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Turkish media is reporting that the main suspect in the New Year's Eve attack on an exclusive nightclub in Istanbul has been arrested.  Abdulkadir Masharipov - the Uzbeki man with the creepy selfie stick video - is suspected of killing 39 people at Istanbul's Reina nightclub on New Year's Eve.  The victims included citizens of nine countries.  Cops reportedly caught up with him in Istanbul.  The so-called Islamic state claimed responsibility for the attack, claiming revenge or Turkey's involvement in Syria.

Lithuania will build a border fence along its frontier with the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, to protect from any Russian "provocations" and smuggling.  The fence isn't going to going to do a lot against those nuclear-capable missile that Moscow just put there, but hey it sends a message.  Like its former Warsaw Pact neighbors, Lithuania is concerned by Russia's March 2014 annexation of Ukraine's Crimea region.

European leaders are bristling as the darkness and gloom of the Trump era looms closer:  French President Francois Hollande said Europe has "no need" for the advice of pretender-elect Donald Trump, who criticized the welcoming of refugees.  German Chancellor Angela Merkel said, "We Europeans have our fate in our own hands."  Although Trump also seemed to threaten the NATO alliance, calling it "obsolete", both leaders said Europe will continue to work with the US, as long as it is within "its interests and its values".

Donald Trump may end the decades-old tradition of providing workspace to journalists near the West Wing of the White House.  While vice president-elect Mike Pence claims the point would be to move reporters into a larger space somewhere else on the White House compound because of their "interest" in the shyte-show about to take place, the idea of secluding reporters set off alarms in Washington and immediately raised doubts about Trump's "commitment to transparency, to free and independent press" - which, by the way, is the ONLY profession specifically mentioned for protection in the Constitution of The United States of America.

Northern Ireland has set elections for 2 March, after the Stormont power-sharing agreement collapsed.  Sinn Fein's Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness resigned in protest over First Minister Arlene Foster's botched green-energy scheme, triggering the elections.  It sets up weeks of political upheaval, just as the UK is to begin talks on leaving the EU.  Northern Ireland - which voted overwhelmingly to stay in the EU - is most likely to feel the impact of the Brexit because of its lengthy border with the Irish Republic.

The boycott of Trump's inauguration is growing.  There are now 26 members of congress refusing to attend, and musical acts have been bailing left and right:  Jennifer Holliday, Paul Anka, and Andrea Bocelli have cancelled.  And now one of the only acts that hasn't run for cover, "The B Street Band" - a bar band from New Jersey that plays Bruce Springsteen songs - has quit to "get out of the storm".  That's right, even cover bands are diving for shelter to get away from Trump.

Song of the week.

In "there's no way that can be true and we haven't heard the last of this" news, the son of Gambian president-elect Adama Barrow has been killed in a dog attack.  Mr. Barrow was not able to attend the funeral, because he is being kept safe in neighboring Senegal until he can be administered the oath of office.  Regional leaders have hinted at military action if long-time Gambian strongman ruler Yahya Jammeh refuses to honor the results of last month's presidential election and step down in favor of the winner, Mr. Barrow - who says that the inauguration will go on as scheduled.

More than 36 people are dead after a cargo plane crashed into a row of homes outside the airport at Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.  ACT MyCargo Flight TK6491 cargo plane was flying back to Turkey from Hong Kong when it went down outside Manas Airport in foggy conditions.  Deputy PM Muhammetkaly Abulgaziev said on state TV: "According to preliminary information, the plane crashed due to a pilot error."

Horrible testimony at Rolf Harris' latest trial in London:  A blind and disabled woman testified that Rolf visited her in hospital in the 1970s, and within seconds began groping and molesting her.  "I tried to push the chair back but I didn't have any hope. I just couldn't move the chair, and then he was slobbering all over my neck and breathing all over my neck to the extent I could feel the heat of his nostrils," the woman - now in her 60s - testified.  This allegedly took place as she was recovering from having an eye removed.  86-year-old Rolf has pleaded not guilty to seven charges of indecent assault and one of sexual assault.

The last man to walk on the moon, US Astronaut Gene Cernan, is dead at age 82.  Cernan was one of only three people to go to the Moon twice; he was the last man to leave a footprint on the lunar surface in 1972, uttering the words:  "We leave as we came and, God willing, as we shall return with peace and hope for all mankind."