Iraq marks anniversary of victory over Islamic State
BAGHDAD, Dec 10: Iraq celebrated on Monday the anniversary of its costly victory over the Islamic State group, which has lost virtually all the territory it once held but still carries out sporadic attacks. The government declared victory last December after a grueling three-year war in which tens of thousands of people were killed and hundreds of thousands displaced. Entire towns and neighborhoods were reduced to rubble in the fighting. — AP
China landslide claims four lives
CHENGDU, Dec 10: Four people were killed after a landslide hit a county in southwest China's Sichuan Province on Sunday afternoon. The landslide toppled a number of residential houses in Fenshui Town in Xuyong County in the city of Luzhou around 4:20 p.m. on Sunday, leaving 11 people buried and one missing. As of 1 p.m. Monday, the 11 people had all been pulled from the debris and four of them were confirmed dead. Among the four deaths, one was found dead at the site while three others died in hospitals after emergency treatment failed, according to the local government. — Xinhua
NZ PM apologises for backpacker's death
WELLINGTON, Dec 10: New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern choked back tears on Monday while offering a heartfelt apology to the family of murdered British backpacker Grace Millane, as the man accused of killing the young traveller made his first court appearance. Her voice cracking with emotion, Ardern said there was a collective feeling of shame in the South Pacific nation over the fate of Millane, whose body was found Sunday in parkland just outside Auckland. — AFP
IS militants kill six hostages of Libya
TRIPOLI, Dec 10: Islamic State (IS) militants have executed six hostages they kidnapped almost two months ago from Libya's central town of Fug'ha, a Libyan official confirmed on Sunday. Othman Hasuna, dean of the Jufra District, told local TV channel Libya al-Ahrar that members of the terrorist group had killed six out of the 10 hostages it kidnapped from Jufra's Fug'ha area. Hasuna said elders of Jufra are negotiating an exchange of IS detainees with hostages between the terrorists and the army. — Xinhua
Court convicts ex-cop of 56 murders
MOSCOW, Dec 10: A court in Russia's eastern Siberia has convicted a former policeman of murdering 56 women, bringing the number he is believed to have killed to at least 78. The court on Monday found Mikhail Popkov, from the eastern Siberian city of Angarsk, guilty of the murders between 1994 and 2000 and sentenced him to life in prison. Popkov, who was arrested in 2012, is already serving life for 22 other killings. The verdict makes him Russia's most prolific serial killer in at least the past century. — AP
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