The United Kingdom will allow Chinese telecommunications firm Huawei to build certain parts (BBC) of its 5G network, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab announced.
 
In response to warnings from Washington that a Huawei role in the network would compromise security for the U.S.-UK intelligence-sharing partnership, the United Kingdom capped Huawei’s market share (FT) of the network at 35 percent and pledged to work with the rest of the Five Eyes alliance—Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States—to develop alternative telecom suppliers. The limited permissions for Huawei go against Washington’s call for a full ban, and may influence upcoming decisions (BBC) on the company in countries such as Germany.

The Khyber Pass border crossing was closed for ten hours (Reuters) after a mortar bomb launched from Afghanistan landed in Pakistani territory, a Pakistani official said. 
 
Pakistan: Police detained at least twenty-five people, including one member of Parliament, at a protest calling for the release of Pashtun rights activist Manzoor Pashteen, according to an Al Jazeera report.

U.S. President Donald J. Trump unveiled a peace plan that proposes Israel’s control (NYT) of a unified Jerusalem and all of its current settlements in the West Bank, while a new Palestinian state would receive $50 billion in investment.
 
In this CFR In Brief, Philip H. Gordon discusses the inequality of Trump’s Middle East peace plan.
 
Yemen: The UN special envoy for Yemen told an emergency session of the UN Security Council that a recent escalation of fighting (UN) has jeopardized recent progress toward peace and must be stopped.

Eleven thousand people have fled into Chad from Sudan’s West Darfur state since late December due to intercommunal violence, the UN refugee agency reported.
 
Ethiopia: Tens of thousands of protesters denounced authorities for failing to return twenty-seven Amhara students abducted (BBC) last month. It is not clear who abducted the students.

Five civil society groups and fourteen local authorities are suing Total (VOA) in the first case to use a 2017 law requiring major French companies to create “vigilance plans” to prevent environmental damage, the claimants announced.

More than eight hundred people died while migrating across the Americas in 2019, the most since such calculations began six years ago, the UN International Organization for Migration (IOM) said.
 
Brazil: The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the IOM launched an initiative worth more than $4 million to help Venezuelan migrants (Reuters) settle in Brazil.
 
In Foreign Affairs, Cynthia J. Arnson looks at why the Venezuelan refugee crisis is a global issue.

The Pentagon said it increased its count (WSJ) of U.S. troops who suffered concussions or traumatic brain injuries during an Iranian missile strike to fifty. It said thirty-one have been treated and have returned to duty in Iraq.