United States Senate The U.S. Senate votes 55–45 to pass a measure requiring President Donald Trump to win approval from Congress before taking further military actions against Iran.
2020 British cabinet reshuffle Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Julian Smith, Business Secretary Andrea Leadsom and Environment Secretary Theresa Villiers all leave the government.
Amid a cabinet reshuffle by Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Sajid Javid resigns as the United Kingdom's Chancellor of the Exchequer after reportedly refusing to sack his adviser team. Javid is replaced by Chief Secretary to the Treasury Rishi Sunak, who becomes the first Hindu to hold the senior position.
Indonesian government The Indonesian government declares that all nationals who join ISIL automatically lose their citizenship, and refuses to repatriate fighters captured in Syria.
United States–Venezuela relations Venezuelan Foreign Affairs minister Jorge Arreaza announces that his government, led by Nicolás Maduro, will take the U.S. to the International Criminal Court for alleged "crimes against humanity".
Sudan–United States relations As part of government efforts to remove the country from a list of State Sponsors of Terrorism, Sudan agrees to compensate the families of sailors killed in an al-Qaeda attack against the USS "Cole".
COVID-19 pandemic Japan's Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare reports the country's first death related to the COVID-19 pandemic, a woman in her 80s.
Chinese officials report 15,152 new confirmed cases of the 2019-nCoV acute respiratory disease (COVID-19) and 254 new deaths in mainland China, the largest single day increase since the pandemic began. However, the number of confirmed cases now also includes the number of clinically diagnosed patients in Hubei province.
Cannabis in the United Kingdom The Food Standards Agency gives producers of Cannabidiol-related products until March 2021 to register their goods, or they will be pulled from the market.
Canada Canadian airplane manufacturer Bombardier sells its remaining stake in the A220 model, previously called the C-Series, to France's Airbus, effectively closing its commercial aviation line of business.
United States American newspaper publisher McClatchy, whose assets include the "Miami Herald" and "The Sacramento Bee", files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
45th César Awards The entire board of France's César Awards resigns following controversy over the Academy giving Roman Polanski's "An Officer and a Spy" 12 award nominations, the most out of any film this year.
El Progreso Around two dozen heavily armed men dressed in military fatigues storm a court building in El Progreso, north-western Honduras, freeing Alexander Mendoza, a senior leader of the MS-13 gang and killing four police officers. Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández offers a $80,000 reward for information leading to Mendoza's recapture.
Iran–Israel conflict during the Syrian civil war The Israeli Air Force launches an air raid on Iranian targets in the Syrian capital Damascus. Syrian state media says the Air Defense Force intercepted several missiles.
War U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper says that the U.S. and the Taliban have negotiated a proposal for a seven-day reduction of violence in Afghanistan.