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Security services are on high alert across Europe, and in Turkey, amid fears of terror attacks at New Year celebrations.
BBC News – Europe

The knighthood awarded to Lynton Crosby, who helped the Conservatives win May’s election, is “outrageous”, Labour’s Andy Burnham says.
BBC News – UK

Prosecutors charge US comedian Bill Cosby with indecent assault over an alleged incident in 2004 – the first criminal case after a slew of accusations.
BBC News – US & Canada

A South African king who is a nephew of the late Nelson Mandela has begun a 12-year prison sentence for kidnapping, assault and arson.
BBC News – Africa

Basketballs slammed against the backboard bouncing away at different angles into the hands of children at Thunder Youth Basketball Camp.
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Stepping off of the snowy streets of downtown Okl
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Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) issues three times more fines against nuisance call firms.
BBC News – Business

IS commanders linked to last month’s Paris attacks were among 10 militants killed in recent US-led coalition air strikes, the US military says.
BBC News – Middle East

The body of Carlos Rosales Mendoza, the founder of the La Familia drug cartel, is found by a motorway in western Mexico.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

The United Nations refugee agency says more than one million refugees and migrants reached Europe by sea in 2015.
BBC News – Europe

Hundreds of homes in Northern Ireland are left without power as Storm Frank hits, while north-west England and parts of Scotland are braced for further heavy rain.
BBC News – UK

A police officer denies murder over the death of a black teenager who was shot 16 times in Chicago in 2014.
BBC News – US & Canada

The World Health Organization (WHO) declares the end of the Ebola outbreak in Guinea, two years after the epidemic began there.
BBC News – Africa

On Sunday night, the Thunder showed that it can a
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Saudi Arabia’s budget deficit soars to $ 98bn this year as the world’s biggest oil exporter counts the cost of falling crude prices.
BBC News – Business

The Iraqi city of Ramadi has been “liberated” from so-called Islamic State, Iraq’s military declares, in what would be a major loss for the jihadist group
BBC News – Middle East

Israel warns Brazil that ties could suffer if the South American nation refuses to accept a West Bank settler as ambassador to Brasilia.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

The Italian cities of Milan and Rome restrict car use after high levels of pollution made worse by a lack of rainfall in recent weeks.
BBC News – Europe

There needs to be a “complete rethink” of the UK’s flood defences following unprecedented flooding across northern England, the Environment Agency says.
BBC News – UK

At least 43 people have been killed over five days by severe storms across southern and western parts of the United States.
BBC News – US & Canada