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Police in the Rocky Mountain city of Colorado Springs have reportedly apprehended the terrorist who opened fire on a Planned Parenthood women's health services clinic with a Kalashnikov, killing three people and injuring at least nine more.  One of the dead is a police officer.  The gunman's motivations were not immediately clear (as if we didn't know), but it comes after a period of increased rhetoric against Women's Reproductive Rights in America - which intensified after a right-wing disinformation group released a series of doctored videos to smear Planned Parenthood.  For weeks, medical groups and Women's Rights campaigners have warned that Congressional conservatives were making everything worse:  "In my 20 years at NAF, I have never seen such a volume, intensity and escalation of hate speech, threats and criminal activity, and we would like to prevent a serious violent act from occurring," said Vicki Saporta of the National Abortion Federation two months ago. 

There is a war of words between Turkey and Russia, following Turkey's downing of a Russian SU-24 fighter jet over Syria.  Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan went on TV to warn Russia not to "play with fire".  Erdogan also said he wanted to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin for a "face-to-face" meeting at climate talks in Paris to resolve the issue.  Mr. Putin has already said that he wants an apology out of Turkey.  Russia has moved missile batteries onto the bases it is using in Syria. 

A new mother in southern Chile is being kept from her newborn daughter because she smoked Marijuana.  Doctors claim they're following protocol.  But at the same time, Chile is moving rapidly towards decriminalization of Marijuana - at a pace that is upsetting to social conservatives.  And the new Mum says she was following medical advice:  "They have violated my rights as a mother," said Sindy Melany Ortiz, "I use this drug only for the pain in my arms, it was recommended by a medical professional to me, and I am absolutely not a drug consumer." 

Singapore is torn by a planned New Year's telecast that will feature US singer Adam Lambert, who has three of his own albums out as well as being the touring singer with Queen.  An online petition started fathering signatures of people who object to the openly-LGBT singer headlining the country's New Year concert.  But another online petition supporting Lambert quickly gathered steam.  Lambert performed in Singapore in 2013 with no complaints, but the culture wars have been heating up in the city-state recently, with christian and muslim conservatives alarmed at Singapore's thriving LGBT scene.

Police in Chicago announced arrests in a case that shocked the city as it struggles with street gang violence.  One man is charged with luring nine-year old Tyshawn Lee into an alley behind his home and executing the little boy with a bullet to the head.  That's incredibly upsetting, even for Chicago.  A second suspect is in custody and police are seeking a third.  Simultaneously, protesters including lawmakers and veteran Civil Rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson effectively shut down the posh "Magnificent Mile" shopping district, protesting the police murder of a 17-year old boy more than a year ago.  It was only this week that video of the white cop firing 16 shots into the prone black teen was released - that cop has been charged with Murder One.

Two migrants ships sank in the Aegian Sea while trying to make it from Turkey to Greece; six children drowned. 

A suicide bomber struck a Shiite muslim march in a village south of Kano, Nigeria, killing at least 21 people.  Authorities blame Boko Haram.

Police in the northern Italian city of Trieste confiscated nearly 800 shotguns that were shipped from Turkey and en route to Belgium.  The firearms were found packed in individual boxes aboard a Dutch-registered truck that arrived on a ferry in the port city.  Most European cities have stepped up security and inspections after the 13 November terrorist attack in Paris that killed 130 people.

Thousands of people attended a memorial service in Paris for the victims of the 13 November attacks.  President Francois Hollande was joined by survivors - some still in wheelchairs - and police and fire first responders.  Hollande said France would "do all it can to destroy this army of fanatics". 

A gruesome discovery off Japan's western shores - At least eleven boats containing around 20 dead bodies in various states of decay.  papers with Korean writing were found aboard some of the vessels, leading to speculation that these may have been North Korean fishers who became lost in bad weather in the Sea of Japan because of the lack of modern navigation equipment.