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Iran is accusing Saudi Arabia of deliberately targeting its embassy in Yemen, launching an air strike that damaged the compound and injured several staff.  The growing tension between Sunni Saudi Arabia and its Shiite rival across the Persian Gulf Iran could damage the peace process in Yemen, Iraq, and Syria.  The row began with Saudi Arabia's execution of a prominent Shiite cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, which was followed by indignant Iranian protesters attacking the Saudi embassy in Tehran.

On the anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attack, Paris cops shot and killed a man with a meat cleaver and a note declaring his allegiance to Islamic State.  The Moroccan-born man was a convicted thief, according to police, who say he shouting Islamic slogans outside a police station in the 18th Arrondissement in the city's north.  A year ago, gunmen stormed the offices of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo over their objections to the magazine's portrayal of the Islamic prophet Muhammad - over the next three days, 17 people and three gunmen would be killed.

Cologne, Germany police "could not cope" with the volume of sex attacks outside the main train station on New Year's Eve, according to reports in German media.  Bild and Spiegel both got a look at an internal National Police reports that said that large numbers of Syrian, Afghan and Iraqi migrants were in the crowd - although it is unclear if any were involved in the attacks.  Numerous "anxious citizens with crying and shocked children" complained to police that women were forced to "forced to run the gauntlet" through gangs of drunken and aggressive men outside the station.  Cops now have more than 120 complaints of sex attacks from NYE, including two rapes.  The anger is building because police initially reported that there were no incidents.

US Secretary of State John Kerry angrily pushed back against a reporter's suggestion that the US put North Korea on the back-burner before it detonated a nuclear weapon this week.  Kerry said the US was fully engaged in limiting North Korea's nuclear capabilities, but was working with Pyongyang's only friends in the world in Beijing on go-easy approach.  "Today in my conversation with the Chinese I made it very clear that has not worked and we cannot continue business as usual."

South Korea will resume blasting loudspeaker propaganda broadcasts across the border with the North, in reaction to Pyongyang's nuclear weapons test.  The loudspeakers are a continuing source of inter-Korean friction, with the two sides trading artillery fire over it in August 2015.  The South is also limiting access to the Kaesong industrial park, the only South-North joint venture.  The North needs the manufacturing center much more than the South because it is one of Pyongyang's only sources of income.

Suspended European football chief Michel Platini says he will not stand in the FIFA presidential election next month.  The world football governing body banned Platini and FIFA president Sepp Blatter from football-related activities for eight years over corruption allegations.  "I'm taking this philosophically. Let's wait and see what happens.  But injustice is revolting me and I'm trying to fight it," said Platini.

China's securities regulator is suspending use of circuit breakers after they kicked in and shut down the stock exchange twice this week because of a mass sell-off that caused plummeting prices.  The move adds to worries that policy makers in Beijing do not know how to cope with months of turmoil in their financial markets.  The circuit breakers were instituted only last month.  "(Chinese officials) are changing the rules all the time now," said strategist Maarten-Jan Bakkum of NN Investment Partners in The Hague, "The risks seem to have increased."  Australian shares lost A$33 Billion because of the chaos on the Chinese market.

Saudi Arabia is considering a Thatcherite solution to falling oil prices:  Selling off shares in Saudi Aramco.  The world's largest oil company is potentially worth trillions of US dollars.  Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is reportedly "enthusiastic" about an IPO of Saudi Aramco, which he believes would create "more transparency" and "counter corruption, if any, that may be circling around Aramco".  A decision would be made "over the next few months".

Elephants dine on old Christmas trees at the Berlin Zoo.  Sumo's Yokozuna (Grand Champions) Hakuho, Harumafuji, and Kakuryu welcome the New Year at Tokyo's Meiji Shrine.