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December 17, 2019
(
2019-12-17
)
(Tuesday)
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Business and economy
Shandong
, the first fully domestically built Chinese
aircraft carrier
, enters
naval
service.
(CGTN)
Law and crime
Musharraf high treason case
Former
President of Pakistan
Pervez Musharraf
is
sentenced to death
in absentia
for
high treason
, by a 2-1 majority. He is described as a
dictator
who seized power in a
1999 coup
, imposed a
2007 state of emergency
and resigned in 2008 to avoid
impeachment
.
(CNN)
(Reuters)
2016–present purges in Turkey
Turkish police
arrest 191 people, including a mayor, accused of links with the
Gülen movement
(named by Turkey as FETÖ, a terrorist group) and of using
ByLock
, an encrypted messaging application.
(
Daily Sabah
)
Science and technology
Climate change in Australia
A temperature of 47
°C
(116.6F) is recorded in the remote
outback
town of
Oodnadatta
,
South Australia
, marking
Australia
's hottest day on record with average temperatures of 40.9
°C
, according to the
Bureau of Meteorology
.
(Sky News)
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