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2019 Samoa measles outbreak. Samoan police arrest Edwin Tamasese, an anti-vaccination campaigner, for incitement against a government order. (ABC Australia) The United States District Court for the Central District of California rejects a US$190 million defamation suit against entrepreneur Elon Musk by Tham Luang cave rescuer Vernon Unsworth.
On December 18, 2019, the House passed two articles of impeachment against president Donald Trump. [ 39 ] [ 38 ] [ 40 ] The trial took place in January and February 2020. On February 5, 2020, Trump was acquitted by the Senate of all charges in a vote mostly along party lines.
2019 Iraqi protests. A drone attacks the home of prominent Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, leaving no casualties and causing minimal damage.The attack follows yesterday's incident in Baghdad when multiple protesters were fired upon and killed.
Climate justice, Climate change mitigation. In Urgenda Foundation v.State of the Netherlands, the Supreme Court of the Netherlands upholds a 2015 ruling that "protection from the potentially devastating effects of climate change" is a human right, ordering the Dutch government to cut greenhouse gas emissions by at least 25% by the end of 2020 compared to 1990 levels.
On 28 December 2019, Dr. Lili Ren, a virologist at the Peking Union Medical College in Beijing submitted a complete sequence of SARS-CoV-2 structure to GenBank. The sequence was never made public as it failed to include the annotations required for publication, and attempts by the NIH to contact Dr. Ren went unanswered.
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Dissident Irish Republican campaign. Northern Irish journalist Lyra McKee is shot dead by dissident republicans on the Creggan estate in Derry. (The Irish News)The Royal Thai Navy is planning to remove a house that was allegedly constructed illegally 12 mi (19.31 km) off the Thai coastline to promote seasteading.
2019–20 Australian bushfire season, Physical impacts of climate change, Individual and political action on climate change Around 7,500 people in Sydney , New South Wales , Australia , stage a protest against Prime Minister Scott Morrison 's lack of acknowledgement towards an ongoing bushfire caused by drought and climate change .