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A UN Human Rights report accuses the government of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad of "exterminating" thousands of detainees (.pdf link).  These crimes against humanity include torture, beatings, starvation, and withholding medical care.  "Government officials intentionally maintained such poor conditions of detention for prisoners as to have been life-threatening, and were aware that mass deaths of detainees would result," UN human rights investigator Sergio Pinheiro said in a statement.  But the other side doesn't get off the hook, as investigators say that both pro-government and rebel militias have committed possible war crimes.  

Canada has set a date for its withdrawal from carrying out air strikes in Syria as part of the US-led coalition: 22 February.  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who campaigned on withdrawing Canada's six fighter jets from the region, said that air strikes alone did not secure lasting stability for local people.  Mr. Trudeau added that Canada's role in the Middle East would concentrate on training local forces to defeat "a murderous gang of thugs who are terrorizing some of the most vulnerable people on Earth".

German Chancellor Angela Merkel says she is "horrified" at the human suffering caused by the intense bombing by Russian forces in support of Syrian government troops on the ground around Aleppo.  Tens of thousands of new refugees fled the area and are massed at a closed border crossing with Turkey, with no sign that Ankara will bow to international pressure and allow the multitudes to pass.  Meanwhile, another 27 migrants drowned in the choppy Aegean Sea between Turkey and Greece's eastern islands, bringing this year's death toll for just that area to more than 400 lives lost.

Rescuers pulled an eight year old girl and her aunt out of the rubble some 60 hours after a 17-storey apartment block toppled over in an earthquake in Taiwan.  Earlier, a man and a woman were rescued from the debris of the Golden Dragon building in Tainan City.  Taiwan's outgoing president says rescue efforts will continue up until the very last second - the president-elect says there will a sorting out of older buildings to ensure they can handle future quakes.  38 people are confirmed dead and scores are still missing.

Security experts are casting doubts on a claim that a dissident Irish Republican group carried out a deadly shooting at the weigh-in of a WBO-sanctioned boxing match in Dublin last week.  Men in paramilitary garb, armed with Kalashnikov rifles burst in and killed a known gangster and wounded two other people, sending barely-dressed boxers in their briefs and others scattering.  A coded statement to Irish media put the blame on the Continuity IRA - an ideologically-pure militant group that broke off from the main IRA years ago.  But officials are leaning towards a gangland motive to the shooting, and believe the political claim was made to muddy the investigative waters.

A Perth native is vowing to continue her aid work in Burkina Faso, after being freed from Al Qaeda-linked militants who kidnapped her and and her husband.  Jocelyn Elliott and Dr. Ken Elliott were kidnapped three weeks ago, near the clinic and hospital they operated for decades in the north of Burkina Faso.  Jocelyn was freed over the weekend with the help of Niger government, but the Doctor is still being held. 

A Royal Caribbean cruise ship is heading back to port in New Jersey after being battered about in very rough weather in the Atlantic Ocean.  The "Anthem of the Seas" suffered some interior damage when it was hit by 100-mile an hour winds.  Passengers were en route to the sunny Bahamas, but will have to depart before they can catch norovirus (just kidding).