News You May Have Missed

• Mauricio Macri has been sworn in as Argentina's new president, BBC reported Dec. 10. • Venezuela's ruling Socialist party is rushing through the appointments of 12 supreme court justices before it hands over control of the legislature to opposition lawmakers next year, AP reported Dec. 10. • According to Dubai-based Al-Arabiya news, all parties involved in the Syrian opposition meeting in Riyadh now agree that any new Syrian government should be more inclusive and should better represent all sectors of the Syrian population, a BBC translation said Dec. 10. • Germany has deployed 40 soldiers, two Tornado reconnaissance jets with surveillance technology and an A310 MRT aerial refueling jet to Incirlik air base in Turkey, AFP reported Dec. 10. • Iran's health minister says an outbreak of the H1N1 virus, also known as the swine flu, has killed 42 people and hospitalized 600 more across the country in the past month, AP reported Dec. 10. • A Kurdish-Arab coalition fighting the Islamic State in northern Syria has announced the formation of a political arm, AFP reported Dec. 10. • The European Union postponed a decision Dec. 9 on whether to renew the bloc’s economic sanctions against Russia after Italy called for a debate on the issue, RFE/RL reported Dec. 10.