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Portal:Current events/2019 October 14
- Armed conflicts and attacks
- Syrian Civil War, 2019 Turkish offensive into north-eastern Syria, NES–Syria relations
- In the early hours of the morning, the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces hands over control of Tabqa, and the nearby Tabqa Airbase in the Raqqa Governorate to the Syrian Army. (Reuters) (Al Jazeera)
- A French tourist was stabbed to death while a Tunisinian soldier was wounded by an Islamist in Bizerte, Tunisia. (Xinhua)
- Arts and culture
- The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences selects Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer as laureates for this year's Nobel Prize in Economics, "for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty". (NPR)
- Law and crime
- Trial of Catalonia independence leaders, 2017-18 Spanish constitutional crisis
- The Supreme Court of Spain sentences the twelve Catalan independence leaders between 9 and 13 years in prison and disqualification from holding public office for sedition and misuse of public funds. While it proves the existence of violent outbreaks, it judges they are not sufficient to convict for rebellion.(BBC)(The New York Times)
- Former Catalan Vice President Oriol Junqueras receives the highest penalty with 13 years in prison and disqualification, while former councilors Meritxell Borràs, Santi Vila and Carles Mundó are sentenced to one year and 8 months disqualification for disobedience. (El País)
- Demonstrations and cut roads take place throughout Catalonia, with the largest taking place in Barcelona. The Committees for the Defense of the Republic calls for disobedience and popular revolt. (El Periódico) (El Mundo)
- President of Catalonia Quim Torra requests a meeting with King Felipe VI of Spain and Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and calls the sentence as an act of "revenge". Sánchez, in a special press conference, guarantees compliance with the sentence and calls for dialogue and coexistence, as well as ensures that Spain is a democratic state.(El Confidencial) (El Mundo)
- Judge Pablo Llarena issues a European Arrest Warrant against former Catalan President Carles Puigdemont. (El Confidencial)
- Clashes erupts between Mossos d'Esquadra and the protesters that occupied the Barcelona–El Prat Josep Tarradellas Airport. (ABC.es)
- Convicted British serial sex offender and paedophile Richard Huckle, who sexually abused dozens of children in Malaysia, is found stabbed to death in his cell at HM Prison Full Sutton. (BBC)