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US President Barack Obama plans to address his nation on Sunday night (0100 GMT Monday) about the massacre in San Bernardino, California, in which husband and wife shooters killed 14 people and wounded 21 more.  He's expected to lay out what the federal government is doing to protect Americans from terrorism, as well as update the investigation into any links Syed Farook and his wife Tashfeen Malik may have had to international terrorism.  In his weekly radio address on Saturday, Mr. Obama said that the United States "will not be terrorized", and added that Americans will "uphold our values - a free and open society".

Police in London are treating a stabbing rampage as a terrorist attack.  The suspect reportedly yelled, "This is for Syria," stabbed three people at Leytonstone tube station in the city's east before police used a tazer to subdue him.  Other passengers yelled back at him to knock it off, with at least reportedly saying, "You ain't no Muslim, Bruv!"  This comes after British lawmakers approved the bombing of Islamic State targets in Syria last Wednesday.

Meanwhile in stupid, violent, gun crazy America, a cop in Miami Beach drilled a shirtless moron bank robbery suspect in the chest with his assault weapon, not even allowing a fellow officer to subdue the man with a tazer - as was effective in London.  The suspect in London is facing charges, the guy in Miami Beach is dead.  Just sayin'.

Australian anti-Islamic State fighter Ashley Dyball is back in Melbourne.  he was greeted at the airport by federal police who took him in for questioning.  Mr. Dyball fights against IS with the Kurdish YPG, one of the few fighting forces that's been proven effective against the terrorists.  his parents and supporters are asking PM Malcolm Turnbull not to prosecute him under foreign fighter laws, because they say those laws were murky when Dyball went to the Middle East.

The US-led coalition bombs targets in and around Raqqa, Syria, the de facto capital of Islamic state.  At least 32 people were killed.  But an activist group says Russian jets also bombed the city, and the casualties may include several civilians with the dead IS fighters.

Venezuelans are voting in for a new national assembly, and opinion polls around the country showed that the opposition coalition could gain a majority of the votes over the ruling United Socialist Party (PSUV) for the first time in nearly 17 years - something that the conservatives have twice failed to accomplish via coup during that time period.  There is widespread dissatisfaction over the economy, product shortages, and crime rate. 

Authorities in Burkina Faso have charged the general who led a failed coup in September with complicity in the 1987 assassination of President Thomas Sankara, the leader often called "Africa's Che Guevara".  General Gilbert Diendere and ten other less senior members of the security forces are charged.  Sankara - who championed policies of gender equality, education, and health care - was murdered and replaced with dictator Blaise Compaore, who ruled until being ousted last year.  Diendere served as Compaore's security chief.

Myanmar's former military ruler General Than Shwe is pledging support to his former rival Aung San Suu Kyi and her National League for Democracy, and sees her as the country's "future leader".  That's according to the general's grandson, who acted as intermediary for their meeting after the elections in which the NLD won an overwhelming majority of parliament seats. 

Christmas in Sydney!