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Topics in the news




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  • The China National Space Administration's Chang'e 4 becomes the first spacecraft to land on the far side of the Moon.


  • A train accident on the Great Belt Fixed Link in Denmark kills eight passengers.

  • In darts, Michael van Gerwen (pictured) defeats Michael Smith to win the PDC World Championship.


  • NASA's New Horizons space probe performs a successful flyby of trans-Neptunian object Ultima Thule.


  • An apartment block collapses in Magnitogorsk, Russia, killing thirty-nine people.



















Armed conflicts and attacks


  • The United States Central Command announces that a U.S. airstrike in Ma'rib Governorate, Yemen, has killed Jamal Ahmad Mohammad Al Badawi, who masterminded the 2000 USS Cole bombing that killed 17 American sailors. (The Independent)

  • An attack by Rakhine Buddhist rebels on 4 police posts in Myanmar's Rakhine State, kills 13 policemen and injures 9 others on the country marked Independence day.(Reuters)




International relations



  • Crisis in Venezuela
    • The Lima Group announces that from January 10, 2019, the government of Nicolás Maduro will no longer be recognized by the governments which compose the multilateral body. (Al Jazeera)



  • Operation Inherent Resolve, American-led intervention in the Syrian Civil War
    • The United States Department of State announces that U.S. Special Representative for Syria Engagement James Jeffrey also assumes the position of Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, succeeding Brett McGurk. Separately, a State Department official says that there is no timeline for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Syria. (Reuters) (Politico)









Armed conflicts and attacks


  • Syrian Civil War
    • The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and Syrian state media say that a U.S.-led coalition aerial attack killed 11 civilians in Deir ez-Zor Governorate. (EFE via La Vanguardia) (SANA)




Business and economy


  • Corporate acquisitions and mergers

    • Pharmaceutical company Bristol-Myers Squibb proposes the takeover for US$95 billion, including debt, of cancer drug company Celgene, the biggest biopharma deal ever. (Reuters)




Disasters and accidents



  • 2018 Magnitogorsk building collapse
    • The death toll of an explosion caused by a gas leak that devastated a block of flats in Magnitogorsk, Russia, rises to 39. Rescuers end their search efforts at the collapse site as there are no more missing people. (The Moscow Times)



  • European migrant crisis
    • The mayor of Naples offers to berth a NGO-operated ship with 32 migrants who were rescued on 22 December off the coast of Libya. (Reuters)


  • The Dutch Coast Guard says 270 containers fell off MSC Zoe in heavy seas near the German island of Borkum and floated towards the Netherlands. Treasure hunters revel on the West Frisian islands of Terschelling and Vlieland. Three containers containing hazardous materials are still missing and ships are warned for floating containers. (Reuters via NDTV) (World Maritime News)

  • Seven people are killed after a crash and diesel fuel spill sparked a massive fire on Interstate 75 in Gainesville, Florida, United States. (AOL News)

  • Five people, mostly children, are killed in an escape room fire in Koszalin, Poland (TVN24)


International relations



  • Somalia expels Nicholas Haysom, the most senior United Nations diplomat in the country, after accusing him of "acting like the country's ruler". (BBC)


  • Afghan President Ashraf Ghani demands clarification after U.S. President Donald Trump said yesterday that the Soviet Union was "right to be there", referring to the 1979–1989 Soviet–Afghan War. (The Washington Post)




Law and crime



  • China executes serial killer Gao Chengyong, who murdered eleven girls and women between 1988 and 2002. (BBC)

  • The Prosecutor General of Russia says that France today extradited Alexei Kuznetsov, a former Finance Minister of the Moscow Region who is accused of fraud and embezzlement amounting to 14 billion Russian rubles (US$200 million). (TASS)

  • A man shoots three children to death and wounds a woman in Texas City, Texas, United States. The suspect has not been apprehended. (USA Today)




Politics and elections


  • Iran's health minister Hassan Ghazizadeh Hashemi resigns in protest against a medical budget. His resignation was accepted by President Hassan Rouhani. (PressTV)

