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• Northern Mali conflict
  • 2019 Ménaka helicopter crash
    • Thirteen French soldiers are killed in helicopter crash during an operation against jihadists in Mali. (BBC)
• Syrian Civil War, November 2019 Syria bombings
  • A car bomb kills 17 civilians and injures 20 others in an attack in Ras al-Ayn, Syria. (Reuters)
• War in Afghanistan
  • An American was identified as the victim killed in a Kabul grenade attack on an United Nations convoy. (JPost)
• Terrorism in Europe
  • Two men were arrested in the Netherlands after plans were uncovered to commit a jihadist attack with explosive belts and car bombs. (NL Times)
• Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir
  • A grenade attack kills two including a government official and wounds four others. Two militants were also killed in another incident. (Al Jazeera)

• It is announced that in a US-backed peace plan, Israeli citizens will be allowed to visit Gulf States for "business and political purposes", starting next year. (Middle East Monitor)
• Discount retailer Dollar Tree reports that it will miss its analysts' profit expectations for this quarter, blaming the shortfall on the tariff costs imposed by the US government on products it imports from China -- suffers a sharp stock sell-off. (Reuters)

• 2019 Albania earthquake
  • A 6.4 magnitude earthquake hits coastal Albania, bringing down many buildings and leaving people trapped under rubble. The Defense Ministry confirms 18 deaths and 600 injured, mostly in Durrës County. (AP)

• The death toll from the measles outbreak in Samoa has reached 32 with over 2,400 cases recorded. (ABC Australia)

• The Vatican Dicastery for the Laity, Family and Life announces a new advisory team of young Catholic leaders. New members, serving a three-year term, include Brenda Noriega of the United States, Natalia Garcia Jimenex of Puerto Rico, Joseph Edward San Jose of Canada and Ashleigh Green of Australia. The first meeting of the 20 member International Youth Advisory Board is scheduled for April in Rome.(CRUX)

• Censorship in Vietnam
  • A court in Vietnam sentences a Facebook user to six years in prison for anti-state posts on the social media. It is the latest case seen as a crackdown on government dissidents. (Reuters)

• 2019 Australian Parliament infiltration plot
  • ASIO is investigating an alleged plot by the Communist Party of China to install an agent into the Parliament of Australia. (ABC Australia)

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