U.S. President Donald J. Trump is scheduled to release (NYT) his plan for a resolution to the conflict between the Israelis and Palestinians today in a press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
 
Trump met yesterday with Netanyahu and his rival in an upcoming election, Blue and White party leader Benny Gantz, to brief them on the plan. Palestinian leaders have boycotted negotiations (Al-Monitor) with the Trump administration since 2017, when it moved the U.S. embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Palestinian authorities have already rejected the new plan, which is expected to propose Israeli sovereignty over much of the Jordan Valley.

The aircraft crashed (NYT) in a Taliban-controlled area near Kabul and did not appear to have been shot down by the group, U.S. military officials said.
 
Pakistan: Manzoor Pashteen, the leader of an activist group that denounces abuses of power by Pakistan’s military, was arrested (Dawn) on charges including sedition and intimidation. Amnesty International called for Pashteen’s immediate release, saying he had been arbitrarily detained.

The country’s foreign minister said Israeli citizens were not welcome (Al Jazeera) to visit Saudi Arabia for religious pilgrimages and short business trips, as Israel’s interior minister had announced a day earlier.

Rwandan authorities beat and arbitrarily detained homeless children that they claimed to be rehabilitating at a facility in Kigali, according to a new Human Rights Watch report.
 
Angola: Billionaire Isabel dos Santos said she is suing (Reuters) a group of investigative journalists that published reports about her business empire, saying they contain false allegations.  

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she will push for a March start to European Union accession talks (Politico) for Albania and North Macedonia. EU leaders failed to agree to such talks in October.
 
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Poland: Holocaust survivors and the Israeli and Polish presidents called for efforts to fight growing anti-Semitism (FT) at a gathering marking seventy-five years since the liberation of Auschwitz.

El Salvador and Guatemala will take measures to reduce the price of flights (Reuters) between the two countries. Guatemala also offered El Salvador the chance to build a port on its Atlantic coast, Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei said.
 
Brazil: Heavy rain in the country’s southeast killed at least forty-seven people (NYT) and led several towns to declare states of emergency as the rains are forecast to continue for several days.

The court voted five to four to grant immigration officials permission to deny green cards (NYT) to immigrants deemed likely to use public benefits such as Medicaid, food stamps, and housing vouchers.
 
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