  • The 116th United States Congress, which contains a record number of women and minorities, is sworn in at the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. Democrat Nancy Pelosi becomes the Speaker of the House of Representatives for the second time, the first being from 2007–2011. (CBS News)


  • United States federal government shutdown of 2018–2019
    • The newly sworn U.S. House of Representatives passes a major spending bill to fund most shuttered departments and agencies through September 30 and a stop-gap measure to restart the Department of Homeland Security. The proposals will now move on to the Senate which has indicated they will not take up the bills without an agreement. (The New York Times)





Science and technology


  • Chinese Lunar Exploration Program

    • China National Space Administration's robotic lander Chang'e 4 successfully lands at the Von Kármán lunar crater on the far side of the Moon. (BBC)




Sports


  • Oman–United Arab Emirates relations

    • Saoud al-Mohannadi, vice president of the Asian Football Confederation, is banned from traveling to the United Arab Emirates from Oman. (The New York Times)








Business and economy


  • China–United States trade war (2018–present)
    • American electronics maker Apple warns that iPhone sales are slowing significantly and the product is in weak demand, blaming trade tensions with China. The company says that it has lowered its expected fiscal earnings for the first quarter as a result, citing disappointing holiday sales figures, and that it could lose $9 billion due to the decline. (The Verge)


Disasters and accidents


  • Great Belt Bridge rail accident
    • An express train crashes into an object dropped from a cargo train on the Great Belt Bridge between Funen and Zealand in Denmark, killing at least eight people and leaving several injured. (BBC)


Politics and elections



  • United States federal government shutdown of 2018–2019

    • On the last day of the 115th United States Congress, Democratic leaders Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, and others meet with President Donald Trump at the White House to discuss implementing a new budget agreement that may include funding for a new Mexico–United States barrier that could end the current federal government shutdown. (CNBC)

    • President Trump and congressional leaders fail to resolve their political differences over federal funding for the border barrier, with Pelosi stating that the president will receive "nothing for the wall" from her party. (Politico) (The Hill)




  • Indigenous territories of Brazil

    • President of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro issues a decree to place the responsibility for "identification, delimitation, demarcation and registration of lands traditionally occupied by indigenous people" at the Ministry of Agriculture, instead of the Indian affairs agency FUNAI. The management of public forests also goes to the agriculture ministry. The move is seen as a big win for the industrial agribusiness lobby. (Reuters)









Armed conflicts and attacks



  • War in Afghanistan
    • The Taliban kill 27 security forces in a series of coordinated attacks in northern Afghanistan. They refuse to sit down with Afghan officials about peace in the country after the United States announced last month that they would withdraw about half of their 14,000 troops. (The New York Times)



  • War in North-West Pakistan

    • Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan gunmen attack a security base in the Loralai area of Pakistan, resulting in the deaths of four security guards and four terrorists, including a suicide bomber. Two guards were also injured in the attack. (Channel NewsAsia)





Law and crime



  • 2019 Tokyo car attack
    • A car plows into New Year's celebrators in Tokyo, injuring eight. A ninth person was assaulted by the driver after he got out of the vehicle. Police believe the incident to be intentional. (Global News) (ChannelNewsAsia)



  • Bottrop and Essen car attack
    • Five people are injured after a man intentionally drives a car into multiple crowds of people in the cities of Bottrop and Essen, Germany. Police say the incident appears to be a xenophobic, far-right attack. (The Independent)


  • Armed men believed to be traditional hunters have killed at least 37 people in an attack on a village in central Mali. (BBC)

  • A Thai man kills six members of his family before killing himself in a drunken shooting spree. (RT)


  • Same-sex marriage becomes legal in Austria. (ABC News)


  • Intersex rights in Germany
    • A law recognising a third gender that can be administered for intersex people takes effect in Germany. (BBC)





