• The U.N. Security Council will hold closed-door talks over Turkey's military operations in Syria and Iraq.
• Iraqi security forces have taken part of southwestern Ramadi from the Islamic State after months of fighting to secure territory around the city.
• Taliban militants stormed the Kandahar airport and an Afghan-NATO military base located within the same complex.
• Yemeni President Abd Rabboh Mansour Hadi asked the Saudi-led coalition battling Houthi rebels to begin a seven-day cease-fire.
• Abdirahman Sandhere, a senior leader of al Shabaab, was killed by a U.S. airstrike.
• Five people were lightly injured after a hand grenade exploded at a central Moscow bus stop.
• Indonesian President Joko Widodo ordered his Cabinet to eliminate half of all existing government regulations in 2016.
• The Venezuelan opposition coalition has won 112 of the National Assembly's 167 seats, securing a two-thirds majority in parliament.
• Brazil's Federal Supreme Court suspended the Chamber of Deputies' proceedings creating a special committee to review the impeachment against President Dilma Rousseff.
