Disney Resort temporarily closes ahead of the Lunar New Year "in response to the prevention and control of the disease outbreak."
Two cases of novel coronavirus are confirmed in Italy after two Chinese tourists are recovered in Rome.
Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (Malaysia)
Mali's Prime Minister Boubou Cissé announces that his country will increase the size of its armed forces by 50% in recruitment to uproot jihadist groups.
building in Windsor and Maidenhead, Berkshire, UK
Former Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau Umaro Sissoco Embaló is declared the winner of the country's presidential elections. However, his direct rival Domingos Simões Pereira says he will challenge the results in court.
Following a deal brokered by the British and Irish governments, the Northern Ireland Executive is restored with Democratic Unionist Party leader Arlene Foster as First Minister and Sinn Féin deputy leader Michelle O'Neill as deputy First Minister, ending three years of political deadlock.
engineering event in which the structural integrity of a construction is compromised due to failure of components of the structure
Apple says it is helping authorities in the Pensacola shooting investigation but refuses to unlock their phones.
Four people are killed when a Mooney M20 plane crashes shortly after takeoff near the island of Lifou, New Caledonia.
Nineteen Malian soldiers are killed in an attack on an army camp.
Opposition supporters call it a "parliamentary coup"; the United States denounce a "farce".
Amid an investigation into the Saudi Arabian military following the attack on Naval Air Station Pensacola in Florida, the cadets were found to have jihadist material and child pornography on their phones.
Several people have died from hypothermia after heavy snowfall and high winds combined to bring historic blizzards over higher ground of mainland Spain.
After Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau suggests the plane was downed by an Iranian missile, Iranian authorities reject this theory. Iranian civil aviation chief says he is "certain" the plane was not hit by a missile, still asserting the cause was "mechanical failure".
The tenth named storm of the 2019–20 European windstorm season makes landfall in northern Spain, killing at least 13 people.
President of Russia (1999–2008, 2012–present)
self-guided improvement, often utilizing publicly available information or support groups
A court in the United Kingdom sentences 36-year-old Indonesian national Reynhard Sinaga to life imprisonment for sexually assaulting at least 48 young men in Manchester.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announces that the next general election is to be held on September 19.
International agreement on the nuclear program of Iran
An airstrike hits a Popular Mobilization Forces convoy near camp Taji, destroying two vehicles, killing six militia members and critically injuring three others, according to an Iraqi Army source.
The National Health Commission of China reports a third death from coronavirus, the number of infected having increased by 136 during the weekend. The report comes as authorities confirmed that the virus spread from Wuhan to major cities, including Shenzhen, Beijing, and Hong Kong.
taking away or transportation of a person against that person's will
In the early hours of the morning, a car crashes into a group of German tourists in Luttach, Italy, killing six people and injuring 11 others. The driver was reportedly drunk and is charged with murder.
type of natural disasters involving ground movements, often caused by slope instability triggered by specific event
international border between the two countries in North America
After having announced it the previous month, Boeing temporarily stops production of the new 737 MAX planes. Already produced ones will remain grounded an additional month until June or July.
According to state media, the sinkhole stretches nearly 10m (32 feet) in diameter.
A magnitude 7.7 earthquake is recorded off the coast of Jamaica.
Omani state television announces the death of the Sultan of Oman Qaboos bin Said al Said aged 79.
Taiwanese voters head to the polls to elect a president and a new session to the Legislative Yuan. Incumbent pro-independence President Tsai Ing-wen defeats anti-independence challenger Han Kuo-yu in a landslide victory by more than 20%.
insurgency in Thailand’s southern provinces
The mass shooter's parents are among the dead.
An avalanche at a ski resort in Kellogg, Idaho, United States kills two people and injures five others.
Iran's Islamic Consultative Assembly formally designates the United States Department of Defense as a "terrorist organization" in response to the assassination of General Qasem Soleimani in a targeted killing in Baghdad, Iraq. Under the newly adopted bill, all United States Armed Forces personnel and Pentagon employees are "considered terrorists."
Trudeau also condemns Iran's attack on U.S.
A man is sentenced to death for murdering a doctor in Beijing on New Year's Eve.
The Spanish Supreme Court revokes the immunity of jailed Oriol Junqueras declared by the European Court of Justice in a sentence on 19 December.
A C-130 water bomber crashes in southern New South Wales, Australia, while helping control a bushfire. Three American firefighters are killed.
national government of the United States
U.S., Canadian, British and Iraqi officials say they believe the plane crash near Tehran in which 176 were killed yesterday was likely caused accidentally by an Iranian anti-aircraft missile, while Iran says it was due to "mechanical failure".
revocation of Jammu and Kashmir's special status
head of the United States Department of State
Microsoft officially ends support for the Windows 7 operating system. Microsoft says its Windows 7 users can still use their computers, but warns they will be at "greater risk for viruses and malware".
The Russian Ministry of Defence says that hundreds of rebels stormed Syrian Army positions in Idlib Governorate, the ensuing fighting left 50 rebels dead and 90 wounded while government forces reported 40 dead and 80 wounded. A military source cited by Syrian state news agency SANA says the Jabhat al-Nusra terrorists used various weapons such as car bombs, under an "intensive fire cover".
Germany confirms its first case of novel coronavirus in the state of Bavaria. The infected man has been placed in an isolation ward and the risk of further infection is currently considered to be "low", according to the Bavarian Health Ministry.
The Tunisian Parliament votes 134 to 72 to reject a cabinet proposed by Prime Minister-designate Habib Jemli. President Kais Saied has 10 days to select someone else to build a new government.
It is expected to go online sometime during this quarter.
crime or tort of harming the reputation of a legal person through false or misleading statement
process for charging a public official with legal offenses by the legislature(s)
A judicial source close to former Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn says that Lebanon and Japan will have 40 days to decide whether he will be extradited back to Japan or stand trial in Lebanon.
city of the Philippines in the province of Cebu
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China
A Boeing 737-800 crashes while taking off from Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airport, killing all 176 people on board. The incident, which took place amid the 2019–20 Persian Gulf crisis, is under investigation.
Iraqi state-sponsored umbrella organization
Thirteen people are injured in a fire at a high rise apartment building in Los Angeles, California, United States.
citizens or residents in response to the growing Coronavirus cases in Wuhan.
A repeat vote is held in 25 electoral districts in the second round of the latest parliamentary election in Uzbekistan.
A Harbin Y-12 light transport aircraft crashes near Haputale, Sri Lanka. All four people on board, members of the Sri Lanka Air Force, are killed.
The runoff election for the Croatian Presidency is held today, with incumbent Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović facing former Prime Minister Zoran Milanović.
technologies used in finance and the industry which produces these technologies
2020 U.S. dronestrike killing of an Iranian major general
Zelensky subsequently announces that Honcharuk is allowed to keep his position.
Six of the soldiers admit to the charges, but say they were given the order to open fire.
The Barakah nuclear power plant in the United Arab Emirates, the first commercial nuclear plant in the Arab world, is declared ready for operation after years of delays.
This decision prompts protests in Barcelona. Torra, in a special press conference after the meeting of Catalan cabinet, calls the decision "a coup d'état against Catalan institutions" while an extraordinary session of the Catalan Parliament is summoned for 4 January.
government agency responsible for the collection, analysis or exploitation of information and intelligence
41 people were killed and more than 1,600 were injured in an earthquake centered near Elazığ in Eastern Anatolia.
Kuwaitian state news agency KUNA says its official Twitter account was hacked after it spread a fake news report that the United States Army would withdraw from Camp Arifjan within three days.
General Secretary of the Communist Party of China
a verdict that can be returned by an inquest in England and Wales
Thousands of protestors march in Warsaw against a controversial law proposed by the Sejm that would allow the Polish government to discipline judges that question their reform policies.
The heads of state of Turkey, Russia, Serbia and Bulgaria formally inaugurate the TurkStream gas pipelines.
The Gambia warns ousted leader Yahya Jammeh not to return to the country, saying his safety cannot be guaranteed if he returns without permission, a government spokesman says.
The Guardian becomes the first major news outlet to stop accepting ads from the fossil fuel industry.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
United States government public health agency
Winter Storm Isaiah brings widespread heavy snowfall and freezing rain to the midwestern and southern United States, killing at least 12 people.
Economists criticize the bill for failing to address the issues that caused the protests.
It further stated that the country would not be led on the basis of Kim's feelings.
Political elections for public offices in the Comoros
directly elected parliament of the European Union
A United States Air Force E-11A aircraft crashes and catches fire in Ghazni Province, eastern Afghanistan.
The British ambassador to Iran, Robert Macaire, is arrested during anti-government protests, after attending a vigil and then, according to BBC, getting his hair cut. According to Tasnim News Agency he was arrested "on suspicion of organising, provoking and directing radical actions". U.K. Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab states the arrest is in "flagrant violation" of international law. More than an hour later, Macaire is released from custody.
The Royal Solomon Islands Police Force stop searching for nine people who disappeared at sea on January 15 when their boat capsized.
The government of Argentina says it will not recognize Juan Guaidó as President of Venezuela, and instead as the leader of the opposition in the country, and revokes the credentials of Guaidó's representative in Argentina.
Oman names Haitham bin Tariq al-Said as its new head of state after the death of Sultan Qaboos.
city in and county seat of Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States
An Al-Shabaab car bombing kills six people and injures 12 others at an army checkpoint near Somalia's parliament in Mogadishu.
American rapper Jay-Z and his philanthropic organization Team Roc file a federal lawsuit against Mississippi Department of Corrections commissioner Pelicia E. Hall and Mississippi State Penitentiary superintendent Marshal Turner over the abusive and neglectful treatment of their prisoners, which they claim has led to the deaths of at least three people.
Hundreds walk the street in mourning after popular journalist Ahmad Abdessamad and his cameraman were killed by unidentified gunmen the night before.
northernmost region of the African continent
Afghanistan's Ministry of Defense say that the military conducted thirteen ground offensives and twelve airstrikes.
political-religious armed movement in Yemen
major river in Ontario and Quebec, Canada
Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 protests
Protests in response to the downing of Ukrainian Flight 752
2020 amendments to the Constitution of Russia
Nineteen Malian soldiers are killed in an attack on an army camp. No group has claimed responsibility.
Brigadier-General Esmail Ghaani is appointed as the new commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' Quds Force, replacing Qassem Soleimani.
UN special rapporteurs Agnès Callamard and David Kaye demand an investigation into claims made by The Guardian yesterday that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman ordered the 2018 hacking of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos's phone.
Chinese authorities quarantine the entire city of Wuhan to prevent the further spread of the novel coronavirus as the death toll rises to 17. Nobody in the city will be able to leave starting from 10 a.m. local time on January 23, and all public transport in the city is suspended.
Two people (including the perpetrator) were killed and fifteen others were injured during a shooting at a nightclub in Kansas City, Missouri.
The Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs rejects an earlier statement by Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Geng Shuang that China had territorial claims to the Spratly Islands as part of the Nine-Dash Line, stating it "[has] no legal basis and have never been recognized by the UNCLOS 1982".
A sinkhole swallows a bus and several pedestrians on a busy street in Xining, China, killing six people and leaving 16 others injured.
An airstrike at a military academy in Tripoli, Libya, kills at least 28 cadets and injures dozens more, according to the Government of National Accord.
The tenth named storm of the 2019–20 European windstorm season makes landfall in northern Spain, killing at least 13 people. Heavy rainfall leads to widespread flooding, while high winds and coastal storm surges cause further damage.
thermal power station where the heat source is a nuclear reactor
Two women, one of them pregnant, are killed and seven others are injured when artillery hits a Rohingya village in Rakhine State. The locals blame Myanmar's armed forces. The armed forces deny responsibility and blame the Arakan Army, and say the artillery hit the village amid ethnic clashes.
They are also fired by the organization.
U.S. President Donald Trump threatens Iraq—if the U.S. would be required to leave the country—with a bill for a "very extraordinarily expensive" air base and also with sanctions that would "make Iranian sanctions look somewhat tame".
city of the Philippines in the province of Batangas
The Taal Volcano in southern Luzon, Philippines, spews an ash plume that measures approximately 10 to 15 kilometres (6.2 to 9.3 mi). The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology designates a "level 4" alert level, indicating "an imminent hazardous eruption".