Politics and elections



  • Jair Bolsonaro is inaugurated as the 38th President of Brazil, succeeding Michel Temer. (BBC)


  • Patrick M. Shanahan becomes acting United States Secretary of Defense following the resignation of Jim Mattis. (New York Post)


  • 2018 Democratic Republic of the Congo general election
    • U.S. and EU diplomats urge the Congolese government to restore internet connection to the country after it was shut down the previous day amid fears of election fraud. (The Guardian)



  • U.S. President Donald Trump requests a bipartisan meeting with lawmakers to discuss border security as a partial government shutdown enters its second week. (MPR News)


Science and technology


  • 2019 in spaceflight

    • New Horizons makes a flyby of Kuiper belt object 2014 MU69, nicknamed Ultima Thule, at 05:33 UTC. It is a contact binary. (The New York Times)







Armed conflicts and attacks


  • A bomb explosion outside a busy shopping mall in the city of Cotabato, Philippines, kills 2 people and injures 34 others. (CNN)


  • Manchester Victoria stabbing attack
    • Three people are injured after being stabbed in an attack at Manchester Victoria station. The attacker shouted "Allah" during the attack. The attack is being treated as a terror-related incident, police have confirmed, and due to concerns over his mental health, the suspect is being held under the Mental Health Act. (BBC)





Disasters and accidents



  • 2018 Pacific typhoon season
    • At least 69 people are reported dead from flooding caused by Tropical Depression Usman in the Philippines. (Stuff.co.nz) (The Guardian)



  • 2018 Magnitogorsk building collapse
    • An explosion caused by a gas leak devastated a block of flats in Magnitogorsk, Russia, killing 14 people while 27 others are missing. (BBC)





International relations


  • Russia's FSB state security agency says it has arrested a U.S. citizen "caught spying" in Moscow. According to former CIA officials the arrest was done as a retaliation for the arrest of alleged Russian spy Maria Butina. (BBC) (Daily Beast)



Politics and elections


  • 2020 United States presidential election, 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries
    • Joining several other Democrats in the race, Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts announces the formation of a presidential exploratory committee for running in the 2020 presidential election. (CNN)







Armed conflicts and attacks


  • War in Afghanistan
    • The Taliban reject peace talks with the Afghan government. (Reuters)




Disasters and accidents

  • A rescue helicopter crashes near the world's longest zipline in the United Arab Emirates, killing four people. (BBC)



Law and crime

  • A French man is detained in Barcelona, Spain, upon entering the Sagrada Familia with a suitcase containing ammunition. The Catalan police do not consider it an act of terrorism. (Mirror)

Politics and elections



  • 2018 Bangladeshi general election

    • Voters in Bangladesh head to the polls to elect 299 representatives to parliament. Seventeen people were killed in deadly clashes between supporters and opponents of the country's ruling party. (BBC)

    • The Awami League led by Sheikh Hasina is declared as the winner of the election with Hasina to serve her third consecutive term as Prime Minister of Bangladesh. (BBC)




  • 2018 Democratic Republic of the Congo general election
    • Voters in the Democratic Republic of the Congo head to the polls to determine a successor to incumbent President Joseph Kabila. Elections are also held for the National Assembly and local councils. (BBC News) (The Telegraph)






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Business



  • 1MDB scandal

  • Turkish currency and debt crisis



Disasters



  • 2018–19 European windstorm season

  • 2018 Kivu Ebola outbreak

  • Yemeni famine



Politics



  • Brexit negotiations


  • European migrant crisis (timeline)

  • Iranian protests

  • Iraqi protests

  • Nicaraguan protests

  • Qatar diplomatic crisis

  • Rohingya persecution in Myanmar

  • Spanish constitutional crisis

  • Trump administration family separation policy

  • United States federal government shutdown of 2018–2019

  • Sudanese protests

  • Turkish purges


  • U.S. Special Counsel investigation (timeline)

