Cameron to MPs: Britain should join Syria air campaign against ISIL

1. British Prime Minister David Cameron has urged lawmakers to support his government’s plan for joining an international air campaign against Daesh terrorist group in Syria. Cameron has argued that Britain should not sub-contract its security to its allies. The premier stressed that Daesh does not represent Islam.

2. Israeli forces have shot and killed two Palestinians in two separate attacks in the occupied West Bank. One of the Palestinians was killed at a checkpoint south of Nablus. Earlier, a Palestinian youth was killed and several others wounded during clashes in Qatanna, northwest of Jerusalem al-Quds.

3. Civil rights groups are warning that a new Israeli construction plan will lead to displacement of thousands of Palestinian Bedouins in the Negev region, south of Israel. They say the plan is part of Tel Aviv’s ongoing policy to push Bedouins out of the occupied territories and build Jewish-only communities.

4. Israel plans to set up yet another separation fence in the occupied Palestinian territories. Israeli Minister of Military Affairs Moshe Ya'alon says the new fence will separate the West Bank city of al-Khalil also known as Hebron and the southern Israeli city of Kiryat Gat.

5. Human Rights Watch has called for an independent investigation into the US airstrike on a charity hospital in Afghanistan's Kunduz last month. The rights group says serious questions remain whether the attackers knowingly or accidentally raided the hospital run by Doctors without Borders. The US says human error caused the tragedy.

6. Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi says Tehran will halt implementation of the nuclear deal with the P5+1 group of countries unless the International Atomic Energy Agency fully closes its investigation regarding Tehran’s past nuclear issues. The IAEA is expected to give its final assessment on the case on December 15.

7. Moscow is tightening control on food and agricultural imports from Turkey in the wake of the downing of a Russian military jet in Syria. Russia’s Agriculture Ministry says its research shows that 15 percent of Turkish supplies do not live up to its standards.

8. Representatives from the two Koreas have held a meeting to arrange high-level talks aimed at defusing tensions between the rivals. The officials met in the border truce village of Pan-Mun-Jom. The agreement for holding the talks was reached in August with no precise time and agenda.

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