All six arrive in Riyadh later the same day.
Algeria reopens its embassy in Dhaka, after closing it in 1990.
ruling dynasty of the Sultanate of Oman and Zanzibar
Date: 13 June 2014 – present (8 years, 7 months and 2 weeks)
The U.S. Senate votes 89–10 to pass the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement. Once ratified by Canada, it will supersede the North America Free Trade Agreement.
A leading group on the prevention and control of the outbreak is established, led by Chinese Premier Li Keqiang. The leading group decides to extend the Spring Festival holiday to contain the outbreak.
Japan says it will tighten immigration measures after the escape of former Chairman of Nissan Carlos Ghosn from the country. The Japanese government condemns Ghosn's escape as "unjustifiable".
The U.S. Customs and Border Protection reports that in August it discovered a 1,313 m (4,308 ft) smuggling tunnel running from Tijuana to San Diego, making it the longest tunnel of its type along the Mexico–United States border. It was possibly used by the Sinaloa Cartel.
Date: 31 January 2009 – present (13 years, 11 months, 3 weeks and 6 days)
Brazilian federal government secretary of culture, Roberto Alvim, is dismissed after the broadcast of a video where he announces a new national prize on culture. In the video, Alvim seems to paraphrase a speech by Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Germany's Reichsminister of Propaganda.
sovereign state made up of six islands in the Pacific Ocean
overview about bankruptcy in the United States
American music award for excellent albums
facility directly owned and operated by or for the military
Delta Air Lines and American Airlines announce that they have suspended all flights to and from China amid the pandemic.
cause of action in civil (non-criminal) law
heraldic design on a shield, surcoat or tabard
global international and intergovernmental organization
map delineating Chinese territorial claims to South China Sea waters
Lebanon forms a new government with former American University of Beirut professor Hassan Diab as its Prime Minister, ending a three-month deadlock.
Bolivia withdraws its recognition of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic as an independent nation, and cuts ties with the ruling Polisario Front.
The plaintiff argues that the move represents "an attempt by Singapore to encroach upon, stifle or crack down on freedom of speech in Malaysia".
sovereign state in North Africa and Asia
Massive floods in Madagascar kill 31 people and displace 16,000 others.
Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union
secretary of state responsible for the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union
Russian government led by Dmitry Medvedev since 2018
Representatives of Libya's Government of National Accord (GNA) and General Khalifa Haftar's rival Libyan National Army (LNA) reach a ceasefire agreement after talks in Moscow between warring factions in Libya, also attended by Russian and Turkish officials. The preliminary agreement was signed by GNA head Fayez al-Sarraj, while Haftar plans to sign it the next day.
The trial against the Mossos d'Esquadra leadership begins in the National Audience for the role of the regional police in the 2017 Catalan independence referendum and the 2017–18 constitutional crisis. Then-Major of the Mossos Josep Lluís Trapero, Pere Soler and Cèsar Puig face 11 years of imprisonment for rebellion, while Teresa Laplana is accused of sedition, facing four years of imprisonment.
Italy's ruling Five Star Movement expels Senator Gianluigi Paragone from its ranks over disciplinary issues, shrinking the coalition's majority in the Senate to five.
They later arrive in Fiji, where they are quarantined with no symptoms.
Afghan forces launch ground and air operations against the Taliban, killing 51 of them in nine provinces of the country. Afghanistan's Ministry of Defense say that the military conducted thirteen ground offensives and twelve airstrikes. In the northern province of Balkh, local officials say that three women and four children were killed.
Indian trade minister Piyush Goyal states when he attends the World Economic Forum next week, he will not meet with his Malaysian counterpart Darell Leiking to discuss India's tightening of palm oil imports from his country. India tightened imports from Malaysia last week in response to Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's criticisms of the revocation of Jammu and Kashmir's special status and the Citizenship Amendment Act.
Reactions to the 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un says his nation will be "developing a new strategic weapon" in the near future, after the United States misses a year-end deadline for a restart of denuclearization talks.
site of Israel's national cemetery in Jerusalem
bilateral relations between India and Malaysia
Public spending scandal in Northern Ireland involving then Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment minister Arlene Foster
Indian trade minister Piyush Goyal states when he attends the World Economic Forum next week, he will not meet with his Malaysian counterpart Darell Leiking to discuss India's tightening of palm oil imports from his country.
Only light resistance is reported as most rebel groups, including Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, withdrew their fighters.
Japanese PM Shinzō Abe arrives in Saudi Arabia in his first visit to the Middle East, where he expects to mediate between the United States and Iran amid heightening tensions.
Chemical Industries of Ethylene Oxide explosion
court of law empowered to hear an appeal of a trial court or other lower tribunal
The United States sends over 3,000 more US soldiers to the Middle East as tensions with Iran heighten.
Author and self-help guru Marianne Williamson drops out of the U.S. presidential race.
Two people are confirmed dead from bushfires on Kangaroo Island in South Australia.
The United Kingdom House of Commons votes 330–231 to pass the Withdrawal Agreement Bill authorizing the country’s departure from the European Union at the end of the month.
Norway agrees to take in 600 refugees from Rwanda who were previously evacuated from Libyan detention camps.
United States Department of Health and Human Services
Buckingham Palace says discussions on the intended new role are "at an early stage".
A bus crashes in Iran's Mazandaran Province, killing at least 20 passengers and injuring 24 others.
city ​​in the northwestern Santa Monica Mountains region of Los Angeles County, California, United States
None of the reported injuries required hospitalization.
North American professional baseball league
At least 44 people, including twenty elementary school children, are injured after Delta Flight 89, bound for Shanghai, dumped jet fuel over Los Angeles before making an emergency landing at Los Angeles International Airport. None of the reported injuries required hospitalization.
("God is the greatest") Arabic phrase, used by Muslims in various contexts
A Caspian Airlines passenger airliner crash lands on a runway and skids onto a major highway in Mahshahr, Iran, leaving 2 injured.
North Korea reportedly bans foreign tourists and closes the China–North Korea border to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus.
Police detain a gay couple in Nouakchott after a video purportedly of them marrying in a secret location emerges, in what is considered to be the first major prosecution of its kind in recent years. The attendees in the video were also detained.
ongoing COVID-19 viral pandemic in the United States
Palau becomes the first country in the world to ban sun cream that is harmful to corals and sea life. The ban comes into effect immediately after an announcement by President Thomas Remengesau Jr.
set of ideologies holding that Islam should guide social and political as well as personal life
Protesters squat an oil terminal in the eastern Libyan town of Zuwetina at the request of tribal leaders, who claim that the Government of National Accord is using oil revenue to pay for foreign fighters, a reference to Turkey's sending of troops and arms in support of the GNA.
Omani state television announces the death of the Sultan of Oman Qaboos bin Said al Said aged 79. At the time of his death he was the longest serving head of state in the Middle East and Arab world.
voting system used to elect a single winner where a second round of voting is used if no candidate wins an absolute majority in the first round
New Jersey Senator Cory Booker drops out of the U.S. presidential race.
state capitol building of the U.S. state of Virginia
Militants fire rockets at Iraqi bases supporting U.S. personnel, nearly hitting the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad.
island sovereign state off the coast of Southeast Africa, in the Indian Ocean
A suspect accepts guilt for having killed the investigative journalist and his fiancée.
country in southwestern Europe with territories in Africa
border between the People's Republic of China and North Korea
American multinational technology company
President of the Government of Catalonia
head of government of the Generalitat of Catalonia
cultural region in the southeastern and south-central United States
Brazil's antitrust authority ruled in favor of a pending acquisition of the commercial aviation division of Embraer S.A. by Boeing, without restrictions.
clause in the Constitution of Japan outlawing war as a means to settle international disputes involving the state
gambling which involves the drawing of lots for a prize
It is unknown whether she was involved in her husband's plan.
The government of the Canadian province of Ontario apologizes for issuing a false alert about an incident at a nuclear plant near Toronto and blames a training exercise mistake. Angry local mayors demand an inquiry, saying the emergency message about the ageing Pickering Nuclear Generating Station has caused unnecessary distress.
city and county seat of Clark County, Nevada, United States
Indonesian Ministry dealing with international relations
A German tourist critically injured in the crash yesterday in Luttach, Italy, dies from her injuries, bringing the death toll to seven.
automotive manufacturing corporation based in Detroit, Michigan, USA
Alejandro Giammattei takes the oath of office as President of Guatemala for the next four years.
the surrender of an alleged criminal usually under the provisions of a treaty or statute by one authority (such as a state) to another having jurisdiction to try the charge
oceanic bight off the central and western portions of the southern coastline of mainland Australia
The report comes as authorities confirmed that the virus spread from Wuhan to major cities, including Shenzhen, Beijing, and Hong Kong.
individual who seeks refuge, esp. political asylum, in a foreign country
An official also says the UK will work with Canada and France to bring "even more protection" to the wreckage.
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on The Walt Disney Company
A man facing eviction shoots three police officers, killing two, then sets a house on fire, which spreads to four nearby houses, in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States. He is presumed dead in the fire.
combined military forces of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Afghan presidential spokesman Sediq Sediqqi says that the government rejects the proposed "reduction in violence" by the Taliban as an "ambiguous term with no legal or military parameters". On Friday, the Taliban proposed a ten-day truce and to hold follow-up discussions with Afghan government officials.
Brazil Minas Gerais Espírito Santo Rio de Janeiro
2020 College Football Playoff National Championship
efforts to make change in society toward a perceived greater good
American rapper, record producer and actor (born 1972)
Near Baghdad Airport Road, Baghdad International Airport, Baghdad Governorate, Baghdad, Iraq
Second-highest position of the Government of Spain
federal government of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, established by the Constitution of Pakistan
General Khalifa Haftar, head of the Libyan National Army (LNA), refuses to sign a ceasefire agreement after talks in Moscow brokered by Russia and Turkey yesterday with Government of National Accord leader Fayez al-Sarraj.
Anti-war protests organized by Act Now to Stop War and End Racism and Code Pink break out in cities across the United States following the killing of Qasem Soleimani. Demonstrations are also held in Germany, the United Kingdom, and Canada.
bilateral diplomatic relations between Japan and North Korea
topical skin product that helps protect against sunburn
A stampede occurs during the funeral of Qasem Soleimani in his hometown of Kerman.
informal diplomatic relationship between the United States and Iran
natural gas pipeline running from Russia to Turkey
system or group of people governing an organized community, often a state
gender identity other than sex assigned at birth
Palau's President Thomas Remengesau Jr. bans chartered flights from China and suspends charter flights from Macau and Hong Kong until further notice. Remengesau is set to issue an executive order to that effect after a meeting with the National Emergency Committee.
land service branch of the United States Armed Forces
mountain range in the Western United States
North Korea and weapons of mass destruction
National Football League franchise in Las Vegas, Nevada
Four protesters and two police officers are killed during clashes in Baghdad.
trade restrictions levied by the United States government
hostility, prejudice, or discrimination against Jews
He succeeds Hilda Heine, who was seeking a second term, but lost in the first session vote.
The U.S. Customs and Border Protection reports that in August it discovered a 1,313 m (4,308 ft) smuggling tunnel running from Tijuana to San Diego, making it the longest tunnel of its type along the Mexico–United States border.
legal status wherein an individual or entity can not be held liable for a violation of the law
An airstrike at a military academy in Tripoli, Libya, kills at least 28 cadets and injures dozens more, according to the Government of National Accord. The BBC cites reports saying the attack could be attributed to the Libyan National Army.
