Thursday,  July 16th, 2020

Mongolia puts five districts under a six-day quarantine after a 15-year-old boy dies of bubonic plague in the remote Gobi-Altai province amid fears of an epidemic. (AFP via Al Arabiya)

Saudi-led coalition airstrikes kill at least seven civilians when they hit houses in the Al Jawf Governorate of Yemen. The Houthis report nine killed, two of them children. The coalition did not immediately comment on the airstrike. (Reuters)

A statue of Black Lives Matter protester Jen Reid is briefly erected without permission on the plinth of the toppled statue of Edward Colston before being removed the next day. (CBS News)

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and Groupe PSA announce that when their planned merger is completed, expected in 2021, the merged company will be known as Stellantis. (Detroit Free Press)

The Twitter accounts of notable people and businesses, including Elon Musk, Joe Biden, Bill Gates and Apple Inc., are hijacked to promote a Bitcoin scam. (CNBC)

 

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