Portal:Current events/2019 November 5

November 5, 2019 (Tuesday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

Yemeni Civil War, Yemeni peace process
- Yemen and the Southern Transitional Council sign a power-sharing deal in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to put an end to infighting between the two groups in Aden. (Al Jazeera)
Mexican Drug War
- 2019 Sonora massacre
  - U.S. President Donald Trump offers Mexico military support to help defeat drug cartels, should his counterpart Andrés Manuel López Obrador request help, after nine American Mexican Mormons, including six children, were killed in an ambush by suspected cartel members in Sonora, northern Mexico. (The Independent)

Law and crime

LGBT rights in the Cook Islands
- The Cook Islands announces it will retain its ban on homosexual practises by men and that it will be extended to women as well. Homosexuals face up to seven years of imprisonment on the islands. (RNZ)
Crime in Italy
- Three firefighters are killed while two others and a policeman are injured after an explosion at an abandoned farm building in Quargnento, Piedmont, Italy. It is suspected that the explosion was caused by two bombs placed by the former owner at the house, after family disagreements. (Il Messaggero)
Murder of Ana Kriégel
- An Irish judge sentences two 15-year-old boys to jail for the 2018 murder of 14-year-old Ana Kriégel in suburban Dublin. The boys were 13-years-old at the time they murdered her and are the youngest people convicted of murder in Ireland. They have not been named due to their age. One boy was sentenced to life in detention to be reviewed after twelve years—he was also sentenced to eight years for sexual assault to run concurrently with the murder sentence. The other boy was sentenced to 15 years in prison, but his sentence will be reviewed after eight years instead of twelve. Her parents said that "justice has been served for Ana", but about the sentences that "forever is not long enough". RTE RTE

Politics and elections

President of Kiribati Taneti Mamau decries his loss of majority in parliament and labels the members of Kiribati First party as "traitors". (RNZ)
Impeachment of Donald Trump
- Gordon Sondland, the United States Ambassador to the European Union, reverses his previous testimony, admitting to a quid pro quo in the withholding of military aid for Ukraine. (NYT)
2019 Virginia elections, 2019 Kentucky gubernatorial election, 2019 Mississippi gubernatorial election,
- Democrats win majorities in both houses of the Virginia General Assembly (Senate and House), resulting in Democratic trifecta control of the governorship and General Assembly for the first time since 1993. Democratic Kentucky Attorney General Andy Beshear defeats Republican incumbent Matt Bevin to win the governorship of Kentucky.
Elections in New York (state)
- New York City becomes the largest city in the United States to adopt ranked-choice voting.