Turkish PresidentRecep Tayyip Erdoğan calls a Turkish intervention in
Syria's
Idlib Governorate "imminent" after talks with
Russia fail to reach what he describes as their "desired result". Erdoğan threatens to launch an operation in Idlib by the end of the month.
Kremlin Press Secretary
Dmitry Peskov calls
Turkish involvement in the battle "the worst scenario". The countries support opposing sides in the war.
(Al Jazeera)
Bashar Barakah Jackson, also known as ‘
Pop Smoke’, is killed in
Los Angeles,
United States. The cause of death was multiple gunshot wounds to his torso, inflicted by a teenager during a targeted home invasion that went wrong. Pop Smoke was a rising rapper from
Brooklyn, and had just released his second mixtape ‘
Meet the Woo 2’. He rented an
apartment in the
Hollywood Hills a few days prior to his murder for a simple vacation. The day before his
homicide, he accidentally leaked his address online via social media, giving the location to it’s murderers, which tragically ended his life the age of 20 years old.
China expels three journalists of The Wall Street Journal over an opinion piece called "China Is the Real Sick Man of Asia" that was deemed
racist. The
government demanded the newspaper apologize, which it declined. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman
Geng Shuang says the journalists have five days to leave the country and says the article "denigrated" China's efforts to combat the virus.
(BBC News)
The
United Kingdom's
Home SecretaryPriti Patel announces a reform of the UK's immigration system. The changes includes the end of
freedom of movement, a minimum requirement of migrants to speak
English, a minimum salary of between
£20,480 and £25,600, while priority will be given to skilled workers over non-skilled migrants. The changes are effective from January 1, 2021.
(BBC News)
A recanvass of the
2020 Iowa Democratic caucuses show
Bernie Sanders and
Pete Buttigieg at an effective tie, with a margin of 0.0004 percentage points of state delegate equivalents between the two candidates. The Sanders campaign has requested a recount, which may change the initial outcome of the caucus.
(AP)
Turkish PresidentRecep Tayyip Erdoğan calls a Turkish intervention in
Syria's
Idlib Governorate "imminent" after talks with
Russia fail to reach what he describes as their "desired result". Erdoğan threatens to launch an operation in Idlib by the end of the month.
Kremlin Press Secretary
Dmitry Peskov calls
Turkish involvement in the battle "the worst scenario". The countries support opposing sides in the war.
(Al Jazeera)
Bashar Barakah Jackson, also known as ‘
Pop Smoke’, is killed in
Los Angeles,
United States. The cause of death was multiple gunshot wounds to his torso, inflicted by a teenager during a targeted home invasion that went wrong. Pop Smoke was a rising rapper from
Brooklyn, and had just released his second mixtape ‘
Meet the Woo 2’. He rented an
apartment in the
Hollywood Hills a few days prior to his murder for a simple vacation. The day before his
homicide, he accidentally leaked his address online via social media, giving the location to it’s murderers, which tragically ended his life the age of 20 years old.
China expels three journalists of The Wall Street Journal over an opinion piece called "China Is the Real Sick Man of Asia" that was deemed
racist. The
government demanded the newspaper apologize, which it declined. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman
Geng Shuang says the journalists have five days to leave the country and says the article "denigrated" China's efforts to combat the virus.
(BBC News)
The
United Kingdom's
Home SecretaryPriti Patel announces a reform of the UK's immigration system. The changes includes the end of
freedom of movement, a minimum requirement of migrants to speak
English, a minimum salary of between
£20,480 and £25,600, while priority will be given to skilled workers over non-skilled migrants. The changes are effective from January 1, 2021.
(BBC News)
A recanvass of the
2020 Iowa Democratic caucuses show
Bernie Sanders and
Pete Buttigieg at an effective tie, with a margin of 0.0004 percentage points of state delegate equivalents between the two candidates. The Sanders campaign has requested a recount, which may change the initial outcome of the caucus.
(AP)