Portal:Current events/2019 September 11

September 11, 2019 (Wednesday)

Business and economy

China–United States trade war
- China publishes a list of 16 U.S. goods that will be temporarily exempted from its retaliatory import tariffs. (Reuters)
- China announces that it will allow the import of soybean meal from Argentina, to ensure livestock feed under the impact of the trade war with the U.S. Apart from Argentina, China has been increasing imports of soybeans and soymeal from other channels, such as allowing soybean meal, rapeseed meal and sunflower meal from Russia since September 6. (Global Times)
2019 Japan–South Korea trade dispute
- South Korea announces it will file a complaint with the World Trade Organization over Japanese government export controls. (Marketwatch)

Disasters and accidents

A crash of a twin-engine Convair 440 cargo plane near Toledo, Ohio, kills the two people on board. (CNN)
Effects of Hurricane Dorian in The Bahamas
- The Bahamian National Emergency Management Agency lists approximately 2,500 people as missing after Hurricane Dorian devastated the islands last week. (BBC News)

International relations

Politics and elections

Suffering from pneumonia, Tongan Prime Minister ʻAkilisi Pōhiva is rushed from hospital in Nukuʻalofa to one in Auckland, New Zealand, where he was treated for a liver condition earlier this year. According to a government spokesperson, Pōhiva is in a "very serious" condition. (RNZ)
B.J. Habibie, reformist Indonesian president, dies at 83, after spending more than a week in intensive care. (The Washington Post)
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe rearranges his government cabinet, naming replacements at the Defense, Foreign Affairs, Environment and Olympics ministries, among others. (Al Jazeera)
Politics of the United Kingdom
- Scotland's Court of Session rules that UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson violated the law by his suspension of Parliament from 9 September to 14 October, encouraging calls for MPs to get back to work immediately. (Reuters)
- The Johnson ministry releases the Operation Yellowhammer contingency plans in the event of a no-deal Brexit to the public. (BBC News)
2019 Canadian federal election
- Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau calls a general election on 21 October. Governor General Julie Payette, the acting head of state, formally dissolves Parliament. (The Independent)

Science and technology

Scientists from Denmark and the United Kingdom report they have identified genetic information from a 1.7-million-year-old Stephanorhinus tooth enamel from Dmanisi, Georgia, making it the oldest genetic data ever recorded. (Cosmos)
Discoveries of exoplanets
- Water vapor is detected on exoplanet K2-18b, a super-Earth which is located about 111 light-years away from Earth. It is the first time water has been confirmed on an exoplanet within the circumstellar habitable zone of a star. (BBC News) (Business Insider)
Scientists report, in the journal Gondwana Research, the discovery of an eighth— still hidden—continent (Greater Adria) from the break-up of supercontinent Pangaea which slid underneath what is now Southern Europe about 120 million years ago. (National Geographic) (Business Insider)