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Turkish police say the man arrested in the New Year's Eve terrorist attack at an Istanbul nightclub has admitted to the crime.  Abdulkadir Masharipov is believed to be an Uzbekistan national, although there's no passport to back that up; he trained in Afghanistan and came to Turkey in the middle of last year.  Istanbul governor Vasip Sahin says Masharipov's fingerprints were found at the Reina nightclub, where 39 people died.  He is also believed to have carried out the attack on behalf of the so-called Islamic State, which had already claimed responsibility for the bloodshed.

Nigeria's military is admitting one of its warplanes "accidentally" targeted civilians instead of Boko Haram terrorists, killing more than 50 people in the northeast of the country - according to the count by Medecins San Frontieres.  Aid workers died in the attack, says the International Red Cross which lost six of its people.  President Muhammadu Buhari expressed his dismay over the loss of life.

Nigeria moved a warship close to The Gambia, as President Yahya Jammeh declared a 90-day state of emergency - two days before he's supposed to step down and the winner of last month's presidential election is to take office.  Jammeh said "any acts of disobedience to the laws" and "acts intended to disturb public order and peace" are banned.  The warship is part of an effort by regional leaders to step up pressure on Jammeh to follow through and step down.  The regional block has prepared a force in Senegal as a last resort.

UK Prime Minister Theresa May has laid out her plans for the Brexit, and it looks like a "hard" break from the European Union.  "I want to be clear: what I am proposing cannot mean membership of the single market," she said in a meeting in London, preferring to replace EU membership with "a new comprehensive, bold and ambitious free trade agreement".  European leaders appreciated that she finally gave an outline of what will be attempted, though some criticized it as overly ambitious:  "Trade as free as possible, full control on immigration," asked Czech EU minister Tomas Prouza, "Where is the give for all the take?"  Others criticized her for trying to "cherry pick" bits and pieces of a relationship that would benefit the UK.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani is warning US pretender-elect Donald Trump that there is no going back on the multinational deal to curb Iran's nuclear program.  The orange clown has called the agreement which prevented Tehran from developing nuclear weapons "the worst deal ever" and campaigned on dismantling it.  Rouhani stressed that "any renegotiation" was "out of the question".  Under the deal, Iran had reduced its uranium stockpile by 98 percent and removed two thirds of its centrifuges.

The circus of corruption and incompetence rolls on:  Donald Trump's choice to be the next US Health and Human Services Secretary is accused of insider trading.  According to several reports, Georgia Republican party Congressman Tom Price purchased stock from a medical company days before introducing a bill that would have helped the company; then, he accepted a US$1,000 campaign contribution from the company.  "The president-elect claims he wants to drain the swamp," alleged New York state Democratic party Senator Chuck Schumer, "But Congressman Price has spent his career filling it up."  The Trump camp calls the report a "smear".  Yesterday, conservative author Monica Crowley bowed out of contention for a senior communications role in the Trump White House after allegations surfaced she committed plagiarism in her 2012 book, her columns for the Washington Times, and her 2000 Ph.D. dissertation for Columbia University.

Russian leader Vladimir Putin is dismissing allegations that Russian intelligence holds compromising material on Trump as "utter nonsense".  Reports surfaced last week that a former UK MI6 agent assembled a dossier detailing how Trump had Russian prostitutes put on a "golden shower" show for him, and Russia has the video.  Putin said those making the allegations were "worse than prostitutes"; in the same statement, he praised Russian prostitutes:  "I find it hard to believe that he rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world."