Portal:Current events/2019 December 2

• Russia and China inaugurate their joint Power of Siberia gas pipeline. (The Seattle Times)

• Thirteen Pakistani nationals, including eight children and four women, have died and three others are injured in a fire at a farm in rural Jordan. (BBC News)

• 2019 Samoa measles outbreak
  • Police urge people to respect the curfew. Authorities order that children stay at home and announce that Christmas celebrations and public gatherings have been cancelled in order to prevent the epidemic from spreading even further. The death toll from the outbreak now stands at 53. (RNZ) (Stuff.co.nz) (RNZ₂)

• China–United States relations
  • China bans visits by United States military ships to Hong Kong and sanctions five U.S. NGOs, in response to the American Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act passed last week. (CNBC)
• International Atomic Energy Agency approved Rafael Grossi as the new Director General. (IAEA)

• A 12-year-old boy is killed and five other people are injured in a deliberate hit-and-run crash near a school in Loughton, Essex, United Kingdom. (BBC News)
• A man shoots himself on the steps of the Alberta Legislature Building in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, causing an early adjournment of the day's question period. The individual is pronounced dead at the scene. (Global)

• Politics of Mauritius
  • The National Assembly of Mauritius elects and sworns in Prithvirajsing Roopun as nation's President. (Business Standard)