Regional Municipality east of Toronto in the Province of Ontario, Canada
Critics say the law would undermine the independence of the judiciary, and risks Poland's membership in the European Union.
public health emergency of international concern
office of the head of state of Afghanistan
site of the Canadian Parliament buildings, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries
urgent movement of people away from the threat or actual occurrence of a hazard
Supporters of Iraqi paramilitaries withdraw from the American embassy in Baghdad after being ordered to by the Popular Mobilization Forces, stating the "message has been heard".
aircraft configured specifically to transport cargo
Prime Minister Tom Thabane announces his forthcoming resignation after an arrest warrant is issued for his current wife, first lady Maesiah Thabane, who is wanted in connection for the 2017 murder of Thabane's estranged wife, Lipolelo Thabane.
act of withdrawing from an organization, union, military alliance or especially a political entity
passenger ship used for pleasure voyages
Singapore confirms its first case of new coronavirus, a 66-year-old Chinese man from Wuhan who was travelling with his family.
The Barakah nuclear power plant in the United Arab Emirates, the first commercial nuclear plant in the Arab world, is declared ready for operation after years of delays. It is expected to go online sometime during this quarter.
Kosovo Police arrest Ikballe Berisha Huduti, the founder of a now defunct Islamic organization called Kur'ani, in Pristina following an order from the prosecution after she was accused of inciting terrorist acts for social media comments against the United States over the death of Qasem Soleimani.
Midori Ward, Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
software that manages computer hardware resources
If approved, she will be the first female president in Greek history.
individual temporarily or permanently residing in a country other than that of their citizenship
In India, economic slowdown has adversely impacted employment generation in the country, as nearly 1,600,000 fewer jobs are projected to be created in FY20 compared to 8,970,000 fresh jobs in FY19.
series of military utility transport helicopters
German Chancellor Angela Merkel announces she will hold peace talks in Berlin to help end the Second Libyan Civil War. Both Russian President Vladimir Putin and Government of National Accord leader Fayez al-Sarraj express support for the peace initiative.
The European Union Withdrawal Agreement Bill passes the House of Lords and is now awaiting royal assent to become law, finalizing the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union on 31 January 2020.
international specialist banking and asset management group
One person is shot dead and three seriously wounded in a shooting near Parliament Hill in Ottawa. Police believe the shooting was targeted.
surgical procedures to alter sexual characteristics to match identified gender
president of the United States from 2017 to 2021
In a session boycotted by most Sunni Arab and Kurdish representatives, the Council of Representatives of Iraq accepts a resolution to expel U.S. troops from Iraq.
search for and provision of aid to people who are in distress or imminent danger
The United States Coast Guard searches for five missing crew members after a fishing vessel sinks near Kodiak, Alaska. Two other crew members are rescued.
city in Shoshone County, Idaho, United States
current long-term trend for global sea levels to rise mainly in response to climate change
diplomatic relations between Saudi Arabia and the United States
ground-launched missile designed to attack aerial targets
elements of the mass media that focus on delivering news
Iranian intervention in Iraq (2014–present)
West End of National Mall, Washington, D.C.
Western neologism to describe armed Islamic movements
county-level city of Yichang City in People's Republic of China
International police organization (founded 1923)
Gunmen kill 19 in Kogi State of Nigeria.
law that promotes or seeks to maintain market competition by regulating anti-competitive conduct by companies
The Russian government of Dmitry Medvedev's Second Cabinet resigns after President Vladimir Putin delivers the Presidential Address to the Federal Assembly, in which he proposed several amendments to the constitution. Putin accepts the resignation. Medvedev says the constitutional changes would "significantly change Russia's balance of power".
High winds and heavy snowfall impact the Midwest and mid-Atlantic states of the United States, with the heaviest snowfall recorded in Chicago, Cleveland and Detroit.
executive of the devolved Northern Ireland Assembly
would be required to leave the country—with a bill for a "very extraordinarily expensive" air base and also with sanctions that would "make Iranian sanctions look somewhat tame".
Turkish military intervention in the Second Libyan Civil War
four provinces of Canada on the Atlantic Ocean
Security forces block roads leading to intelligence buildings in Sudan as gunfire is heard in the capital Khartoum.
strait that connects the Arabian Sea with the Strait of Hormuz
The mortars struck the runway inside the base.
Armed men kill at least six Mayangna Indians and kidnap another ten in the Bosawás Biosphere Reserve, Nicaragua.
The Vatican appoints Francesca Di Giovanni undersecretary for multilateral affairs in the Secretariat of State, the first woman to hold a management position in this office.
The Nicolás Maduro government announces that Venezuela will sell some of its oil and gold to fund its petro cryptocurrency.
unincorporated territory of the United States of America
American online social media and social networking service
According to Twitter videos, hundreds of protesters in Tehran call for the resignation of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Date: 19 December 2019 – 6 March 2020 (2 months, 2 weeks and 2 days)
A leading group on the prevention and control of the outbreak is established, led by Chinese Premier Li Keqiang.
The U.S. bans Tanzanian official Paul Makonda from entering the U.S. for his announcement about a crackdown on Tanzanian homosexuals in Dar es Salaam in 2018, among other accusations.
governmental medical research institute with headquarters in Taipei, Taiwan
Lebanese engineer, academic and minister of higher education
The National Assembly of South Korea elects and sworns in Chung Sye-kyun as Prime Minister, succeeding Lee Nak-yeon.
American politician in Illinois (1950-2020)
head of state and of government of the Republic of Korea
city in Tooele County, Utah, United States
Islamist organization in Afghanistan (founded 1994)
David Kabua is elected President of the Marshall Islands by the national legislature. He succeeds Hilda Heine, who was seeking a second term, but lost in the first session vote.
Japan issues an arrest warrant for former Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn's wife Carole for allegedly lying during testimony.
A Harbin Y-12 light transport aircraft crashes near Haputale, Sri Lanka.
American retailer Pier 1 Imports announces it will close 450 stores and some distribution centers, and may soon file for bankruptcy.
Belgian artist; extramarital daughter of King Albert II of Belgium
Another arrest warrant was issued against Ghosn himself.
('occasion for war') is an act or event that provokes or is used to justify war
Consulate General of the United States, Wuhan
Iran begins Operation Martyr Soleimani, launching ballistic missiles at several United States Armed Forces facilities in Iraq, including Al Asad Airbase.
Due to heightened tensions, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe cancels his scheduled trips to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Oman, and convenes a National Security Council meeting, likely to discuss Iran's attack on U.S. forces based in Iraq.
The BBC cites reports saying the attack could be attributed to the Libyan National Army.
The secessionist Southern Transitional Council pulls out of committees working to implement a November agreement that would have placed them in the national cabinet and put their forces under government control.
This happens after the board of European Parliament recognized the former Vice President of Catalonia as a MEP since 3 July and was elected president of the Greens–European Free Alliance parliamentary group.
Parliament that exercises the legislative power of the Government of Catalonia
A South Korean transgender soldier says she will sue the armed forces after it discharged her. The soldier, Byun Hui-su, says she will take her claim "until the end, to the Supreme Court".
air service branch of the United States Armed Forces
Date: 16 January 2012 – present (11 years, 1 week and 4 days)
2018–2019 protests and radical change of government in Sudan
Land (federal state) in southwestern Germany
Mikhail Mishustin is appointed as new Prime Minister of Russia.
Salafi jihadist militant faction during the Syrian Civil War
representatives in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom
The Taal Volcano in southern Luzon, Philippines, spews an ash plume that measures approximately 10 to 15 kilometres (6.2 to 9.3 mi).
China's paramount leader Xi Jinping tells the World Health Organization he is confident about defeating the "devil virus".
An avalanche at the Squaw Valley Ski Resort in northern California, host site of the 1960 Winter Olympics, kills one person and seriously injures another.
United States Government agency dedicated to civil aviation matters
Insurgency in the Maghreb (2002–present)
He will form the first coalition government in the democratic era, with Podemos and its leader Pablo Iglesias Turrión as Second Deputy Prime Minister.
formal approval of a proposed law in monarchies
After his escape from Japan, Carlos Ghosn's Japanese lawyer Junichiro Hironaka and seven other members of his defense resign. Hironaka says Ghosn's escape was a "complete surprise".
disputed territory between China, India and Pakistan
Angry local mayors demand an inquiry, saying the emergency message about the ageing Pickering Nuclear Generating Station has caused unnecessary distress.
This comes after the United States unilaterally withdrew in 2018.
The NFL's Oakland Raiders officially relocate to Las Vegas, and are now known as the Las Vegas Raiders.
National Intelligence and Security Service
Seoul-based NK News reports that North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho has been replaced.
After his escape from Japan, Carlos Ghosn's Japanese lawyer Junichiro Hironaka and seven other members of his defense resign.
January 2020 North American storm complex
A Boko Haram female suicide bomber kills at least nine civilians in Kaiga-Kindjiria, western Chad. Two other civilians are injured.
An elderly woman dies of suffocation while leaving a Brisbane, Queensland-originated Qantas plane at Canberra Airport.
At a Friday sermon by Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, his first in eight years, he defends the Revolutionary Guards’ accidental killing of passengers onboard Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 and praises Operation Martyr Soleimani for giving a “slap on the face” to the United States. His sermon comes as public anger mounts against the government for their handling of Flight 752.
A 5.8 magnitude earthquake strikes Puerto Rico, causing small landslides, power outages, and severely cracking some homes.
International recognition of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
Spain, Portugal, France, Morocco, Gibraltar
highest federal executive body in the Russian Federation, headed by the Prime Minister
2020 edition of the Annual Grammy Awards
Executive of the 6th Northern Ireland Assembly
A historic blizzard strikes Atlantic Canada, with St. John's in Newfoundland worst affected – over 30 inches (76 cm) of snow fell during the day, breaking the city's all-time daily snowfall record. 21,000 homes are without power and one person is missing.
branch of the Salafi jihadist group IS, active in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula
Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit formally indicts Netanyahu on charges of bribery, fraud, and breach of trust in three cases of suspected corruption.
condition in which core temperature drops below the required temperature for normal metabolism and body functions
Visa Inc. purchases financial technology firm Plaid for US$5.3 billion, after it and Mastercard each invested US$250 million into the company last year.
Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airport
county seat of Escambia County, Florida, United States
U.S. political scandal that began in 2019
Anti-war protests organized by Act Now to Stop War and End Racism and Code Pink break out in cities across the United States following the killing of Qasem Soleimani.
Paraguayan President Mario Abdo Benítez is confirmed to have dengue fever amid a nationwide pandemic.
The Seattle metropolitan area becomes the first place in the United States to allow vote by smartphone, which they authorized for a board of supervisors election in King County, Washington on February 11.
bicameral national legislature of Somalia
More than 6,000 passengers are barred from disembarking a cruise ship docked at Civitavecchia, Lazio, Italy, after authorities expressed concern that two Chinese passengers have the coronavirus.
The hack was allegedly done months before the assassination of Jamal Khashoggi, who was employed at Bezos's newspaper The Washington Post and was a fierce critic of the Saudi government.
formally combined military forces of Taliban-ruled Afghanistan from 1997–2001
capital city of New South Wales, Australia
The governing Democratic Progressive Party retains its majority in the Yuan, albeit with fewer seats.
The rampage ranks among the country's worst mass killings.
Simonetta Sommaruga is sworn in as President of the Swiss Confederation for second time.
The total number of people under quarantine is now over 20 million people.
Former U.S. Representative John Delaney drops out of the U.S. presidential race.
In the Indian state of Maharashtra, two vehicles collide and plunge into a well, killing 26 people and injuring 32 others.
The Swedish Royal Court confirms that Princess Estelle of Sweden, second-in-line to the Swedish throne, is injured in a skiing accident in the Alps where the Crown Princess Family is on vacation.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announces the first U.S.
People in Pakistan protest in Karachi over the U.S. killing of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps general Qasem Soleimani.
legal representative of the state in criminal trials
Widespread snowfall and freezing rain across the Midwest leads to travel disruption. At Kansas City International Airport, a Delta Air Lines Airbus A319 passenger jet slides off the taxiway in icy conditions, while rare snowfall was recorded on the Texas Panhandle.
Police believe the shooting was targeted.
The Department of Health and Human Services declares the coronavirus a public health emergency in the United States.
A military plane crashes shortly after takeoff from an airport in Sudan's West Darfur, killing the 18 people on board.
