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Islamic State is claiming responsibility for a double bombing that killed around 50 people outside an important Shiite Muslim shrine in Syria.  The attack caused "huge" damage to a bus and a military barracks outside the shrine.  Sayyida Zeinab is located south of the Syrian capital Damascus, and contains the remains of a granddaughter of the Prophet Mohammad.  It's also the reason why the Shiite militant group Hezbollah chose to ally itself with the Syrian government against Islamic State.

The Syrian peace talks are in danger of collapsing already.  Representatives of an umbrella group representing "mainstream" opposition groups are in Geneva, but won't come to the negotiations until the government ceases air strikes and allows aid deliveries to reach besieged towns. Approaching the five year mark, the Syrian Civil War is blamed for more then 250,000 deaths, and causing more than 11 million people to descend into refugee status - and is the single biggest driver of the European migration crisis.

Boko Haram is blamed for gun and bomb attack in northeastern Nigeria that killed at least 50 people.  Witnesses describe a scene of horrible carnage:  numerous buildings burned out, the screams of children, dead livestock littering the streets of Dalori.  The fires could reportedly be seen ten kilometers away in Maiduguri.

European police have lost track of some 10,000 migrant children who arrived and registered in the continent over the past two years, and that's triggering fears the missing might be at risk of traffickers.  "Not all of them will be criminally exploited; some might have been passed on to family members," said Brian Donald, Europol's chief of staff.  "We just don't know where they are, what they're doing or whom they are with," he added.  But officials also know that there is a criminal infrastructure that is targeting the newly arrived migrants and refugees.

Doctors in Switzerland announced they have successfully separated eight-day old conjoined sisters, who are believed to be the youngest such infants to have ever undergone the delicate and complex surgery.  The five-hour operation took place on 10 December at Inselspital hospital in Bern.  The girls are not twins, they're triplets - all were delivered by Caesarean section, and the third sibling was fully separate and healthy.  But to separate Maya and Lydia, doctors had to separate their liver which was "extensively conjoined", and correct the balance of blood:  One twin had too much blood and high blood pressure, the other had not enough.

A fire in a textile business in Moscow killed twelve people, including three children.  The dead are said to be migrant workers.

Former Salvadoran President Francisco Flores died over the weekend after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage earlier this month, according to his conservative ARENA party.  The 56-year old Flores was under house arrest on embezzlement charges.  Prosecutors believed he took a US$15 Million earthquake relief donation from Taiwan, gave $10 million to the party and kept the remaining $5 Million for himself.

Veteran UK radio and television personality Sir Terry Wogan is dead of cancer at age 77.  Arriving on radio in 1966, he was beloved for hosting BBC Radio 2's breakfast show, hosting his own TV talk show in the 1980s, and adding running commentary to the annual Eurovision song contest.  Tributes have poured in from all over, including from Number 10, his contemporaries and friends in broadcasting, and numerous celebrities including our Kylie Minogue who remembers him as a "true gent".