What happened TODAY - 18th December, 2019

What happened TODAY - 18th December, 2019What Happened Today?

1. The US House of Representatives has voted to impeach President Donald Trump for 'abuse of power' & 'obstruction of charges' The Republican-majority senate will now take up the president's trial.

2. Britain urged China to open dialogue with Hong Kong protesters and respect the commitments it made 35 years ago in the Sino-British Joint Declaration.

3. Lebanon’s Saad al-Hariri withdrew as a candidate for prime minister and Shi’ite Hezbollah with its ally Amal moved toward nominating a former education minister for the job.

4. United Nations General Assembly condemned “the long-standing and ongoing systematic, widespread and gross violations of human rights in and by” North Korea in an annual resolution that Pyongyang’s U.N. envoy rejected.

5. Arsenal’s Mesut Ozil has been removed from Konami’s eFootball Pro Evolution Soccer (PES) 2020 computer game in China over his comments about the country’s treatment of its Uighur Muslims.

6. Denmark has approved the establishment of a U.S. consulate in Greenland, four months after rebuffing president Donald Trump's idea of buying the island which stunned Copenhagen & caused a diplomatic spat.

7. As protests rage across Indian universities against a new citizenship law (CAA), students have taken to social media to wage battle online on Instagram & TikTok.

8. Hong Kong's tourism board has announced that Hong Kong's popular New Year's Eve fireworks will be cancelled for the first time in a decade, as more than 6 months of protests heighten security concerns.

9. France’s trade unions defended their decision to cut power to thousands of homes, companies and even the Bank of France to force the government to drop a wide-ranging pension reform.

10. Leaders from many Islamic nations including Turkey and Iran gathered in Malaysia to tackle issues that have agitated Muslims worldwide, but the summit was snubbed by Saudi Arabia and its close ally Pakistan.

11. Israel’s state-owned electric company said it was continuing power cuts to several cities in the occupied West Bank to press for payment of what it said was $519 million owed by a Palestinian electricity company.