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Here are four reasons why President Barack Obama's decision last week to re-establish diplomatic relations with Cuba was a good idea.

Sony Pictures on Dec. 17 cancelled the release of a madcap comedy about North Korea that triggered chilling threats from hackers, as US investigators reportedly blamed Pyongyang for a damaging cyber-raid on the movie giant.
      

The U.S. Congress will vote in coming days on approving construction of the much-delayed Keystone XL oil pipeline, a project Republicans claim is step one in their plan for enhanced U.S. energy production.

Voters in South Carolina elected the first African-American to the U.S. Senate from the South since the years immediately following the Civil War.

And in the western state of Utah, Mia Love became first black Republican woman elected to the House of Representatives.

LONDON - Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic's lecture at the London School of Economics and Political Science on Monday was interrupted by an incident caused by controversial Serbian businessman Nikola Sandulovic, Belgrade-based media reported on Tuesday.

The FBI and National Security Agency monitored the emails of prominent Muslim-American activists, academics and a political candidate, according to a report co-authored by journalist Glenn Greenwald.
      

In the past couple of months, a curious theme in Turkish politics was the candidate that opposition parties would show for the presidential race in August. It had become clear that the governing AKP (Justice and Development Party) would support its leader Tayyip Erdoğan for this top post.

A charity NGO of which Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan's son Bilal is a board member received USD 100 M of foreign donations between 2008 and 2012.

Kemal Kilicdaroglu, the leader of Turkey's main opposition party CHP, was assaulted in Parliament on Tuesday.

An assailant entering the Parliament building as a visitor kicked and punched Kilicdarogluu several times, making him fall on the floor and breaking his glasses, Hurriyet Daily News reported.

Turkey's main opposition, the People's Republican Party (CHP), will appeal against election results in Ankara.

The decision comes after the capital remained in hands of the ruling Party of Justice and Development (AKP), amid predictions the opposition could score a victory.