Midday Brief, Friday, December 20, 2019

20 December 2019

UPDATED 20 December 2019

THE MONKEYS’ MISERY: An endangered Phayre’s Leaf Monkey atop a tree in Lawachhara National Park in Moulvibazar’s Srimangal upazila. A recent forest department initiative to cut around 6,000 fruit trees in the forests may push the species towards extinction. Photo: STAR/ Mintu Deshwara

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Here are the news headlines so far on December 20, 2019

National
Bangladesh wins gold medal in Robot Olympiad
Cold wave likely to improve from Sunday
PM inaugurates AL council at Suhrawardy Udyan

World
Facebook says investigating data exposure of 267m users
Death toll in India's citizenship protests rises to 3
Trump seeks rapid exoneration in Senate after impeachment
Democratic 2020 candidates lash Trump before debating policy