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Monday, December 7, 2015
News You May Have Missed
• A possible U.S.-led coalition airstrike in Syria killed four Syrian military personnel.
• Iraq's Foreign Ministry called a meeting with the Turkish ambassador to demand Ankara pull out its troops deployed to the Nargizliya militia camp near Mosul.
• The Arab League condemned the deployment.
• Four British carried out a second set of airstrikes over Syria, targeting the Omar oil fields in the eastern part of the country.
• Libya's two rival parliaments made an initial agreement to end the country's political crisis, Libyan officials said.
• French military aircraft flew two reconnaissance missions near the Libyan towns of Sirte and Tobruk.
• The governor of Aden was killed in a car bomb attack claimed by the Islamic State in Yemen's southern port city.
• Electricity supplies to Crimea will restored soon, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said.
• France’s far-right National Front party made record gains in the first round of the country’s regional elections, winning nearly 29 percent of the vote on a national level and finishing first in at least six of 13 regions.
• The Greek parliament approved a 2016 budget, forecasting near zero growth for 2015 and a small contraction next year.
• Police arrested a suspect following a Syria-related stabbing at the Leytonstone tube station in London.
• Latvian Prime Minister Laimdota Straujuma resigned.