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In the news

Map showing the UK (in orange)
and the EU (in blue)

• The United Kingdom leaves the European Union and begins an eleven-month transition period.
• The World Health Organization declares the outbreak of respiratory disease from a novel coronavirus to be a Public Health Emergency of International Concern.
• Floods and landslides in southeastern Brazil kill at least sixty people and leave thousands of others homeless.

Ongoing: 

• Australian bushfires * 
• Impeachment trial of Donald Trump * 
• Indian Citizenship Amendment Act protests

Recent deaths: 

• Anne Cox Chambers *
• Janez Stanovnik *
• Homero Gómez González *
• Léon Mokuna *
• Paul Farnes *
• Harriet Frank Jr.