IRAQ/UNITED STATES: The last U.S. soldiers left Iraq Sunday, Dec. 18. (NPR)
PHILIPPINES: Flooding from a tropical storm killed more than 430 people in the southern Philippines. (BBC)
SYRIA: President Bashar al-Assad is expected to sign the Arab League’s peace plan which calls for an end to all bloodshed and requires the government to free detained protesters, start a dialogue with the opposition and allow peace monitors in the country. (Reuters)
INDONESIA: Several hundred asylum seekers were missing and feared dead when their boat capsized en route to Australia. (The Telegraph)
CZECH REPUBLIC: Vaclav Havel, the Czech Republic’s first democratic president and leader of the nonviolent Velvet Revolution, died December 18. (Globe & Mail)
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December 17, 2011
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