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Armed conflicts and attacks

War in Afghanistan
- Mortars are fired at the diplomatic quarter of Kabul. After several hours of fighting, officials say that the attackers are dead. (BBC)

Disasters and accidents

2018 Venezuela earthquake
- A magnitude 7.3 earthquake strikes off the coast of Venezuela, prompting buildings to be evacuated in Caracas. Buildings are also reportedly felt shaking across the Caribbean and South America's North coast. (The Guardian) (Newsweek)
2018 lower Puna eruption
- Footage from the United States Geological Survey shows lava activity at Kīlauea slowing down. (KHQ)

International relations

El Salvador severs diplomatic relations with Taiwan, opting to instead establish ties with China. (Financial Times)
Russia–United States relations
- The United States imposes new sanctions on two Russian shipping companies and six vessels for being involved in oil transfer to North Korea. (Reuters)

Law and crime

Sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic dioceses of Pennsylvania
- The University of Scranton removes the names of three Catholic bishops implicated in the August 2018 grand jury report on abuse in Pennsylvania from its campus buildings. (Times-Tribune) (CNN)
Pursuit of Nazi collaborators
- Jakiw Palij, a 95-year-old who is believed to have been a Nazi Trawniki concentration camp guard in 1943, is deported from the United States to Germany. (Time)
Michael Cohen, the ex-lawyer of U.S. President Donald Trump, reaches a plea deal with federal prosecutors. (NBC News)
Trials of Paul Manafort
- Former Donald Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort is found guilty on eight charges for false tax returns and bank fraud. (The Guardian)
In the United States, inmates in 17 states go on a strike to protest prison labor. (The Guardian)
A court in Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City begins the trial for 12 people, including two Americans, on charges for attempting to overthrow the government. (Los Angeles Times)

Politics and elections

Science and technology

Ice is confirmed at the Moon's poles. (BBC) (Independent) (The Guardian)
The mass of exoplanet Beta Pictoris b is measured directly for the first time through astrometry, giving it a mass of 7001110000000000000♠11±2 Jupiter masses, and marking one of the first times an exoplanet was detectable through measuring its effect on the host star's location. (Phys.org)

Sports