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May 16, 2019
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2019-05-16
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Armed conflicts and attacks
Sinai insurgency
Forty-seven insurgents and five
Egyptian soldiers
are killed in a gunfight in the Sinai Peninsula.
(Al Jazeera)
Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir
Multiple people are killed, including three militants, two Mujahideen, two civilians and two
Indian soldiers
, in
Kashmir
after a shootout.
(Reuters)
Business and economy
The
U.S. Government
under the
Trump administration
cancels
$929 million
federal grant for
California
High-Speed Rail
project.
(
Los Angeles Times
)
Disasters and accidents
Three Britons and a South African die when their light aircraft crashes on approach to
Dubai International Airport
, closing the world's busiest airport for 45 minutes.
(Sky News)
International relations
Second Libyan Civil War
Field Marshal
Khalifa Haftar
of the Tobruk-based
House of Representatives
meets with Italian Prime Minister
Giuseppe Conte
and has scheduled a meeting with French President
Emmanuel Macron
for next week.
(Libya Observer)
(Reuters)
Politics and elections
2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries
Mayor of New York City
Bill de Blasio
announces
he is running
for the
Democratic Party's
nomination to be
President of the United States
in
the 2020 presidential election
.
(
The Guardian
)
Immigration policy of Donald Trump
U.S. President
Donald Trump
proposes a new immigration plan based on merits such as college degrees and skilled trades and less on family ties.
(
The New York Times
)
U.S. federal agents raid the
Venezuelan
embassy to evict
Code Pink
protesters, at the request of
National Assembly
leader
Juan Guaidó
. They had been staying at the embassy at the invitation of Venezuelan President
Nicolás Maduro
, who is locked in a
dispute over the presidency
with Guaidó. Maduro's government considers the raid to be a violation of the
Vienna convention
.
(Reuters)
(
The Independent
)
Brexit negotiations in 2019
,
Premiership of Theresa May
UK Prime Minister
Theresa May
says that she will detail the timetable for her resignation after the
Brexit
vote in June.
(
FT
)
(
The New York Times
)
(
Time
)
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