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February 3, 2019
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2019-02-03
)
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Armed conflicts and attacks
At the request of Chadian authorities,
French Air Force
Mirage 2000
fighter jets strike a convoy of around 40 pickups of an armed group that entered northern
Chad
from
Libya
.
(Reuters)
Disasters and accidents
2019 Piper PA-46 Malibu disappearance
The wreckage of the
Piper PA-46 Malibu
light aircraft, which went missing on January 21, 2019, with two people on board, including
Cardiff City F.C.
record signing
Emiliano Sala
, is discovered on the seabed of the
English Channel
.
(Sky News)
International relations
Pope Francis
arrives in
Abu Dhabi
,
United Arab Emirates
, becoming the first
pope
to visit the
Arabian Peninsula
.
(Reuters)
(
The New York Times
)
Law and crime
Atlanta
-based rapper
21 Savage
is taken into custody by the
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
(ICE), accusing him of actually being a
British
national who has been in the United States unlawfully since his visa expired in July 2006.
(Fox 5 Atlanta)
The Abbott of the
Montserrat Abbey
, in
Barcelona
,
Spain
, apologizes for the sexual abuses that a monk did and that came to light two weeks ago.
(
El País
)
Politics and elections
2019 Salvadoran presidential election
Former San Salvador mayor
Nayib Bukele
of the
Grand Alliance for National Unity
is elected
President of El Salvador
with over 50% of the ballots cast.
(Al Jazeera)
(BBC Mundo)
Sports
Super Bowl LIII
In
American football
, the
New England Patriots
defeat the
Los Angeles Rams
in Super Bowl LIII by a score of 13–3.
(CBS Sports)
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