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French President Francois Hollande will not run for a second term.  His announcement came to a surprise to many, although his approval ratings had plunged shortly after taking office in 2012 and have not recovered amidst economic doldrums and terrorist attacks.  This clears the way for Prime Minister Manuel Valls to pick up the banner of the Socialists in next year's presidential election.  He will likely face a tough contest from ex-Prime Minister Francois Fillon representing the Republicans and far-right Marine Le Pen of the racist and xenophobic Front National.

Bolivia has suspended the license of the charter airline that crashed, killing 71 people including most members of Brazil's Chapecoense football team en route to play in the Copa Sudamericana finals.  Investigators want to know why the British-made BAE 146 Avro RJ85 aircraft had no fuel when it plunged into a mountainside near Medellin, Colombia.  Control tower audio confirmed the pilot had requested to land because of a fuel shortage and electric failure.  LaMia airlines is only a year old, and two of its three aircraft are in hangars for repair - the third is in tiny pieces in Colombia.

Colombia's lower house has approved the peace deal with the Marxist FARC rebel group, putting an end to the five decade old civil war.  A previous deal failed in a public referendum because of conservative opposition.  It'll take a few months, but the FARC will move out of their territory to segue to civilian life, hand in their weapons and form a political party.  The Colombian military will move into former rebel areas to prevent drug gangs from taking over in the void.

The UN Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR) says ethnic cleansing is taking place in war-torn South Sudan, to the point that "the stage is being set for a repeat of what happened in Rwanda" in the 1994 Genocide.  The government of President Salva Kiir denies, but the UN has documented instances of forced starvation, the burning of villages, and rape being used as weapons of war across the country.  South Sudan's civil war has caused more than 2.2 million people since 2013.

The US-led coalition killed as many as 54 civilians in recent air strikes in Syria.  US officials say 20 of these are confirmed, and another 34 civilian deaths were "more likely than not" caused by the coalition.  Independent monitoring groups believe the number of civilians killed is much higher.  Meanwhile, a Syrian man who dressed as a clown to raise the spirits of hospitalized children in the besieged city of Aleppo has also been killed in an air raid, be it the work of Russia or the Syrian government.  24-year old Anas al-Basha was the executive director of the group Space of Hope.  "Anas who refused to leave Aleppo and decided to stay there to continue his work as a volunteer, to help the civilians and give gifts for the children in the streets to bring hope for them," wrote his brother Mahmoud on social media.

November was a deadly month in Iraq, with military deaths reaching 1,959 and civilian fatalities at 926 lives lost.  The push to reclaim Mosul from the so-called Islamic state is partially responsible for the spike; the UN also blames IS itself for stepping up atrocities against civilians.

Austrian police found six people dead in a house in a small community west of Vienna, calling it a murder-suicide.  A 35-year woman is suspected of having shot her mother, brother, and three children aged seven to 10, before turning the gun on herself.  Gun violence is exceedingly rare in the Alpine Republic.

Thailand's military-controlled parliament elevated 64-year old Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn to the throne of his father King Bhumibol Adulyadej, who died in October.  The former prince will be known as King Rama X.

Legendary US Astronaut Buzz Aldrin is in hospital in New Zealand in a stable condition, after being evacuated from the South Pole.  46 years after walking on the moon, Mr. Aldrin was visiting the southernmost continent with a tour group when his medical condition deteriorated.  He is reportedly responding well to antibiotics.