Portal:Current events/2019 August 14

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 * Armed conflicts and attacks
 * Syrian Civil War, 2019 Northwestern Syria offensive
 * A Syrian Air Force Sukhoi Su-22 jet is shot down by rebel forces near the town of Khan Shaykhun in the Idlib Governorate, Syria. Hayat Tahrir al-Sham jihadists say they have captured the pilot. (BBC News) (Al Masdar News)


 * Business and economy
 * Economy of Germany
 * The Federal Statistical Office of Germany discloses that Germany's gross domestic product shrank by 0.1% in the second quarter. (The Guardian)
 * The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, a U.S.-based organization that aims to keep educational materials broadly accessible, has asked the Antitrust Division of the Justice Department to halt a planned merger between two large textbook companies, McGraw-Hill and Cengage, a merger it claims will cause students "irreparable harm". (Reuters)


 * Health and environment
 * California regulators announce a ban on chlorpyrifos, an organophosphate nerve agent used as a pesticide. (Los Angeles Times)
 * France bans electric pulse fishing. (AFP via Yahoo! News}


 * Law and crime
 * August 2019 Philadelphia shooting
 * Six police officers are shot, sustaining non-life threatening injuries, by a gunman in Philadelphia; a seventh officer is injured in a related automobile accident nearby. (CNN) (NBC News)
 * Nisour Square massacre
 * In a third trial, Nicholas Slatten is sentenced to life in prison. (AFP via VoA)

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 * Politics and elections
 * Crisis in Venezuela
 * Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro creates a new government ministry, the Ministry of Tourism and Foreign Trade. (Venezuelanalysis)
 * Tarek William Saab strips the parliamentary immunity of the opposition politicians Juan Pablo García, Tomás Guanipa and José Guerra. (Venezuelanalysis)
 * A Norwegian delegation arrives in Venezuela to restart dialogues to end the presidential crisis. (Reuters)