Presidential Address to the Federal Assembly
Mitiga International Airport, the only functioning airport in Libya's capital Tripoli, closes and a flight from Tunisia is diverted after forces loyal to Khalifa Haftar fire rockets toward the airport.
Three Americans are confirmed to have been killed in the attack, a serviceman and two contractors.
person who rapes many times the same victim or else more than one victim over a long period of time
A second person is confirmed dead in the East Gippsland region of Victoria as thousands of people are evacuated from Mallacoota by sea. State premier Daniel Andrews has declared a state of disaster in six government areas. 17 people remain missing.
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps issues a statement warning regional countries not to allow the United States military to launch attacks on Iran from their territory or they "will be targeted".
The government of the Canadian province of Ontario apologizes for issuing a false alert about an incident at a nuclear plant near Toronto and blames a training exercise mistake.
Also 160 new members of Congress are installed for a new parliamentary period of four years.
The Spanish Central Electoral Bureau ceases in the position of deputy to Quim Torra, and therefore, also that of President of the Generalitat of Catalonia in compliance with the non-definitive conviction of the Catalan High Court of Justice. At the same time, withdraws immunity as MEP to jailed Oriol Junqueras that recognized the European Court of Justice on 19 December 2019.
Several people have died from hypothermia after heavy snowfall and high winds combined to bring historic blizzards over higher ground of mainland Spain. Local meteorologists have described Gloria as the worst storm to impact the region in 38 years.
Princess Estelle, Duchess of Östergötland
daughter of Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden, and Prince Daniel, Duke of Västergötland
building housing goods to be distributed to retailers, wholesalers, or consumers
Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei cuts ties with the government of disputed Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and closes Guatemala's embassy in Caracas.
Boeing 737 MAX groundings due to safety concerns, after two new airplanes crashed within five months
process of finding and identifying people in close contact with someone who is infected with a transmissible pathogen
Raphael Bostic, President of the Federal Reserve Bank in Atlanta, says in a speech that he, as a member of the Federal Reserve Board is inclined to keep interest rates at their present, very low, levels. Any evidence of overborrowing or volatility will have to be "systemic" for him to change his mind.
Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology
A stampede occurs during the funeral of Qasem Soleimani in his hometown of Kerman. Iranian state-affiliated media say at least 56 people are killed and 213 more are injured.
United States Central Command releases a CJTF-OIR statement announcing that it "has paused" operations against ISIL in order to concentrate on protecting their troops at bases in Iraq.
North Korean state media condemn Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe for his attempts to reform the pacifist Japanese constitution.
Elected deputies in Venezuela vote for a President of the National Assembly, who may be able to claim the nation's Presidency.
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists advances the Doomsday Clock to 100 seconds before midnight, citing the threats to human survival posed by nuclear proliferation, climate change and "cyber-based disinformation." This is the closest to midnight that the clock has been since the project began in 1947.
act of giving up or quitting an office or position
German network of concentration and extermination camps in occupied Poland during World War II
media under financial and/or editorial control of a government
The American-led coalition issues a statement saying that 11 U.S.
The New York Times releases a verified video obtained from an Iranian citizen showing the plane being struck by what appears to be a surface-to-air missile.
The death toll from the new coronavirus rises to 25 and 830 confirmed cases in China as four more Chinese cities, Huanggang, Ezhou, Chibi and Zhijiang are to be placed under quarantine. The total number of people under quarantine is now over 20 million people.
Lebanon forms a new government with former American University of Beirut professor Hassan Diab as its Prime Minister, ending a three-month deadlock. Protestors subsequently march on Parliament to protest the new government.
In a news conference, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says it's "too early to draw definitive conclusions" that the downing of the plane was an "act of war". Trudeau also condemns Iran's attack on U.S. bases in Iraq.
24th national census of the United States, taken on April 1, 2020
One person is shot dead and three seriously wounded in a shooting near Parliament Hill in Ottawa.
Prosecutor General of Tajikistan, Yusuf Rakhmon, announces the arrest of 113 alleged members of the Muslim Brotherhood.
At least 21 people are killed and over 19,000 displaced as flash floods hit the Indonesian capital of Jakarta.
The Gambling Commission says the ban will come into effect on April 14.
ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019
The U.S. State Department rejects an extradition request from the Home Office for the unlawful killing of Harry Dunn, describing it as "highly inappropriate" and "establish[ing] an extraordinarily troubling precedent".
The United States expels 21 Royal Saudi Air Force cadets.
Indian national administrative subdivisions
2020 gun rights rally in Richmond, Virginia
The Japanese government condemns Ghosn's escape as "unjustifiable".
A sinkhole swallows a bus and several pedestrians on a busy street in Xining, China, killing six people and leaving 16 others injured. According to state media, the sinkhole stretches nearly 10m (32 feet) in diameter.
These strict regulations come after a measles outbreak ravaged Samoa last month.
Iranian state-affiliated media say at least 56 people are killed and 213 more are injured.
At least 16 inmates are killed and five others injured in a riot that breaks out at a prison in Zacatecas, Mexico.
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps says Soleimani and Muhandis were "martyred" in an attack by U.S. helicopters. Anonymous security sources cited by AFP say the attack killed at least eight people. The Iraqi military says three rockets hit the airport and two cars exploded.
A South Korean transgender soldier says she will sue the armed forces after it discharged her.
American multinational technology and consulting corporation
group of reefs, islets, atolls, cays and islands
The United States orders the evacuation of the Consulate General of the United States, Wuhan employees and U.S.
range of organizations associated with motor vehicles, such as automobiles, trucks and motorcycles
Widespread flooding and landslides in Brazil cause 50 deaths and force thousands to evacuate their homes.
Australian politician, Premier of Victoria
National Security Advisor (United States)
Raphael Bostic, President of the Federal Reserve Bank in Atlanta, says in a speech that he, as a member of the Federal Reserve Board is inclined to keep interest rates at their present, very low, levels.
The European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Act 2020 is given royal assent in the United Kingdom, formally making the bill law.
Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio resigns as leader of the ruling Five Star Movement, as polls show the party losing support ahead of a regional election in Emilia-Romagna next Sunday.
region in France where the capital Paris is located
The couple will keep their titles as Duke and Duchess of Sussex.
unicameral body that assumes legislative power in Peru
Local meteorologists have described Gloria as the worst storm to impact the region in 38 years.
government consisting of two or more parties
Ukrainian Prime Minister Oleksiy Honcharuk submits his resignation after an audio clip of him allegedly criticizing President Volodymyr Zelensky’s economic policies was leaked earlier this week. Zelensky subsequently announces that Honcharuk is allowed to keep his position.
The secretary of the Iranian Expediency Discernment Council, former Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commander Mohsen Rezaee, tweets that "vigorous revenge against America" will be pursued following the assassination of Soleimani.
city in Taiwan, and most populous municipality of Taiwan
A man is sentenced to death for murdering a doctor in Beijing on New Year's Eve. The murder was the latest in a string of attacks on medical staff in China by angry relatives blaming them for the lack of medical resources and services.
head of government for the state of New South Wales, Australia
terror attack in Pensacola, Florida on December 6, 2019
The soldier underwent surgery overseas and is stationed in Gyeonggi Province.
The preliminary agreement was signed by GNA head Fayez al-Sarraj, while Haftar plans to sign it the next day.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announces the first U.S. case of novel coronavirus in Snohomish County, Washington.
A three-day period of national mourning is declared.
No group immediately took responsibility.
primary judicial organ of the United Nations
A military source cited by Syrian state news agency SANA says the Jabhat al-Nusra terrorists used various weapons such as car bombs, under an "intensive fire cover".
The 2020 United States Census begins, with Census Bureau director Steven Dillingham visiting Toksook Bay, Alaska to meet with indigenous leaders and distribute census materials to residents.
special collectivity of France in the southwest Pacific Ocean
multi-purpose arena in Los Angeles, California, United States
aerospace and defense manufacturer in the United States
In Farrukhabad, Uttar Pradesh, India, a man is shot and killed by police after taking more than 20 children as hostages for more than 10 hours.
More than an hour later, Macaire is released from custody.
uncontrolled fire of natural, accidental or criminal origin, which spreads over a natural or agricultural area covered by combustible vegetation
central business district, central area, and neighborhood of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
National Development and Reform Commission
October 2020 parliamentary election in New Zealand
The Gambia warns ousted leader Yahya Jammeh not to return to the country, saying his safety cannot be guaranteed if he returns without permission, a government spokesman says. A spokesman for Jammeh's party says he could arrive back at any time from exile in Equatorial Guinea.
Police shoot dead a Turkish man who tried to attack officers with a knife in the city of Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Police say a search of the man's flat later did not suggest a terrorist motive and that he was mentally ill.
diplomatic relations between the Republic of Iraq and the United States of America
Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu announces appointments at several ministries he had to drop following his indictment for corruption. David Bitan, who is under suspicion of accepting bribes, is appointed as Minister of Agriculture.
The trial of Satoshi Uematsu, a young Japanese man who admitted to stabbing 19 disabled people to death at a care center in 2016, begins. The rampage ranks among the country's worst mass killings. His lawyer is expected to enter a plea of not guilty on grounds of diminished capacity. Uematsu will be handed a sentence on March 16 and could receive the death penalty.
President of Taiwan (R.O.C. authorities) and Chairperson of the Democratic Progressive Party
head of state and head of government of Guatemala
police force or unit within a police force whose duties and responsibilities are significantly different from other forces in the same country or from other police in the same force
mainline tolled highway in Pennsylvania running from Ohio to New Jersey
area of the continent of Africa that lies south of the Sahara Desert
false or misleading information presented as news
right of individuals to travel from place to place, that imply freedom of no movement, that is freedom to choose residence. The movement also include going across a frontier.
Indonesia agrees to increase its imports of buffalo meat, automobiles, and sugar from India in exchange for an increase in imports of Indonesian-produced palm oil, amid a growing trade dispute between India and Malaysia.
List of presidents of the Marshall Islands
2020 Baghdad International Airport airstrike
total value of a public company's outstanding shares
process of killing newly hatched poultry for which the industry has no use
Date: 26 July 2009 – present (13 years, 6 months and 1 day)
In response to Iranian missile attacks on U.S. forces, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) bans all U.S. commercial flights from operating in airspace over Iraq, Iran, the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman.
General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and 3rd Supreme leader of North Korea
The Tunisian Parliament votes 134 to 72 to reject a cabinet proposed by Prime Minister-designate Habib Jemli.
Gold Fields Ltd, a South African mining company, has hired an investment bank, RBC Capital Markets, to help it sell 30% of its gold project in northern Chile.
American politician and First Lady of the United States (1993-2001)
partially recognised state in the western Maghreb
combination of a tractor unit and one or more semi-trailers to carry freight
Tesla, Inc. reports a stock market capitalization of US$88 billion in response to strong performances in the third- and fourth-quarter, surpassing General Motors and Ford Motor Company to become the most valuable automobile company in North America.
An explosion at a chemical plant in Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain, kills two members of staff and another man 3 km away.
The locals blame Myanmar's armed forces.
Birmingham Yardley (UK Parliament constituency)
Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1918 onwards
Chinese economist and politician (born 1952)
for his announcement about a crackdown on Tanzanian homosexuals in Dar es Salaam in 2018, among other accusations.
airbase located in Al Anbar Governorate, Iraq
At a Friday sermon by Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, his first in eight years, he defends the Revolutionary Guards’ accidental killing of passengers onboard Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 and praises Operation Martyr Soleimani for giving a “slap on the face” to the United States.
2020 United States Air Force E-11A crash
An al-Shabaab car bombing kills four people and injures at least 20 others near Afgooye, Lower Shabelle, Somalia.
illegal sign stealing in baseball by the Houston Astros in 2017 and 2018
city in Western Asia, claimed by both Israel and the Palestinian Authority as its capital
American rapper Jay-Z and his philanthropic organization Team Roc file a federal lawsuit against Mississippi Department of Corrections commissioner Pelicia E.
