December 5, 2019 (Thursday)
Business and economy
- Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei sues the U.S. Federal Communications Commission over the latter's ban on carriers from using money from the Universal Service Fund to buy equipment from Huawei and ZTE. (Tech Crunch)
Disasters and accidents
- Three Minnesota National Guard members are killed when a Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter crashes near St. Cloud. (AOL News)
International relations
- Bosnia and Herzegovina takes full control of the country's airspace for the first time since the end of the Bosnian War. Bosnia's air space had been controlled by NATO between 1995 and 2003, following which it was controlled jointly by Serbia and Croatia until this announcement. (Reuters)
Law and crime
- Indonesian police arrest more than 34 people over "charges of treason" for attempting to raise the outlawed Morning Star flag, which represents the independence movement of West Papua Province. (RNZ)
- Accounting fraud
- The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charges Neil Cole, former CEO of Iconix Brand Group, with accounting fraud. (Reuters)
- In Miramar, Florida, police pursuing jewel thieves through traffic engage in a shootout leaving both perpetrators dead alongside two bystanders (one of whom was a UPS driver who had been taken hostage). (Miami New Times)
- Impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump
- U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announces the U.S. House of Representatives will begin to draft articles of impeachment against U.S. President Donald Trump before the Christmas recess. (The New York Times)
- 2019 French pension reform strike
- A national strike begins in France over President Emmanuel Macron's pension reform plan. (NPR)