2019 Guatemalan general election The Attorney General files a request to withdraw immunity to the presidential candidate of National Unity of Hope, former First Lady Sandra Torres, for alleged crimes of illicit electoral financing. Torres said it was a political persecution of the former Attorney General and presidential candidate Thelma Aldana.
Game law In a landmark decision, the Constitutional Court of Colombia rules to ban recreational hunting, citing environmental protection concerns.
2019 Venezuelan presidential crisis The Venezuelan National Guard blocks off a bridge on the Colombia–Venezuela border with a tanker truck. The Venezuelan opposition had been planning to use the bridge to bring humanitarian aid into the country, while President Nicolás Maduro has rejected foreign aid, saying "we're not a nation of beggars".
Accession of Macedonia to NATO In Brussels, an accession protocol for joining NATO is signed between Jens Stoltenberg, Secretary General of NATO, and Nikola Dimitrov, foreign minister of the Republic of Macedonia.
2019 Philippines measles outbreak The Philippines Department of Health declares a measles outbreak attributed to the drop in trust in vaccines due to the Dengvaxia controversy.
Istanbul Fourteen people were killed, and fourteen others are injured when an eight-story apartment building collapsed in Istanbul, Turkey.
2018 Anchorage earthquake Two aftershocks strike Anchorage, Alaska, the first a magnitude 4.1, and the second a magnitude 3.7, occurring 23 minutes later.