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The Russian SU-24 fighter jet shot down by Turkey had already left Turkish airspace and was over Syria when two Turkish F-16s shot it out of the sky.  But by then, the Turks had already warned the Russian pilot ten times that he was too close to Turkish airspace, the US confirms.  The Russian military said it would cease all contact with Turkey, and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov cancelled a planned mission to Ankara. 

Russian tourism to Turkey is likely to take a big hit.  Russian tourists brought US$4 Billion into Turkey economy in 2014 alone, and that was actually going to increase because of the downing of a Russian passenger jet in Egypt - tour operators were shifting their itineraries to Turkey.  But now Russian officials are urging people not to go to Turkey, saying that the risk of terrorism there is equal to the risk in Egypt.

There are other economic links that could be impacted by this, especially in the energy and construction sectors.  Turkey is the second-largest buyer of Russian natural gas after Germany.  Russia is Turkey's largest natural gas supplier, purchasing 60 percent of its annual needs from Moscow.

Syrian rebels released video of them launching a US-made Tow missile at a Russian helicopter that had come to rescue the occupants of the SU-24.  The helicopter was destroyed by the Free Syrian Army's (FSA) 1st Coastal Brigade when it was on the ground.  This is apparently the strike that killed the Russian Marine.  The pilot of the Sukhoi was killed, and the status of the other person on the aircraft is not clear.

Schools and the Metro are to reopen in Brussels, as the Belgian capital begins to emerge from the state of emergency that followed the Paris attacks.  Police still haven't found Paris terrorism suspect Salah Abdeslam, who they believe was planning to attack Brussels.  Five people have been charged in Belgium with terrorism offenses in connection with the attacks in the neighboring country.

Protesters marched and clashed with police in the streets of Chicago, after the police department - under court order - released squad car dashcam video showing a white cop firing 16 shots into a black teenager suspected of slashing tires.  At about 5:20 on the video, the 17-year old Laquan McDonald is seen walking past some police cars when Officer Jason Van Dyke opens fire.  The cop was charged with First Degree Murder a few hours before the video came out.  But prosecutors and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emmanuel - a close confidant of President Barack Obama - are under intense criticism for taking 400 days from the shooting of McDonald to the charging of Van Dyke.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un reportedly demoted one of his top aides, exiling the man to a collective farm for "reeducation".  Choe Ryong Hae apparently had some policy disagreements with Kim, and was blamed for the collapse of a water tunnel at a power station he oversaw.  The banishment of Choe Ryong Hae appears to be the latest in a series of executions, purges, and dismissals that Kim has orchestrated in a drive to consolidate powers.