  • Yellow vests movement



Religion


  • Moscow–Constantinople schism


Sports


  • NCAA Division I men's basketball corruption scandal

More details – ongoing conflicts






Elections and referendums




Recent



  • December 2018

    • 19: Madagascar, President (2nd)

    • 20: Togo, National Assembly

    • 30: Democratic Republic of the Congo, President and National Assembly

    • 30: Bangladesh, Parliament




Upcoming



  • February

    • 3: El Salvador, President

    • 16: Nigeria, President and Parliament

    • 24: Cuba, Constitutional referendum

    • 24: Moldova, Parliament









Trials





Recently concluded



  • Australia: George Pell

  • Bahrain: Ali Salman

  • Guatemala: Roxana Baldetti

  • India: Sajjan Kumar

  • Philippines: Imelda Marcos

  • United States: Patrick Ho



Ongoing



  • Guatemala: Otto Pérez Molina, Roxana Baldetti, Juan Carlos Monzón and others

  • Israel: Faina Kirschenbaum

  • Malaysia: Siti Aisyah and Đoàn Thị Hương

  • Philippines: Leila de Lima

  • Spain: Bárcenas affair

  • United States: Fat Leonard scandal, Joaquín Guzmán

  • International

    • ICC: Laurent Gbagbo, Bosco Ntaganda




Upcoming



  • Egypt: Mohamed Morsi

  • Guatemala: Alvaro Colom, Manuel Baldizón, Juan Alberto Fuentes

  • Iran: Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe

  • Philippines: Andal Ampatuan Jr.

  • South Africa: Jacob Zuma

  • Spain: Jordi Pujol

  • Ukraine: Roman Nasirov

  • United Kingdom: Football sex abuse scandal

  • United States: 6ix9ine, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, NXIVM, Elizabeth Holmes, Chris Collins, Duncan D. Hunter

