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The violence ended at a kosher market where three bystanders were slain. The mayor said the attackers had “targeted the location.”
After hearing a roll call of horrors inflicted on Rohingya Muslims, the Nobel laureate explained Myanmar’s case in The Hague.
Conflict-of-interest rules are uneven. Influence-peddling is murky. The enormous E.U. subsidy program is built to keep the money moving.
The largest dairy co-op in the United States is in talks to acquire Dean Foods, a milk processing company that sought bankruptcy protection last month.
A JPMorgan employee and a customer secretly recorded their conversations with bank employees.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 11, 2019, covering December 11, 2019.
Soundtrack
Post Malone
Trippie Redd
Taylor Swift
Billie Eilish
2019The results of the 2019 Bougainvillean independence referendum are announced. The results are overwhelmingly one-sided. Over 98% of voters vote for Bougainville's independence.[†]
A non-binding independence referendum was held in Bougainville, an autonomous region of Papua New Guinea, between 23 November and 7 December 2019. The referendum question presented a choice between greater autonomy within Papua New Guinea and full independence; voters voted overwhelmingly (98.31%) for independence.
In 2019, the world population was approximately 7,811,293,698 people[†]