Monday

December 5, 2016

Armed conflicts and attacks

At least 31 are killed in clashes in Kasai, DR Congo. (Reuters)

Two Russian army medics are killed after around a dozen shells hit a mobile hospital in Aleppo. (Russia Today) (France24)

Mexican war on drugs

Police report 14 suspected criminals, who attacked a police patrol, are killed in a gunbattle with police and Mexican Marines in Veracruz, Mexico. An unknown number fled. (Reuters) (AP via The Washington Post)

Business and economy

Alaska Airlines cancels 20 flights into and out of Seattle due to inclement weather forecast in the Pacific Northwest area. (US Daily Mail)