The U.S. military said it carried out air strikes (FT) against five sites belonging to Iraq’s Iran-backed Kata’ib Hezbollah militant group in retaliation for an attack that killed two Americans and a British soldier. Iraq’s military condemned the U.S. strikes (Reuters), which it said killed six people.
 
The strikes were Washington’s first attacks against an Iranian proxy since the January killing of Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani. They came one day after the U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution (CNN) aiming to limit executive authority to use military force against Iran without congressional approval. U.S. President Donald J. Trump is expected to veto the resolution.

Lawmakers and central bank officials worldwide are preparing relief measures due to mounting economic losses caused by the coronavirus pandemic. The New York Federal Reserve said it would inject $1.5 trillion (WSJ) into financial markets, the Eurozone said it would flex budget rules (FT) to boost spending, and Iran asked the International Monetary Fund for $5 billion (Al Jazeera) in emergency funding.
 
CFR’s Why It Matters podcast discusses the coronavirus’s economic impact.

Government records show that China’s first known case of the new coronavirus was discovered in a fifty-five-year-old from Hubei Province on November 17, according to a South China Morning Post report.
 
Myanmar: The U.S. military repatriated the suspected remains (AP) of airmen killed in Myanmar during World War II.

Pakistani anticorruption authorities arrested (Dawn) Mir Shakilur Rahman, owner of the Jang Media Group, on suspicion of illegally purchasing land in 1986. Press freedom groups including the Committee to Protect Journalists denounced the arrest (NYT) as retaliation for Jang Media Group’s investigative reporting.

Saudi Arabia’s state-owned oil company, Saudi Aramco, began marketing discounted barrels to frequent buyers of Russian oil after a pricing consensus between the countries collapsed, according to a Reuters report. Oil prices may remain at their current lows for months amid the price war, according to a Reuters survey.
 
CFR’s Amy Myers Jaffe discusses the Saudi-Russian oil price war.

Facebook and Twitter said they removed (Reuters) fake social media accounts operating in the two countries that were linked to a Russian group known for interfering in U.S. elections.
 
Senegal: Scientists in the country are working with the United Kingdom’s Mologic lab to create a coronavirus rapid test kit (CNN) that would be the first diagnostic kit to be jointly manufactured in Africa.

Germany’s domestic intelligence agency classified (NYT) part of the far-right Alternative for Germany party as extremist and placed some party leaders under surveillance.
 
France: Elections for mayors and other local officials across the country are set to occur Sunday (Politico).

Canada’s new immigration plan will accommodate (The Star) up to 1.14 million new immigrants, including economic migrants, migrants sponsored by family members, and refugees, by 2022.
 
Mexico: Washington sanctioned four businesses (State Department) for links to the drug cartels Los Cuinis and Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG). U.S. authorities announced more than six hundred arrests (The Hill) earlier this week in a probe against CJNG.
 
This CFR Backgrounder looks at Mexico’s drug war.

Carlos Cordeiro, president of the U.S. Soccer Federation, resigned (WaPo) after widespread criticism of his organization’s lawsuit, which argued that female players have less physical ability and responsibility than players on the men’s national team.