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BEIRUT (AP) — Russia's Defense Ministry says its troops have found mass graves in Aleppo with bodies showing signs of torture and mutilation. A Ministry spokesman says the Russians "found mass graves of several dozens of Syrians who suffered atrocious torture and massacre." The spokesman also says some of the bodies have been mutilated and some had gunshot wounds. The Russian Air Force helped Syrian President Bashar Assad and its allies capture Syria's largest city after weeks of a siege.
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian intelligence says it sees no signs of a possible terror plot in Sunday's plane crash over the Black Sea. All 92 people on the Russian military plane are believed to have died when it crashed two minutes after taking off from the southern city of Sochi. The passengers, including dozens of singers in Russia's world-famous military choir, were headed to Syria. The choir was to perform a New Year's concert.
CHICAGO (AP) — People across the northern Great Plains are being told to stay off the roads as freezing rain, snow and high winds move across the region. Vast stretches of highways have been shut down in the Dakotas, where there are also thousands of people without power. Some folks in Nebraska and western Iowa are also without electricity.
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A bomb just missed a deputy provincial police chief in Afghanistan's southern Helmand province today. A provincial spokesman says the bomb exploded near the police official's convoy, killing another officer and wounding four others. The attack happened in Lashkar Gah, while the police official was visiting police check points.
BANGKOK (AP) — Police in Thailand have arrested and charged a 19-year-old they say helped carry out recent hacking attacks on government computers that were billed as a protest against a restrictive law governing internet use. The government says he's one of nine people arrested in the attack that blocked access to some websites and accessed non-public files. Police describe the 19-year-old as a low-level hacker rather than an organizer.
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