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Scotland's top legal officer says the UK must get Holyrood's consent before it can begin the process of leaving the European Union.  Lord Advocate James Wolffe argued before the British Supreme Court that Scotland doesn't necessarily get veto power, but Whitehall must consider the economic impact to the rest of the UK.  The court is holding hearings on a lower court ruling that only Parliament has the power to trigger the Brexit - justices also heard from lawyers from Northern Ireland, who said triggering the Brexit could have a profound effect on the 1998 agreement at the heart of the peace process.  Meanwhile in Parliament, Labour insisted that MPs are entitled to details of the government's negotiations with the European Union. 

Italian President Sergio Mattarella on Thursday night will consult with political parties about forming a caretaker government, after Prime Minister Matteo Renzi handed in his resignation.  Renzi was to quit on Monday, but agreed to stall for a couple of days until a 2017 budget was passed.  He chose to step down from his job of two and a half years after losing a public referendum on streamlining Italy's government.

The magnitude 6.5 earthquake that struck Indonesia's Aceh province killed at least 97 people.  Hundreds more are injured.  However, there was no tsunami.  More than 200 homes and shops were destroyed, as were 14 mosques.

No one survived the crash of a Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) commuter flight with 48 people on board.  Flight PK-661 was on its way from Chitral to Islamabad, crashing 70 kilometers short of its destination. 

The remaining rebels in the Syrian city of Aleppo are asking for a truce to allow civilians to evacuate, and the US and its allies are backing that request.  Tens of thousands of civilians are still trapped in rebel-held districts.  However, the Syrian government is ruling out any more cease fires and its Russian allies are referring to the rebels as "terrorists".  In a separate development, Syria accuses Israel of a missile attack on an air base near Damascus overnight.

A rights group is accusing Kenya's anti terrorism police of carrying out at least 81 extra-judicial killings of Muslims since 2012.  Haki Africa claims most of the victims were young men who had returned from Somalia - home base of Al Shabaab - and surrendered after the government promised them amnesty.  Kenya's police oversight body said 52 officers were on trial in connection with such killings countrywide.

South Sudan has deported an American freelance reporter who relayed stories of ethnic violence committed by government troops in the world's youngest country.  "The officers did not officially present me with a reason for my arrest and deportation, but repeatedly said my reporting was too critical of the government," said Justin Lynch.  "As an international journalist, it is an unfortunate reality that I am privileged compared to my brave South Sudanese colleagues who are frequently the victim of intimidation or even death," he added.  The three-year old civil war has killed thousands and routed 2.2 million people from their homes.

A New Zealander isn't taking it personally after a Kiwi government computer rejected his passport photo because of his eyes.  Richard Lee is of Asian descent, and the computer thought his eyes were closed.  Yeah, the app was coded by the unsophisticated, if you ask me.  But the 22-year old Lee shrugged it off with, "It was a robot," and adding that "facial recognition technology is relatively new and unsophisticated".  Lee needed the updated documents to travel to Melbourne, where he is a DJ and engineering student and no doubt will be checking CareerSpot for the latest career listings in his field.

A "quinceanera" - a girl's 15th birtday party - is a big deal in Mexico, and Rubi Ibarra Garcia's might be the biggest of them all.  Her father Crescencio Ibarra recorded a video inviting all to the party, thinking it was only going to be seen by friends and family.  Police in the village of La Joya, in the state of San Luis Potosi, are gearing up for crowd control, because 1.2 million people said they were going to attend.  The invite has even been lampooned by TV comedians.  Crescencio - who said the event will feature a horse race and performances by local bands - says he will not turn anyone away..

Time Magazine has named US pretender-elect Donald Trump as its "person of the year", joining a list of luminaries like Adolph Hitler, Josef Stalin, and Ayatollah Khomenei.