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• China debuts world's largest amphibious aircraft CNA 24 Dec 2017 -- China's first home-manufactured AG600, the world's largest amphibious aircraft, carried out its maiden flight Sunday in Zhuhai, a coastal city in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong.
• Israeli Army Launches Drills in Country's South Sputnik 24 Dec 2017 -- The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) launched on Sunday five-day military exercises in the country's south, the army's press service said.
• US allows Boeing to sell 36 F-15 warplanes to Qatar Press TV 24 Dec 2017 -- The Pentagon says Boeing has been allowed to manufacture as many as 36 F-15 warplanes for Qatar which is locked in a bitter confrontation with a Saudi-led group of Arab states.
• Down Periscope: Stoltenberg Worries Over NATO's Waning Sub-Fighting Ability Sputnik 24 Dec 2017 -- NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg acknowledged in an interview that the alliance's fleet lacked the necessary skills at sea amid the highest level of Russian submarine activity seen since the Cold War.

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• Vital that all Yemeni ports kept open for aid and commercial vessels, stresses UN humanitarian chief UN News 24 Dec 2017 -- With close to three-fourths of all people in Yemen in need of humanitarian assistance, the United Nations top relief official has underscored the need to keep all ports open to both aid and commercial vessels so that life-saving assistance reaches those in desperate need.
• 37 Saudi-led coalition aircraft, 1,200 tanks destroyed in Yemen war: Yemeni army Press TV 24 Dec 2017 -- Dozens of Saudi-led coalition military aircraft in addition to hundreds of battle tanks and armored vehicles have been destroyed in the military campaign against Yemen as the Riyadh regime presses ahead with its atrocious airstrikes against its crisis-hit southern neighbor.
• 9 militants killed, 9 arrested in Egypt raids Press TV 24 Dec 2017 -- Egyptian security forces have launched raids on hideouts of militants in the capital Cairo and northeast of the country, killing nine and arresting nine more.
• Israel to construct 300 new settler units in occupied West Bank Press TV 24 Dec 2017 -- Israeli officials are expected to advance plans for the construction of 300 new settler units in the occupied West Bank irrespective of the international outcry against the Tel Aviv regime's land expropriation and settlement expansion policies in Palestinian lands.
• Guatemala to Move Embassy to Jerusalem VOA 24 Dec 2017 -- Guatemala has become the first country to follow the United States in planning to move its embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
• UN General Assembly calls on Myanmar to stop military campaign against Rohingya Muslims Press TV 24 Dec 2017 -- The United Nations General Assembly has called on Myanmar to halt its military campaign against Rohingya Muslims.
• Pentagon says Myanmar invited to join US-Thai war games Press TV 24 Dec 2017 -- A US Defense Department spokesman says that Myanmar, which is widely censured for conducting ethnic cleansing against its Rohingya Muslim minority, has been invited to observe major US-Thai war games, dubbed Cobra Gold, along with other Asian militaries.

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• Navalny Submits Documents To Election Commission, Demands To Take Part In Presidential Vote RFE/RL 24 Dec 2017 -- Russian anticorruption activist and opposition politician Aleksei Navalny has submitted documents needed to be registered as a presidential candidate to the country's Central Election Commission.
• North Korea condemns new sanctions as 'act of war' Press TV 24 Dec 2017 -- North Korea says the latest round of sanctions imposed by the United Nations (UN) against Pyongyang constitutes an "act of war" against the country.
• Kim Jong-un Reportedly Urges Ruling Party to Resist 'Non-Socialist' Practices Sputnik 24 Dec 2017 -- North Korean Leader Kim Jong-un instructed the ruling Workers' Party (WPK) to resist the penetration of "anti-socialist practices" into society and strengthen morale nationwide, local media reported Sunday.
• 'Act of War': North Korea Rejects New UN Security Council Sanctions Sputnik 24 Dec 2017 -- Pyongyang rejects the new sanctions of the UN Security Council, considering them "an act of war," North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesperson said Sunday.
• Iran speaker dismisses US claims on Yemeni missiles IRNA 24 Dec 2017 -- Iran Majlis (Parliament) Speaker Ali Larijani dismissed fresh US allegations that an Iranian missile was used by Yemen to target the Saudi soil, saying that the US eyes a new adventurism in the region.
• Ankara dismisses 2,756 public workers over suspected 'terror' links Press TV 24 Dec 2017 -- Turkish authorities have sacked more than 2,700 people from a number of public institutions over suspected links to "terror" groups or organizations in the latest round of purges since last year's botched putsch against the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
• Turkey Sacks More Than 2,700 In Continuing Purge RFE/RL 24 Dec 2017 -- Turkey has dismissed 2,756 more people from their jobs in public institutions for alleged links to terror groups as Ankara presses ahead with purges launched following last year's failed military coup.
• Over 2,700 Turkish Public, Military Servants Fired Over Links to Gulen Sputnik 24 Dec 2017 -- The Turkish government has ordered the firing of 2,756 more public servants and military servicemen over alleged links to Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen's movement referred to as the Fethullah Terrorist Organization (FETO) by Ankara and accused of being behind the failed coup attempt in July 2016.