Portal:Current events/2019 May 16
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Sinai insurgency
- Forty-seven insurgents and five Egyptian soldiers are killed in a gunfight in the Sinai Peninsula. (Al Jazeera)
- Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir
- Multiple people are killed, including three militants, two Mujahideen, two civilians and two Indian soldiers, in Kashmir after a shootout. (Reuters)
Business and economy
- The U.S. Government under the Trump administration cancels $929 million federal grant for California High-Speed Rail project. (Los Angeles Times)
Disasters and accidents
- Three Britons and a South African die when their light aircraft crashes on approach to Dubai International Airport, closing the world's busiest airport for 45 minutes. (Sky News)
International relations
- Second Libyan Civil War
- Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar of the Tobruk-based House of Representatives meets with Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte and has scheduled a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron for next week. (Libya Observer) (Reuters)
Politics and elections
- 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries
- he is running for the Democratic Party's nomination to be President of the United States in the 2020 presidential election. (The Guardian)
- Immigration policy of Donald Trump
- U.S. President Donald Trump proposes a new immigration plan based on merits such as college degrees and skilled trades and less on family ties. (The New York Times)
- U.S. federal agents raid the dispute over the presidency with Guaidó. Maduro's government considers the raid to be a violation of the Vienna convention. (Reuters) (The Independent)
- Brexit negotiations in 2019, Premiership of Theresa May
- UK Prime Minister Theresa May says that she will detail the timetable for her resignation after the Brexit vote in June. (FT) (The New York Times) (Time)