Six travelers from China are denied entry and turned away from Samoa following the island country's introduction of a ban on all travelers from China. They later arrive in Fiji, where they are quarantined with no symptoms. These strict regulations come after a measles outbreak ravaged Samoa last month.
geopolitical region encompassing Egypt and most of Western Asia, including Iran
The World Health Organization declares a "global emergency", a rare designation that helps the international agency mobilize financial and political support to contain the pandemic.
The soldier, Byun Hui-su, says she will take her claim "until the end, to the Supreme Court".
the enterprise of raising or harvesting fish or other aquatic organisms or more commonly, the site where such enterprise takes place
organized force, possibly armed, other than the regular military
A missile strike hits a convoy near Baghdad International Airport in Iraq, killing Iranian Major general Qasem Soleimani and Popular Mobilization Forces leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis.
After Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau suggests the plane was downed by an Iranian missile, Iranian authorities reject this theory.
In a meeting at the White House, U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese Vice Premier Liu He sign "Phase 1" of a new trade deal in which the U.S. will relax some of the tariffs imposed on Chinese imports while China agreed to buy more American products. Both sides also agree to not impose new tariffs.
An unpublished manuscript of former National Security Advisor John Bolton's book The Room Where It Happened reveals that President Donald Trump told him that unfreezing military aid to Ukraine was conditional on their performing investigations into Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton.
human settlement in Ahrntal, South Tyrol, Trentino-South Tyrol, Italy
A case of Chinese coronavirus is also confirmed in South Korea.
Royal park on the eastern side of Windsor Castle
The Lebanese government votes 49–13, with eight abstentions and the rest boycotting, to pass the government budget in the midst of escalating protests. The budget projects a deficit of six percent, with no new taxes and most of the cuts going to the state utility company Électricité du Liban. Economists criticize the bill for failing to address the issues that caused the protests.
The death toll of an attack that occurred on 22 December 2019 rises from 14 to 50 after more bodies are found in Lake Chad.
Japan says it will tighten immigration measures after the escape of former Chairman of Nissan Carlos Ghosn from the country.
The Houthis release six Saudi prisoners as part of a United Nations-mediated deal struck last month. All six arrive in Riyadh later the same day.
American rapper, Eminem, released his eleventh studio album “Music To Be Murdered By”.
Hong Kong Other cities worldwide in solidarity
The council claims it was in response to an outbreak of violence in the Shabwah Governorate allegedly caused by their rival, the Al-Islah party.
bilateral relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia
After a year of political deadlock, incumbent Prime Minister of Spain Pedro Sánchez is sworn in thanks to the support of left-wing parties and regional nationalists.
Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda
industrial disaster in Houston, Texas in 2020
metropolitan area in Washington State, United States
After the United States kills Iranian General Qasem Soleimani in the 2020 Baghdad International Airport airstrike, Iran's parliament votes to exit the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action nuclear deal with world powers. This comes after the United States unilaterally withdrew in 2018.
China's National Development and Reform Commission announces that single-use plastic bags will be banned in major cities by the end of the year, and then nationwide by 2022.
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang visits Wuhan, the epicenter of the pandemic, to direct epidemic prevention.
official residence and workplace of the President of the United States
Malaysia ships back 3,737 metric tonnes of illegally-imported plastic waste to 13 countries as Environment Minister Yeo Bee Yin declares that the country "[will] not become the garbage dump of the world".
The Libyan National Army says it has captured Sirte and the Al-Qardabiya airbase.
India tightened imports from Malaysia last week in response to Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's criticisms of the revocation of Jammu and Kashmir's special status and the Citizenship Amendment Act.
Albert II of Belgium acknowledges being Delphine Boël's biological father.
2020 coronavirus pandemic in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China
type of medical ward designed to prevent the spread of infection
Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida, United States
Two United States troops are killed and another two troops injured by a roadside bomb.
Grabar-Kitarović pledges a "civilised transfer" of power.
bans Tanzanian official Paul Makonda from entering the U.S.
Six people are killed and two others wounded when a man opens fire on his family members in Rot am See, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The mass shooter's parents are among the dead.
United Kingdom government ministerial department
lower house of the United States Congress
airliner series by Airbus, shortened version of the A320 family
purchases financial technology firm Plaid for US$5.3 billion, after it and Mastercard each invested US$250 million into the company last year.
British transatlantic passenger liner, launched and foundered in 1912
The raid comes after Muqtada al-Sadr ordered his followers to withdraw.
financial technology company specializing in bank login verification
Anonymous security sources cited by AFP say the attack killed at least eight people.
Malaysian human rights advocacy group Lawyers for Liberty sues Singaporean Home Minister K. Shanmugam in Malaysian High Court after his office invoked the country's anti-fake news law to censor the group's criticisms of the death penalty there.
software that is intentionally hostile, intrusive, or damaging to a computer or network
The United States expels 21 Royal Saudi Air Force cadets. Amid an investigation into the Saudi Arabian military following the attack on Naval Air Station Pensacola in Florida, the cadets were found to have jihadist material and child pornography on their phones. However, none of the cadets are believed to have assisted the gunman in the attack.
Date: 11 April 2002 – present (20 years, 9 months)
Investigations involving Benjamin Netanyahu
fire that degrades the performance of an enemy force below the level needed to fulfill its mission. Suppression is usually only effective for the duration of the fire
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps says Soleimani and Muhandis were "martyred" in an attack by U.S.
Five men, two women and two children are now presumed dead.
Alphabet Inc., parent company of Google, becomes the fourth American company to hit a stock market capitalization of US$1 trillion.
United Kingdom government cabinet minister heading the Foreign and Commonwealth Office
At least 30 people are killed in Gamboru, Borno State, in northeastern Nigeria after an improvised explosive device detonates at a market on a bridge.
Facebook agrees to pay US$550 million to settle a class action lawsuit launched in 2015 over its mass harvesting of biometric data in the state of Illinois.
industrial process plant that manufactures chemicals
Arvind Krishna is appointed chief executive officer of IBM, taking over from Ginni Rometty.
This will be the first time the Green Party is part of a ruling government in the country.
president of the United States since 2021
The nominees for this year’s Academy Awards are announced. Joker receives 11 nominations, including for Best Picture and Best Director, the most out of those nominated.
American rapper and businessman from New York (born 1969)
proposed amendment to the constitution of the United States of America
international airport serving Taipei, Taiwan
Ukraine demands the United Kingdom's National Counter Terrorism Policing Network remove the country's Tryzub coat of arms from a guide on hate symbols associated with white supremacy and Neo-Nazism.
Former Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau Umaro Sissoco Embaló is declared the winner of the country's presidential elections.
At the time of his death he was the longest serving head of state in the Middle East and Arab world.
The driver was reportedly drunk and is charged with murder.
The Philippines military announce that they have launched search and rescue operations for five Indonesian fishermen kidnapped by militants belonging to the ISIL-linked Abu Sayyaf group in Malaysian waters last week in Sabah.
The draft law on making amendments to 14 articles of the Constitution of Russia was presented by the working group in only five days. The same day Russian President Vladimir Putin formally submitted a bill on amendments to the lower house of parliament.
The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology designates a "level 4" alert level, indicating "an imminent hazardous eruption".
Train operating company in Northern England
Popular Mobilization Forces spokesman Ahmed Al Asadi confirms the death of Quds Force Commander Qasem Soleimani in an airstrike, blaming Israel and the United States.
Heavy rainfall leads to widespread flooding, while high winds and coastal storm surges cause further damage.
Indonesia had recalled its ambassador to China two days earlier after a Chinese coastguard vessel trespassed in its waters.
city in and county seat of Honolulu County, Hawaii, United States, that is also the capital city of Hawaii
Date: First eruption January 12–22, 2020
Tonga pays an outstanding fee in order not to lose its voting rights at the United Nations General Assembly.
Polish Supreme Court Disciplinary Chamber law
legislation that defines conduct standards for the majority of Polish judiciary
sovereign state in northern South America
tropical disease caused by the dengue virus, transmitted by mosquito
American automotive, energy storage and solar power company
The incident, which took place amid the 2019–20 Persian Gulf crisis, is under investigation.
unicameral national legislature of Israel
Torra, in a special press conference after the meeting of Catalan cabinet, calls the decision "a coup d'état against Catalan institutions" while an extraordinary session of the Catalan Parliament is summoned for 4 January.
Salafi jihadist militant Sunni Islamist group
racist belief that white people are superior to people of other racial backgrounds
A car bomb kills four Turkish soldiers when a vehicle explodes at a checkpoint during a road check in northeastern Syria.
According to Tasnim News Agency he was arrested "on suspicion of organising, provoking and directing radical actions".
when a person is confined by the authorities to a certain residence
The National Health Commission of China reports a third death from coronavirus, the number of infected having increased by 136 during the weekend.
Afghan presidential spokesman Sediq Sediqqi says that the government rejects the proposed "reduction in violence" by the Taliban as an "ambiguous term with no legal or military parameters".
Tunisian politician, academic and jurist
time of human offspring development in mother's body
Scientists announce through the journal Nature the discovery of a repeating fast radio burst known as FRB 180916 coming from a nearby spiral galaxy around 500 million light years from Earth. It is the second repeating FRB to have been localized.
political unionist party of Northern Ireland
sabotage of four commercial ships in the Gulf of Oman
Tens of thousands of mourners, among them Iraqi prime minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi, attend a funeral procession in Baghdad, Iraq, for those killed in a United States airstrike—among them Qasem Soleimani, the head of Iran's Quds Force and at least five others.
State broadcasters label Parra as the new speaker of parliament.
effects of global warming and climate change
independence referendum in Catalonia, 1 October 2017
American multinational technology corporation
payment card issued to users as a system of payment
The U.S. Department of Defense had initially assessed that there had been no injuries.
Department for Exiting the European Union
rapid flooding of low-lying areas, often caused by heavy rain associated with a severe thunderstorm, hurricane, tropical storm, or melt water from ice or snow
New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian declares a state of emergency for seven days starting on January 3.
Sinaga was convicted of a total of 159 sex offences, and is said to be Britain's most prolific serial rapist.
largest city in California, United States of America
political and economic union of 27 European states
Rwanda last September signed an agreement with the United Nations to take in asylum seekers from Libya while their status was being processed, to cut down on human trafficking in the Mediterranean.
The case sparks a national debate on LGBT issues in the military, which punishes sex between two males with up to two years imprisonment.
transcontinental country straddling Western Asia and Southeastern Europe
Thousands of people protest in Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney, calling for the resignation or ouster of Prime Minister Scott Morrison, accusing him of negligence over the Australian bushfires.
In Indian-administered Kashmir, at least 10 are killed.
The couple will keep their titles as Duke and Duchess of Sussex. While Prince Harry will lose all his military appointments, he will remain a prince.
Arriva says it "understood the government's decision", but blames problems on "external factors" such as rail infrastructure.
The United Kingdom bans the use of credit cards to make bets both for online and offline gambling, including the purchase of lottery tickets. The only exception to the ban is the purchase of lottery tickets in face-to-face transactions. The Gambling Commission says the ban will come into effect on April 14.
General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party
head of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and de facto leader of China
bilateral relations between Malaysia and Singapore
A Boeing 737-800 crashes while taking off from Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airport, killing all 176 people on board.
rescuer trained to extinguish hazardous fires
aircraft class designed or used for military duties
Five soldiers are killed after their vehicle hit a roadside bomb while traveling in the Alatona region.
All four people on board, members of the Sri Lanka Air Force, are killed.
second most important position in Saudi Arabia, second to the King
Hironaka says Ghosn's escape was a "complete surprise".
The International Court of Justice orders Myanmar to protect the Rohingya population from atrocities. The Gambia had brought a lawsuit before the court over charges of genocide.
Incidents involving multiple victims of firearms, not including robbery or familicide
The Gambia had brought a lawsuit before the court over charges of genocide.
Company that oversees Arriva's British train operations
Slovenian Prime Minister Marjan Šarec submits his resignation after losing the parliamentary support of The Left party in November and calls for snap elections.
Police in the Solomon Islands launch search operations to find nine people from a capsized boat near Isabel Province. Five men, two women and two children were on board.
lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender persons
The armed forces deny responsibility and blame the Arakan Army, and say the artillery hit the village amid ethnic clashes.
