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Armed conflicts and attacks

• War in Afghanistan
  • Journalist Malalai Maiwand, an activist for women's and children's rights, and her driver are shot dead on their way to work in Jalalabad, Nangarhar. No group has claimed responsibility. (DW)
• 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war
  • A large military parade is held in Baku to celebrate Azerbaijan's victory over Armenia in Nagorno-Karabakh. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is among the foreign attendees. The parade involves thousands of soldiers, flyovers from helicopters and fighter jets, and a Turkish special forces brigade. (Al Jazeera)

Business and economy

• Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
  • The European Central Bank expands its Pandemic Emergency Purchase Programme by €500 billion to €1.85 trillion and extends the scheme to March 2022, saying it expects "a more pronounced near-term impact of the pandemic on the Eurozone economy and a more protracted weakness in inflation than previously envisaged". (Reuters)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Asia
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Japan
      • Tokyo reports a record 602 new cases in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the prefecture to 45,529. (Nikkei Asia)
      • Japan reports a record 2,973 new cases in the past 24 hours, according to official figures released by the government. (Kyodo News)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Malaysia
      • Malaysia reports a new single-day record of 2,234 new cases in the last 24 hours, bringing the nationwide confirmed cases total to 78,499. (Malay Mail)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Singapore, COVID-19 pandemic on cruise ships
      • The government said a suspected COVID-19 cases aboard a ‘cruise-to-nowhere’ was a false alarm after a passenger aboard the Royal Carribean's Quantum of the Seas cruise ship who tested positive for COVID-19 has been found not to have the virus. (AFP via CBS News)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in South Korea
      • South Korea surpasses 40,000 total cases of COVID-19. (KBS World)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Europe
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Belarus
      • Belarus reports a new single-day record of 1,939 new cases, bringing the total of confirmed cases nationwide to 154,392. (Belta)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Denmark
      • Health Minister Magnus Heunicke announces the extension of the country's partial lockdown measures to 31 other municipalities, in total 69 municipalities will be affected from tomorrow at 4:00 pm local time. It comes after the country reports a record 3,132 new cases. (The Local Denmark)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Germany
      • Germany reports a new single-day record of 23,679 new cases, according to the Robert Koch Institute, bringing the total of confirmed cases nationwide to 1,242,203. (RND)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Sweden
      • Sweden, whose the country approach the no-lockdown strategy, registers a record 7,935 cases in the past 24 hours. (Reuters)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Canada
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Ontario
      • Ontario reports a new single-day record of 1,983 new cases, bringing the total of confirmed cases in the province to 134,783. (CFTO-DT)
  • COVID-19 vaccine
    • Pfizer vaccine
      • The FDA enters live deliberations on whether to grant BNT162b2, the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID vaccine candidate, emergency approval for usage in the United States. The committee is expected to grant the authorization. (NPR)
      • Saudi Arabia approves BioNTech-Pfizer's vaccine candidate. (Arab News)
    • Moderna vaccine
      • Moderna announces that they will begin a study by testing their vaccine candidate on adolescents aged 12 to less than 18. (CNBC)
• 2020 H5N8 outbreak
  • The Japanese Agricultural Ministry reports a new case of a highly pathogenic strain of avian influenza (H5N8) at poultry farms in Oita and Wakayama Prefecture. Authorities started culling 56,000 chickens at the farm in Saiki and related facilities, as well as about 67,000 chickens at the farm in Kinokawa. (Nippon.com)

International relations

• International recognition of Israel, Israel–Morocco relations, Political status of Western Sahara; see also: 2020 Western Saharan clashes
  • The United States say that Morocco will normalise diplomatic relations with Israel, eventually becoming the fourth Arab country to do so in recent months. US president Donald Trump also says he recognises "Moroccan sovereignty over the entire Western Sahara territory". Morocco says the US "will open a consulate in Western Sahara as part of Morocco’s deal with Israel". (The Jerusalem Post) (Reuters)
• Foreign relations of the State of Palestine
  • Norway's Storting votes to end the country's financial assistance package to the Palestinian National Authority, which amounts to $3.4 million, due to anti-Semitic content and incitement to violence being taught in Palestinian school curricula. Progress Party official Himanshu Gulati says "Norwegian taxpayers will not pay the monthly salary to terrorists". (Ynet News)

Law and crime

• LGBT rights in Bhutan
  • Bhutan's parliament passes a bill decriminalizing homosexuality. The bill needs to be approved by King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck to become law. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• European Union response to the COVID-19 pandemic
  • The European Council agrees on a compromise deal to unlock €1.8 trillion for the budget of the European Union and for the Next Generation EU recovery plan. (The New York Times)

Science and technology

• Mastercard and Visa cut financial ties with Pornhub following an investigation into child sexual abuse content and rape pornography on the website by The New York Times. Pornhub says the moves are "exceptionally disappointing", and crushing news for the "hundreds of thousands of models who rely on our platform for their livelihoods". (Bloomberg)

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