Portal:Current events/2019 February 6

February 6, 2019 (2019-02-06) (Wednesday)

Disasters and accidents

• 2018 Anchorage earthquake
  • Two aftershocks strike Anchorage, Alaska, the first a magnitude 4.1, and the second a magnitude 3.7, occurring 23 minutes later. (Anchorage Daily News)
• Heavy rain hits Rio de Janeiro, leaving three people dead and two missing. (G1)
• Ten people were killed and thirteen others are injured when an eight-story apartment building collapsed in Istanbul, Turkey. (Sky News)

International relations

• Accession of Macedonia to NATO
  • In Brussels, an accession protocol for joining NATO is signed between Jens Stoltenberg, Secretary General of NATO, and Nikola Dimitrov, foreign minister of the Republic of Macedonia. (The Washington Post)
• 2019 Venezuelan presidential crisis, Colombia–Venezuela relations
  • The Venezuelan National Guard blocks off a bridge on the Colombia–Venezuela border with a tanker truck. The Venezuelan opposition were planning to use the bridge to bring humanitarian aid into the country, but the government of Venezuela does not allow unauthorized border crossings into the country. President Nicolás Maduro has rejected foreign aid, saying "we're not a nation of beggars". (BBC) (Daily Star)

Law and crime

• Game law
  • In a landmark decision, the Constitutional Court of Colombia rules to ban recreational hunting, citing environmental protection concerns. (El Tiempo)

Politics and elections

• 2019 Guatemalan general election
  • The Attorney General filed a request to withdraw immunity to the presidential candidate of National Unity of Hope, former First Lady Sandra Torres, for alleged crimes of illicit electoral financing. Torres said it was a political persecution of the former Attorney General and presidential candidate Thelma Aldana. (The Washington Post)

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