The Turkish Grand National Assembly votes 325–184 to send troops to help the internationally-recognized Government of National Accord in Libya.
Constitutional monarchy which governs Japan
The Health Commission in the central Chinese province of Hubei say there are 1,291 new confirmed cases of novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) and 24 more deaths, bringing the total death toll to 106 people.
The death toll from the attack on Niger's armed forces on Thursday rises to over 89 Niger soldiers.
Lebanese justice minister says he has received an arrest warrant from Interpol against former Chairman of Nissan, Carlos Ghosn, who escaped house arrest in Japan and fled to Lebanon days ago.
Algeria announces it will host a meeting with foreign ministers from six North and sub-Saharan African nations, all of whom share a border with Libya, following the Berlin peace summit to help strengthen support for a tentative peace deal to end the Second Libyan Civil War.
Tonga was among seven countries suspended last week for not paying their assessed contributions.
After a standoff, police in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia shoot and kill a hostage taker who had taken three hostages with a homemade gun.
Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party
24-member leading body of the Chinese Communist Party
Member of the British royal family and former actress
Eighty military personnel are killed by ballistic missiles and drone strikes in an attack reportedly carried out by the Houthis against a military camp in the Yemeni city of Ma'rib, according to Saudi state TV.
diplomatic relations between the People's Republic of China and the Republic of Indonesia
grave containing multiple number of human corpses, usually buried anonymously
Indian American business executive and CEO of IBM
Following a deal brokered by the British and Irish governments, the Northern Ireland Executive is restored with Democratic Unionist Party leader Arlene Foster as First Minister and Sinn Féin deputy leader Michelle O'Neill as deputy First Minister, ending three years of political deadlock. The previous government had collapsed in 2017 as the result of a renewable energy scandal involving Foster.
missile that follows a sub-orbital ballistic flightpath
land force branch of the Syrian Armed Forces
1984 transport aircraft family by Harbin
Microsoft officially ends support for the Windows 7 operating system.
Uematsu will be handed a sentence on March 16 and could receive the death penalty.
The Syrian Army, backed by Russian Air Force support, enters the largely deserted city of Ma'arrat al-Nu'man in the northern Idlib Governorate.
It had long quarreled with Hyundai's management, demanding more generous dividend pay-outs.
practice of evicting demons or other spiritual entities from a person or an area
January 2019 Lincoln Memorial confrontation
transferral of private assets to public ownership by a national government
Branch of the Islamic State operating in Afghanistan and Pakistan
In the early hours of the morning, a car crashes into a group of German tourists in Luttach, Italy, killing six people and injuring 11 others.
person who has been elected to serve as a popular representative in the European Parliament
Austria's left-wing Green Party agrees to form a coalition with the ruling right-wing People's Party.
Prince Harry and his wife Meghan announce their plan to "step back as 'senior' members" of the British royal family. Buckingham Palace says discussions on the intended new role are "at an early stage".
customs service of the United States since 2003
local time on January 23, and all public transport in the city is suspended.
The secessionist Southern Transitional Council pulls out of committees working to implement a November agreement that would have placed them in the national cabinet and put their forces under government control. The council claims it was in response to an outbreak of violence in the Shabwah Governorate allegedly caused by their rival, the Al-Islah party.
Marshallese politician and government minister
The death toll from the drone and missile attack on a mosque in a military training camp in Ma'rib, Yemen, has risen to 116.
Citizens of Comoros cast their votes in the country's latest legislative election which is boycotted by opposition parties.
major city in Greater Manchester, England, UK
The Taliban kills 23 security force members in three separate attacks in three different Afghani provinces.
higher education institution operated by or for the military
The United States orders the evacuation of the Consulate General of the United States, Wuhan employees and U.S. citizens in the city.
sweet-tasting, water soluble carbohydrates
replacement prayer for Dhuhr on Fridays when performed in a mosque in congregation
United States Department of Homeland Security
New records for the highest recorded temperature are set in Greater Sydney (48.9 °C (120.0 °F) at Penrith) and Canberra (44 °C (111 °F)).
At Kansas City International Airport, a Delta Air Lines Airbus A319 passenger jet slides off the taxiway in icy conditions, while rare snowfall was recorded on the Texas Panhandle.
Far-right politics in the United Kingdom
British political parties with fascist and racist policies
extratropical cyclone which caused severe flooding in eastern Spain in early 2020
A 16-year-old boy, identified as Colin Haynie, shoots his parents and three younger siblings in their home in Grantsville, Utah, killing all but his father, who then apprehended him at the scene. The familicide was the deadliest mass shooting in Utah in 13 years.
Iraqi cleric and Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani condemns both the United States and Iran over the escalation of conflict in Iraq, saying it shows blatant disregard for Iraqi sovereignty and the suffering of the Iraqi people.
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
After U.S. President Donald Trump sends birthday wishes to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, North Korea state media says that "although Chairman Kim Jong-un has good personal feelings about President Trump, they are, in the true sense of the word, 'personal'", and that it is not enough to resume denuclearization talks.
municipality of the Philippines in the province of Batangas
Administrative region of the Philippines
Catholic Cardinal Philippe Barbarin is acquitted by an appellate court of having covered up allegations of child sexual abuse by a former priest.
The United Kingdom and United States governments announce they have agreed to protect the wreckage of the RMS Titanic. The agreement, signed by the British government in 2003, has come into effect after being ratified by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. An official also says the UK will work with Canada and France to bring "even more protection" to the wreckage.
Nuclear power station in Pickering, Ontario
daily broadsheet newspaper in Washington, D.C.
police agency of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
A court in Cairo, Egypt, sentences 37 people to prison terms, including eight to life imprisonment for supporting or joining Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant affiliate in the Sinai Province.
President of the Generalitat of Catalonia
National legislature of the Marshall Islands
UK statutory authority concerned with the regulation of gambling
lower house of Federal Assembly of Russia
Representatives of Libya's Government of National Accord (GNA) and General Khalifa Haftar's rival Libyan National Army (LNA) reach a ceasefire agreement after talks in Moscow between warring factions in Libya, also attended by Russian and Turkish officials.
combustible fuel containing hydrocarbons formed by natural processes such as anaerobic decomposition of buried dead organisms, examples being coal, petroleum and natural gas
A vehicle pile-up involving multiple semi-trucks and a tour bus on the Pennsylvania Turnpike in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, U.S.
type of computer program that, when executed, replicates itself by modifying other computer programs and inserting its own code
Date: 15 November 2019 – 19 November 2019 (4 days, main phase) Spillover clashes lasted until 16 July 2020
private gardens within the grounds of the Home Park, adjoining Windsor Castle in Berkshire
A man is arrested for a series of 40 rapes in the Miami, Florida, United States area in the 1980s.
The bodies of seven people are found in a mass grave in the indigenous Ngäbe-Buglé region of Panama.
American-led intervention in Iraq (2014–2021)
multi-national campaign beginning in June 2014 to rid Iraq of ISIL influence and deliver humanitarian aid to Iraqi minority religious and ethnic groups
aviation occurrence that affects or could affect the safety of operation
Palau becomes the first country in the world to ban sun cream that is harmful to corals and sea life.
The World Bank delays its decision on granting a US$500 million loan to Tanzania, in response to pressure from activist groups over the country’s policy of banning pregnant students from attending state schools.
family consisting of close relatives of the monarch of the United Kingdom
President Donald Trump announces a close of travel from China of non U.S.
Israel's official memorial to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust
aircraft class designed to attack ground targets with lift provided by a powered rotor
CNN settles a defamation lawsuit for an undisclosed amount.
Executive of the 5th Northern Ireland Assembly
executive department of the U.S. federal government
Police detain a gay couple in Nouakchott after a video purportedly of them marrying in a secret location emerges, in what is considered to be the first major prosecution of its kind in recent years.
upper house in the Parliament of the United Kingdom
The bodies of seven people are found in a mass grave in the indigenous Ngäbe-Buglé region of Panama. Authorities believe a religious sect performed an exorcism on the victims. Police rescued 15 people who had suffered bodily injuries.
A small plane crashes shortly after takeoff from Corona Municipal Airport in California, killing all four on board.
The British government announces that rail firm Northern will be nationalized following public outcry over Arriva UK Trains handling of the firm.
European Union Withdrawal Agreement Bill
Former U.S. Representative John Delaney drops out of the U.S.
Six people are killed and two others wounded when a man opens fire on his family members in Rot am See, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
current rise in Earth's average temperature and related large-scale shifts in weather patterns
Both Russian President Vladimir Putin and Government of National Accord leader Fayez al-Sarraj express support for the peace initiative.
national crime information for the People's Republic of China
act in which an individual kills one or more other persons as well as oneself
Ukrainian Prime Minister Oleksiy Honcharuk submits his resignation after an audio clip of him allegedly criticizing President Volodymyr Zelensky’s economic policies was leaked earlier this week.
Former Director of the National Intelligence and Security Service Salah Gosh is accused of orchestrating the mutiny, which left two troops dead.
impact of the COVID-19 pandemic by topic
Homeland security warns of potential attacks from Iranian backed militias or any other potential threat. Police been put on high alert due to such threats.
Elliott Management, a prominent hedge fund, has sold all its shares in the Hyundai Motor Group of South Korea.
symbol which represents the likelihood of a man-made global catastrophe
The secretary of the Iranian Expediency Discernment Council, former Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commander Mohsen Rezaee, tweets that "vigorous revenge against America" will be pursued following the assassination of Soleimani. Iranian state television cuts all broadcasts, replacing them with prayers for Soleimani.
systematic destruction of all or a significant part of a racial, ethnic, religious or national group
Iranian civil aviation chief says he is "certain" the plane was not hit by a missile, still asserting the cause was "mechanical failure".
upper house of the United States Congress
governing body of the Russian Armed Forces
Two United States troops are killed and another two troops injured by a roadside bomb. The Taliban later claim responsibility.
French Agriculture Minister Didier Guillaume announces that the culling of unwanted male chicks will be outlawed by the end of 2021, becoming one of the first countries to initiate such a ban.
presence of dangerous substances in the atmosphere
Iranian state television cuts all broadcasts, replacing them with prayers for Soleimani.
city in and county seat of King County, Washington, United States
largest municipality in the U.S. state of Missouri
Despite trying to enter and vote, self-declared interim president Juan Guaidó is denied entry to the Assembly.
bilateral relations between Spain and Morocco
type of container made of thin, flexible, plastic film, nonwoven fabric, or plastic textile
federal state, capital and largest city of Germany
He had been diagnosed three years earlier but had kept details secret until his family officially announced his death on January 10, 2020.
personal computer operating system by Microsoft
Germany confirms its first case of novel coronavirus in the state of Bavaria.
unlawful killing of a human with malice aforethought
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announces he will seek immunity from his corruption cases.
Police rescued 15 people who had suffered bodily injuries.
former dictator and 10th President of Pakistan
A C-130 water bomber crashes in southern New South Wales, Australia, while helping control a bushfire.
The budget projects a deficit of six percent, with no new taxes and most of the cuts going to the state utility company Électricité du Liban.
Chief director of Executive ministries in South Korea under order of the President
ongoing multi-sided civil war in Syria since 2011
Hall and Mississippi State Penitentiary superintendent Marshal Turner over the abusive and neglectful treatment of their prisoners, which they claim has led to the deaths of at least three people.
Spanish government department responsible for health care, social security and consumers
David Bitan, who is under suspicion of accepting bribes, is appointed as Minister of Agriculture.
In the northern province of Balkh, local officials say that three women and four children were killed.
As the amendment nonetheless now has enough states for it to be fully adopted, legal scholars are divided on whether this means the Constitution of the United States has been amended.
continent on the Earth's northwestern quadrant, spanning from the Arctic Archipelago to the Panama Isthmus
U.S. president Donald Trump vows to target 52 sites significant to Iranians and Iranian culture if Iran "strikes any Americans or American assets."
high-energy astrophysical phenomenon manifested as a transient radio pulse lasting only a few milliseconds
Ministry of Foreign Affairs (North Korea)
runs the diplomatic relations of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (a.k.a. North Korea) with other countries
The company was embroiled in a bribery scandal there that resulted in the resignation of Namibian Fisheries Minister Bernhardt Esau and Justice Minister Sacky Shanghala, as well as the arrest of two employees of South African banking corporation Investec.
