Education Department downsizing, $667M Greenpeace verdict and World Happiness Report

Trump signs an order to downsize the Department of Education, freed Israeli hostage Eli Sharabi addresses the UN security council, Indonesia expands the military's role in civilian institutions, the UK hosts a 30-nation meeting for a Ukraine peacekeeping force, Argentina’s lower house approves an IMF loan plan, Canada reports that four of its citizens were executed in China on drug charges, Greenpeace is ordered to pay $667M in the Dakota pipeline case, Paris claims that a French scientist was denied US entry over messages about Trump, Kirsty Coventry is elected the first female president of the International Olympic Committee, and the US hits a record low in this year’s World Happiness Report.

Sources: www.verity.news