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May 8, 2019
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2019-05-08
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Armed conflicts and attacks
2019 Lahore bombing
A blast near the 11th-century
Data Darbar
Sufi
shrine in
Lahore
,
Pakistan
, kills at least eleven people, half of them police officers.
(
The Guardian
)
(Reuters)
War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
Nine people were killed after the
Taliban
launches an attack on the
Kabul
offices of
international non-governmental organization
Counterpart International
.
(Al Jazeera)
Syrian Civil War
,
Northwestern Syria offensive (April 2019–present)
Syrian government forces capture the town of
Kafr Nabudah
in an ongoing
offensive
, marking the first major territorial change between government and rebel forces since the start of the
demilitarization agreement
last year.
(
Miami Herald
)
Arts and culture
Prince Harry
and
Meghan
, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, name their son
Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor
.
(CBS News)
International relations
Nuclear program of Iran
Iranian President
Hassan Rouhani
sends letters to the
P5+1
leaders of the
United Kingdom
,
China
,
Russia
,
Germany
,
France
and the
European Union
announcing the country's partial withdrawal from the 2015
Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action
agreement. Furthermore, Iran announces that it will stop exporting uranium and
heavy water
from its nuclear program.
(
Miami Herald
)
(CBS News)
Cross-Strait relations
Taiwan
passes a law under which
spies from China
would be subject to life imprisonment or even the
death penalty
.
(Mainichi)
Brazil–United States relations
U.S. President
Donald Trump
notifies the
Congress
that he will designate
Brazil
as a
major non-NATO ally
in light of recent commitments to increase defense cooperation between both countries.
(White House)
Belizean–Guatemalan territorial dispute
In a
referendum
, 55.37% of the Belizean population voted in favor of allowing the
International Court of Justice
to adjudicate Belize's border dispute with its neighbor
Guatemala
.
(Reuters)
Law and crime
Asia Bibi blasphemy case
Asia Bibi, a Christian woman acquitted of blasphemy after spending eight years on death row, has left
Pakistan
for
Canada
to be reunited with her daughters.
(ABC News)
Aftermath of the
Mueller special counsel investigation
The
United States House Committee on the Judiciary
votes to hold
United States Attorney General
William Barr
in
contempt of Congress
after he failed to comply with a subpoena ordering him to provide them with the full, unredacted version of the
Mueller report
last week. The full House will vote on the measure in the near future.
(
The New York Times
)
Donald Trump Jr.
, son of
U.S. President
Donald Trump
, is subpoenaed to testify before the
United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
about the
Trump Tower Moscow
project and
his Russian contacts
in June 2016.
(
The New York Times
)
Politics and elections
2019 South African general election
Voters in
South Africa
go to the polls to elect new members of the
National Assembly
and
provincial legislatures
.
(
The New York Times
)
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