Most of the seats lost are taken by third parties instead of the KMT.
2020 Iranian attack on U.S. forces in Iraq
Angry locals later beat the hostage-taker's widow to death.
Incumbent pro-independence President Tsai Ing-wen defeats anti-independence challenger Han Kuo-yu in a landslide victory by more than 20%.
semi-permanent facility for the lodging of an army
Author and self-help guru Marianne Williamson drops out of the U.S.
On Friday, the Taliban proposed a ten-day truce and to hold follow-up discussions with Afghan government officials.
form of team game played with an oval ball on a field marked out as a gridiron
A UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter carrying 13 people crashes in New Taipei, Taiwan. Eight people are killed, including the Chief of the General Staff Shen Yi-ming, the head of the Republic of China Armed Forces.
The United States Coast Guard searches for five missing crew members after a fishing vessel sinks near Kodiak, Alaska.
armed forces under the control of Khalifa Haftar mostly in the East of Libya
cabinet that exercises executive authority in Ireland
capital and most populous city of Russia
lower house of the Virginia General Assembly
official currency of the United Kingdom and other territories
inalienable fundamental rights to which a person is inherently entitled
The fifth-ever case of Brazilian hemorrhagic fever, caused by the Sabiá virus, is reported in São Paulo, Brazil.
Houston Astros general manager Jeff Luhnow and manager A. J. Hinch are suspended by Major League Baseball for the entire 2020 season after the league concludes its investigation into the team's illegal use of technology to steal signs during the team's championship 2017 season. They are also fired by the organization.
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis nominates Council of State president Aikaterini Sakellaropoulou to be President of Greece. If approved, she will be the first female president in Greek history.
The foreign ministries of Spain and Morocco announce they will hold talks to resolve a dispute over territorial water rights in the North Atlantic, caused by the Moroccan parliament passing two laws that extended its claims to the coast of Western Sahara earlier this week. Spain expressed concerns that these laws would encroach on its claims near the Canary Islands.
New Jersey Senator Cory Booker drops out of the U.S.
ISIL claims responsibility for the attack in Chinagodrar, Tillabéri Region, Niger, that killed at least 89 Nigerien soldiers.
A court in the United Kingdom sentences 36-year-old Indonesian national Reynhard Sinaga to life imprisonment for sexually assaulting at least 48 young men in Manchester. Sinaga was convicted of a total of 159 sex offences, and is said to be Britain's most prolific serial rapist.
federal defense forces of Germany and their civil administration and procurement authorities
List of prime ministers of Guinea-Bissau
Widespread snowfall and freezing rain across the Midwest leads to travel disruption.
act of mass impulse among herd of animals or a crowd of people
The Sudanese Armed Forces says it has quelled a mutiny by soldiers loyal to ousted President Omar al-Bashir in the capital Khartoum.
Both sides also agree to not impose new tariffs.
capital city and smallest province of Indonesia
The ban comes into effect immediately after an announcement by President Thomas Remengesau Jr.
security and rescue military service branch for U.S. waters
The attendees in the video were also detained.
A 16-year-old boy, identified as Colin Haynie, shoots his parents and three younger siblings in their home in Grantsville, Utah, killing all but his father, who then apprehended him at the scene.
63 militants are also killed in the ensuing shootout.
state prison in Sunflower County, Mississippi, United States
American music award for excellent songwriting
In a landmark case, the South Korean military is set to decide on the first transgender soldier's possible discharge. The soldier underwent surgery overseas and is stationed in Gyeonggi Province. The case sparks a national debate on LGBT issues in the military, which punishes sex between two males with up to two years imprisonment.
Elliott Management, a prominent hedge fund, has sold all its shares in the Hyundai Motor Group of South Korea. It had long quarreled with Hyundai's management, demanding more generous dividend pay-outs. Their departure from the shareholder ranks is likely welcomed by Hyundai executives.
Four Iraqi soldiers are wounded when mortar shells strike Balad Air Base, 40 miles (64 km) north of Baghdad, which houses U.S. military personnel. The mortars struck the runway inside the base.
Ottawa River / Wellington Street, Downtown Ottawa
An explosion at a chemical plant in Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain, kills two members of staff and another man 3 km away. Seven other people are injured.
constituent political entity of the United States of America
State premier Daniel Andrews has declared a state of disaster in six government areas.
bilateral relations between Turkey and Egypt
citizens or residents of the United States of America
American economist, academic, and public servant
The United Kingdom and United States governments announce they have agreed to protect the wreckage of the RMS Titanic.
Prince Harry and his wife Meghan announce their plan to "step back as 'senior' members" of the British royal family.
sovereign state in Oceania, situated on an archipelago
2018 murder of Saudi citizen Jamal Khashoggi on Turkish soil
Islamist militants kill over 25 Nigerien soldiers in an attack on an army base in Tillabéri Region, Niger.
Analysis of a meteorite found in Australia in 1969 reveals stardust formed 5 to 7 billion years ago, older than Earth's 4.6 billion year-old sun, making the meteor and its stardust the oldest solid material ever discovered on Earth.
combined military forces of the Syrian Arab Republic
state in the western and central peninsular region of India
supreme court in the European Union, part of the Court of Justice of the European Union
Four Iraqi soldiers are wounded when mortar shells strike Balad Air Base, 40 miles (64 km) north of Baghdad, which houses U.S.
American politician and businessman (born 1963)
sudden, drastic flow of snow down a steep slope
The British ambassador to Iran, Robert Macaire, is arrested during anti-government protests, after attending a vigil and then, according to BBC, getting his hair cut.
The agreement, signed by the British government in 2003, has come into effect after being ratified by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (Israel)
Catalan politician, lawyer and editor, expresident of Catalonia
American holding company and parent company of Google
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis nominates Council of State president Aikaterini Sakellaropoulou to be President of Greece.
political group in the European Parliament
His sermon comes as public anger mounts against the government for their handling of Flight 752.
conflict among rival groups seeking to control of the territory of Libya
city in and county seat of Sangamon County, Illinois, United States and Illinois federated state capital city
diplomatic relations between Ukraine and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
The United Kingdom bans the use of credit cards to make bets both for online and offline gambling, including the purchase of lottery tickets.
Any evidence of overborrowing or volatility will have to be "systemic" for him to change his mind.
United States withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action
2018 US withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal
warrant issued by a judge or magistrate on behalf of the state, which authorizes the arrest and detention of an individual, or the search and seizure of an individual's property
election of Congress and most Senate seats
Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps unit
Nigerian jihadist terrorist organization
official London residence and principal workplace of the British monarch
On the western slope of Mount Herzl, also known as the Mount of Remembrance, a height in western Jerusalem, Israel
The foreign ministries of Spain and Morocco announce they will hold talks to resolve a dispute over territorial water rights in the North Atlantic, caused by the Moroccan parliament passing two laws that extended its claims to the coast of Western Sahara earlier this week.
The Lebanese government votes 49–13, with eight abstentions and the rest boycotting, to pass the government budget in the midst of escalating protests.
withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union
Germany from 1933 to 1945 while under control of the Nazi Party
Japanese prosecutors issue arrest warrants against a former United States special operations forces soldier and two others for allegedly helping Carlos Ghosn to escape from Japan. Another arrest warrant was issued against Ghosn himself.
second-largest city in Florida, United States of America
wrongful, improper, or unlawful conduct motivated by premeditated or intentional purpose or by obstinate indifference to the consequences of one's acts
Peruvian snap legislative election held on 26 January 2020
armed conflicts that started from January 2012
plea in a court of law that a person should not be held guilty for actions which were ordered by a superior officer
metropolitan area in Jakarta Raya, Indonesia
The Royal Solomon Islands Police Force stop searching for nine people who disappeared at sea on January 15 when their boat capsized. Five men, two women and two children are now presumed dead.
advisory role to the Supreme Leader of Iran
selection of the Democratic Party nominee for President of the United States in 2020
prefecture-level city and capital of Tibet
List of mass shootings that have occurred in the United States in 2020
depression or hole in the ground caused by some form of collapse
the highest administrative court in Greece
edible and biocombustible vegetable oil from fruit of oil palms
A fire destroys at least 35 houseboats moored along the Tennessee River in Scottsboro, Alabama, United States, killing eight people.
Revocation of the special status of Jammu and Kashmir
any of several combined vaccines against measles, mumps, and rubella
Talisay and San Nicolas, Batangas, Philippines
Major League Baseball franchise in Houston, Texas
The only exception to the ban is the purchase of lottery tickets in face-to-face transactions.
annual award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Royal Air Force station near Croughton, Northamptonshire, United Kingdom
The same day Russian President Vladimir Putin formally submitted a bill on amendments to the lower house of parliament.
Saudi crown prince and Minister of Defense (born 1985)
coast guard of the People's Republic of China
Date: 6 September 2017 – 1 June 2018 (8 months, 3 weeks and 5 days)
January 2020 helicopter crash in Calabasas, California, USA
United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
Date: 7 October 2001 – 30 August 2021 (19 years, 10 months, 3 weeks and 2 days)
Microsoft says its Windows 7 users can still use their computers, but warns they will be at "greater risk for viruses and malware".
westernmost subregion of the continent of Asia
trade of humans for the purpose of forced labor, sexual slavery, or commercial sexual exploitation for the trafficker or others
bilateral relations between United States and Tanzania
epidemiological intervention of restriction on the movement of people and goods, which is intended to prevent the spread of infectious disease or pests
suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
indigenous peoples of Alaska, United States
will relax some of the tariffs imposed on Chinese imports while China agreed to buy more American products.
illicit act of giving or promising money or gifts that alters the behavior of a person in power; illicit act of a person in power deciding based on money or gift received or promised
body which oversees the operation of county governments in certain U.S. states
The International Court of Justice orders Myanmar to protect the Rohingya population from atrocities.
President Kais Saied has 10 days to select someone else to build a new government.
It was possibly used by the Sinaloa Cartel.
Protestors subsequently march on Parliament to protest the new government.
A church, a school and other buildings are torched.
Judicial branch of the Republic of Korea
presidential elections held in Guinea-Bissau on 24 November 2019
rapid spread of infectious disease to a large number of people in a given population within a short period of time
Supreme law of the United States of America
Eighty military personnel are killed by ballistic missiles and drone strikes in an attack reportedly carried out by the Houthis against a military camp in the Yemeni city of Ma'rib, according to Saudi state TV. The Houthis have not claimed responsibility for the attack.
use of violence as a form of political, economic and religious coercion
highest clerical rank in Usuli Twelver Shia Islam
branch of the Holy See that handles political and diplomatic functions
Once ratified by Canada, it will supersede the North America Free Trade Agreement.
central government of England, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
8th edition of Winter Olympics, in Squaw Valley, United States
Tens of thousands of mourners, among them Iraqi prime minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi, attend a funeral procession in Baghdad, Iraq, for those killed in a United States airstrike—among them Qasem Soleimani, the head of Iran's Quds Force and at least five others. The bodies are then brought to Karbala and Najaf, where Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and the other Iraqis killed are to be buried.
Authorities believe a religious sect performed an exorcism on the victims.
The Titanic was a ship wreck that took place in 1912.
David Kabua is elected President of the Marshall Islands by the national legislature.
A spokesman for Jammeh's party says he could arrive back at any time from exile in Equatorial Guinea.
U.S. President Donald Trump threatens Iraq—if the U.S.
governing body of the Federal Reserve System
A second person is confirmed dead in the East Gippsland region of Victoria as thousands of people are evacuated from Mallacoota by sea.
overview of education system in Tanzania
Afghan forces launch ground and air operations against the Taliban, killing 51 of them in nine provinces of the country.