  • Zimbabwe: Ignatius Chombo








Sport






  • Association football

    • 2018–19 Liga MX season

    • 2018–19 UEFA Champions League

    • 2018–19 UEFA Nations League

    • 2018–19 UEFA Europa League

    • 2018–19 La Liga

    • 2018–19 Serie A

    • 2018–19 Bundesliga

    • 2018–19 Premier League

    • 2018–19 Ligue 1

    • 2018–19 Scottish Premiership




  • Women's association football

    • 2018–19 Champions League

    • 2018–19 FA WSL

    • 2018–19 Frauen-Bundesliga

    • 2018–19 Liga MX Feminil




  • American football

    • 2018–19 NFL playoffs

    • 2018 NCAA Division I FBS




  • Basketball

    • 2018–19 EuroLeague

    • 2018–19 NBA season

    • 2018–19 NCAA Division I men

    • 2018–19 NCAA Division I women




  • Golf

    • 2019 European Tour

    • 2019 PGA Tour




  • Ice hockey

    • 2018–19 Champions League

    • 2018–19 IIHF Continental Cup

    • 2018–19 KHL season

    • 2018–19 NHL season

    • 2018–19 NWHL season




  • Rugby sevens

    • 2018–19 World Rugby Sevens Series

    • 2018–19 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series




  • Rugby union

    • 2018–19 European Rugby Champions Cup

    • 2018–19 Premiership Rugby

    • 2018–19 Pro14

    • 2018–19 Top 14



  • Other sports seasons

    • 2018–19 international cricket season

    • 2018–19 curling season

    • 2018–19 figure skating season

    • 2018–19 snooker season




More details – current sports events







Recent deaths





January 2019




  • 4: John Thornett


  • 3: Chandrashekhar Shankar Dharmadhikari


  • 3: Herb Kelleher


  • 3: Michael Yeung


  • 2: Daryl Dragon


  • 2: Bob Einstein


  • 2: Gene Okerlund


  • 1: Ed Corney


  • 1: Pegi Young



December 2018




  • 31: Dean Ford


  • 31: Kader Khan


  • 31: Ray Sawyer


  • 30: Mrinal Sen


  • 30: Héctor Timerman


  • 29: Ringo Lam


  • 28: Amos Oz


  • 28: Shehu Shagari


  • 28: June Whitfield


  • 27: Richard Arvin Overton


  • 26: Wendy Beckett


  • 26: Roy J. Glauber


  • 26: Sono Osato


  • 24: Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi


  • 22: Simcha Rotem


  • 22: Paddy Ashdown


  • 22: Talal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud


  • 20: Donald Moffat


  • 19: Peter Masterson


  • 17: Penny Marshall


  • 15: Girma Wolde-Giorgis


  • 14: Bill Fralic


  • 14: Jean-Pierre Van Rossem


  • 13: Noah Klieger


  • 13: Nancy Wilson


  • 12: Pavle Strugar


  • 9: Robert Bergland


  • 9: William Blum


  • 9: Riccardo Giacconi


  • 8: Lyudmila Alexeyeva


  • 8: Evelyn Berezin


  • 7: Belisario Betancur


  • 6: Larry Hennig


  • 6: Isiah Robertson


  • 6: Pete Shelley








Ongoing conflicts





Africa



  • Algeria, Libya and Tunisia
    • Maghreb insurgency


  • Cameroon
    • Anglophone Crisis


  • Cameroon, Chad, Niger, and Nigeria
    • Boko Haram insurgency


  • Central African Republic
    • Civil War


  • Democratic Republic of the Congo

    • Kivu conflict

    • ADF insurgency

    • Ituri conflict

    • Lord's Resistance Army insurgency



  • Ethiopia
    • Oromo Conflict



  • Libya
    • Civil war


  • Mali
    • Northern Mali conflict


  • Nigeria
    • Communal conflicts in Nigeria


  • Somalia
    • Civil war


  • South Sudan

    • Ethnic violence (South Sudanese Civil War)


  • Sudan

    • War in Darfur

    • South Kordofan conflict

    • Sudanese nomadic conflicts





Americas



  • Colombia
    • Colombian conflict


  • Mexico
    • Mexican War on Drugs


  • Peru
    • Internal conflict in Peru




Asia



  • Afghanistan
    • Afghanistan War


  • China
    • Xinjiang conflict


  • India

    • Naxalite–Maoist insurgency

    • Insurgency in Northeast India



  • India and Pakistan
    • Kashmir conflict


  • Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines

    • Moro conflict
      • Cross border attacks in Sabah



  • Indonesia and Papua New Guinea
    • Papua conflict


  • Myanmar

    • Internal conflict in Myanmar

      • Kachin conflict

      • Karen conflict

      • Rohingya conflict




  • Pakistan

    • War in North-West Pakistan

    • Balochistan conflict




  • Philippines
    • Communist rebellion in the Philippines


  • Thailand
    • South Thailand insurgency




Europe



  • Armenia and Azerbaijan
    • Nagorno-Karabakh conflict


  • Georgia

    • Abkhaz–Georgian conflict

    • Georgian–Ossetian conflict



  • Russia

    • Chechen–Russian conflict

    • North Caucasus insurgency



  • Ukraine

    • War in Donbass
      • Russian military intervention in Ukraine





Middle East



  • Egypt
    • Sinai insurgency


  • Egypt, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, and Syria
    • Arab–Israeli conflict


  • Iran
    • Iran–PJAK conflict



  • Iraq

    • American-led intervention in Iraq

    • Iranian intervention in Iraq




  • Iraq and Syria (map)
    • Military intervention against ISIL


  • Israel and Lebanon
    • Israeli–Lebanese conflict


  • Israel and Palestine

    • Gaza–Israel conflict

    • Israeli–Palestinian conflict




  • Syria

    • American-led intervention in Syria

    • Russian military intervention in the Syrian Civil War

    • Turkish occupation of northern Syria



  • Turkey
    • Kurdish–Turkish conflict



  • Yemen

    • Yemeni Civil War

    • Saudi Arabian–led intervention in Yemen

    • Al-Qaeda insurgency



















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