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NEW YORK (AP) — No one, from the CIA director to Democratic lawmakers planning to boycott the inauguration, is being spared the wrath of President-elect Donald Trump, either via Twitter or his top aides. Incoming White House chief of staff Reince Priebus calls the boycott "irresponsible." Trump responded to criticism from the CIA director in a tweet suggesting John Brennan is a "leaker of fake news."
BEIJING (AP) — Prickliness continues between President-elect Donald Trump and China over Trump's suggestion that U.S. policy toward Taiwan could be a bargaining chip with Beijing. China's Foreign Ministry today flatly rejected any bargaining on the one-China policy in place since 1979, under which the U.S. maintains only unofficial contact with the island. China considers Taiwan part of its territory.
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan (AP) — Officials say 37 people, including people on the ground, died today when a Turkish cargo plane slammed into a neighborhood as it approached the main airport in Kyrgyzstan (KEER'-gih-stan). The Emergency Situations Ministry says remains have been recovered and that 15 people are hospitalized, including six children. Officials say around half the houses in the village outside the airport were destroyed.
DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — The heads of major U.N. organizations say the world "must not stand silent" to the plight of people in Syria who are cut off from humanitarian aid and lack "the most basic elements to sustain their lives." The joint appeal today calls for access to civilians cut off from humanitarian aid in Syria. According to the statement, up to 700,000 people — nearly half of them children — live in 15 besieged areas of Syria.
IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — The Iraqi push to retake the country's second largest city from Islamic State militants is beginning to pile up civilian casualties. In the first week of January, the United Nations said 683 people were injured in Mosul and at least 817 were wounded during the last week of December. Doctors at an emergency hospital say they are above capacity and are now running out of supplies.
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