U.S. President Donald J. Trump asked Congress to authorize $2.5 billion (Politico) to fight the spread of the new coronavirus, COVID-19, while the World Health Organization (WHO) instructed countries to prepare (BBC) for a possible coronavirus pandemic. 

More than 79,000 cases of the virus have been confirmed globally in at least thirty countries, according to the WHO. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advised against (NYT) travel to South Korea due to rapid spread of the virus there, and federal officials from Iraq and the United Arab Emirates suspended flights to Iran, where coronavirus deaths have reached at least fifteen. Global stocks stabilized today after concerns over the outbreak prompted a slump yesterday.

At least ten people, including a police officer, died in Delhi (India Today) amid clashes between protesters and counterprotesters over India’s new citizenship law.
 
In Foreign Affairs, Pratap Bhanu Mehta looks at how the citizenship law pushed Indians to revolt.
 
Afghanistan: A Taliban attack (TOLO) in the northern Balkh province killed at least seven people. Taliban attacks have been confirmed in three provinces since a reduction in violence pact with the United States came into effect on Saturday.

Former President Hosni Mubarak, who came to power in 1981 and stepped down during the 2011 Arab Spring, has died at ninety-one (Al Jazeera).
 
Libya: Representatives of the country’s two warring factions announced they were suspending their participation (Al Jazeera) in UN-brokered peace talks. The announcement comes despite UN assurances that a political dialogue between both sides will proceed as planned tomorrow.
 
This CFR In Brief looks at what’s at stake in Libya’s war.

In an appeal hearing, U.S. Supreme Court justices appeared to favor requiring greater compensation (Reuters) from Sudan for lives lost in the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. The Sudanese government is accused of complicity in the bombings, which are considered the first large-scale al-Qaeda attacks.
 
Tanzania: Journalist Erick Kabendera, who was arrested in July, was freed (BBC) after entering a plea deal for charges of money laundering and tax evasion. Amnesty International condemned Kabendera’s arrest as politically motivated persecution.
 
In CFR’s Africa in Transition blog, Jeffrey Smith discusses Kabendera’s case and Tanzania’s move toward authoritarianism.

At least fifty-two people were injured after a man drove a car (BBC) into a Carnival parade in the German town of Volkmarsen. A German citizen has been arrested on suspicion of attempted homicide.
 
Greece: Greek military jets intercepted (Kathimerini) two Turkish fighter jets that flew into Athens’s flight information region without proper warning, Greece’s military said. Tensions between Greece and Turkey have risen in recent months (Guardian) due to a dispute over access to energy reserves in the Mediterranean.

The Canadian mining giant Teck Resources withdrew its application (CBC) for a $20 billion oil sands mine in Alberta that had become a focal point in a national debate about climate change and job creation.
 
Brazil: Authorities reported that 147 people were murdered in five days during a police strike (BBC) in the northeastern state of Ceara. The state homicide rate has reached five times its normal level, despite security reinforcement from the Brazilian army.