Portal:Current events/2019 January 28

January 28, 2019 (Monday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

Boko Haram insurgency
- Boko Haram kills 60 people in an arson attack in the town Rann. (Reuters)
Seven people were killed and 26 injured in a bike bombing at a market in Mokha, Yemen. Houthis were blamed for the attack. (The Straits Times)

Disasters and accidents

Tornadoes of 2019
- A tornado in eastern Havana, Cuba, kills three people and injures 174 others. (Euronews)

International relations

Brexit negotiations
- British Prime Minister Theresa May tells Conservative lawmakers that she plans to hold a vote in parliament on her Brexit deal on February 13. (The New York Times)

Law and crime

Six Tanzanian children are killed for their eyes, ears and other body parts. A Njombe district official, who found many were taken when they were home alone whilst their parents were working, believes that superstitious beliefs and witchcraft are involved. Four other missing children have been found alive. (BBC)
The United States Justice Department, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Commerce and Federal Bureau of Investigation announces 23 criminal charges against China's telecom Huawei and its chief financial officer Wanzhou Meng, which include banking and financial fraud, money laundering, wire fraud, conspiracy to defraud the United States, theft of trade secret technology, provided bonus to workers who stole confidential information from companies around the world, obstruction of justice and sanctions violations.(BBC)

Politics and elections

2019 Venezuelan presidential crisis, United States–Venezuela relations, Crisis in Venezuela, Second Cold War
- The United States Department of the Treasury imposes sanctions on Venezuela's state-owned oil company PDVSA, which accounts for much of Venezuela’s income and foreign currency. (United States Department of the Treasury)
- Kremlin Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov denies the presence of Russian mercenaries in Venezuela, despite earlier reports that up to 100 may have been deployed to protect President Nicolás Maduro. (South China Morning Post)
2019 State of the Union Address
- U.S. President Donald Trump accepts House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's invitation to deliver the State of the Union Address on February 5. (The Washington Post)
2019 Guatemalan general election
- Semilla Movement announces that on March 3 it will officially proclaim the presidential candidacy of former Attorney General Thelma Aldana. (Voice of America)
The 2018 Corruption Perceptions Index names Somalia as the most corrupt country in the world, followed by South Sudan and Syria, while Denmark was again named the least corrupt country. The United States drops out of the top 20 least corrupt countries for the first time since 2011. (Daily Mail)