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Former SNP leader Alex Salmond is to stand for a seat at Westminster at next May’s General Election, the BBC understands.
BBC News – UK

The funeral of Akai Gurley, a New York man fatally shot by police last month, is held in Brooklyn, as protests continue around the country.
BBC News – US & Canada

US journalist Luke Somers and South African teacher Pierre Korkie are killed by al-Qaeda militants in Yemen during a rescue attempt by special forces.
BBC News – Africa

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The US economy added 321,000 jobs in November, official figures show.
BBC News – Business

Rights group Amnesty International criticises the world’s wealthiest nations for taking in a “pitiful” number of Syria’s most vulnerable refugees.
BBC News – Middle East

An Argentine campaign group says it has found another child snatched from political prisoners detained and killed under military rule in the 1970s.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

The Greek prime minister says the British Museum’s decision to loan one of the Elgin Marbles to Russia is “an affront” to the Greek people.
BBC News – Europe

Former Manchester DJ Ray Teret, a friend of Jimmy Savile, is convicted of seven rapes and 11 counts of indecent assault.
BBC News – UK

UN human rights experts express “legitimate concerns” over no charges being brought against US policemen involved in two civilian deaths.
BBC News – US & Canada

Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta denounces as a “travesty” the case against him at the International Criminal Court, which has now been dropped.
BBC News – Africa

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Chancellor George Osborne says claims about the impact of spending cuts are exaggerated, as he defends his Autumn Statement.
BBC News – Business

Al-Qaeda militants based in Yemen have published a video purporting to show a British-born US hostage and threatening to kill him.
BBC News – Middle East

Mexican federal forces are deployed to dozens of towns in a violence-ridden area of Mexico following the disappearance of 43 students in September.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

President Putin warns Russians of hard economic times ahead and urges national self-reliance, days after the rouble suffers its biggest fall since the 1990s.
BBC News – Europe

Conservative MP Mark Pritchard has been arrested following an alleged incident in central London.
BBC News – UK

US officials order a probe after a grand jury decides not to charge a white New York police officer over the death of a black man he was restraining.
BBC News – US & Canada

Islamic State has set up training camps in militant-held areas of eastern Libya, the general heading the US Africa command says.
BBC News – Africa

 “We always come back and figure out ways to get better. Sometimes there are small gains.
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