Analysis Don't Expect a Diplomatic Meltdown Over Russian Envoy's Murder
These are not normal times.
Breaking:
- Putin: Murder of Russian envoy designed to derail Syrian peace process (Reuters)
- Police arrest man who fired shots at U.S. embassy in Ankara, Turkey (Haaretz)
- Death toll in Berlin truck ramming rises to 12, police say (Reuters)
- Trump blames "radical Islamic terrorist" for Russian ambassador assassination (DPA)
- Trump wins Electoral College vote, CNN reports (Haaretz)
- UN Security Council condemns "terrorist attack" that killed the Russian envoy to Turkey (Reuters)
- Attacker on the run after truck plows into Berlin Christmas market, German media reports (Reuters)
- Report: Indication that Berlin truck ramming was terror attack, police say (Reuters)
- Turkish official: Investigation into Ankara shooting focused on gunman's links to Gulen (Reuters)
- Truck plows into crowded Christmas market in Berlin; casualties reported (Haaretz)
- Turkish police detain sister, mother of gunman who shot Russian ambassador (Reuters)
- Turkey says will not allow shooting of Russian envoy to overshadow ties with Moscow (Reuters)
- Turkey's Foreign Ministry condemns 'lowly terrorist attack' on ambassador (Reuters)
- Turkey's Erdogan spoke by phone with Russia's Putin after fatal shooting of envoy (Reuters)
- Syria talks to go ahead in Moscow on Tuesday despite ambassador's murder (Reuters)
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