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New Government Formed in Lebanon

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02/01/2019

02/01/2019

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New Government Formed in Lebanon

Top News: After nearly nine months of quarrels and delays, Lebanon formed a new government, which includes most of the country’s major political parties. The announcement was met with fireworks in Beirut.

Prime Minister Saad Hariri apologized for the long process and promised a program of reforms, including steps to reduce spending and address corruption.

Hezbollah, the Shiite movement designated a terrorist organization by the United States, had a strong showing in the May 2018 elections and took two cabinet seats—and a third went to its Sunni allies.

Venezuela: Venezuela’s opposition leader Juan Guaidó, who declared himself interim president last month and has been recognized as such by the United States, said police were looking for his wife. In an interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, he declined to disavow the possibility of U.S. intervention in the country. “Here in Venezuela we are doing everything we can to put pressure, so that we don’t have to come to a scenario that no one would wish to have,” he said.

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AFRICA

•  Singer-turned-politician Bobi Wine is considering a run for president of Uganda in 2021.

•  The United States said it killed 24 militants in an airstrike in Somalia.

•  The U.S. government imposed visa restrictions on Ghana over what Kirstjen Nielsen, the U.S. secretary of Homeland Security, said was the country's failure “to live up to its obligations under international law to accept the return of its nationals ordered removed from the United States.”

AMERICAS

•  At the Canadian embassy in Cuba, 14 people have been affected by a mystery sickness that causes dizziness and nausea—seemingly the same one that hit the U.S. embassy. Canada is responding by sending home half of its staff.

•  U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents seized some 254 pounds of fentanyl, worth $3.5 million, from a tractor-trailer at the U.S.-Mexico border.

•  Brazil and China are set to hold high-level talks that could lead to an increase in agricultural trade.

ASIA

•  After a meeting at the White House to discuss trade with Chinese Vice Premier Liu He, U.S. President Donald Trump said he was hopeful the two countries could come to “the biggest deal ever made.”

•  Stephen Biegun, the U.S. special envoy for North Korea, said Pyongyang had pledged to dismantle all of its nuclear fuel enrichment facilities. The North Korean government has not publicly confirmed this plan.

•  Tokyo police questioned men accused of selling uranium online.

EUROPE

•  The results of a survey by the Institute of Directors suggest that around one-third of U.K. companies are considering moving abroad or planning to do so due to Brexit.

•  Illegally-slaughtered meat from Poland was exported to 12 other countries in the European Union.

•  The European Parliament passed a measure requiring parliamentarians to sign anti-harassment commitments in order to hold key posts but rejected a measure to require anti-harassment training.

MIDDLE EAST

•  As temperatures fell in Syria, at least 29 children have died, many from hypothermia, while fleeing the last swaths of territory held by the Islamic State in Syria.

•  Five Israeli soldiers were charged with beating two detained Palestinians.

•  The United Arab Emirates is planning to buy 15 tons of Venezuela’s gold reserves.

- By Benjamin Soloway

(Joseph Eid/AFP/Getty Images)

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