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February 6, 2019
(
2019-02-06
)
(Wednesday)
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Disasters and accidents
2018 Anchorage earthquake
Two aftershocks strike
Anchorage, Alaska
, the first a magnitude 4.1, and the second a magnitude 3.7, occurring 23 minutes later.
(
Anchorage Daily News
)
Heavy rain hits
Rio de Janeiro
, leaving three people dead and two missing.
(
G1
)
Fourteen people were killed, and fourteen others are injured when an eight-story apartment building collapsed in
Istanbul
,
Turkey
.
(BBC News)
Health and environment
2019 Philippines measles outbreak
The Philippines
Department of Health
declares a
measles
outbreak attributed to the drop in trust in vaccines due to the
Dengvaxia controversy
.
(
The Philippine Star
)
International relations
Accession of Macedonia to NATO
In
Brussels
, an accession protocol for joining
NATO
is signed between
Jens Stoltenberg
,
Secretary General of NATO
, and
Nikola Dimitrov
, foreign minister of the
Republic of Macedonia
.
(
The Washington Post
)
2019 Venezuelan presidential crisis
,
Colombia–Venezuela relations
The
Venezuelan National Guard
blocks off a bridge on the
Colombia–Venezuela border
with a
tanker truck
. The Venezuelan opposition had been planning to use the bridge to bring
humanitarian aid
into the country, while President
Nicolás Maduro
has rejected foreign aid, saying "we're not a nation of beggars".
(BBC News)
(
Daily Star
)
Law and crime
Game law
In a landmark decision, the
Constitutional Court of Colombia
rules to ban
recreational hunting
, citing
environmental protection
concerns.
(
El Tiempo
)
Politics and elections
2019 Guatemalan general election
The
Attorney General
files a request to withdraw immunity to the presidential candidate of
National Unity of Hope
, former
First Lady
Sandra Torres
, for alleged crimes of illicit electoral financing. Torres said it was a political persecution of the former Attorney General and presidential candidate
Thelma Aldana
.
(
The Washington Post
)
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