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I will be doing a segment where i would do the wikipedia news of yesterday! 🙂
**October 19, 2017 (Thursday)**
**Armed conflicts and attacks**
*War in Afghanistan (2001–present)*
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At least 43 Afghan soldiers are killed in a Taliban attack on an army base in Kandahar province. Around 10 Taliban fighters also died in the attack.
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*2017 Tongo Tongo ambush*
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The United States Africa Command sends a team to Niger to investigate an October 4 ambush which killed four U.S. soldiers.
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**Politics and elections**
*2017 Spanish constitutional crisis*
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Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy warns Catalonian President Carles Puigdemont that the region's autonomy will be suspended if he fails to drop the Catalonian government's bid for secession by 10:00 AM CEST (08:00 AM GMT).
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Rajoy announces that he will begin the process of stripping Catalonia of its autonomy starting on October 21. This follows a letter Puigdemont wrote before the deadline again asking for dialogue, and blaming Rajoy for escalating the crisis. Rajoy had wanted dialogue after reassurances that the independence bid was dropped.
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*Aftermath of the New Zealand general election, 2017*
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New Zealand First leader Winston Peters chooses to create a minority coalition with the Labour Party and form the sixth Labour government.
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*Jacinda Ardern, the leader of the Labour Party, will be the next prime minister.*
**Science and technology**
*Scientists studying flying insects in nature reserves and protected areas of western Germany report a decline of more than 75% of the population in about three decades.*
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That would be the end of today's wikipedia's news of yesterday! 🙂
(this isn't the same soldier that got ambushed in Niger) https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2017/10/19/listen-soldiers-widow-shares-her-call-with-trump/
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