Cabinet of Donald Trump U.S. President Donald Trump appoints attorney and former U.S. State Department hostage negotiator Robert C. O'Brien as his new National Security Advisor.
Murder of Derk Wiersum Dutch lawyer Derk Wiersum has been shot to death near his home. At the time of his death he was the lawyer of state witness Nabil Bakkali in the Marengo-proces against the Mocro Maffia led by Ridouan Taghi.
A serious ongoing economic crisis The NGO Human Rights Watch publishes details of what it deems to be arbitrary executions and arrests in Venezuela. The Venezuelan government alleges that most of those listed in the report were armed criminals, but admits to have placed several hundred security agents under investigation for abuses of power and extrajudicial actions.
2019 Samoa assassination plot Prosecutiors in the case of the latest attempt to kill Samoan Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi announce that Eletise Leafa Vitale, convicted of the assassination of one of Malielegoai's cabinet members in another failed attempt at killing him in 1999, will testify in the trial against the conspirators of this year's plot.
Solomon Islands–United States relations U.S. Vice President Mike Pence cancels a meeting with Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare in response to the country's move to cut ties with Taiwan and establish relations with China.
Twin Otter A Twin Otter cargo plane carrying rice and four people goes missing shortly after its departure from Timika, Indonesia.
Liberia At least 27 people, a majority of them children, are killed in a fire caused by an electrical problem at a boarding school in a suburb near the Liberian capital of Monrovia.
2019 Japan–South Korea trade dispute South Korea officially removes Japan from its "whitelist" of countries with fast-track trade status.