US News
- The House votes for two articles of impeachment against Trump. Tulsi Gabbard voted present. [Link]
- The US national debt increased by $1.2 trillion in 2019. [Link]
- The 2020 NDAA requires the DNI to release a report on who is responsible for the murder of Jamal Khashoggi. [Link]
- South Korea and the US were unable to make a deal about South Korea’s payment for US troops deployed to South Korea. South Korea is willing to pay $1 billion a year, and the US is demanding $5 billion. [Link]
South America
- Venezuelan children are facing increasingly worse malnutrition. [Link]
- Trump voices support for the coup government in Bolivia. [Link]
- Bolivia’s coup government issues an arrest warrant for the former president Morales. Morales is now a refugee in Argentina. [Link]
Europe
- NATO receives its second of five Global Hawk spy drones. It hops to have all drones by 2022. The drones cost $1.5 billion and were expected to be delivered by 2017. [Link]
- Spain’s high court finds the leader of Catalonia guilty of disobedience. [Link]
- Germany says it will not retaliate against the US for sanctions in the NDAA that target the Nord Stream 2 pipeline. [Link]
- The US removes sanctions of Latvia’s second-largest port. The Latvian government seized the port after the US sanctioned the owner. [Link]
Afghanistan
- Secretary of Defense Esper says a US drawdown of troops in troops in Afghanistan is to counter China. [Link]
- So far, in 2019, 631 Afghan children have been killed in the war. [Link]
Middle East
- An Israeli power company is cutting power to some areas of the West Bank for three hours a day over a Palestinian electric company not making debt payments. [Link]
- The Houthi and Yemeni government will meet for two-day talks about Hodeidah this week. The UN is backing the talks, and the hope is allowing more humanitarian goods to enter the port at Hodeidah. [Link]
