Informing, engaging & connecting the people of the world. JANUARY 31, 2020

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VIDEO: Miami, Florida will host the 54th Super Bowl this Sunday. The game, which is the culmination of the American football season, pits the Kansas City Chiefs against the San Francisco 49ers. The city is getting ready for an entire weekend of celebrations, including ramping up security.

ON THIS DAY IN AMERICAN HISTORY On January 31, 1950, President Harry S. Truman announces he will support the development of the hydrogen bomb, a weapon hundreds of times more powerful than the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II. The decision came shortly after the U.S. lost its nuclear supremacy when the Soviet Union successfully detonated an atomic bomb.

VIDEO: President Trump’s recently unveiled peace plan includes Israeli annexation of the Jordan Valley, the long strip of land that runs between Jordan and the West Bank. It makes up almost a third of the entire West Bank, and is one of the world’s main sources of dates. Neither Israelis nor Palestinians who live in the area know exactly what the so-called “deal of the century” will mean for the area.

VIDEO: A garment factory in the small town of Bartella, Iraq, employs some 550 workers, mostly women. The town is known by locals as ‘Small Iraq’ because workers from different religions and ethnicities live there.

Pakistan Friday temporarily halted all flights to and from China, effective immediately. The move came a day after it decided to delay the opening of a key border crossing with the neighboring country following the coronavirus outbreak.

Nearly a month after the expiration of the agreement on how to split the cost of the U.S. military presence in South Korea, there is growing frustration among South Korean civilians who will soon be temporarily suspended from their jobs on U.S. bases if a deal isn’t reached.