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February 16, 2020
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2020-02-16
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Armed conflicts and attacks
South Sudanese Civil War
SPLM-IO
leader and former
Vice President
Riek Machar
rejects a peace proposal by President
Salva Kiir Mayardit
. While Machar welcomes the provision to reduce the number of
states
from 32 to 10, he opposes the creation of three administrative areas.
(Al Jazeera)
Syrian civil war
,
Northwestern Syria offensive (December 2019–present)
Backed by
Russian
airstrikes
,
Syrian Army
troops take control of most of the
Aleppo countryside
, including the towns of
Anadan
,
Haritan
and
Kafr Hamrah
and over 30 villages amid a collapse in rebel defences. Much of the area has been under rebel control since 2012.
(Reuters)
(NBC News)
Pansi church shooting
Islamist
gunmen kill at least 24 people, including a
pastor
, in a
mass shooting
on a church during
mass
in Pansi,
Yagha Province
,
Sahel Region
,
Burkina Faso
.
(Deutsche Welle)
Business and economy
The
United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri
rules that chemical companies
Bayer
and
BASF
are accountable for the adverse effects of their
Dicamba
-based
herbicides
on American farmlands, and awards the plaintiff, a
peach
farmer,
US$
265 million in damages. Bayer announces it will appeal.
(Reuters)
A
German
court orders
Tesla, Inc.
to temporarily halt construction of new manufacturing plant
Giga Berlin
in
Grünheide
,
Brandenburg
, due to the threat it poses to the local wildlife and water supplies.
(BBC News)
Disasters and accidents
Storm Dennis
The
bomb cyclone
claims another victim, bringing the death toll to three. 198
flood warnings
have been placed across
England
.
(CNN)
Law and crime
Azerbaijani
police
detain three opposition party leaders and more than 100 activists for attempting to protest the results of last week's
parliamentary election
.
(Reuters)
Nine
homeless
drug users are shot dead while sleeping rough in the
Afghan
capital
Kabul
.
(Al Jazeera)
Politics and elections
2020 Paris municipal election
French
Health Minister
Agnès Buzyn
announces she will run for the
Parisian mayoral
position on the
La République En Marche!
ticket, after the party's original candidate
Benjamin Griveaux
withdrew yesterday due to a
sexting
scandal.
(Reuters)
2020 North Macedonian parliamentary election
The
Assembly of North Macedonia
votes 108–12 to dissolve itself after
the country
failed to start
accession talks with the European Union
, and sets the parliamentary election date for April 12.
(Reuters)
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