US News
- Police officers hired 118 handymen then charged them with working without a license. [Link]
- Congress is investigating three fatal incidents that killed 17 US service members in 2017 and 2018. ProPublica investigations found that the deaths occurred because of untrained personnel, undermanned missions, and a lack of functioning equipment. A fighter squadron involved in a 2018 fatal accident that killed six, remains short of equipment necessary to safely perform their operations. [Link]
- Attorney General Barr tells US allies that should select Nokia or Ericsson over Chinese made Huawei. [Link]
- Ukraine says the US held up $30 million in aid. [Link]
South America
- Venezuela arrested board members of Citgo. [Link]
- A Brazilian court dismisses the charges against Glen Greenwald. [Link]
Afghanistan
- A US citizen was kidnapped in Afghanistan. The US believes the Haqqani Network was behind the kidnapping.Â
Middle East
- Israeli soldiers killed a teenage Palestinian who they claimed threw a molotov cocktail at the Israeli soldiers. [Link]
- Turkey tells Russia to force Syria to end the offensive in Idlib. [Link]
- A key ally of Iraqi cleric Sadr was assassinated in southern Iraq. [Link]
- The US says it may cut its food distribution to Yemen because of deteriorating conditions in Yemen. [Link]
- The US claims to kill the head of al-Qaeda in Yemen. [Link]
SomaliaÂ
The US said it carried out several airstrikes against al-Shabaab in January. [Link]
