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France's elite anti-terror police are responding to gun shots fired in a Christmas market in the eastern city of Strasbourg, in an area called Kleber Square.  The Interior Ministry is confirming a "serious public security incident".  It's believed at least two people are dead and up to ten are injured, maybe more.  Police were seen running to the scene in tactical gear and guns drawn.
Strasbourg, France
Strasbourg, France
The suspect, who was reportedly born in the city and was known to police, was believed to be on the run; people are being told to stay indoors or to shelter in place in shops and restaurants.  Security in Strasbourg was already tight because of the European Parliament meeting later this week, and hundreds of MEPs are in town.

After cancelling the Parliamentary vote on her Brexit proposal because it was going to fail, UK Prime Minister Theresa May went to The Hague, Berlin, and Brussels.  And while warmly received, Ms. May got the same message over and over - the current deal is the "best and only" the European Union is going to offer.  Multiple sources are reporting that dissident Tories have now gathered 48 allies to call for a no confidence vote, which if true will set off a leadership spill within the Conservative Party. 

Democratic leaders went to the White House and went toe-to-toe with a bellicose Donald Trump, who utterly failed to get them to budge on their opposition to his border wall proposal.  Trump repeatedly demanded US$5 Billion to build a wall along the southern border with Mexico, which he claimed that Mexico would pay for during his 2016 election campaign.  Trump repeatedly claimed he'd be "proud" to shut down the government if he doesn't get what he wants.  Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer sparred with his fellow New Yorker, taunted Trump with comments like, "elections have consequences."  House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi - likely the next Speaker of the House - demanded that any border policy be "evidence-based", and later belittled and sliced off his masculinity:  "It's like a manhood thing for him," said Ms. Pelosi, "As if manhood could ever be associated with him.  This wall thing."

China has detained former Canadian diplomat Michael Kovrig, who recently acted as political lead for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's visit to Hong Kong in 2016.  This follows Canada's arrest of Chinese telecom executive Meng Wanzhou who was traveling through Vancouver's airport.  Ms. Weng is wanted on a US warrant for allegedly violating international sanctions against Iran.  So far, it's unclear if there is any link between the two cases, but the Trudeau government has been in contact with Beijing.

A court in Argentina found two former Ford Motor Company executives guilty of aiding the fascist dictatorship and sentenced Pedro Muller and Hector Sibilla to ten and twelve years in prison, respectively.  The two compiled photographs and and home addresses of 24 workers and Union organizers, and provided the dossier to government thugs who kidnapped and tortured the workers.  Sibilla was present for one torture session.  Santiago Omar Riveros, a former chief of the army's fourth battalion, was sentenced to 15 years for his role in the crime.

A jury in Charlottesville, Virginia recommended a sentence of life plus 419 years in prison and US$480,000 in fines for the nazi scum who plowed his car into a crowd of peaceful protesters during last year's notorious "unite the right" debacle.  Murdered was Heather Hayer, a promising paralegal and rights activist in the eastern American college town.  The judge will formally sentence 21-year old James Alex Fields Jr. in a hearing next March. 

Time Magazine has named "The Guardians", killed and imprisoned journalists, as it persons of the year.  Alternate covers will feature photos of Jamal Khashoggi, believed by most intelligence sources to have been murdered at the orders of Saudi crown prince Muhammad; the staff of The Capital Gazette, the Maryland newspaper where five people were killed by an idiot with a gun earlier this year; Maria Ressa, currently defending herself from repression in The Phiippines; and the wives of Myanmar journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, imprisoned for reporting by the government led by disgraced former human rights icon Aung San Suu Kyi.  Time is calling attention to them "for taking great risks in pursuit of greater truths, for the imperfect but essential quest for facts, for speaking up and for speaking out".

Yemen's warring parties have agreed to exchange thousands of prisoners.  The progress at the UN-sponsored peace talks in Sweden could be a small step toward relieving the suffering of millions of Yemenis caught in the civil war.  The United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross will oversee the process at rebel-held Sanaa airport in north Yemen and government-held Sayun airport in the south in late January.