Democratic presidential nominee Businessman Tom Steyer suspends his presidential campaign, after coming in a distant third.
2020 Slovak parliamentary election Voters in Slovakia head to the polls to elect the members of the country's National Council.
Turkish president Turkish President Recep Erdoğan says 18,000 refugees have crossed into Europe as of this morning and that 25,000–30,000 more may cross today. Erdoğan reiterates that Turkey cannot handle another refugee wave from Syria and that it will keep its borders open.
Migrants Eighty migrants cross to Aegean Islands Lesbos and Samos overnight after Turkey opens its border with Greece.
COVID-19 pandemic The U.S. announces new travel restrictions to Iran and increased warnings against traveling to South Korea and Italy.
The first death from coronavirus in the United States is confirmed after a man dies in a hospital in the Seattle area.
A 78-year-old man evacuated from the Diamond Princess becomes the first death from coronavirus in Australia.
The United Arab Emirates suspends all extracurricular school activities and orders nurseries closed until further notice as measures to prevent the spreading of the virus.
Syrian civil war Turkish media said that drone and missile strikes targeted Syrian Kuweires and Abu al-Duhur military airbases in Aleppo Governorate, saying a hangar was destroyed.
Turkey says it has destroyed a chemical warfare facility at a scientific research center in As-Safira, south of Aleppo with surface-to-surface missiles. Syrian Government said Turkish statement regarding the chemical warfare facility was not true.
Turkish bombing overnight kills 48 Syrian government troops and 14 members of the Lebanese Hezbollah, and also destroys 13 military vehicles. According to local sources, among the killed were 11 officers including a general, a brigadier general, and a colonel.
A Turkish soldier is killed and six more are wounded by Syrian government artillery shelling near Taftanaz.
American and Afghan Taliban leaders will meet at the Sheraton Grand Doha Resort & Convention Hotel in Doha, Qatar, ahead of a signing ceremony to bring an end to the 18-year war in Afghanistan, which is now the longest war in U.S. history. Taliban deputy leader Sirajuddin Haqqani says "everyone is tired of war, it has exhausted everyone", while the longest-serving NATO Commander in Afghanistan, General John Nicholson, describes the situation as a "stalemate".