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Saying, "the people of Israel don't need to be lectured about peace by foreign leaders," Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu railed against the speech given earlier in the day by US Secretary of State John Kerry, who said that Netanyahu's actions are damaging prospects for a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict.  Peppering his words with constant reminders that the Obama Administration has less than a month left in office, Netanyahu said he was "disappointed", claimed Kerry is biased against Israel, and said he looked forward to working with the incoming Trump administration.  The Israeli PM also reiterated his dubious claim of having solid evidence the US President Barack Obama pushed last Friday's UN security council resolution condemning Israeli settlements in Palestinian lands, and said he'd turn it over to the orange clown after the inauguration in Washington.

Mr. Netanyahu said the Palestinians are not willing to talk about peace:  Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas responded he is ready to resume peace talks with Netanyahu, if Israel freezes all settlement activity in the occupied West Bank and other Palestinian territories.  More than 500,000 Jews live in about 140 settlements built since Israel's 1967 occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

Earlier in the day, US Secretary of State John Kerry blasted the conservative Netanyahu's policies as the greatest threat to the two-state solution:  "The Israeli prime minister publicly supports a two-state solution, but his current coalition is the most right-wing in Israeli history with an agenda driven by the most extreme elements," Kerry said. "The result is that policies of this government, which the prime minister himself just described as more committed to settlements than any Israel's history, are leading in the opposite direction.  They are leading towards one state."

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Russia and Turkey have reportedly agreed on a cease-fire proposal for their parts of the Syrian Civil War.  The Syrian government, supported by Russia, and Turkish-backed rebel groups have not responded. 

Russian media report that investigators are looking at faulty wing flaps as the cause of the Christmas Day military plane crash that killed 92 people, including several members of the military choir.  Life News, which has ties to Russian intelligence, claims the flight data recorder showed the pilots shouting about the flaps as they lost control of the aging, Soviet-era Tupelev Tu-154 transport plane after it took off from Sochi and plunged into the Black Sea.

German authorities detained a Tunisian man in last week's deadly attack on a Christmas market.  The new suspect's phone number was found on the mobile of Anis Amri, the 24-year old Tunisian who police say stole a truck and plowed it into the market in Berlin, killing twelve people. 

Chinese police killed four people who attacked a Communist Party headquarters in western Xinjiang province, where authorities have been battling a Muslim separatist movement.  The attackers had set off a bomb that killed one person and injured four more.

Activists say the number of bodies found dumped in Balochistan - more than a thousands since 2006 - point to widespread extra-judicial killings by Pakistani security forces.  The Voice for Baloch Missing Persons (VBMP) says most of the bodies "are of those activists who have been victims of 'enforced disappearances' - people who are picked up by authorities and then just go missing."  The government says the bodies - rights activists alongside militants - were the results of infighting among insurgent groups.

Nigeria's most-senior Muslim cleric is once again rejecting a new gender equality bill, which proposes that women and men inherit an equal share.  An earlier version of the bill was scuttled in March before of opposition from Islamic clerics, who believe Islamic law guarantees men a greater share.

Uruguay's former military dictator Gregorio Alvarez has died in prison at age 91.  He was serving a 25-year term for crimes against humanity and the forced disappearances of 37 people.  As one of the military officers who stormed Parliament in 1973 to usher in twelve years of fascist rule, he was the power behind the presidency all along until he formally took the office in 1981.  Repression and killing increased, and the country could take no more - Alvarez didn't take part in the negotiations to return to democracy in 1985, and wasn't arrested for his crimes until 2007.