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January 17, 2019
(
2019-01-17
)
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Armed conflicts and attacks
2019 Bogotá car bombing
A suicide car-bomb attack at the
General Santander National Police Academy
in
Bogotá
,
Colombia
, kills at least 20 people and injures more than 50 others.
(
The Guardian
)
Disasters and accidents
In France, a fire at the
University Lyon 1
injures three people. Investigators say that it is a result of an accidental gas bottle explosion.
(Euronews)
Law and crime
Gunmen on motorbikes shoot
Ghanaian
investigative journalist
Ahmed Hussein-Suale
to death in
Accra
. Ahmed was a member of the Tiger Eye Private Investigations team that exposed high-level corruption in the
Ghana Football Association
.
(Reuters)
Politics and elections
United States federal government shutdown of 2018–2019
U.S. President
Donald Trump
postpones
House Speaker
Nancy Pelosi
's upcoming diplomatic trip to
Europe
,
Afghanistan
and
Egypt
after she urged the President to postpone his upcoming
State of the Union Address
over the ongoing government shutdown.
(BBC News)
Science and technology
Facebook
removes alleged
Russia
-based accounts and pages as a part of a crackdown on misuse of its service.
(
The Wall Street Journal
)
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