BFM TV, citing the presidential office, says President MACRON has refused to accept Interior Minister Nunez's resignation.

Multiple civic groups will hold a rally outside the National Diet building in Tokyo on the evening of the 19th local time calling to defend Article 9 and protesting the government's military expansion. Japan's postwar constitution, effective 1947, renounces war, prohibits maintaining armed forces and does not recognize a state's right of belligerency; Article 9 is commonly referred to as the pacifist constitution.

U.S. Secretary of State Rubio said the U.S. is close to finalizing a trade agreement with India.