U.K. Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab states the arrest is in "flagrant violation" of international law.
city in San Diego County, California, United States; second-largest city in California
Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu withdraws a request for immunity to the Knesset. Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit formally indicts Netanyahu on charges of bribery, fraud, and breach of trust in three cases of suspected corruption.
airport serving the Greater Los Angeles Area
international news agency headquartered in Paris
Homeland security warns of potential attacks from Iranian backed militias or any other potential threat.
form of dishonesty or criminal offense undertaken by a person or organization entrusted with a position of authority, to acquire illicit benefit or abuse power for one's private gain
The Spanish Central Electoral Bureau ceases in the position of deputy to Quim Torra, and therefore, also that of President of the Generalitat of Catalonia in compliance with the non-definitive conviction of the Catalan High Court of Justice.
how human sexual behavior interact with, and are regulated by, laws
List of diplomats of the United Kingdom to Iran
Canberra's air quality had been reported as the worst in the world because of heavy smoke from the bushfires in New South Wales.
specialized agency of the United Nations that is concerned with international public health
long-term degenerative neurological disorder
American multinational financial services corporation
occurrence in which gun violence takes place at an educational institution
The trial against the Mossos d'Esquadra leadership begins in the National Audience for the role of the regional police in the 2017 Catalan independence referendum and the 2017–18 constitutional crisis.
city and county seat of Cook County, Illinois, United States of America
supersonic combustion of an explosive material
heir apparent to the Swedish throne and eldest child of King Carl XVI Gustaf
The city had been under rebel control since October 2012.
Annual speech given by the president of the Russian Federation regarding the state of the nation
Brazilian federal government secretary of culture, Roberto Alvim, is dismissed after the broadcast of a video where he announces a new national prize on culture.
sovereign state situated on an archipelago in the Indian Ocean off the eastern coast of Africa
The protesters are swiftly condemned by the state-owned National Oil Corporation.
The European Parliament votes 621–49 to pass the 2020 Brexit agreement, making today the last day Britain will be represented in the EU Parliament. MEP and Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage applauds its passage by saying "we'd be better off out", while UK Labour MEP Judith Kirton-Darling tearfully states it "attacks the very foundation of our identity".
annual awards for cinematic achievements
Provincial Court House of Punjab, Pakistan
Iraqi security forces raid a protest site in Baghdad and try to remove protesters in southern cities, firing tear gas and live bullets, killing four and wounding dozens more.
head of state and head of government of the United States of America
Major international airport in Tehran, Iran
Police been put on high alert due to such threats.
Police say a search of the man's flat later did not suggest a terrorist motive and that he was mentally ill.
The Saudi Foreign Ministry dismisses the allegations as "absurd".
Police in the Solomon Islands launch search operations to find nine people from a capsized boat near Isabel Province.
Neil Peart dies from glioblastoma, a form of brain cancer, in his home in Santa Monica, California.
Iranian military offensive on January 8, 2020
16th Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and 181st Mayor of San Antonio
Dissident opposition politician Luis Parra is sworn in as National Assembly president after an impromptu vote.
presiding member of the seven-member Swiss Federal Council
British politician and former commodity broker (born 1964)
commercial flights from operating in airspace over Iraq, Iran, the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman.
Nuclear power station in the United Arab Emirates
one of three wards of Sagamihara, Kanagawa
an unofficial title of the top leader of China, usually the General Secretary or Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party
removal of investment in companies involved in extracting fossil fuels to reduce climate change
After the United States kills Iranian General Qasem Soleimani in the 2020 Baghdad International Airport airstrike, Iran's parliament votes to exit the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action nuclear deal with world powers.
administrative territorial entity of Panama
The familicide was the deadliest mass shooting in Utah in 13 years.
Saudi war against Houthis in Yemen launched in 2015
lower house in the Parliament of the United Kingdom
combat operations and doctrine designed to nullify or reduce the effectiveness of hostile air action
Icelandic fishing company Samherji announces it will cease operations in Namibia.
air warfare branch of Sri Lanka's military forces
Italian ministry for foreign affairs and international cooperation
Joker receives 11 nominations, including for Best Picture and Best Director, the most out of those nominated.
Date: January 16 – February 5, 2020 (2 weeks and 6 days)
head of diplomatic mission when no higher official exists
The Iraqi military says three rockets hit the airport and two cars exploded.
North Korea's military development for weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear, chemical, and biological
In Farrukhabad, Uttar Pradesh, India, a man is shot and killed by police after taking more than 20 children as hostages for more than 10 hours. Angry locals later beat the hostage-taker's widow to death. It is unknown whether she was involved in her husband's plan.
The previous government had collapsed in 2017 as the result of a renewable energy scandal involving Foster.
intelligence agency of the Ethiopian federal government
Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu announces appointments at several ministries he had to drop following his indictment for corruption.
service members were injured by the January 8, 2020 attack by Iran on U.S. forces in Iraq.
Highest judicial power of Catalonia (Spain)
Two judicial sources announce that the trial of seven Cameroonian soldiers has begun for the killing of two women and two children in July 2018, in a case that sparked international outcry.
In response to the death of Qasem Soleimani, U.S. President Donald Trump tweets an image of an American flag. He later defends the airstrike, claiming Soleimani "was both hated and feared" in Iran and "should have been taken out many years ago."
General Khalifa Haftar, head of the Libyan National Army (LNA), refuses to sign a ceasefire agreement after talks in Moscow brokered by Russia and Turkey yesterday with Government of National Accord leader Fayez al-Sarraj. He says that the deal "ignores many of the Libyan army's demands".
Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Saudi Arabia)
Runs the diplomatic relations of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with other countries
proposed EU-UK agreement for implementing Brexit
Houston Astros general manager Jeff Luhnow and manager A. J. Hinch are suspended by Major League Baseball for the entire 2020 season after the league concludes its investigation into the team's illegal use of technology to steal signs during the team's championship 2017 season.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel announces she will hold peace talks in Berlin to help end the Second Libyan Civil War.
first-level administrative territorial entity of Afghanistan
geographic and cultural region; collective term for the Arabic-speaking countries of Asia and Africa, or of Asia only
eco-socialist and left-wing populist political party in Slovenia
2 January 2020 helicopter crash in Taiwan
result of a sudden release of energy in the Earth's crust that creates seismic waves
15th Presidential and Vice Presidential election of the Republic of China
The draft law on making amendments to 14 articles of the Constitution of Russia was presented by the working group in only five days.
Saudi diplomat and minister of foreign affairs (born 1962)
metrics related to an individual's characteristics
city in and county seat of Wayne County, Michigan, United States
Tonga pays an outstanding fee in order not to lose its voting rights at the United Nations General Assembly. Tonga was among seven countries suspended last week for not paying their assessed contributions.
overview of the automotive industry in India
In a landmark case, the South Korean military is set to decide on the first transgender soldier's possible discharge.
geopolitical area under the jurisdiction of the People's Republic of China, excluding Special Administrative Regions
In a news conference, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says it's "too early to draw definitive conclusions" that the downing of the plane was an "act of war".
ocean between Europe, Africa and the Americas
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China
senior official position in the government of China
point on the Earth's surface that is directly above the hypocentre or focus in an earthquake
Head of State of the Republic of Tunisia.
A man facing eviction shoots three police officers, killing two, then sets a house on fire, which spreads to four nearby houses, in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States.
The death toll from the new coronavirus rises to 25 and 830 confirmed cases in China as four more Chinese cities, Huanggang, Ezhou, Chibi and Zhijiang are to be placed under quarantine.
supreme authority within a territory, as well as external autonomy from other states
It is the second repeating FRB to have been localized.
Date: November 17, 2019 – present (3 years and 2 months)
Prime Minister of New Zealand (2017–2023)
2020 suicide bombing in Quetta, Pakistan
After a year of political deadlock, incumbent Prime Minister of Spain Pedro Sánchez is sworn in thanks to the support of left-wing parties and regional nationalists. He will form the first coalition government in the democratic era, with Podemos and its leader Pablo Iglesias Turrión as Second Deputy Prime Minister.
At least 57 people are killed and others are missing after avalanches in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir over the last 24 hours, senior government officials say.
offices held over time by the head of government of Germany
car manufacturer headquartered in Seoul, South Korea
United States diplomatic mission in Hubei, China
sovereign state in South Asia, situated on an archipelago in the Arabian Sea
capital of Balochistan Province, Pakistan
The murder was the latest in a string of attacks on medical staff in China by angry relatives blaming them for the lack of medical resources and services.
overview of the use of capital punishment in Pakistan
Japanese prosecutors issue arrest warrants against a former United States special operations forces soldier and two others for allegedly helping Carlos Ghosn to escape from Japan.
In response to Iranian missile attacks on U.S.
Louisiana State University in the 2019 NCAA Division I FBS football season
dtstart: 2019-10-01 00:00:00 Date: 1 October 2019 – 24 July 2021 (Occasional protests until 5 November 2021)
Ex President of the National Assembly of Venezuela.
head of government of Russia, leads the executive branch in Russia
A man stabs three people in Villejuif, Île-de-France, killing one person and wounding two others.
head of state and head of government of Venezuela
official or legally recognized title for a person or entity
This decision prompts protests in Barcelona.
Six travelers from China are denied entry and turned away from Samoa following the island country's introduction of a ban on all travelers from China.
Jakarta metropolitan area, Java, Indonesia
Chief of the General Staff (Republic of China)
General Staff of the Republic of China on Taiwan
espionage against the United States of America committed by the People's Republic of China
European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Act 2020
airport in Kansas City, Missouri, United States
The infected man has been placed in an isolation ward and the risk of further infection is currently considered to be "low", according to the Bavarian Health Ministry.
Prime Minister of Australia from 2018 to 2022
Medvedev says the constitutional changes would "significantly change Russia's balance of power".
Already produced ones will remain grounded an additional month until June or July.
Demonstrations are also held in Germany, the United Kingdom, and Canada.
The high military council of Sultan of Oman's Armed Forces calls on the Omani royal family to convene to name a successor to the late sultan within three days.
company providing armed security services
4th and 7th Prime Minister of Malaysia (1981–2003, 2018–20)
uniformed police force responsible for the enforcement of civil law in Iraq
head of state of the Syrian Arab Republic
ground force component of the Iraqi Armed Forces
The Russian government of Dmitry Medvedev's Second Cabinet resigns after President Vladimir Putin delivers the Presidential Address to the Federal Assembly, in which he proposed several amendments to the constitution.
government campaign to discourage plastic shopping bag use
rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in South Korea
Virginia State Capitol, Richmond, Virginia
sovereign state in Eastern Europe and Northern Asia
city in Los Angeles County, California, USA
city in Harris, Fort Bend, and Montgomery counties in Texas, United States, the is the county seat of Harris County
The leading group decides to extend the Spring Festival holiday to contain the outbreak.
The case comes less than a year after five were killed in a shooting in Inner Mongolia, and the case is under investigation.
act of killing several of one's family members
Legislative body of the Islamic Republic of Iran
pro-democracy demonstrations and other civil disobedience sparked by a proposed extradition bill in Hong Kong
viral ongoing pandemic in Washington state, United States
fishing and fish processing company in Iceland
ongoing political conflict over Catalan independence
first trial of Donald Trump in the United States Senate
airport in California, United States of America
The European Parliament votes 621–49 to pass the 2020 Brexit agreement, making today the last day Britain will be represented in the EU Parliament.
head of state of the RSFSR (office established in 1991) and Russia
impairments, activity limitations, and participation restrictions
combined military forces of the Republic of China (Taiwan)
Date: 16 September 2014 – present (8 years, 2 months, 1 week and 6 days)
Date: 16 September 2014 – present (8 years, 4 months and 4 weeks)
Public General Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom
The Houthis have not claimed responsibility for the attack.
ski resort in Placer County, California, United States
coastal waters that are part of a nation-state's sovereign territory
United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
Due to heightened tensions, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe cancels his scheduled trips to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Oman, and convenes a National Security Council meeting, likely to discuss Iran's attack on U.S.
bilateral relations between Iran and Iraq
head of government in the Australian state of Victoria